Games like Scary World
If Scary World is your kind of game, the closest matches are Polycar Blitz, Road Defense Racing and Swarmcade — 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 Scary World: Scary World is a single player bullet heaven roguelike. It's like Vampire Survivors but with lots of physics. Also, matches are shorter, more like 10 minutes long. Give it a try, maybe you'll like it!
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Steam players who put hours into Scary World 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.
Polycar Blitz
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Top pick for Scary World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
Shift into high gear and defend the moon! In this top-down rougelike vehicle shooter, gun down monsters and upgrade your Polycar to fend off against increasingly difficult waves of alien invaders! Do you have what it takes to win?
Road Defense Racing
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Second-strongest match for Scary World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
High-speed vehicular combat racing set in the world of Road Defense: Outsiders. Drive, shoot, destroy, and upgrade your car across 30 challenging tracks. Battle armed rivals and survive attacks from a hostile crowd while earning cash to upgrade your vehicle.
Swarmcade
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Third-strongest match for Scary World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
Survive the relentless swarm in this arcade take on the Bullet Heaven/Survivors-like Action Roguelite. Slay 1000s of foes, level up, loot chests and make your character more powerful than ever. Unlock meta-progression upgrades and more heroes, so you can even the odds on future runs.
Opalescence
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Ranked #4 for Scary World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
The colorful top-down shooter/bullet-hell
Hexapoda
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Ranked #5 for Scary World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
After the last human war, gases were spread through the atmosphere making it unbreathable. The richest to fled to orbital colonies and the others took refuge underground. Get ready to fight giant Insects for the future of humanity !
Mega City Force
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Ranked #6 for Scary World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
Apocalypse Party
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Ranked #7 for Scary World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
Apocalypse Party is a 3D top-down action Roguelike game. In this game, you will embark on a new mission to traverse through the Middle Ages and gradually master abilities, and arm yourself to become the strongest survivor through numerous choices.
Relic Dudes
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Ranked #8 for Scary World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Scary World.
Defeat hordes of enemies, alone or with up to 4 friends! Work together or mess with them on this online multiplayer survivors style roguelike, where you create unique builds that can change the fate of your team.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Scary World at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~67% under Scary World on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Scary World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scary World.
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
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Priced ~67% under Scary World on Steam right now. Shares Action with Scary World.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Scary World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scary World.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Scary World on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
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Priced ~67% under Scary World on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
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Priced ~67% under Scary World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Scary World.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Scary World.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scary World.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
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 Scary World.
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).
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Scary World.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Scary World.
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!
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Frequently asked about Scary World
- How much does Scary World cost?
- Scary World is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Scary World?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Scary World are Polycar Blitz, Road Defense Racing, Swarmcade.
- Who developed Scary World?
- Scary World was developed by Keith Burgun Games.
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 Scary World.
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