Games like 20XX
If 20XX is your kind of game, the closest matches are 30XX, Abyss Odyssey and Kungfu Cowboy — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its classic megaman x gameplay, endless replayability and permanent upgrades. 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 →20XX is a roguelite action platformer released in 2017 by Batterystaple Games and Fire Hose Games, available on Steam for $14.99. The game features procedural level generation, character customization, and permanent upgrades that carry between runs. Players collect boss weapons and unlock new abilities across multiple playthroughs, with both local and online cooperative modes supporting two-player sessions. Reviewers highlight the classic Megaman X-inspired gameplay and the endless replayability created by the roguelike structure. The title maintains a medium length per run while offering high difficulty and Steam Deck compatibility for portable play, achieving a 92% positive rating from over 2,600 Steam reviews.
About 20XX: 20XX is a roguelike action platformer that you can play with a friend. Jump and shoot your way through ever-changing levels, collect awesome new powers, and battle mighty bosses in the name of saving the human race maybe!
Players who liked 20XX also play
Steam players who put hours into 20XX 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.
30XX
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 20XX.
Top pick for 20XX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with 20XX.
Second-strongest match for 20XX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Kungfu Cowboy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 20XX.
Third-strongest match for 20XX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Headshot, dash and dodge like a Kungfu Cowboy in this quirky, challenging run 'n' gun platformer with roguelike elements. Explore randomly generated levels, acquire strong "gunfu" abilities and stack synergizible upgrades for a powerful build. Team up with friends in PvE or battle each other in PvP!
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 20XX.
Ranked #4 for 20XX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with 20XX.
Ranked #5 for 20XX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Lost Castle / 失落城堡
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 20XX.
Ranked #6 for 20XX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with 20XX.
Ranked #7 for 20XX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for 20XX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below 20XX at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under 20XX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 20XX.
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 20XX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
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 20XX on Steam right now. Shares Action with 20XX.
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 20XX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
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 20XX on Steam right now. Shares Action with 20XX.
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 20XX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 20XX.
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 20XX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 20XX.
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 20XX on Steam right now. Shares Indie with 20XX.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with 20XX.
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 20XX.
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 with 20XX.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 20XX.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 20XX.
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.
missed messages.
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with 20XX.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with 20XX.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with 20XX.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with 20XX.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
Son of a Witch
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with 20XX.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with 20XX.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Frequently asked about 20XX
- Does 20XX run on Steam Deck?
- 20XX is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does 20XX cost?
- 20XX is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does 20XX have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — 20XX supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to 20XX?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside 20XX are 30XX, Abyss Odyssey, Kungfu Cowboy.
- Who developed 20XX?
- 20XX was developed by Batterystaple Games, Fire Hose Games and published by Batterystaple 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 20XX.
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