Games like Hellrifters
If Hellrifters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Boomsday, KILLSEC and Destroiders — 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 Hellrifters: Lead a growing squad of Hellrifters and direct their auto-fire through Hell’s hordes in this twin-stick survivors-like roguelite. Start with one fighter, build into a four-hero firing line, unleash powerful abilities, and return stronger after every descent into the abyss.
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Steam players who put hours into Hellrifters 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.
Boomsday
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Top pick for Hellrifters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
Hordes of adorable animals and toys have gone rogue and want you dead. Boomsday is a fast-paced top-down horde survival shooter. Mow down endless swarms, loot powerful weapons, stack game-breaking perks, and survive massive bosses every 10 waves. Solo or up to 8-player cross-play co-op & couch.
KILLSEC
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Second-strongest match for Hellrifters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
Evaluate, calculate, execute. Use the speed of time, weapon selection, and room layout to your advantage to deliver the most creative, swift, and brutal kills in close combat.
Destroiders
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Third-strongest match for Hellrifters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
No nonsense, action packed, 2.5D, Asteroids inspired shooter. Scream around speeding rocks narrowly avoiding an untimely death as you obliterate rocks whilst harvesting their valuable resources. See how far you and your friends can get. Best played with mates but also pretty fun on your own.
Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now
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Ranked #4 for Hellrifters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
You like top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against zombies and monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments? Fight your way through an apocalyptic city in the single player story mode, and test your skills in the survival mode.
Tesla vs Lovecraft
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Ranked #5 for Hellrifters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!
Noobs Are Coming
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Ranked #6 for Hellrifters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
YOU ARE THE FINAL BOSS. Brutal synergy arena roguelike. Pick your Final Boss character, equip boss patterns and combine tons of attacks to create unique builds. Play solo or in co-op!
Outer Terror
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Ranked #7 for Hellrifters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
DON’T DIE as you assemble a ridiculous arsenal of weapons and desperately hold out against massive hordes of creatures pulled from a variety of classic horror genres reminiscent of 80s and 90s Golden Age comics and B-movies in this stylish action-packed arcade roguelite.
X-Morph: Defense
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Ranked #8 for Hellrifters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
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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 Hellrifters.
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.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
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!
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Waves
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
Waves is an Arcade Twin-Stick Shooter that's all about High Scores. Build your combo and drop bombs in pursuit of Leaderboard dominance over seven game-modes!
Shape of Dreams: Prologue
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
《Shape of Dreams: Prologue》is a unique game that blends action roguelite with MOBA-style gameplay. Edit your character's Memories to create your own champion. Face all challenges alone or play with friends in up to 4-player co-op.
THE FINALS
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hellrifters.
THE FINALS is the world’s first Dynamism Shooter, a free-to-play, fast-paced, physics-driven, first-person shooter set on the stage of the biggest Gameshow of the future! Fight for Fans and fortune in fully-destructible, virtual Arenas that guarantee no two rounds will ever play the same!
Splitgate
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hellrifters.
Splitgate is a free-to-play, fast-paced multiplayer shooter that features player-controlled portals. This sci-fi shooter takes the FPS genre to a new dimension with its portal mechanics, delivering high-flying, multi-dimensional combat.
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Frequently asked about Hellrifters
- Does Hellrifters have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Hellrifters 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 Hellrifters?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hellrifters are Boomsday, KILLSEC, Destroiders.
- Who developed Hellrifters?
- Hellrifters was developed by Temikra Games.
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 Hellrifters.
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