Games like Madlum
If Madlum is your kind of game, the closest matches are Orbit Run, Hover Point and Hellfish — 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 Madlum: Madlum is a Bullet Hell Shmup with Roguelike elements with a dark hand-drawn style. Navigate through a shifting labyrinth, gather powerful upgrades to combat the ever increasing difficulty, annihilate your rivals and escape Madlum's Vault.
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Steam players who put hours into Madlum 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.
Orbit Run
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Top pick for Madlum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Orbit Run is an arcade sci-fi game with roguelike elements, in which orbiting asteroids are your only weapons. Catch asteroids and combine them to unlock their run-altering abilities. Skillfully manoeuvre to dodge attacks and land massive asteroid strikes to defeat the ever-increasing waves of foes.
Hover Point
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Second-strongest match for Madlum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Hover Point is a physics-based rogue-lite bullet hell where movement is your weapon. Dodge chaotic swarms with auto-fire action, build your skill tree, and climb global leaderboards. Master the chaos solo or in co-op via mouse-only, keyboard-only, or controller-only playstyles.
Hellfish
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Third-strongest match for Madlum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Hellfish is a classic side-scrolling shoot 'em up set deep in a corrupted ocean. Battle demonic sea creatures as The Pope using his holy submarine, and customize your righteous weapons in unique ways every time you play.
Bonfire Barrage
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Ranked #4 for Madlum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Madlum.
Play as a Bonfire Spirit, unleashing flaming bullets to fend off relentless waves of shadowy foes. Master dynamic movement, evolve your powers, and adapt to the ever-shifting chaos. Keep your flame burning in this fast-paced, stylized 2D action-roguelike, where every moment is a fight for survival!
Rogue Shapes
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Ranked #5 for Madlum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Rogue Shapes is a fast-paced roguelike bullet hell where you battle waves of deadly shapes, level up, and choose powerful upgrades. Complete challenges to unlock new playable shapes, each with unique weapons. How long can you survive the chaos?
Meowmunitions
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Ranked #6 for Madlum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Meowmunitions gives you a roguelike bullet hell experience with a unique gun customization mechanic, letting you design your gun however you like. The random nature of the game, with multiple augments and artifacts, forces you to think of new and creative synergies to approach each run.
Deck of Potential
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Ranked #7 for Madlum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Deck of Potential combines roguelike deckbuilder with bullet heaven. Collect cards, fuse them, and slap on sticker upgrades to beat thousands of monsters. Take down dungeon bosses, unlock new cards, characters, and discover fusion recipes to build the ultimate auto-firing deck.
Wind Runners
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Ranked #8 for Madlum fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Wind Runners is a high-speed bullet-hell dogfighting roguelite where you start as a lone pilot, turning each flight into a fight for freedom. Face the ruthless technotheist Realm, take on relentless fleets and colossal bosses, and let your victories ignite a growing resistance across the star system
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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 Madlum.
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The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
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).
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Madlum.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
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Frequently asked about Madlum
- What games are most similar to Madlum?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Madlum are Orbit Run, Hover Point, Hellfish.
- Who developed Madlum?
- Madlum was developed by BlindVoid.
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 Madlum.
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