Games like Total Backfire
If Total Backfire is your kind of game, the closest matches are GRAVHOUNDS, 4:LOOP and The Eyes of Ouros — 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 Total Backfire: A co-op third-person action roguelite where every run drops you into a different action movie. Build powerful loadouts, battle aliens, zombies, and colossal bosses, and fight through cinematic biomes inspired by iconic '90s action blockbusters.
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GRAVHOUNDS
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Top pick for Total Backfire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
GRAVHOUNDS is a 1–4 player co-op action builder. Drop into hostile planets as a pack, build and defend your base in physics-driven mayhem, and extract with everything you can carry before you become alien chow! The longer you stay, the greater the danger... and the rewards.
4:LOOP
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Second-strongest match for Total Backfire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Total Backfire.
It’s just you and your crew versus an alien invasion. Odds are you’re going to die. A lot. Thankfully, that’s all part of The Plan.
ActionSteam ↗The Eyes of Ouros
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Third-strongest match for Total Backfire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Total Backfire.
An infinitely generating third person shooter Rougelite. Experience the end of the world through various survivors with unique abilities. Explore and loot the underground as you go deeper to escape the hell on the surface. Try to go as deep underground as possible.
Mega Raiders
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Ranked #4 for Total Backfire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
Fight thousands of enemies alongside your friends, grow stronger together, and unlock new characters and weapons. Craft powerful ultimates to destroy bosses or save a fallen friend. Customize your skill tree to match your playstyle, and survive endless hordes with countless build combinations.
DROSS
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Ranked #5 for Total Backfire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
DROSS is a procedurally Generated FPS, set in a derelict facility infested with alien bugs. Explore, collect powerful weapons and equipment, to upgrade your gear and fight the Dross.
Mauled Horde
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Ranked #6 for Total Backfire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
Mauled Horde is a free-to-play 1–3 player co-op horde shooter. Survive relentless waves solo or with friends. Spend resources at Citadels to buy and upgrade weapons, unlock active and passive skills, activate traps, and shape your build as each round grows more intense.
Jungle Defenders
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Ranked #7 for Total Backfire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
Get ready for a wild third-person action journey where nature strikes back! In this explosive roguelike bullet hell, you play as fearless animals sworn to protect their forest from a relentless technological threat: invading robots set on exploiting natural resources and destroying the environment.
Quantum Covenant
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Ranked #8 for Total Backfire fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
Blast your way through waves of elite enemies and bosses in this high-octane co-op roguelike where movement is your greatest weapon. Pick from an array of hovercraft, customize your build, stack upgrades and become an unstoppable force. Can you survive the Quantum Covenant?
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 Total Backfire.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Total Backfire.
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?
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Total Backfire.
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.).
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 Total Backfire.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Total Backfire.
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!
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Frequently asked about Total Backfire
- Does Total Backfire have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Total Backfire supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Total Backfire?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Total Backfire are GRAVHOUNDS, 4:LOOP, The Eyes of Ouros.
- Who developed Total Backfire?
- Total Backfire was developed by Alien Tech Games.
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 Total Backfire.
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