Games like Asteranova
If Asteranova is your kind of game, the closest matches are Arcade Survivors, SorcerialBladeCannon and Jack Big Chin: Alien Invasion — 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 Asteranova: Fast-paced vertical scrolling space shooter featuring intense boss battles, challenging enemy waves, and score-driven arcade gameplay.
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Arcade Survivors
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Top pick for Asteranova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Asteranova.
It's 1996. Lightning strikes the strip-mall arcade and monsters pour from every screen. Grab a Super Soaker, load your VHS bombs, and survive until dawn in this neon-soaked bullet heaven where your weapons fight for you. One more quarter. One more run.
SorcerialBladeCannon
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Asteranova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Asteranova.
■Bullet Hell Shmup with a Huge Sword This game is a bullet hell shmup to have you satisfy with a beginner and the arcade senior player! Swing a huge sword around if you become dangerous!
Jack Big Chin: Alien Invasion
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Asteranova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Asteranova.
Save humanity! Help Jack Big Chin defeat the alien invaders, in a hard action-adventure game with 3D platform elements, where you must improve your weapons and activate cannons to complete your missions.
SUPER SCORE SHOOTER CLASSIC
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Ranked #4 for Asteranova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Asteranova.
A fast-paced vertical shooter built for short sessions! 2-Minute and 5-Minute score attack modes with beautiful X68000-style pixel art.
GANA FORCE
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Ranked #5 for Asteranova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Asteranova.
Gana Force is a Horizontal shooter where you'll unleash powerful firepower, skillfully dodge bullets, and utilize the terrain to maneuver and defeat enemies. Game environments include alien cell levels, scorching sun, space battleships, and more. Powerful bosses and bullet hell challenges await you!
In Space
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Ranked #6 for Asteranova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Early Access with Asteranova.
In Space is a 2D top-down Arena Shooter where you are on an alien planet, and you have to survive to a horde of alien creatures that want your blood
MoonLess
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Ranked #7 for Asteranova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Asteranova.
Moonless is a challenging side-scrolling platformer in the style of classic arcade games of the 1980s, where you control a helpless astronaut who has been left stranded on the moon, and now has to face an invading alien force to earn a chance to go home.
MIHASHIRA
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Ranked #8 for Asteranova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Asteranova.
A 2D top-down arena shooter. A freely scrolling shooter. Pixel graphics reminiscent of the SNES. Easy to control with the directional pad, two shot buttons, and a bomb button. Make full use of your two shots to smash through enemies.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Asteranova.
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 Casual with Asteranova.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Asteranova.
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 with Asteranova.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Asteranova.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Asteranova.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Asteranova
- What games are most similar to Asteranova?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Asteranova are Arcade Survivors, SorcerialBladeCannon, Jack Big Chin: Alien Invasion.
- Who developed Asteranova?
- Asteranova was developed by AM Factory.
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 Asteranova.
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