Games like Retrobooster
If Retrobooster is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mooncall, SpaceShooter and Viper Strike — 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 Retrobooster: A reinvention of the cave-flyer for players who love games of skill. You control an extremely responsive ship, which opens up new possibilities for speed flying challenges, puzzles, and bullet hell scenarios. This game is set at 1980s difficulty--Survive it if you can.
Players who liked Retrobooster also play
Steam players who put hours into Retrobooster 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.
Mooncall
WHY THIS
Top pick for Retrobooster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
A retro arcade rescue game. Fly your ship to save stranded foragers from a crater-scarred moon. Compete with your friends on global or private leaderboards! Don't ask about the red mushrooms.
SpaceShooter
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Retrobooster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Survive 20 escalating stages of meteor chaos in a fast-paced 2D arcade shooter. Master unlockable weapons, face unique meteor threats and powerful bosses, customize your ship, then push your limits in Endless Mode.
Viper Strike
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Retrobooster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Take flight in a classic top-down vertical shmup with a modern physics twist. Command the skies with air-to-air dogfights and air-to-ground bombing. Blasted enemies burst into physical chunks, to trigger chaotic, high-scoring chain reactions!
SpinZap
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Retrobooster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
SpinZap is a challenging game in classic arcade style. Use your reflexes, dexterity and boss skills to conquer 81 levels of circle zapping madness.
Syder Arcade
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Retrobooster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
Truxton Extreme
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Retrobooster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Retrobooster.
Take down hordes of alien invaders with your Power Shot, Truxton Beam, Thunder Laser, Homing Shot, Star‑mine Shot, and more! Don't forget to breathe as you face off against gigantic bosses in the ultimate battle for humanity’s survival!
Star Saviors
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Retrobooster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Saviors brings the best bullet hell experience you can find on Steam. Play through 18 challenging stages in this ultimate test of tactics and reflexes.
Enemy Mind
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Retrobooster fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
A retro shooter with a new power: the power to become any ship.Lost in the depths of space, you are a being of pure psychic energy with the uncanny power to take over and control anything you see in order to survive.Built for PC, Enemy Mind lets you battle your way through 70+ waves of challenging enemies.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Retrobooster at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Retrobooster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retrobooster.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Retrobooster on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Retrobooster on Steam right now. Shares Action with Retrobooster.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Retrobooster on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Retrobooster on Steam right now. Shares Action with Retrobooster.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Retrobooster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retrobooster.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Retrobooster on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Retrobooster.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
How to Fish
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Retrobooster on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
A 1-4 player physics based fishing simulator. While drinking and boating you suddenly crash into a small island. To work your way back home you have to learn How to Fish.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
Waves
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Nazi Zombies
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Retrobooster.
Nazi Zombies is a cooperative survival game where players fend off escalating waves of Nazi zombies, earning points by killing zombies and repairing barriers to buy weapons, upgrades, perks, and unlock new map areas to maximize their survival.
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Frequently asked about Retrobooster
- How much does Retrobooster cost?
- Retrobooster is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Retrobooster have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Retrobooster supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to Retrobooster?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Retrobooster are Mooncall, SpaceShooter, Viper Strike.
- Who developed Retrobooster?
- Retrobooster was developed by Really Slick.
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