Games like Bleed 2
If Bleed 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shwip, Destropolis and Assault Android Cactus+ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its bullet deflecting feels satisfying, epic and funny. 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 Bleed 2: Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
Players who liked Bleed 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Bleed 2 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.
Shwip
WHY THIS
Top pick for Bleed 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Dominate global leaderboards as you face an unrelenting geometric force. Shwip blends twin-stick arcade action with tight controls, jaw-dropping pixel destruction, and devastating weapons and abilities. Evade, outlast, and play with style in four game modes, both solo and local multiplayer.
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares co op and an intense mood with Bleed 2.
Second-strongest match for Bleed 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Bleed 2.
Third-strongest match for Bleed 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
Bleed
WHY THIS
Shares weapon swapping and an intense mood with Bleed 2.
Ranked #4 for Bleed 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams -- she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like!
Steredenn: Binary Stars
WHY THIS
Shares co op and an epic mood with Bleed 2.
Ranked #5 for Bleed 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
Rogue Stormers
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Bleed 2.
Ranked #6 for Bleed 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.
#KILLALLZOMBIES
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Bleed 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
Patch Quest
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Bleed 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Bleed 2
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Super Meat Boy
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Bleed 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Bleed 2.
The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!
Bleed
WHY THIS
Shares weapon swapping and an intense mood with Bleed 2.
Reviewers of Bleed 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams -- she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like!
Ikaruga
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Bleed 2.
Reviewers of Bleed 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
METAL SLUG
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Bleed 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Bleed 2.
“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on the Steam gaming platform!
Mega Man X Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Bleed 2.
Reviewers of Bleed 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Bleed 2.
Mega Man X Legacy Collection includes the legendary 16-bit titles and the series’ exciting foray into the 32-bit era: Mega Man X, Mega Man X2, Mega Man X3, and Mega Man X4. Test your skills in the new X Challenge mode, which pits players against two deadly bosses at once.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Bleed 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bleed 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bleed 2.
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 Bleed 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
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 Bleed 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Bleed 2.
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 Bleed 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bleed 2.
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 Bleed 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Bleed 2.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Bleed 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Bleed 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Bleed 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Bleed 2.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Bleed 2.
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 Bleed 2.
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 Bleed 2.
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]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shwip
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Dominate global leaderboards as you face an unrelenting geometric force. Shwip blends twin-stick arcade action with tight controls, jaw-dropping pixel destruction, and devastating weapons and abilities. Evade, outlast, and play with style in four game modes, both solo and local multiplayer.
Destropolis
WHY THIS
Shares co op and an intense mood with Bleed 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Bleed 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
#KILLALLZOMBIES
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.
Patch Quest
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Bleed 2.
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Frequently asked about Bleed 2
- Is Bleed 2 verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Bleed 2 is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Bleed 2 cost?
- Bleed 2 is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Bleed 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Bleed 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Bleed 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Bleed 2 are Shwip, Destropolis, Assault Android Cactus+.
- Who developed Bleed 2?
- Bleed 2 was developed by Ian Campbell.
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 Bleed 2.
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