Games like Dark Matter
If Dark Matter is your kind of game, the closest matches are Aircraft Sketch Shooter, Beyond Horizon and Orbital Invaders — 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 Dark Matter: Dark Matter is a classic arcade space shooter inspired by Asteroids, featuring fast-paced ship combat, physics-based movement, and score-driven gameplay.
Players who liked Dark Matter also play
Steam players who put hours into Dark Matter 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.
Aircraft Sketch Shooter
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Top pick for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Choose One of 4 Aircrafts and start to fight against Unique Boss Enemies.
Beyond Horizon
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Second-strongest match for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Battle across the galaxy, defeat powerful bosses, and uncover the mystery of Kuma's missing sister in this fast-paced top-down space shooter.
Orbital Invaders
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Third-strongest match for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
3D Sci-Fi arcade Shoot'em up game. Destroy asteroids and aliens. Shoot them all!3D arena shooter with multiple worlds. Spaceship simulator and shmup arcade style game.
Wings Of WW2
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Ranked #4 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
Take to the skies in this action-packed WWII arcade flight combat game. Engage enemy fighters, complete critical missions, and fight for control of the battlefield.
Bit Breaker
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Ranked #5 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
Bit Breaker is a short brick-breaking incremental bullet hell. Collect resources to upgrade your balls and fight back against the nodes taking over humanity.
POINT CLOUD
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Ranked #6 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
A fast-paced, vector-inspired arcade shooter, set in a dark & minimalist galaxy. Blast through hoards of enemies, rack up high-scores, and collect new ships with unique abilities. Climb through the ranks and reclaim your identity.
CYGNI: All Guns Blazing
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Ranked #7 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
An unrelenting onslaught of eye-popping visuals, ear bursting soundscapes and mind-melting action makes CYGNI the vanguard for the next generation of shoot-em ups. Outgunned, outmanned and out on your own, plunge into a sky full of hell in a last-ditch battle for survival.
AstroWings: Space War
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Ranked #8 for Dark Matter fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
"Astro Wings: Space War" is a retro style, exciting and authentic bullet hell, space shooting game.This game brings you the thrill, urgency and fantastic experience of an authentic arcade shooting game.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Dark Matter at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
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
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Priced ~70% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
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 ~80% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Dark Matter.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
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Priced ~60% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dark Matter.
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.
Peggle Deluxe
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Priced ~80% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Dark Matter.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Dark Matter on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Dark Matter.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Dark Matter.
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.
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 Dark Matter.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Dark Matter.
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!
Paper Lily - Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Dark Matter.
Paper Lily is an RPG horror game in which you can solve puzzles in different ways. Explore a hidden world, meet strange characters, and guide Lacie as she attempts to find answers about her unusual condition.
The Lab
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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!
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Dark Matter
- How much does Dark Matter cost?
- Dark Matter is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Dark Matter?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Dark Matter are Aircraft Sketch Shooter, Beyond Horizon, Orbital Invaders.
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 Dark Matter.
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