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Games like Ghosts and Monsters

If Ghosts and Monsters is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dungeon Killer, Super Station Swarm and Hook and Gun — 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 Ghosts and Monsters: Survive waves of monsters in this pixel-art action roguelite. Collect organs, artifacts, and relics to build powerful synergies and uncover the mysteries of purgatory.

ActionIndieWindowsby Michel Marcoux
Ghosts and Monsters — Steam game cover

Players who liked Ghosts and Monsters also play

Steam players who put hours into Ghosts and Monsters 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. Dungeon Killer

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Ghosts and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.

    Dungeon Killer is a fast-paced boss rush shoot ’em up where you play as Astrid, a woman determined to bargain with the goddess of death herself to resurrect her husband. Armed with a minigun, you’ll descend into a hellish dungeon and face deadly, disturbing female enemies.

    2027ActionIndieSteam ↗
  2. Super Station Swarm

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Ghosts and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.

    A space station, infinite waves, and a screen full of vector geometry trying to kill you. Your turrets auto-fire. Your satellites orbit. This is bullet-hell-yeah. In-game and permanent upgrades. 17 upgrade types across 9 weapon classes. Play, upgrade, repeat.

    2026ActionIndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Hook and Gun

    WHY THIS

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

    A fast-paced 2D top-down action roguelike set in a rising industrial elevator. Use your grappling hook to snatch, corrupt, and turn enemy weapons against them. Battle through relentless waves of security robots, harvest scrap to unlock powerful upgrades and survive the ascent to escape the facility.

    ActionSteam ↗
  4. DARK DANCE

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Ghosts and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.

    DARK DANCE: A Spectacular Bullet Hell Party! Surrender yourself to the intense beats and experience the perfect harmony of automated convenience and manual precision. Strategic builds and dazzling action await you in this fantastic world.

    2026ActionIndieCasual2.79 USDSteam ↗
  5. Psycho Ripper

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Ghosts and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.

    Psycho Ripper is a top down action shooter with modified conditional formations. Explore a randomization of challenges as you blast through a sentient crystal mine, confronting progressively baneful threats and equip unusual armaments, as you speculate further through a grand and unknown chaos.

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  6. Rogue Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Ghosts and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.

    Rogue Survivor is a casual top-down shooter game where you try to survive as long as enemy waves finishes. Choose different heroes and different skills to make better builds.

    2024ActionIndieRPG1.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. Bulletmancer

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Ghosts and Monsters fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.

    In this horde survival roguelite you don't move, but you do shoot! Choose a wizard to wield the Arcane Turret, combine different bullet spells and survive until the final boss comes to face you.

    2024ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Warp Commander

    WHY THIS

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

    A top-down 2D arena shooter in the style of a retro arcade game. The player fights against waves of enemy spaceships to defend space as we know it.

    2025Action1.99 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

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

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  3. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.

    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 ↗
  4. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ghosts and Monsters.

    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.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  7. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

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

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Ghosts and Monsters

What games are most similar to Ghosts and Monsters?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ghosts and Monsters are Dungeon Killer, Super Station Swarm, Hook and Gun.
Who developed Ghosts and Monsters?
Ghosts and Monsters was developed by Michel Marcoux.

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 Ghosts and Monsters.

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