Games like Hypernova
If Hypernova is your kind of game, the closest matches are Battle Force 2249, Neon Dreams and Chemical Combat — 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 Hypernova: Progression-driven space survival. Launch sorties, survive hazards and escalating enemy waves, and gather stars, fragments, crystals, and rare world resources. Unlock new worlds, build your ship with research, utilities, and weapons, and chase quests, achievements, and cosmetics.
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Steam players who put hours into Hypernova 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.
Battle Force 2249
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Top pick for Hypernova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hypernova.
A character RPG in a living galaxy. You're the disgraced last heir of the cartographers who mapped the Meridian — left for dead, quietly alive. Rebuild a ship that's truly yours, choose your factions, and pull the thread of a cover-up the Axiom Collective buried generations ago.
Neon Dreams
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Second-strongest match for Hypernova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hypernova.
Live the life of an aspiring arms dealer in a Cyberpunk city. Complete thrilling bullet-hell combat simulations with your trusty battle mech, while managing your high-stakes business. Drink coffee, buy weapons, collect stickers, and overcome difficult battle modifiers.
Chemical Combat
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Third-strongest match for Hypernova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hypernova.
Combine chemicals, prepare potions, and battle hordes of mythical monsters in this action-packed, chemistry-themed roguelike. You'll fight your way through a procedurally-generated science lab, exploding endless enemies and solving various puzzles, all to earn coins and upgrade your equipment.
Directive: Intercept
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Ranked #4 for Hypernova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hypernova.
Protect Earth's last cities from an alien fleet in fast-paced aerial combat. Upgrade and customize your aircraft to dominate the skies.
Code-Black
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Ranked #5 for Hypernova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hypernova.
A First-Person Single-Player Zombie Survival game where you, "Rugir J.z" live through the initial events of a mass zombie outbreak, shoot, kill, upgrade, explore. Do you think you can survive, or possibly escape…
Solar Survivors
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Ranked #6 for Hypernova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hypernova.
Bullet hell meets bullet heaven. Build the ultimate space fighter as you uncover clever strategies and hidden synergies. Solar Survivors distills the deep strategy and progression of an RPG into quick, arcade-like sessions.
Quantum Gravity
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Ranked #7 for Hypernova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hypernova.
Get ready for intense space combat in Quantum Gravity! Invert gravity to soar through space, engaging in long-range and melee battles against a variety of enemies. With four game modes, including Infinity Mode and multiplayer PvP, there's never a dull moment in this action-packed bullet hell game!
NeverDeath
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Ranked #8 for Hypernova fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hypernova.
NeverDeath is a fighting game set in our own solar system centuries in the future. Explore the intricacies of the unique left/right fighting system while battling across the solar system as nine distinct characters.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hypernova.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hypernova.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hypernova.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hypernova.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
Peggle Extreme
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Peggle Extreme delivers fast-paced puzzle action that combines elements of pinball and pachinko to create a truly unique game experience. Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun, now exclusively themed with art and sounds from Half-Life: Episode 2, Portal, and Team Fortress 2.
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Frequently asked about Hypernova
- What games are most similar to Hypernova?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hypernova are Battle Force 2249, Neon Dreams, Chemical Combat.
- Who developed Hypernova?
- Hypernova was developed by Livius Hoffmann.
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 Hypernova.
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