Games like Salvage
If Salvage is your kind of game, the closest matches are Astral Blitz, RITUAL and ASHER Descent — 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 Salvage: Explore the remains of a dead god as an AI trying to find your way back to your crew. Scavenge equipment, recruit allies and face powerful foes in this sci-fi roguelike adventure.
Players who liked Salvage also play
Steam players who put hours into Salvage 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.
Astral Blitz
WHY THIS
Top pick for Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salvage.
Astral Blitz is a roguelite, twin stick shooter. Control your fighter ship and wreak devastation through the hordes of empire defenses. Create your own play style as you customize your ship to your needs, setting it up for brutal destruction, refined precision, or to become chaos incarnate!
RITUAL
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
RITUAL is a cyber-occult action roguelite where you survive escalating waves, forge devastating builds through sci-fi weapons, rhythm-breaking tech, and reality-altering Fonts, and battle five bosses inside the Martian terradome of TRA-3.
ASHER Descent
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
Go down. Get stronger. Come back alive. Mine the mountain. Defend your shuttle. Adapt or get overrun.
Deep Space Survivor: Endless Starfield
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Salvage.
"Deep Space Survivor: Endless Starfield" is a survivor-style game. Your interstellar battleship accidentally enters an unknown universe, fighting its way through endless enemies, roaming multiple star systems, and collecting meteor resources to forge your ultimate orbital weapon.
Geometry Rift: Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Salvage.
Imagine the frenetic chaos of Geometry Wars colliding with the addictive progression of Vampire Survivors. That's Geometry Rift — a relentless auto-fire action experience where geometric enemies flood the screen and your only option is to shoot, dodge, and survive.
Astral Lords
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
Shatter genre boundaries in this sci-fi survival Roguelite blending bullet-hell action and base-building RTS. Dodge and unleash screen-clearing firepower against alien hordes, while constructing fortresses and real-time automated defenses to crush your enemies.
Starforged Legacy
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
Outlast the onslaught in a sci-fi survivors-like where your decisions matter as much as your firepower. Command customizable starships, enhance your arsenal with 100+ strategy-defining upgrades, and annihilate endless fleets of cosmic combatants! Carve your legacy among the stars or die trying!
Blasteroids
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Salvage fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Salvage.
Blast your way through waves of space debris in order to reach what is waiting for you on the other side. Find your fighting style with multiple unlockable ships in this fast paced space adventure!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Salvage.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Salvage.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Salvage.
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 Salvage.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Salvage.
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.).
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Salvage.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Frequently asked about Salvage
- What games are most similar to Salvage?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Salvage are Astral Blitz, RITUAL, ASHER Descent.
- Who developed Salvage?
- Salvage was developed by Strings Attached Studios.
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 Salvage.
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