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Games like Super Mutant Alien Assault

If Super Mutant Alien Assault is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nuclear Throne, Crimson Glaive Sigma and Caverns of Mars: Recharged — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, intense and retro. 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.

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About Super Mutant Alien Assault: The Citizen Kane of Super Crate Box clones - dance with death through randomised rooms to clear your space freighter of irradiated aliens in a brutal arcade platformer shooter stuffed to the brim with unlockable weapons, explosives, special abilities and defense moves.

2016ActionIndie9.99 USDDeck VerifiedWindowsby Cybernate
Super Mutant Alien Assault — Steam game cover
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Easy to play hard to masterFriendly fire makes co op hilariousGrenades are a fully functional weapon classChallengingIntenseRetro

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Steam players who put hours into Super Mutant Alien Assault 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.

  1. Nuclear Throne

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Top pick for Super Mutant Alien Assault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

    2015ActionIndieRPG11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Crimson Glaive Sigma

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Super Mutant Alien Assault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Enjoy this 2D metroidvania-like bullet hell platformer. Jump, dodge and traverse using your jet pack. Find weapons and abilities. Fight bosses and escape an old space station drifting through the cosmos. You are alone, with nothing but a space suit and a gun. Just keep going! Persevere and triumph!

    2021ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Caverns of Mars: Recharged

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Super Mutant Alien Assault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Race through caverns while blasting away enemies and terrain to reach the depths of Mars in this reimagining of the 1981 classic.

    2023Action9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Star Devil

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Super Mutant Alien Assault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Star Devil is a Sci-fi Station Survival Roguelike Game with dynamic alien infection. Playable in both single player and split-screen co-op.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Space Dragons

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Super Mutant Alien Assault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Choose your spaceship and defeat the alien threat that comes from the Moon. Blast your way crushing, ripping apart and exploding hostile aliens that are taking control of powerful weapons and military technology from Earth. Find the entity that controls the threat and make it explode into blood.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. Star Legion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Super Mutant Alien Assault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Star Legion is a local co-op top-down shooter where you battle rogue machines in intense missions. Craft gear, survive hostile incursions, and reclaim sectors to spread the glory of the intergalactic Roman Empire.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Hell is Other Demons

    WHY THIS

    Shares a retro mood with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Ranked #7 for Super Mutant Alien Assault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.

    2019ActionIndie9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Overdriven Reloaded

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Ranked #8 for Super Mutant Alien Assault fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Shoot' Em Up, Vertical Fast & Fun !The Overdriven Ship is back :More better, more intense, and more beautiful !

    2016ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Super Mutant Alien Assault at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Super Mutant Alien Assault on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Super Mutant Alien Assault on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~55% under Super Mutant Alien Assault on Steam right now. Shares Action with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Super Mutant Alien Assault on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. WEBFISHING

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Super Mutant Alien Assault on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)

    2024IndieMassively MultiplayerCasual4.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~90% under Super Mutant Alien Assault on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    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?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Buckshot Roulette

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Super Mutant Alien Assault on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!

    2024ActionIndieSimulation2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Brotato

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Super Mutant Alien Assault on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    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.

    2023ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Magic Archery

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Super Mutant Alien Assault.

    Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.

    2024IndieSimulationRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Super Mutant Alien Assault

Is Super Mutant Alien Assault verified for Steam Deck?
Yes — Super Mutant Alien Assault 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 Super Mutant Alien Assault cost?
Super Mutant Alien Assault is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Super Mutant Alien Assault have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Super Mutant Alien Assault 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 Super Mutant Alien Assault?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Super Mutant Alien Assault are Nuclear Throne, Crimson Glaive Sigma, Caverns of Mars: Recharged.
Who developed Super Mutant Alien Assault?
Super Mutant Alien Assault was developed by Cybernate and published by Surprise Attack.

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