Games like It came from space and ate our brains
If It came from space and ate our brains is your kind of game, the closest matches are Zombiepede, Battlestage and Tank Brawl 2: Armor Fury — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, intense and lighthearted. 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 It came from space and ate our brains: It came from space and ate our brains is a unique Arcade top-down shooter. Looking for addicting gameplay, four-player co-op mode, and tons of aliens to send into oblivion? You’ve come to the right place!
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Steam players who put hours into It came from space and ate our brains 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.
Zombiepede
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Top pick for It came from space and ate our brains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Upgrade your weapons in this roguelike defense shooter to shoot your way alone or with up to 4 friends in coop through endless hordes of different creatures and levels. Test different strategies to survive the early game and feel like a god in the late game.
Battlestage
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Second-strongest match for It came from space and ate our brains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with It came from space and ate our brains.
- Co-op Twin Stick Shooter
Tank Brawl 2: Armor Fury
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with It came from space and ate our brains.
Third-strongest match for It came from space and ate our brains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Satisfy your need of destruction by smashing armor vehicles to pieces in spectacular fashions during the epic 4 players co-op campaign. Vehicles and drivers have unique upgrades and class combination. Multiple weapons such as laser beam, giant hammer, Mech's katana.
Guns And Draguns
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Shares co op multiplayer and a funny mood with It came from space and ate our brains.
Ranked #4 for It came from space and ate our brains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Experience the thrill of teamwork and competition in Guns And Draguns, a roguelite shooting game. Navigate through a perilous fantasy dungeon, defeat enemies together, and gather upgrades to defeat the final boss. But don't trust your friends too much; you all aim to be the best player!
Cymatically Muffed
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Ranked #5 for It came from space and ate our brains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Don't you hate it when you wake up and some scientist has experimented on you and stolen your headphones? Muffed is a fast-paced shooter where you and your friends can find that guy and make him pay. Or fight everyone you know in split screen PvP for up to 16 players!
Frayspace
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Ranked #6 for It came from space and ate our brains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Fraypace is a local multiplayer top-down space arena shooter for up to 8 players. Choose your fighter, select your weapon, and enjoy the fast-paced and physics-based action with friends or AIs in fully destructible maps.
Ultra Mega Planet Battles
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Ranked #7 for It came from space and ate our brains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Ultra Mega Planet Battles is an intense arcade-style, space-based, twin-stick shooter. Players can play by themselves, or with up to 3 friends local co-op or Steam Remote Play (total of 4 players). Select your character, select and modify your ship, then get shooting!
It's Not Rocket Science!
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Ranked #8 for It came from space and ate our brains fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Build the best rocket with your partner and race the other team through space! It’s Not Rocket Science! offers 2 versus 2 local multiplayer. It is played with controllers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below It came from space and ate our brains at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~50% under It came from space and ate our brains on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with It came from space and ate our brains.
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
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Priced ~50% under It came from space and ate our brains on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
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!
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~55% under It came from space and ate our brains on Steam right now. Shares Action with It came from space and ate our brains.
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.
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~50% under It came from space and ate our brains on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with It came from space and ate our brains.
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 ~50% under It came from space and ate our brains on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with It came from space and ate our brains.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~90% under It came from space and ate our brains on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
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
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Priced ~70% under It came from space and ate our brains on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~50% under It came from space and ate our brains on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with It came from space and ate our brains.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
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 It came from space and ate our brains.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
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 It came from space and ate our brains.
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).
Lily's Well
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
It is a rainy night in the Spring of 2005. Lily is left home alone after her Papa put her to bed. She is awoken by a cry for help outside her window. It is coming from the well. Help Lily gather rope to go down the well and save the poor soul trapped down there.
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 It came from space and ate our brains.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Waves
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
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More from Triangle Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Triangle Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
From Space
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Another title from Triangle Studios, the studio behind It came from space and ate our brains. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
From Space is a solo and co-op action-shooter for squads up to four players. Take on the challenge of liberating the earth from an alien infestation with your friends, using over-the-top weaponry in a post-apocalyptic world with awesomely stylized graphics. The apocalypse has never been so much fun!
Cross of the Dutchman
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Shares a lighthearted mood with It came from space and ate our brains.
Another title from Triangle Studios, the studio behind It came from space and ate our brains. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Cross of the Dutchman is an action adventure game based on the true story of the folk legend 'Pier Gerlofs Donia'. The story takes place in medieval Western Europe, in the province of Frisia, near the turn of the 16th century.
Slide Stars
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Another title from Triangle Studios, the studio behind It came from space and ate our brains.
Play with the world’s biggest stars and blast through crazy water slides! Are you ready for the world’s most extreme water slide adventure? Choose your favorite star, jump onto the ride of your choice and race head-first down some of the most crazy water slides!
Mickey Storm and the Cursed Mask
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Another title from Triangle Studios, the studio behind It came from space and ate our brains. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Welcome to the world’s greatest waterpark! In this resort full of wild adventures and thrilling waterslides only you, and your sister, can stop the evil Dr. Fisher! Jump, slide and rush through a series of challenging 2.5D water slides to take him down!
Rockhounds
WHY THIS
Another title from Triangle Studios, the studio behind It came from space and ate our brains. Shares Action and Indie with It came from space and ate our brains.
Rockhounds is a 1-4 player extraction shooter where you and your squad brave the deadliest planets to extract minerals for ruthless Megacorps. Every mission is a fight for survival, wealth, and glory. Will you conquer the chaos and escape with your team? Gear up, and prove you’ve got what it takes!
Frequently asked about It came from space and ate our brains
- Is It came from space and ate our brains verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — It came from space and ate our brains is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does It came from space and ate our brains cost?
- It came from space and ate our brains is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does It came from space and ate our brains have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — It came from space and ate our brains supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to It came from space and ate our brains?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside It came from space and ate our brains are Zombiepede, Battlestage, Tank Brawl 2: Armor Fury.
- Who developed It came from space and ate our brains?
- It came from space and ate our brains was developed by Triangle Studios.
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