Games like Jackal
If Jackal is your kind of game, the closest matches are Killer Ricky, Mr. Fast and OTXO — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric synth driven soundtrack, atmospheric and dark. 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 Jackal: Execute ultra-violent raids in 1970s casino hotels. Take down the Las Vegas mob as a drug super-powered hitman in physics-fueled top-down close combat
Players who liked Jackal also play
Steam players who put hours into Jackal 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.
Killer Ricky
WHY THIS
Top pick for Jackal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Play as Killer Ricky and avenge his family by killing all members of a bloodthirsty Mafia organization.
Mr. Fast
WHY THIS
Shares boss fights and an atmospheric mood with Jackal.
Second-strongest match for Jackal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Mr. Fast is a top-down shooting game with a bullet time twist! Enemy's time moves more slowly than yours. You're fast enough and you can kill others with one shot.
OTXO
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Jackal.
Third-strongest match for Jackal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Jackal.
Enter an inexplicable, abstract mansion to rescue a loved one in this fast-paced, brutal, and dark roguelite filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion. Face your inner demons and unveil the secrets of the Mansion.
Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jackal.
Ranked #4 for Jackal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
You like top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against zombies and monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments? Fight your way through an apocalyptic city in the single player story mode, and test your skills in the survival mode.
wonShot
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Jackal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Your job is to destroy as many enemy ships as possible with your giant laser, but it only fires once per day! Travel through the galaxy destroying the rebel army one shot at a time in wonShot!
The Hong Kong Massacre
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Jackal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Jackal.
Ranked #7 for Jackal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Jackal.
From the dust of a gold mine to the dirt of a saloon, Call of Juarez® Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales. Live the epic and violent journey of a ruthless bounty hunter on the trail of the West’s most notorious outlaws.
Blind Drive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Jackal.
Ranked #8 for Jackal fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
An audio-based black comedy action arcade game - Blind Drive is a video game you can play with your eyes closed! 1st person hyper-realistic audio adventure meets fast paced arcade gameplay, driven by an insane B-movie plot.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Jackal
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Hotline Miami
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Jackal.
Reviewers of Jackal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
OTXO
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Jackal.
Reviewers of Jackal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Jackal.
Enter an inexplicable, abstract mansion to rescue a loved one in this fast-paced, brutal, and dark roguelite filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion. Face your inner demons and unveil the secrets of the Mansion.
The King of Wall Street
WHY THIS
Shares arcade style and a hypnotic mood with Jackal.
Reviewers of Jackal cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Jackal.
This is a rougelite card game that combines parkour-style with stock speculation. You can experience the journey from a stock trading novice to the most powerful king of stocks! More casual or more strategic? It's your choice!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Jackal at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Jackal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jackal.
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 Jackal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
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 Jackal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jackal.
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 Jackal on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
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 Jackal on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jackal.
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 Jackal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jackal.
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 Jackal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jackal.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Jackal on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jackal.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Jackal.
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.).
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
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!
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Jackal.
When there’s a call, you are the man to clean up after your client’s dirty job. Siding with the mafia is a dangerous game, but they pay well, and you need money, right? So take your mop and better remove those bloodstains quickly before the police come.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Waves
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
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!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
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Head-to-head comparisons
More from Transhuman Design
Other recommendable Steam games by Transhuman Design, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
King Arthur's Gold
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jackal.
Another title from Transhuman Design, the studio behind Jackal. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Would you enjoy building CASTLES, traps and siege machines in MULTIPLAYER? And then undermine your opponents castle and collapse it with 2D PHYSICS & DESTRUCTION?
Maniac
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and a dark mood with Jackal.
Another title from Transhuman Design, the studio behind Jackal. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Ever just tired of it all? Ready for change? Wanna bet it all on sheer mayhem and destruction? In comes Maniac, a rogue-lite crime action game in which the world goes against you, and your insanity creates chaos!
BUTCHER
WHY THIS
Shares twin stick shooting and a hypnotic mood with Jackal.
Another title from Transhuman Design, the studio behind Jackal. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
Soldat 2
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jackal.
Another title from Transhuman Design, the studio behind Jackal. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Soldat 2 is a 2D deathmatch shooter with real guns, ragdoll violence and physics-based movement. Based on classic Soldat with team game modes, ranked multiplayer, bots and built-in customization and level editing. Made by MM - creator of the original.
Trench Run
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jackal.
Another title from Transhuman Design, the studio behind Jackal. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Trench Run is a mayhem-filled, laugh a minute casual 4-player action game brought to you by the makers of King Arthur’s Gold and Soldat.
Soldat
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jackal.
Another title from Transhuman Design, the studio behind Jackal. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
Soldat is a unique 2D (side-view) multiplayer action game. Soldiers fight against each other in 2D battle arenas using a deadly arsenal of military weapons, across 7 default game modes.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
OTXO
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Jackal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Jackal.
Enter an inexplicable, abstract mansion to rescue a loved one in this fast-paced, brutal, and dark roguelite filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion. Face your inner demons and unveil the secrets of the Mansion.
Call of Juarez: Gunslinger
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Jackal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Jackal.
From the dust of a gold mine to the dirt of a saloon, Call of Juarez® Gunslinger is a real homage to the Wild West tales. Live the epic and violent journey of a ruthless bounty hunter on the trail of the West’s most notorious outlaws.
Blind Drive
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Jackal.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jackal.
An audio-based black comedy action arcade game - Blind Drive is a video game you can play with your eyes closed! 1st person hyper-realistic audio adventure meets fast paced arcade gameplay, driven by an insane B-movie plot.
Frequently asked about Jackal
- Is Jackal verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Jackal is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Jackal cost?
- Jackal is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Jackal?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jackal are Killer Ricky, Mr. Fast, OTXO.
- Who developed Jackal?
- Jackal was developed by Transhuman Design.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on Jackal.
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