Games like Alien War One
If Alien War One is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hyper Sentinel Fusion, Neon Armada - Solar Storm and Beyond Lost Planets — 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 Alien War One: A retro roguelite vertical space shooter! Upgrade your ship, buy powerful buffs each run, and blast through waves of enemies. Move forward one row at a time and destroy every foe before they reach the bottom of the screen. Plan carefully—one mistake could cost you the run!
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Steam players who put hours into Alien War One 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.
Hyper Sentinel Fusion
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Top pick for Alien War One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien War One.
Pilot an agile starfighter to tear down alien megastructures under fire, then pull off a high-stakes heist from within before everything explodes. When you die time rewinds, sending you back to Moonbase Alpha - your hub for reinvention. Spend your bounty on epic upgrades, ready for the next run.
Neon Armada - Solar Storm
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Second-strongest match for Alien War One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien War One.
A top-down arena roguelite you can learn in one wave and spend a hundred hours mastering. Waves close in from every edge; the shop between them decides what you become. 32 ships, 28 weapons, 115 mods to combine — then endless mode, where the caps come off.
Beyond Lost Planets
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Third-strongest match for Alien War One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien War One.
Beyond Lost Planets is an intense Roguelike Dungeon Crawler Bullet Hell. Fight through enemies and bosses across procedural worlds. Everything from weapons and bullets to powerup and companions is represented with cards. Grow absurdly powerful and create wild, unique synergies every run!
Zarlor Mercenary
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Ranked #4 for Alien War One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien War One.
Top-down shooter action for the Atari Lynx handheld console. WANTED: Hot gun for hire. Travel to several exotic and dangerous places. Discover several exotic and dangerous aliens and kill them. Kill lots. For cash. Buy more weapons and kill again.
The Glory Dungeon Raider
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Ranked #5 for Alien War One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien War One.
Enter the depths of a treacherous dungeon in The Glory Dungeon Raider, a fast-paced 2D roguelike where every run is a new challenge! Arm yourself with various weapons, and face off against deadly creatures. Do you have what it takes to survive?
Astro Fighters 3
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Ranked #6 for Alien War One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien War One.
The aliens have returned. Fight through relentless waves of enemies, dodge impossible bullet patterns, unleash devastating special weapons, and unlock 70 powerful cards that reshape future runs in this action-packed arcade shoot 'em up.
Retro Classix: SRD - Super Real Darwin
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Ranked #7 for Alien War One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien War One.
Super Real Darwin is a fast-paced, vertical scrolling shoot-em-up that rewards skill and persistence – a cult classic for the retro shmup fan. Take control of a fighter ship capable of mutating into different shapes as it evolves while fighting off enemy invaders.
Bullet Bunny
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Ranked #8 for Alien War One fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien War One.
Bullet Bunny is a twin-stick shooter with rogue-like elements. Fend off an onslaught of enemies, level up, and create unique builds every run while trying to survive 500 seconds!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien War One.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien War One.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien War One.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien War One.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Tails Noir: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.
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Frequently asked about Alien War One
- What games are most similar to Alien War One?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alien War One are Hyper Sentinel Fusion, Neon Armada - Solar Storm, Beyond Lost Planets.
- Who developed Alien War One?
- Alien War One was developed by NiceHit Studio.
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 Alien War One.
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