Games like ShellShock Live
If ShellShock Live is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tank Royale, Wardudes and Worms W.M.D — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its nostalgic artillery gameplay modernized, challenging and funny. 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 →ShellShock Live is a 2D artillery tank game released in 2020 by kChamp Games, available for $9.99. It features turn-based tank combat with extensive weapon customization and a substantial single-player campaign alongside online multiplayer modes including ranked play and both team and free-for-all matches. The game incorporates portal mechanics that shift shot trajectories and neon-pink barriers that reflect projectiles, adding strategic layers to the artillery gameplay. Players describe it as challenging with retro charm, finding the nostalgic artillery gameplay refreshingly modernized. Reviewers highlight its lighthearted tone and funny moments, while Steam users report that the slow progression system feels rewarding. The game holds a 93% positive review score from over 16,000 reviews and is marked playable on Steam Deck.
About ShellShock Live: Demolish your friends with hundreds of upgradable weapons shot from your customizable tank in this action-packed online multiplayer tanks game. Earn XP to level up and unlock new tanks, weapons, and gear. Fight against or alongside your friends for strategic team or free-for-all matches.
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Steam players who put hours into ShellShock Live 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.
Tank Royale
WHY THIS
Top pick for ShellShock Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with ShellShock Live.
PLAY ONLINE FREE: try the Free Royale Edition and progress syncs to the full version. Pick an awesome tank, buckle up and get ready for explosive battle royale experience. 10-players brawling for survival and only one true winner who gets chicken dinner. Can you become the last tank standing?
Wardudes
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ShellShock Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with ShellShock Live.
WarDudes is a turn-based tactical warfare game inspired by the Worms series and PS1 classic Hogs of War. Take turns controlling members of your squad and try to prevail on the other teams! Use a large variety of weapons to destroy the enemy and change the landscape with explosive artillery!
Worms W.M.D
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with ShellShock Live.
Third-strongest match for ShellShock Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with ShellShock Live.
The worms are back in their most destructive game yet. With a gorgeous, hand-drawn 2D look, brand new weapons, the introduction of crafting, vehicles and buildings plus the return of some much-loved classic weapons and gameplay, Worms W.M.D is the best worms experience ever.
Solar Storm
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ShellShock Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with ShellShock Live.
Solar Storm is a turn-based Scifi Artillery game with lots of Explosions and Unique Weapons. Play casually with your friends in Procedural and Fully Destructible Arenas to see who is the best!
The Cannon Fighters
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ShellShock Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ShellShock Live.
The Cannon Fighters is an action game with fully destructible environments. Experience loads of fun alone or with friends! Randomly generated levels in various environments await you for even greater entertainment. Gain experience and show that you belong among the best!
Card Hog
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with ShellShock Live.
Ranked #6 for ShellShock Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ShellShock Live.
Card Hog is a pig-based dungeon crawler with roguelike and deck building elements. Take the role of an adventurous hog and interact with more than 100 cards of dangerous enemies, powerful weapons and exciting spells!
Rento Fortune: Online Dice Board Game (大富翁)
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ShellShock Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ShellShock Live.
Rento is multiplayer business dice game. It is board game for 2 to 8 players.Trade lands, build houses, win auctions, roll wheel of fortune, risk in Russian Roulette and have fun.Play with your friends and acquire a monopoly over the game board :)
Flotilla
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ShellShock Live.
Ranked #8 for ShellShock Live fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with ShellShock Live.
Lead your orbital battleships to victory in Flotilla! Fight, trade, and explore new planets in your journey through the galaxy. Featuring tactically rich 3D combat, flank and surprise the enemy from any direction. When the dust settles, generate another randomized universe for a brand new adventure!
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Worms
WHY THIS
Shares turn based artillery and a funny mood with ShellShock Live.
Reviewers of ShellShock Live cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with ShellShock Live.
Throw a grenade down memory lane with the original and classic turn-based strategy game Worms™! Up to 4 teams of worms do battle over an ever-changing battlefield with falling weapon crates, crazed exploding sheep and more besides. Winner of many industry awards, find out what all the fuss was about.
Tanki Online
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with ShellShock Live.
Reviewers of ShellShock Live cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Massively Multiplayer with ShellShock Live.
Tanki Online is the free-to-play MMO-shooter with real-time PvP-battles. Throw yourself into furious tank battles shoulder to shoulder with other living players and master your skills – destroy enemy tanks, customize your futuristic armored vehicle and compete with tankers from all over the world.
Star Tank
WHY THIS
Reviewers of ShellShock Live cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with ShellShock Live.
Star Tank is a shmup with eighties aesthetics, a mixture of styles (Galaga-Operation Wolf). A difficult game that requires great control skills. 20 stages. 5 bosses. Various enemies. Become an expert pilot of a StarTank!!!!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ShellShock Live at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ShellShock Live on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ShellShock Live.
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 ~50% under ShellShock Live on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ShellShock Live.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under ShellShock Live on Steam right now. Shares Action with ShellShock Live.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ShellShock Live on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with ShellShock Live.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ShellShock Live on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Massively Multiplayer with ShellShock Live.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under ShellShock Live on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ShellShock Live.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ShellShock Live on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with ShellShock Live.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under ShellShock Live on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ShellShock Live.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ShellShock Live.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ShellShock Live.
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 ShellShock Live.
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 Massively Multiplayer with ShellShock Live.
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 and Casual with ShellShock Live.
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 ShellShock Live.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with ShellShock Live.
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.
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Frequently asked about ShellShock Live
- Does ShellShock Live run on Steam Deck?
- ShellShock Live 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 ShellShock Live cost?
- ShellShock Live is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does ShellShock Live have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — ShellShock Live supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to ShellShock Live?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ShellShock Live are Tank Royale, Wardudes, Worms W.M.D.
- Who developed ShellShock Live?
- ShellShock Live was developed by kChamp Games.
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