Games like EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP
If EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deepforge Brawl, Nova Survivors and Neon Armada - Solar Storm — picked from the ranked list below. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP: EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP will take you into The Loop, a secret facility built on a Japanese island in the middle of nowhere. Volunteers are forced to enter the eerie rooms of the complex, seemingly without an exit. But what is that massive door in one of the rooms? Is there perhaps a way to escape?
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Steam players who put hours into EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Deepforge Brawl
WHY THIS
Top pick for EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Deepforge Brawl is a dwarven arena roguelite where your weapons fire themselves — you just have to survive. Charge your beard, chug your ale, and dash through goblin hordes across six depths of the mountain. Forge builds from 13 auto-firing weapons, evolve them, and descend until the Maw takes you.
Nova Survivors
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
A space horde-survival roguelite where the 21 ships aren't skins: each flies its own weapon, ultimate and role, so the same cards build wildly different runs. Chain evolutions and artifacts through a 100-level campaign and endless Survival, and hold out until your build breaks the game.
Neon Armada - Solar Storm
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
A top-down arena roguelite you can learn in one wave and spend a hundred hours mastering. Waves close in from every edge; the shop between them decides what you become. 32 ships, 28 weapons, 115 mods to combine — then endless mode, where the caps come off.
Laserpunk
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Laserpunk is a fast-paced top-down action roguelite where every round forces you to adapt. Blast through waves of enemies with powerful lasers, choose dangerous flaws, build around their weaknesses, and survive as long as you can.
ActionSteam ↗The Last Color
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
The Last Color is a co-op survival game where every wave introduces a new enemy color, while the number and variety of enemies continue to grow. Collect coins, increase your team’s shared level, and choose 1 of 3 upgrade cards as you fight to reach the final color on wave 16,777,216.
SteelGuard
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Ranked #6 for EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Pilot customizable mechs in an epic battle against hordes of enemiesor dive into intense PvP battles where precision aiming can turn the tide, or let your mech's auto-firing system handle the heat of combat. With rogue-lite elements, each run offers a unique challenge and opportunity for growth.
SANDRIPPER
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Tear across the desert, obliterating wave after wave with your nuclear missile powered dual-wielding hover tank. A tight, punchy wave survival sandbox with ludicrous weaponry, exhilarating rocket-tank combat, and daily leaderboards!
Killware: Under Review
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Adrenaline-fuelling, gory, arcade-style roguelite shooter where survival is mandatory. Outlast escalating waves, grow stronger with each run, and defy the Content Compliance Police in a dystopian future that’s watching your every move.
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Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Other recommendable Steam games by CC ARTS, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
EMPTY SHELL
WHY THIS
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
GROOD
WHY THIS
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
GROOD is an indie 2.5D Shoot 'em up made with spare robot parts and Heavy Metal🤘🏻. The gameplay blends classic Shoot 'em up mechanics with modern low poly graphics, particles, shaders, and a hardcore soundtrack. Annihilate an army of machines, and afterward, annihilate their bosses—go all the way to confirm that your battle paid off.
STHELL
WHY THIS
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
STHELL is a fast-paced, roguelite arena shooter that takes you to a forgotten swamp that was a test site of Kiratron Industries. Take on hordes of machines left to rust for years. It's a battle you probably won't win, but make a stand and your resilience will be etched in their memory chips forever.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
WHY THIS
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
EMPTY SHELL 2
WHY THIS
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP. Shares Action and Indie with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Take on the roles of expendable volunteers sent to a forsaken facility on a remote Japanese island. Recover lost data, scavenge for resources, manage your inventory, and endure unspeakable cosmic horrors. In this top-down extraction survival horror, every expedition is a journey back from madness.
Micron Survivor
WHY THIS
Another title from CC ARTS, the studio behind EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP. Shares Action with EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP.
Micron Survivor is a survival game with rogue-lite elements where you play as alien microorganisms under the microscope. Evolve, unlock research objectives, find symbiotic weapons, upgrade your builds, and fight hordes of terrestrial organisms to rule the microcosm.
Frequently asked about EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP
- What games are most similar to EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP are Deepforge Brawl, Nova Survivors, Neon Armada - Solar Storm.
- Who developed EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP?
- EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP was developed by CC ARTS.
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