Games like Cobalt
If Cobalt is your kind of game, the closest matches are N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO, BattleBlock Theater® and Shell Out Showdown — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its epic, hypnotic and intense. 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 Cobalt: Forget everything you’ve learned about combat. Cobalt’s slo-mo mechanic lets you perform moves that other games can’t comprehend. Discover the secrets of a distant colony in a cosmic campaign, take on challenges and rule the leaderboards, or face off against others in local and online multiplayer.
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N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO
WHY THIS
Top pick for Cobalt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
5 fresh flavors of world-class online mayhem, from Friendship-Testing™ Co-op to Friendship-Ending™ Competitive, plus classic singleplayer. Run around with friends, lure enemies into opponents, make the ultimate sacrifice for teammates, and hunt each other with rockets. Couch-ready/Tournament-worthy.
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Cobalt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Shell Out Showdown
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Cobalt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
A vending machine Rapid-Fire Food Combat Generosity Arena! Throw food, dodge food (but don't litter), and give to win in this hectic, platform combat arena free-for-all! Up to 4 local players + online play. Lots of different game modes, plus story and solo play modes for tons of food tossin' fun!
NETRUN
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Cobalt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
With dual grappling hooks in hand, swing, thrust, and dash your way to victory in this fast, momentum-based precision platformer packed with traps, enemies, and physics-based challenges.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Cobalt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Levelhead
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cobalt.
Ranked #6 for Cobalt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Chaotic co-op platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and endless community-built levels await, so grab a friend and GO!
Ben and Ed - Blood Party
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Cobalt.
Ranked #7 for Cobalt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Welcome to the Blood Party! Play together with up to 3 people and compete in deadly game shows. Customize your zombie, build your own levels, share them via Steam Workshop and die a lot.
Ultimate Sheep Raccoon
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Cobalt fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Ultimate Sheep Raccoon is a bike-racing party game where you and your friends build the course together. Add obstacles and dangerous traps, take the lead with power-ups, and race to the finish!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Cobalt
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Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor's Choice Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Cobalt.
Reviewers of Cobalt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cobalt.
Unreal Tournament 2004 is a multiplayer first person shooter that combines the kill-or-be-killed experience of gladiatorial combat with cutting-edge technology. Ten game modes - both team-based and "every man for himself" -- provide even the most hardcore gamer with palm-sweating challenges through unbelievably detailed indoor...
TEKKEN 7
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Cobalt.
Reviewers of Cobalt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Cobalt.
Discover the epic conclusion of the long-time clan warfare between members of the Mishima family. Powered by Unreal Engine 4, the legendary fighting game franchise fights back with stunning story-driven cinematic battles and intense duels that can be enjoyed with friends and rivals.
Regular Human Basketball
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Cobalt.
Reviewers of Cobalt cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Cobalt.
Ready to play some ball? Grab a team, suit up, and climb inside your human! Prep its thrusters, lower the all-terrain wheels, and spin up that flailing magnet-arm. It's time to play Regular Human Basketball!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Cobalt at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cobalt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cobalt.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cobalt on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under Cobalt on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cobalt.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cobalt on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Cobalt on Steam right now. Shares Action with Cobalt.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Cobalt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cobalt.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Cobalt on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cobalt.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Cobalt on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Cobalt.
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.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Cobalt.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cobalt.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cobalt.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cobalt.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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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.
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Ultimate Chicken Horse
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.
Levelhead
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Cobalt.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Cobalt.
Deliver those goods, real good - or get turned into scrap trying! Chaotic co-op platforming, genre-bending power-ups, a challenging campaign, and endless community-built levels await, so grab a friend and GO!
Frequently asked about Cobalt
- Is Cobalt verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Cobalt 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 Cobalt cost?
- Cobalt is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Cobalt have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Cobalt supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Shared/Split Screen PvP).
- What games are most similar to Cobalt?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cobalt are N PLUS INFINITY TIMES TWO, BattleBlock Theater®, Shell Out Showdown.
- Who developed Cobalt?
- Cobalt was developed by Oxeye Game Studio and published by Mojang.
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