Games like Cardboard Cowboy
If Cardboard Cowboy is your kind of game, the closest matches are Otpisani: Nightingale, Bang Bang Boom Pow and Neon Rain — 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 Cardboard Cowboy: Cardboard Cowboy, the cardboard Wild West shooter. Blast through handcrafted paper shooting galleries, dual-wield makeshift revolvers and shotguns, and chase high scores across three outlaw-filled regions. Beat timed weapon challenges. Collect tarot cards. Unlock the ultimate cardboard loadout.
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Steam players who put hours into Cardboard Cowboy 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.
Otpisani: Nightingale
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Top pick for Cardboard Cowboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
A retro shooter game inspired by an old TV show. You play as a part of the resistance movement fighting the German occupation in a set of explosive missions while experiencing an exciting story.
Bang Bang Boom Pow
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Second-strongest match for Cardboard Cowboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
Become the greatest gunslinger in the Wild West in this first-person boss rush with roguelike elements, where the fastest draw wins. Face dozens of unique duelists, each with their own abilities and mysteries, or challenge your friends in split-screen duels. with a unique hand drawn style!
Neon Rain
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Third-strongest match for Cardboard Cowboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
Welcome to Vakrex, a world brimming with life but plagued by conflict. You must sift through the occupational forces and hostile wildlife to investigate the cosmic phenomena known as Neon Rain. You don't call the shots on this treacherous planet, however. Evolve or die.
Between Two Lights
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Ranked #4 for Cardboard Cowboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Cardboard Cowboy.
Between Two Lights, an adventure shooter that explores the importance of awareness and the value of choice: give in to love and escape, or sacrifice everything for the truth.
SCROOMAGE
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Ranked #5 for Cardboard Cowboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
SCROOMAGE is a hectic, comical, and violent boomer-shooter. Rack up combos & cash at breakneck speeds in this fast-paced, comic-inspired first person shooter with light platforming elements.
ELDRITCH SLAYER
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Ranked #6 for Cardboard Cowboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
ELDRITCH SLAYER is a retro FPS filled with bloodshed and dark humor. You play as a lone killer who ventures into a wicked land corrupted by the Old Ones. Take up your weapons, face the unspeakable horrors, and wipe them all out.
BEANDEJO
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Ranked #7 for Cardboard Cowboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
BEANDEJO is an action-packed spin-gun roguelite. Enter the Old West, where the cattle roam, and drunken vegetables terrorize the local saloons. Spin your gun, time your draws, and gun them down to become the toughest sheriff in town!
10 Hours Before Sunrise
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Ranked #8 for Cardboard Cowboy fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
A brutal 8-bit-style boomer shooter inspired by the best of ‘80s trash horror. You are Samuel Alvarez, a broken man who discovers a cabin worse than any nightmare. Survive the night and face the forces of Wendakor — or you won’t see the dawn.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 and Adventure with Cardboard Cowboy.
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 Cardboard Cowboy.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Cardboard Cowboy.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Cardboard Cowboy.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Cardboard Cowboy.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Cardboard Cowboy.
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.
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Frequently asked about Cardboard Cowboy
- What games are most similar to Cardboard Cowboy?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Cardboard Cowboy are Otpisani: Nightingale, Bang Bang Boom Pow, Neon Rain.
- Who developed Cardboard Cowboy?
- Cardboard Cowboy was developed by Ded Dev 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 Cardboard Cowboy.
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