Games like Tiamat X
If Tiamat X is your kind of game, the closest matches are Syder Arcade, Ikaruga and LUFTRAUSERS — 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 Tiamat X: Featuring six levels of intense shooting action, Tiamat X is a rip-snortin tribute to the side-scrolling space shooters of yesteryear, and would be right at home blazing away on the screen of a booming, beer-stained arcade cabinet.
Players who liked Tiamat X also play
Steam players who put hours into Tiamat X 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.
Syder Arcade
WHY THIS
Top pick for Tiamat X fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.
Ikaruga
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Tiamat X fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
LUFTRAUSERS
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Tiamat X fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Tiamat X fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. From Japanese indie developer Yotsubane, this retro top-down shooter is a wild ride you won't want to miss out on.
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Tiamat X fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Beat Hazard
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Tiamat X fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
Deathsmiles
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Tiamat X fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Deathsmiles is CAVE's bullet-hell shoot-'em-up where you take the role of one of five Angels to defend the magical land of Gilverado from an invasion by Hell itself! Eradicate this devilish assault!
Bleed 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Tiamat X fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Tiamat X at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tiamat X on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tiamat X on Steam right now. Shares Action with Tiamat X.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tiamat X on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tiamat X.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tiamat X on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
"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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tiamat X on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tiamat X on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Tiamat X.
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.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Tiamat X on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
BEEP
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Tiamat X.
A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.
Shooty Skies
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
The creators of Crossy Road present Shooty Skies! Shoot, dodge, duck, goose and weave. Take to the skies!
WOWOWOW KORONE BOX
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Tiamat X.
A hololive fangame featuring Inugami Korone of hololive GAMERS! Collect as many Korone Boxes as possible while contending with an endless onslaught of enemies and bosses using whatever weapons you happen to pick up!
SWARMRIDERS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
SWARMRIDERS is a FREE "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" ARCADE mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing minigame" made as a bonus content for the UBERMOSH community.
MSI Electric City: Core Assault
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Rediscover MSI Electric City as you pilot a fighter ship with the mission to defend the city. Maneuver and blast away the enemy swarm in this VR bullet hell arcade shoot ’em up.
TimeTekker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
TimeTekker is an arcade shoot em' up where your actions dictate the speed of time itself! Overcome the endless hail of bullets at your own pace and become the ultimate ninja!
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Ikaruga
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Deathsmiles
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Deathsmiles is CAVE's bullet-hell shoot-'em-up where you take the role of one of five Angels to defend the magical land of Gilverado from an invasion by Hell itself! Eradicate this devilish assault!
Bleed 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Tiamat X.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
Frequently asked about Tiamat X
- How much does Tiamat X cost?
- Tiamat X is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Tiamat X?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Tiamat X are Syder Arcade, Ikaruga, LUFTRAUSERS.
- Who developed Tiamat X?
- Tiamat X was developed by BBQ 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 Tiamat X.
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