Games like The Next Penelope
If The Next Penelope is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rocket Rumble, Assault Android Cactus+ and Rock n' Rush: Battle Racing — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its local multiplayer chaos, atmospheric and hypnotic. 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 The Next Penelope: Set in a futuristic Odyssey, "The Next Penelope" is a fast paced action racing game with loud colors, an original story and a challenging risk-reward system. Weapons can be mixed and used at any time, but all these abilities cost vital energy!
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Steam players who put hours into The Next Penelope 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.
Rocket Rumble
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Top pick for The Next Penelope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Rocket Rumble is a 4 player party racing brawler where crossing the finish line first isn't the only goal! Smash your way through action-packed tracks, earning points along the way. Earn the most to win! Plus with procedurally generated obstacles in every track, you'll never know what's coming up!
Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares local multiplayer and an intense mood with The Next Penelope.
Second-strongest match for The Next Penelope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
Rock n' Rush: Battle Racing
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Next Penelope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Multiplayer Combat Racing Game inspired by the 90's classics like Rock n' Roll Racing and Mario Kart.
GRAL
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with The Next Penelope.
Ranked #4 for The Next Penelope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
GRAL is a futuristic racing game with combat elements, a tribute to the 90s games such as Megarace, POD, DethKarz. Rides fast racing cars that spin 600Mph on articulated tracks with shortcuts, jumps, parabolic and death rides!
Retro Rally!
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Next Penelope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Get ready to embark on a nostalgic journey back to the golden era of arcade gaming with Retro Rally! This top-down racing game pays homage to the classic arcade racers of yesteryears, offering an adrenaline-pumping experience that will have you hooked from the moment you hit the accelerator.
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with The Next Penelope.
Ranked #6 for The Next Penelope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
Obliteracers
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Shares an intense mood with The Next Penelope.
Ranked #7 for The Next Penelope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Award-winning same-screen party racing for up to 16 players! Race brutal-cute aliens on exotic planets, using weapon powerups and physics-based vehicles to annihilate your competition in frantic round-based combat. Connect spare gamepads, laptops and smart devices as extra controllers.
ThunderWheels
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Ranked #8 for The Next Penelope fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with The Next Penelope.
ThunderWheels is a retro racing game with a classic top-down racing perspective plus third and first person view, realistic physics and really fun circuits full of 80's nostalgia.
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Zero-K
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Reviewers of The Next Penelope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Next Penelope.
With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.
Micro Machines World Series
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Next Penelope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Racing with The Next Penelope.
The legend is back! Micro Machines World Series combines the thrilling madness of racing micro vehicles with epic team battle strategies, set against the extraordinary interactive backdrops of the everyday home! Grab your NERF blaster, try to avoid the jam, and take on the world!
Roadkill
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Reviewers of The Next Penelope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
In a dystopian future, drivers race through deadly tracks, earning points by running over pedestrians as well as winning. Armed with brutal vehicles, they score for kills, with bonus points for gruesome takedowns. The ruthless battle where survival means sacrificing humanity for fame and fortune.
Microbes and Machines
WHY THIS
Reviewers of The Next Penelope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with The Next Penelope.
Microbes and Machines is a roguelite action game where you control a little bubble robot that fights against the forces of evil.
RoadKill
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Reviewers of The Next Penelope cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Next Penelope.
You dodged death once — but it's not finished with you yet. Alone in an eerie town, you must search, hide, and survive while a relentless mechanical predator stalks the streets. Stay alert. Stay alive.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Next Penelope at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under The Next Penelope on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Next Penelope.
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 ~62% under The Next Penelope on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
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 ~46% under The Next Penelope on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Next Penelope.
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.
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under The Next Penelope on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Next Penelope.
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
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Priced ~52% under The Next Penelope on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Next Penelope.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~62% under The Next Penelope on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Next Penelope.
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
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Priced ~62% under The Next Penelope on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Next Penelope.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~92% under The Next Penelope on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
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?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Next Penelope.
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).
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Bloons TD Battles 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
From the creators of Bloons TD6... Bloons TD Battles 2 is a brand new installment of the top-rated head-to-head tower defense game. Gather your Hero, choose your team of powerful Monkey Towers, and prepare to battle one on one against other players and relentless waves of Bloons!
TrackMania Nations Forever
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Racing with The Next Penelope.
A free game in the truest sense of the word, TrackMania Nations Forever lets you drive at mind-blowing speeds on fun and spectacular tracks in solo and multiplayer modes.TrackMania Nations Forever offers a new "Forever" version of the Stadium environment, a solid solo mode and 65 brand new, progressively challenging tracks.
Yet Another Zombie Defense
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.
Idol Showdown
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Next Penelope.
Made by hololive fans, for hololive fans. Idol Showdown is the definitive fan-made hololive fighting game experience, powered by rollback netcode. Engage in exciting duels as your favorite hololive talent and prove once and for all who the strongest idol is using the game’s easy-to-learn controls.
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Frequently asked about The Next Penelope
- How much does The Next Penelope cost?
- The Next Penelope is listed on Steam at 12.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does The Next Penelope have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — The Next Penelope supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player).
- What games are most similar to The Next Penelope?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Next Penelope are Rocket Rumble, Assault Android Cactus+, Rock n' Rush: Battle Racing.
- Who developed The Next Penelope?
- The Next Penelope was developed by Aurelien Regard and published by Plug In Digital.
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