Games like Hard as Hell
If Hard as Hell is your kind of game, the closest matches are Starfall Command, REAPER and Defensive Measures — 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 Hard as Hell: It's 1999, and C.R.T. City has plunged into chaos. The crime ridden city has been devastated by vandalism, theft, and destruction... But the tired populous band together. Protect your store, property, and pride from the angry masses, in this blend of a Tower Defence and FPS.
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Starfall Command
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Top pick for Hard as Hell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
Pilot powerful starfighters, battle massive bosses, unleash devastating homing missiles, and defeat the Overmind in this fast-paced arcade sci-fi shoot 'em up.
REAPER
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hard as Hell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
YOU ARE DEATH. The Grim Reaper. You must travel throughout various action packed scenarios, Reaping enemies and collecting their souls. FEAR THE REAPER
Defensive Measures
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hard as Hell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hard as Hell.
Defensive Measures is an FPS/Tower Defense Hybrid game. Deal with your enemies first hand or let your turrets do the talking while you sit back and enjoy the show.
Fascist
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Hard as Hell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
As National Guard, stand defiant against relentless hordes. Unleash righteous fury. Old Glory waves eternal and America endures because YOU fight!
Tooned Out Duo Dippin
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Hard as Hell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Hard as Hell.
Welcome To Tooned Out Duo Dippin!!! This game is a body of work that has been painfully derived from years of suffering/studying Become A Monster Player! In this All Out Fantasy Arcade Racing heart pumping new franchise. Let your jaw drop as you duo dip through Pure Imagination and Hard work.
Refidenptio
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Hard as Hell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
A Boomer-Shooter with epileptic 1-bit pixel art. Immerse yourself in an enigmatic story destroying all enemies in front of you with a unique combat mechanic. Face depression head on, your enemies are just things created by your mind.
DOSMan: Space Aliens in Space!
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Ranked #7 for Hard as Hell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
Planet DOS is under attack by Space Aliens, DOSMan needs to fend them off and defend his home planet!
BlassHole
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Hard as Hell fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
A space action, looting and ship progression game first made over 25 years ago while I was studying programming, now remade: explore systems, fight, collect loot and upgrade your ship module by module.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Hard as Hell at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hard as Hell on Steam right now. Shares Action with Hard as Hell.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hard as Hell on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hard as Hell on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Hard as Hell.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hard as Hell on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Hard as Hell on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Hard as Hell.
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 Hard as Hell.
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 Hard as Hell.
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.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hard as Hell.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
93, Kuindzhi
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hard as Hell.
Kuindzhi, 93 is an atmospheric first-person narrative vignette about an 18-year-old boy from Donbas. The story takes us to March 2022, when the world changed forever — into a space where the past, fears, and doubts find their voice.
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Frequently asked about Hard as Hell
- How much does Hard as Hell cost?
- Hard as Hell is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Hard as Hell?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hard as Hell are Starfall Command, REAPER, Defensive Measures.
- Who developed Hard as Hell?
- Hard as Hell was developed by L4S Games, KAPPIRE and published by L4S Games, KAPPIRE.
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