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Games like The Weaponographist

If The Weaponographist is your kind of game, the closest matches are Bastion, Concursion and Hades — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its fast paced arcade combat, atmospheric and challenging. 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.

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About The Weaponographist: Play as Doug McGrave, famous demon hunter for hire. Highest level, bestest gear, ruggedly handsome, and unrepentant jerk. For refusing to aid one stinking demon-infested town, you are immediately – and deservedly – cursed. Your powers, your wealth, and your weapons… Poof! Gone.

2015ActionIndieRPG5.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 58Windows · macOSby Puuba
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Steam players who put hours into The Weaponographist 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.

  1. Bastion

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Weaponographist.

    Top pick for The Weaponographist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.

    2011ActionIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Concursion

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Weaponographist.

    Second-strongest match for The Weaponographist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Concursion is a multi-genre game played on the boundaries between worlds. Steer your hero through a dangerous interdimensional universe, switching between different genres on the fly, pulling off feats of tight aerial acrobatics otherwise unattainable in one genre alone.

    2014ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hades

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The Weaponographist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.

    2020ActionIndieRPG24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Hyper Light Drifter

    WHY THIS

    Shares an atmospheric mood with The Weaponographist.

    Ranked #4 for The Weaponographist fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Weaponographist at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under The Weaponographist on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Weaponographist on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The Weaponographist on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Weaponographist.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~75% under The Weaponographist on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Weaponographist.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~83% under The Weaponographist on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Weaponographist.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Crypt of the NecroDancer

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Weaponographist on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!

    2015ActionIndieRPG2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Super Hexagon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Weaponographist on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

    2012ActionIndie2.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Nodebuster

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under The Weaponographist on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Nodebuster is a short, experimental incremental game about busting nodes and destroying reality.

    2024StrategyIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Eternal Senia

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Thoughts and expectations ARPG

    2015ActionIndieRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Epic Battle Fantasy 3

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with The Weaponographist.

    Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!

    2016IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Battlerite

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The Weaponographist.

    BATTLERITE​ ​is​ ​an​ ​action-packed​ ​team​ ​arena​ ​brawler.​ ​Experience​ ​the​ ​unique​ ​combination​ ​of​ top-down​ ​shooter​ meets​ ​fast-paced​ ​fighting​ ​game and challenge ​friends​ ​and​ foes​ ​in​ ​a​ ​battle​ ​of reaction. The Arena awaits!

    2017ActionFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Wuthering Waves

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and RPG with The Weaponographist.

    Wuthering Waves is a story-rich open-world action RPG with a high degree of freedom. You wake from your slumber as Rover, joined by a vibrant cast of Resonators on a journey to reclaim your lost memories and change the world.

    2025ActionAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Spiral Knights

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Weaponographist.

    Join the ranks of the Spiral Knights. Stranded on an alien world, you must explore the ever-changing Clockworks beneath its surface.

    2011ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The Weaponographist

Does The Weaponographist run on Steam Deck?
The Weaponographist 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 The Weaponographist cost?
The Weaponographist is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The Weaponographist?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Weaponographist are Bastion, Concursion, Hades.
Who developed The Weaponographist?
The Weaponographist was developed by Puuba.

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 The Weaponographist.

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