Games like Shmandala
If Shmandala is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beats Of Fury, Beat Hazard and Beat Hazard 2 — 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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Steam players who put hours into Shmandala 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.
Beats Of Fury
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Top pick for Shmandala fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
Shoot to the beat in this rhythm bullet hell where every shot creates music. Turn any YouTube song into a bullet hell epic battle.
Beat Hazard
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Second-strongest match for Shmandala fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
Beat Hazard 2
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Third-strongest match for Shmandala fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
Everhood
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Ranked #4 for Shmandala fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
An UNCONVENTIONAL ADVENTURE RPG that takes place in an inexpressible world filled with amusing musical battles and strange delightful encounters. To put it simply: You are in for a ride.🍄
ONE BTN BOSSES
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Ranked #5 for Shmandala fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
It's One Button Bosses, it's all in the name. You have one button. There are big bosses to beat. Push, tap, and bash in the handcrafted campaign or in the roguelike rifts.
Soundodger+
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Ranked #6 for Shmandala fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
Dodge the music and dance through a mesmerizing ballet of choreographed bullets, each synced to music from over a dozen international artists. Push your creativity and skills with the fully-featured Level Editor and never run out of things to dodge.
HYPER DEMON
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Ranked #7 for Shmandala fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
HYPER DEMON is an FPS like no other. a pearl of lightning. a dream from the future. a drop of poison. a swan song. The faster you slay demons, the harder the game and the higher your score. There is an end. Will it see you?
ROBOBEAT
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Ranked #8 for Shmandala fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
Keep your trigger finger on the pulse! In rhythm shooter ROBOBEAT, you'll play as Ace - a bounty hunter on a mission to capture robot-gone-rogue Frazzer in his ever-shifting lair. Wall run, slide, and shoot to your own beat using the in-game custom music editor, blasting through Frazzer's armies!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Shmandala.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Shmandala.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Shmandala.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
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.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shmandala.
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!
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Frequently asked about Shmandala
- What games are most similar to Shmandala?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shmandala are Beats Of Fury, Beat Hazard, Beat Hazard 2.
- Who developed Shmandala?
- Shmandala was developed by mjoldham and published by Pinfall 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 Shmandala.
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