Games like Appulse
If Appulse is your kind of game, the closest matches are SANDRIPPER, Nebula Strike and A.V.E.N.A. — 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 Appulse: An intense top-down shooter roguelite inspired by pinball mechanics. Master every shot with precision in the heat of the battle, and protect your mothership from waves of invading robots. Upgrade your equipment and conquer spaceships to win the war!
Players who liked Appulse also play
Steam players who put hours into Appulse 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.
SANDRIPPER
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Top pick for Appulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Appulse.
Tear across the desert, obliterating wave after wave with your nuclear missile powered dual-wielding hover tank. A tight, punchy wave survival sandbox with ludicrous weaponry, exhilarating rocket-tank combat, and daily leaderboards!
Nebula Strike
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Second-strongest match for Appulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Appulse.
Nebula Strike is a space-themed 2.5D top-down twin-stick shooter game.
A.V.E.N.A.
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Appulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Appulse.
Pilot disposable combat drones through the Primal Portal in a sci-fi action roguelike. Customize your drone, fight through various missions, recover research data and alien technology to enhance your drone setup for the next session.
Planet Killer
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Ranked #4 for Appulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Appulse.
A physics-driven sci-fi destruction roguelite. Orbit hostile worlds, unleash devastating weapons, and carve real craters into fully simulated planets while escalating planetary defenses fight back.
Skyborn:IronWings
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Ranked #5 for Appulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Appulse.
A reimagined 3D arcade shooter that transforms the classic vertical scrolling formula with full spatial depth, immersive air-to-ground combat, and intense bullet hell action.
Clive vs Hives 2
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Ranked #6 for Appulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Appulse.
Blast aliens to pieces and start a rebellion in this fast paced pixel art top down shooter where sprinting kills.
Sky of Destruction
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Ranked #7 for Appulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Appulse.
Sky of Destruction is a top-down shooter created by a team of two people. Combine aircrafts in your combat fleet, which will help you during the mission. Your goal is to destroy the enemy aircraft carrier or buildings, breaking through the enemy air armada. Explosions and total destruction!
Starbase Gunship
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Ranked #8 for Appulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Appulse.
Starbase Gunship places you in the seat of a weapons officer on a state-of-the-art Gunship as you defend a remote outpost from an Alien invasion fleet. With access to laser cannons, missiles, miniguns and nuclear warheads, you are the last line of defense between humanity and the alien invaders.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Appulse.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Appulse.
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.
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 Appulse.
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 Appulse.
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!
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!
Floating Point
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Appulse.
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.
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Frequently asked about Appulse
- What games are most similar to Appulse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Appulse are SANDRIPPER, Nebula Strike, A.V.E.N.A..
- Who developed Appulse?
- Appulse was developed by Le Rado and published by Raw Fury.
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 Appulse.
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