Games like Exertion
If Exertion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Destropolis 2, Cosmic Run and Micron Survivor — 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 Exertion: Classic arcade shooting meets Survivor-style progression in this side-scrolling action roguelite. Draft powerful cards, discover game-breaking synergies, and unleash bullet hell upon hordes of enemies. Die, upgrade your stats, and return to the arena to become the ultimate weapon.
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Steam players who put hours into Exertion 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.
Destropolis 2
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Top pick for Exertion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Exertion.
Hordes of red cube enemies. Bullets, lasers and nukes. Cities to raze to the ground.
ActionSteam ↗Cosmic Run
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Exertion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
Cosmic Run is a single-player space roguelite where you battle relentless galactic enemies, strategically upgrade your ship, and help the Zogark family survive their journey across the galaxy. Build powerful combinations, adapt to chaotic encounters, and escape one broken system after another.
Micron Survivor
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Exertion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exertion.
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.
Eldritch Escape
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Ranked #4 for Exertion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
In this Lovecraftian Extraction Bullet Heaven, Earth has been consumed by an eldritch god. Build a customizable squad, battle endless horrors, extract resources, and search for a way out of the void
Ascend to ZERO
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Ranked #5 for Exertion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exertion.
Have you ever wondered what it feels like to stop time? Ascend to ZERO is a time-bending action-roguelike where you can use your unique ability to freeze time and fight your way to the top.
SYSTEMCRASH 92
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Exertion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
A side-scrolling survival roguelite — until you trigger Reality Shift and the arena unfolds into free 3D. Your weapon fires itself; you move, dash and decide. Every run rolls its own archetype, mutator and contract, and the threat scales to your level.
Flaghead
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Ranked #7 for Exertion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and RPG with Exertion.
Flaghead is an arena shooter roguelite where you play as a country, surviving through history from the dark ages into the cybernetic futures and beyond.
Fading Reel
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Ranked #8 for Exertion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
A sepia Roguelike — lead a chained squad through 22 waves. Map events split your line, milestone recruits add firepower. Linked Blink, run upgrades, 19 Evolutions, and a permanent meta tree carry you to the final Boss Hydra.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Exertion.
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.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Exertion.
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!
Tails Noir: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Exertion.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Exertion
- What games are most similar to Exertion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Exertion are Destropolis 2, Cosmic Run, Micron Survivor.
- Who developed Exertion?
- Exertion was developed by Flat City Games.
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 Exertion.
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