Games like Payback Protocol
If Payback Protocol is your kind of game, the closest matches are Warriors of the End, Chrome Survivor and 青铜灰烬 — 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 Payback Protocol: Annihilate alien armies, craft devastating builds and traverse hostile biomes in this fast-paced action roguelite! Choose from a roster of vengeful combat robots, each with unique strengths and abilities, and survive relentless alien hordes as you avenge the fall of humanity.
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Steam players who put hours into Payback Protocol 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.
Warriors of the End
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Top pick for Payback Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
Warriors of the End is a fast-paced tower-defense horde-battler roguelike. Defend the Princess against enemy hordes by strategically positioning and upgrading your towers, customize unique characters with deadly weapons and spells, discover mindblowing synergies and create game-breaking builds!
Chrome Survivor
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Second-strongest match for Payback Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
In this bullet heaven roguelite combine weapons into powerful evolutions, collect items to enhance your runs, equip and craft powerful cybernetic augments that change the way you play. Can you complete a 9 modded nightmare difficulty run and become John Cyberpunk?
青铜灰烬
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Payback Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
Bronze Ashes, a fantasy action roguelite inspired by Sanxingdui and Jinsha, conjures a cyclically reborn otherworld from ancient Shu's legends. Play alone or with friends: command shape-shifting arms, gather Golden Crow spells, and fight to save Shu from impending doom.
God, Save the Queens!
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Ranked #4 for Payback Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
You are God. The king’s five daughters have been taken. Fight thousands of enemies, unlock powerful skills, and crush the evil wizard Zaharad in this brutal 2.5D roguelike!
ERLIK
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Ranked #5 for Payback Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
A Turkic folk-horror bullet-heaven roguelite. Every run drifts between two gods; feed Erlik's corruption for savage power and lifesteal, or rise toward Tengri's light for shields and renewal. Every weapon evolves down two opposed paths. Survive the Long Night.
Forecast Death
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Ranked #6 for Payback Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with Payback Protocol.
Survive the chaos of a bullet-heaven action game. Tear through enemy hordes, stack wild ability combos, and endure cataclysms that rewrite the rules mid-fight. The pace ramps up every minute - either you grow stronger, or you get wiped out.
Knell
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Ranked #7 for Payback Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
A gothic top-down survivor-roguelite. Attack, weave and dodge through undead hordes while picking level-up cards to build your character, then fight a boss at the end of each map. Nine characters, dodge-only defense, run-based roguelite progression.
Mighty X Arms
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Ranked #8 for Payback Protocol fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
Mighty X Arms is a roguelike survivor inspired by Brotato, featuring collectible weapon-creatures called Arms. Build your loadout, upgrade them, and mow down enemy swarms to survive.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Payback Protocol.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Payback Protocol.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Payback Protocol.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Payback Protocol.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Payback Protocol.
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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Frequently asked about Payback Protocol
- What games are most similar to Payback Protocol?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Payback Protocol are Warriors of the End, Chrome Survivor, 青铜灰烬.
- Who developed Payback Protocol?
- Payback Protocol was developed by Chick Chirp.
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 Payback Protocol.
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