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Games like Ectorider

If Ectorider is your kind of game, the closest matches are Denshattack!, Showrunners and L8R SK8R — 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.

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About Ectorider: Ectorider is a fast-paced 3D platformer combining Extreme Sports and Third Person Shooter. Fight a robot army with your super magnet or use them to do insane tricks with your rollerblades. Save the Ectomorphs and stop Professor Ecto's evil plan.

ActionAdventureWindowsby Taldius
Ectorider — Steam game cover

Players who liked Ectorider also play

Steam players who put hours into Ectorider 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.

  1. Denshattack!

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Ectorider fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    Flip, trick and grind your train in a fast-paced, off-the-rails ride through a colourful Japanese dystopia. Outmatch rival gangs, wreck a shady megacorp, and take back the tracks with nothing but skill, speed, and style.

    2026ActionAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Showrunners

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Ectorider fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    A single player, fast paced, speed running platformer focused on building up and maintaining high speeds, performing tricks and mastering the use of movement to achieve the fastest time and greatest score. Find and unlock new movement options to help you escape the gameshow you are trapped in.

    ActionAdventureRacingSteam ↗
  3. L8R SK8R

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Ectorider fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ectorider.

    L8R SK8R is a 3D platformer inspired by the classics of the fifth generation but with a unique twist that will make you feel like a speedrunner.

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  4. Helskate

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Ectorider fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    Helskate is a skateboarding action roguelite. Grind, perform tricks, and chain combos to power up your attacks to slay the monsters of Vertheim. Combine unique weapons and gear to suit your playstyle as you fight, die, and upgrade your abilities to come back to this labyrinth over and over again!

    2025ActionSportsIndie24.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Defunct

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ectorider fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with Ectorider.

    Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!

    2016IndieAdventureRacing6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Star Overdrive

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Ectorider fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    Star Overdrive is a high-speed action adventure set in an open world. Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard, mastering tricks, battling enemies, solving puzzles, and using your powers to overcome challenges and shape your destiny!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Ectorider fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    Become Samurai Jack, the greatest warrior across time. Journey through time to finally stop Aku’s evil reign in this new adventure told by the creators of Samurai Jack.

    2020ActionAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. Youropa

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Ectorider fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ectorider.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ectorider.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Looker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.

    2022IndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ectorider.

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Denshattack!

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    Flip, trick and grind your train in a fast-paced, off-the-rails ride through a colourful Japanese dystopia. Outmatch rival gangs, wreck a shady megacorp, and take back the tracks with nothing but skill, speed, and style.

    2026ActionAdventure17.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Defunct

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with Ectorider.

    Defunct is an indie adventure game with a focus on flow, speed and an engaging world. You are a broken robot that accidentally falls out of a giant cargo ship onto a post-human Earth, now inhabited by robots. You have to get back to your ship before it’s too late!

    2016IndieAdventureRacing6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Star Overdrive

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    Star Overdrive is a high-speed action adventure set in an open world. Race across an alien planet on your Hoverboard, mastering tricks, battling enemies, solving puzzles, and using your powers to overcome challenges and shape your destiny!

    2025ActionIndieAdventure34.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Samurai Jack: Battle Through Time

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    Become Samurai Jack, the greatest warrior across time. Journey through time to finally stop Aku’s evil reign in this new adventure told by the creators of Samurai Jack.

    2020ActionAdventureDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Youropa

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ectorider.

    A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ectorider

What games are most similar to Ectorider?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ectorider are Denshattack!, Showrunners, L8R SK8R.
Who developed Ectorider?
Ectorider was developed by Taldius.

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 Ectorider.

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