Games like Boom Buddies
If Boom Buddies is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hop & Pop!, Void Strike and Gunlocked 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.
Get personalized picks →About Boom Buddies: Boom Buddies is a fixed-position bullet hell survival game where animal heroes face endless enemy waves, upgrade weapons through card choices, unlock new characters, and compete on global leaderboards.
Players who liked Boom Buddies also play
Steam players who put hours into Boom Buddies 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.
Hop & Pop!
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Top pick for Boom Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Boom Buddies.
Relax, Hop & Pop! and battle bugs in this froggy survivor game!
Void Strike
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Second-strongest match for Boom Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Boom Buddies.
Shred endless waves of hostile spaceships in a 1-bit arcade survival roguelite. Build absurd weapon combos, unlock pilots, upgrade your fighter, and survive escalating dogfights against swarms, elite enemies, and colossal bosses.
Gunlocked 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Boom Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
Movement is your weapon. A sci-fi action roguelike and shmup combined, in Gunlocked 2 you'll pilot and upgrade a state-of-the-art warship against endless waves of deadly aliens. Deep customization, branching paths, and tons of unlockables offer endless replayability!
Supercat Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Boom Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
Meow! This is a cat-themed Survivor-like game where you control an adorable Supercat! Battle monsters to level up, collect items, upgrade weapons, and experiment with strategic builds to fight off invading creatures threatening Meow Star.
Space War: Infinity
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Ranked #5 for Boom Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
Vertical semi-procedural shmup with upgrades, real-time enemy waves, and infinite replayability. Level up your ship, unlock 20+ weapons, defeat 5 bosses, and survive endless bullet-hell combat.
Sineus Arena Survivors
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Ranked #6 for Boom Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
Fight hordes and defend your Stronghold in a bullet heaven survivor-like with co-op and tower defense. Gain power-ups every level, collect random artifacts from chests and grow stronger to survive, defeat the boss and claim a top spot on the Sineus Arena leaderboards!
BALL x PIT
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Boom Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Blazing Beaks
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Ranked #8 for Boom Buddies fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Boom Buddies at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Boom Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~50% under Boom Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Boom Buddies.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~67% under Boom Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Boom Buddies.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Boom Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Boom Buddies.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
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Priced ~67% under Boom Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Boom Buddies.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~67% under Boom Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Boom Buddies on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Boom Buddies.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Boom Buddies.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Boom Buddies.
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 Boom Buddies.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Boom Buddies.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Boom Buddies.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
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 Boom Buddies.
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.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Gunlocked 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
Movement is your weapon. A sci-fi action roguelike and shmup combined, in Gunlocked 2 you'll pilot and upgrade a state-of-the-art warship against endless waves of deadly aliens. Deep customization, branching paths, and tons of unlockables offer endless replayability!
BALL x PIT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Blazing Beaks
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Boom Buddies.
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Frequently asked about Boom Buddies
- How much does Boom Buddies cost?
- Boom Buddies is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Boom Buddies?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Boom Buddies are Hop & Pop!, Void Strike, Gunlocked 2.
- Who developed Boom Buddies?
- Boom Buddies was developed by Nightloop.
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 Boom Buddies.
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