Games like Xerxes Shadow
If Xerxes Shadow is your kind of game, the closest matches are First Parsec, Undead Space and Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator — 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 Xerxes Shadow: Pilot your advanced Trident fighter through a mysterious frontier, where survival hinges on skill, strategy, and an inexplicable alien bond. XERXES:SHADOW - Your mind is the battlefield.
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First Parsec
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Top pick for Xerxes Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Xerxes Shadow.
Undead Space
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Second-strongest match for Xerxes Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
SPACE - FEAR, AND NO ONE WILL HELP YOU ............. A mix of horror and complete hopelessness. Explore dark corridors, isolated research modules, and abandoned Martian complexes. Here, you are completely alone, surrounded by the undead. Survive by immersing yourself in cosmic SURVIVAL HORROR.
Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator
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Third-strongest match for Xerxes Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
Pilot your starship in Starship Fighters, a realistic space combat simulator. Engage in intense battles, explore vast galaxies, and unleash destruction with an arsenal of powerful weapons in a universe teeming with enemies!
B.L.A.C.K. - 1
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Ranked #4 for Xerxes Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
Fight for survival in B.L.A.C.K - 1, a 3D FPS roguelike set in a dystopian future. Battle through procedurally generated spaceships using all your skills and resources, in Zero-G environments. Can you survive long enough to finally escape from enemy territory?
Massive Collapse
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Ranked #5 for Xerxes Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
Massive Collapse is a round-based multiplayer shooter where every match begins with a new build. Choose your race, combine spells and gadgets to create new strategies built to outmaneuver, outplay, and overwhelm your opponents.
Invasion Resistance 2
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Ranked #6 for Xerxes Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
A PC first-person shooter game with a short single-player campaign containing 13 maps and several cut-scenes.
Stellar Courier
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Ranked #7 for Xerxes Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Xerxes Shadow.
Arcade space shooter. You are a courier with one package to deliver across a broken galaxy. Plane-like flight, fights with pirates, the old army and aliens in a 20+ mission story campaign. Pick your ship and mods between missions. No grind, no filler.
Deeper In The Dark
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Ranked #8 for Xerxes Shadow fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
You like Sci-Fi games? You like FPS? You like games with secret items, collectables? You like short Indie games? Then you will love this game! The game takes place in a big mothership captured by aliens. Your mission is to kill all the aliens, and blow up the mothership.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Xerxes Shadow.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Xerxes Shadow.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Xerxes Shadow.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Xerxes Shadow.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Frequently asked about Xerxes Shadow
- What games are most similar to Xerxes Shadow?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Xerxes Shadow are First Parsec, Undead Space, Starship Fighters: Space Combat Simulator.
- Who developed Xerxes Shadow?
- Xerxes Shadow was developed by Determinist-Studios.
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