Games like Steam Heroes
Below are 24 hand-picked alternatives to Steam Heroes for fans of action, indie, adventure, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Steam Heroes also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, more from ProjectorGames. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Steam Heroes at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Steam Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Steam Heroes.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Steam Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Steam Heroes.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Steam Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Steam Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
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.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~83% under Steam Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
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.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Steam Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Steam Heroes.
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!
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Steam Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Steam Heroes.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Steam Heroes on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Steam Heroes.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
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.
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 Steam Heroes.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Steam Heroes.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
The Lab
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Floating Point
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Steam Heroes.
Floating Point is a peaceful, free game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoothly and elegantly without hitting anything.
The Supper
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
The Supper is a short adventure game about the darkest side of the human soul. Ms. Appleton was always a wellspring of kindness, until The Voice started talking to her.
Samorost 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
Explore the beginnings of the Samorost series in the space gnome’s original bite-sized adventure, formerly released in 2003. Now with remastered sounds, enhanced graphics, and new music by Floex.
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More from ProjectorGames
Other recommendable Steam games by ProjectorGames, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
FortressCraft Evolved!
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind Steam Heroes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
FortressCraft Evolved is a unique blend of Voxel Landscapes, Tower Defense, Crafting, Logistics, Exploration, Combat and Assembly lines. Players begin by crash-landing on a strange alien world, left with only a small handful of starting machines.
Ampu-Tea
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Steam Heroes.
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind Steam Heroes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
The surgeon-simulator inspired Tea-making game is now available on Steam! Using the latest KS-001 Robo-Arm, you must practise making various types of tea.
Gnomancer
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind Steam Heroes. Shares Action and Indie with Steam Heroes.
DjArcas' Twin Stick Shooter for up to 4 players - Pikmin meets Gauntlet. Advance your character, get epic loot, raise a gnome army!
ADAPTR
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind Steam Heroes. Shares Indie with Steam Heroes.
Build physics-based vehicles from a range of modular blocks, solve puzzles to move down from orbit, across the Earth's surface and deep into the lost labs. Locate missing robots, explore secret areas and unlock the secrets of a long-lost civilisation.
Storm Area 51: September 20th 2019
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind Steam Heroes. Shares Action with Steam Heroes.
Survive the epic raid on Area 51 and rescue the aliens from the military compound using classic stealth mechanics and cover.
PacketStorm
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind Steam Heroes. Shares Indie and Casual with Steam Heroes.
In PacketStorm, you play an AI developing a new Internet Service Provider. Each game takes place over a few second of game-time, but potentially many hours of realtime. Buy up routers, upgrade cable networks and deal with packet jams as you earn money to research new and better upgrades.
FortressCraft : Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind Steam Heroes. Shares Indie and Adventure with Steam Heroes.
FortressCraft : Chapter 1 Anniversary Edition is the PC-update to the world's first and best Creative-focussed Voxel block builder.
Mothership Forever
WHY THIS
Another title from ProjectorGames, the studio behind Steam Heroes. Shares Action and Indie with Steam Heroes.
Fight against an ever-evolving threat in this skill-based twinstick shooter 14 years in the making.
Frequently asked about Steam Heroes
- Does Steam Heroes run on Steam Deck?
- Steam Heroes 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 Steam Heroes cost?
- Steam Heroes is listed on Steam at 5.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Who developed Steam Heroes?
- Steam Heroes was developed by ProjectorGames and published by KISS ltd.
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 Steam Heroes.
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