Games like Space Grunts
If Space Grunts is your kind of game, the closest matches are Steam Marines, Tharsis and Trials of Fire — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its gradual difficulty curve, satisfying sound design and atmospheric. 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 Space Grunts: A turn-based game on a planet outpost - with no waiting between turns! Play it at the speed of an arcade game, or take your time and think about your next step.. no matter how fast you take your turn, it might be your last!
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Steam Marines
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Grunts.
Top pick for Space Grunts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts.
Steam Marines is a squad based Roguelike set on a steampunk spaceship. It features tactical play focused on positioning and careful use of resources. Built to keep you on your toes as you progress through the decks of your besieged ship while clearing enemies and trying to reach each level's elevator.
Tharsis
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Space Grunts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts.
Succeeding in Tharsis requires you to make the best of what you have, even if it happens to be a pair of snake eyes. Certain factors may be outside of your control, but that doesn’t mean they can’t be overcome. Tharsis is not a game about facing the odds. It’s a game about changing them.
Trials of Fire
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Grunts.
Third-strongest match for Space Grunts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts.
A Tactical, Deck-Building Roguelite. Choose 3 Heroes and adventure into a post-Cataclysmic wasteland. Engage enemies in a unique meld of card-play and tactical, positional combat. Level up and scavenge what you can to customise your decks and build a party to take on any challenge!
Crown Trick
WHY THIS
Shares turn based combat and an atmospheric mood with Space Grunts.
Ranked #4 for Space Grunts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts.
Enter a labyrinth that moves as you move, where mastering the elements is key to defeating enemies and uncovering the mysteries of this underground world. With a new experience awaiting every time you enter the dungeon, let the power bestowed by the crown guide you in this challenging adventure!
Templar Battleforce
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Grunts.
Ranked #5 for Space Grunts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts.
An addictive mix of strategic combat and army building, with the precision of an RPG. Design your squad members' exact build of equipment and talents to create unique fireteam combinations. Step into the pilot suit of a Leviathan mech, lead the Templar Knights in turn-based tactical warfare.
WazHack
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Grunts.
Ranked #6 for Space Grunts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts.
Time moves forward only when you do in the dungeons of WazHack. Think your way out of problems instead of just spamming 'attack' and 'drink healing potion'.
Heroes of Steel RPG
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Grunts.
Ranked #7 for Space Grunts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts.
Heroes of Steel is a tactical RPG set in a grim post-apocalyptic fantasy world. Coordinate your party of four heroes in turn-based combat and navigate a engaging world and story.
Heat Signature
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Space Grunts.
Ranked #8 for Space Grunts fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts.
Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Space Grunts
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The Binding of Isaac
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Grunts.
Reviewers of Space Grunts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
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Rogue Legacy
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Grunts.
Reviewers of Space Grunts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
Rogue Legacy is a genealogical rogue-"LITE" where anyone can be a hero. Each time you die, your child will succeed you. Every child is unique. One child might be colorblind, another might be a dwarf with vertigo. But that's OK, because no one is perfect, and you don't have to be to succeed.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Space Grunts.
Reviewers of Space Grunts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
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?
Space Hulk (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Space Grunts.
Reviewers of Space Grunts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts.
The legendary Space Hulk returns in this epic turn based strategy game. Set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, an intriguing story of legendary battles and heroic actions unfolds.
Space Hulk: Tactics (Classic)
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Space Grunts.
Reviewers of Space Grunts cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy with Space Grunts.
Space Hulk: Tactics is a faithful adaptation of the board game Space Hulk, set in the Warhammer 40,000 universe, bringing a unique twist to the cult classic formula. Engage in bloody battles as either a squad of Terminator Space Marines or the deadly alien Genestealers.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Space Grunts at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Grunts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Grunts.
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 ~50% under Space Grunts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Space Grunts on Steam right now. Shares Action with Space Grunts.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Grunts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with Space Grunts.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Grunts on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Space Grunts.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Space Grunts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
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?
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Space Grunts on Steam right now. Shares Strategy with Space Grunts.
Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Space Grunts on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Space Grunts.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Space Grunts.
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.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and RPG with Space Grunts.
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.
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More from Orangepixel
Other recommendable Steam games by Orangepixel, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Gunslugs 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
The Black Duck Army is back—bigger, badder, and armed with alien tech! In Gunslugs 2, chaos reigns as you blast through tanks, choppers, giant robots, and hordes of relentless minions. This action-packed, over-the-top run-and-gun adventure is a wild tribute to classic 80s and 90s action movies.
Heroes of Loot
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Space Grunts.
Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts. Shares Action and RPG with Space Grunts.
A brutal mix between dungeon-crawler and shoot-em up. The dungeon will learn from you and become more dangerous every time you play!
Gunslugs
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Space Grunts.
Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts. Shares Action and Indie with Space Grunts.
Lock and load for chaotic, fast-paced action in Gunslugs! Battle the evil Black Duck Army across wild, procedurally generated levels packed with explosions, jetpacks, chicken guns, and rogue-like permadeath. Unlock heroes, conquer bizarre worlds, and fight your way to the gates of Hell!
Heroes of Loot 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts.
Control multiple heroes at once in this dungeon-crawling action adventure RPG, a mix of classic 80's Gauntlet-action and quests.
Ashworld
WHY THIS
Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts. Shares Action with Space Grunts.
Fight, scavenge, and survive in Ashworld, a post-apocalyptic open world filled with danger. Explore the desolate Ragelands, battle ruthless Ragers, and fend off night-stalking Skellies. Drive, craft, and strategize to endure this unforgiving wasteland where every resource matters.
Meganoid
WHY THIS
Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts. Shares Action with Space Grunts.
Meganoid is a brutal, fast-paced platformer where every descent into its ever-shifting spaceship is a new challenge. Navigate deadly traps, outsmart security drones, and discover powerful upgrades to reshape how you play. Will you rush to survive, or risk it all to uncover its deepest secrets?
Gunslugs : Rogue Tactics
WHY THIS
Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts. Shares Action and Strategy with Space Grunts.
Grab your bandana and get ready for Gunslugs : Rogue Tactics! Sneak, shoot, and explode your way through ever-changing enemy strongholds in this rogue-lite stealth-action mashup. Go full-on Commando or channel your inner Snake—just make it out alive. No mission ever plays the same twice!
Space Grunts 2
WHY THIS
Another title from Orangepixel, the studio behind Space Grunts. Shares Indie with Space Grunts.
Space Grunts 2 combines some of the fastest turn-based gameplay with card-battling mechanics in a 1950's sci-fi roguelike setting.
Frequently asked about Space Grunts
- Does Space Grunts run on Steam Deck?
- Space Grunts is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Space Grunts cost?
- Space Grunts is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Space Grunts?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Space Grunts are Steam Marines, Tharsis, Trials of Fire.
- Who developed Space Grunts?
- Space Grunts was developed by Orangepixel and published by Orangepixel, HandyGames.
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 Space Grunts.
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