Games like Gourds Up
If Gourds Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are 30XX, Cluckmech Oasis and Portal Dungeon — 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 Gourds Up: Gourds up is a 2D shooter, with many roguelike-y elements. You will progress through runs by choosing the next rooms, through the form of cards, that you will fight in, allowing for more strategy during the run. Get random weapons and upgrades, and just don't die!
Players who liked Gourds Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Gourds Up 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.
30XX
WHY THIS
Top pick for Gourds Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Cluckmech Oasis
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Gourds Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
Cluckmech Oasis, a top-down shooting Roguelike tower defense game. Play as the Warcluck and lead your team of animal heroes in a fight for survival. Collect, build and upgrade defenses, and engage in intense battle against waves of plant enemies.
Portal Dungeon
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Gourds Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
Portal Dungeon is a side-scrolling Roguelite adventure game that supports up to 4 players in co-op mode. You control an adventurer as you and your friends bravely set out to find the last portal in this world. Go forth! Defeat powerful enemies! Save the world!
Immortal Redneck
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Gourds Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Gourds Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Gourds Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
BELOW
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Gourds Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.
Teleglitch: Die More Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Gourds Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Gourds Up at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Gourds Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Gourds Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gourds Up.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Gourds Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gourds Up.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Gourds Up on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gourds Up.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Gourds Up on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gourds Up.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Gourds Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gourds Up.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Gourds Up on Steam right now. Shares Action with Gourds Up.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Gourds Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Gourds Up.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gourds Up.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
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 Gourds Up.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gourds Up.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gourds Up.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Gourds Up.
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 Gourds Up.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dunjungle
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!
Ziggurat
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gourds Up.
Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!
Frequently asked about Gourds Up
- How much does Gourds Up cost?
- Gourds Up is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Gourds Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gourds Up are 30XX, Cluckmech Oasis, Portal Dungeon.
- Who developed Gourds Up?
- Gourds Up was developed by Bagel Bits Bakery.
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