Games like Protect Your Humans
Below are 19 hand-picked alternatives to Protect Your Humans for fans of action, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Protect Your Humans also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, free-to-play picks, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Protect Your Humans: Rebuild a kingdom, raise an army and defeat the Demon King and his servants in this 4 player Couch co-op action shoot-em-up adventure. Protect Your Humans, or there will be no humans left to fight with.
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Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Riders 2491
Top pick for Protect Your Humans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
Riders 2491 is an action shoot'em up game that pays homage to the classics of 90’s arcades with modern visuals.
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Hostile Lands
Second-strongest match for Protect Your Humans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
Hostile Lands is a 2D top-down, roguelite shooter where a crash landing is mistaken for an act of war. LOOT tons of unique guns. ENHANCE your skills. RESCUE surviving crew members and ESCAPE...if you can.
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BULLET PARTY
Third-strongest match for Protect Your Humans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
The party co-op shoot ’em up! Become the king of the night club! Go alone or group your friends! Shoot the party crashers down!
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CounterAttack: Uprising
Ranked #4 for Protect Your Humans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
CounterAttack: Uprising is a side scrolling space shooter (shmup). Team up or fight solo, 1 - 4 player local or up to 8 players online coop, unlock upgrades, use powerful ultimate abilities, enhance your ship the way you want, and save the Earth from annihilation.
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Assault Android Cactus+
Ranked #5 for Protect Your Humans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
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.
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Tinker Racers
Ranked #6 for Protect Your Humans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Tinker Racers is a Survival Racing Party Game. Drive mini RC cars through tracks built around the house with common, everyday items. Forget the finishing line and just try to stay in sight! Up to four friends can join forces or compete with each other on local multiplayer!
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Wee Tanks!
Ranked #7 for Protect Your Humans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
Explosions. Tanks. Bosses. And more explosions. Crazy fun with your friends. Hundreds of maps. Boom.
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HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
Ranked #8 for Protect Your Humans fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Indigo Park: Chapter 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
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.
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STRAFTAT
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
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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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
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.).
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The Expendabros
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
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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Iron Snout
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
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.
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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.
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Assault Android Cactus+
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
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.
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Wee Tanks!
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
Explosions. Tanks. Bosses. And more explosions. Crazy fun with your friends. Hundreds of maps. Boom.
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HYPERCHARGE: Unboxed
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Protect Your Humans.
Hypercharge is a first and third-person shooter action figure game you've always dreamed of! Grab your friends, complete objectives, defend the Hypercore against waves of weaponized toys, and defeat Major Evil together in the story campaign!
Frequently asked about Protect Your Humans
- Does Protect Your Humans have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Protect Your Humans 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 Protect Your Humans?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Protect Your Humans are Riders 2491, Hostile Lands, BULLET PARTY.
- Who developed Protect Your Humans?
- Protect Your Humans was developed by RaphMoite.
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 Protect Your Humans.
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