Games like Metal Crisis
If Metal Crisis is your kind of game, the closest matches are VectaGuard, Bullet Banshee and Void Signal — 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 Metal Crisis: METAL CRISIS is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up inspired by 3D space shooters of the 90s. Pilot the most advanced ship Earth has created capable of acquiring enemy weapons as you battle through hordes of fighters and hulking bosses in it's war against the space colonies rebellion.
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Steam players who put hours into Metal Crisis 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.
VectaGuard
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Top pick for Metal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
Arcade-inspired shmup action where neon vector caverns explode with modern visuals, dynamic music, weapon upgrades and intense score chasing.
Bullet Banshee
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Second-strongest match for Metal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
An upward-scrolling roguelite shmup. Every run, draft from 40+ stacking items and 10 active equipments into a build that fills the screen with damage. Fork your bullets, chain lightning, collapse a black hole. Then die, upgrade your ship and climb higher.
Void Signal
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Third-strongest match for Metal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
An immersive sci-fi space shooter where you pilot a ship through an anomalously expanding region of space. Analyze real-time scientific data, survive encounters with mysterious alien entities, make ethical decisions, and uncover hidden truths as the universe around you transforms.
Beyond the First Star
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Ranked #4 for Metal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
Beyond the First Star is a fast-paced 2D side-scrolling shoot 'em up. Choose from distinct pilots, collect and switch between varied weapons, battle through handcrafted stages, and face bosses with unique attack patterns.
Iron Skies
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Ranked #5 for Metal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
Retro style, propeller plane centred shoot 'em up inspired by the arcade classics of a fondly remembered bygone era.
Mooncall
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Ranked #6 for Metal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
A retro arcade rescue game. Fly your ship to save stranded foragers from a crater-scarred moon. Compete with your friends on global or private leaderboards! Don't ask about the red mushrooms.
Shin Sophstar
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Ranked #7 for Metal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
Shin Sophstar is an electrifying remix built for speed and scoring. With 30 ship variants, mid-run ship switching, and an aggressive, deeply layered scoring system, it delivers a faster, sharper arcade experience for all skill levels.
Shmup!
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Ranked #8 for Metal Crisis fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
Arcade-style bullet hell action! 3 ships, 5 special weapons, and screen-clearing bombs. Conquer 5 intense stages with dynamic difficulty—then compete for high scores on online leaderboards.
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 and Adventure with Metal Crisis.
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.
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 Metal Crisis.
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 Metal Crisis.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Crisis.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Metal Crisis.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Metal Crisis.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Frequently asked about Metal Crisis
- What games are most similar to Metal Crisis?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Metal Crisis are VectaGuard, Bullet Banshee, Void Signal.
- Who developed Metal Crisis?
- Metal Crisis was developed by Mad Rabbit Digital.
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 Metal Crisis.
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