Games like STRAFE: Gold Edition
If STRAFE: Gold Edition is your kind of game, the closest matches are Tower of Guns, Immortal Redneck and Turbo Overkill — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its replayability is infinite, synthwave soundtrack slaps and epic. 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 →STRAFE: Gold Edition is a roguelite first-person shooter developed by Pixel Titans and published by Devolver Digital, released in 2017 at $14.99. Players describe the experience as epic and intense, with retro aesthetics central to its design. The mechanics include strafe-jumping, teleporters, procedural level generation, acid-corrosive enemies, perk-based loadouts, and a weapon upgrade system where upgrades drastically change playstyle. Players note that movement mastery feels like flying, and reviewers highlight the verticality and arena combat. The synthwave soundtrack is frequently praised, and players consider replayability essentially infinite due to the procedural generation and roguelite structure. The game supports solo-only play and runs as playable on Steam Deck, with a review score of 74% positive out of 1,330 Steam reviews.
About STRAFE: Gold Edition: STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
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Tower of Guns
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Top pick for STRAFE: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).
Immortal Redneck
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for STRAFE: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Immortal Redneck is a FPS set in Egypt with rogue-lite elements. Frantic gameplay, twitch controls and an arcade-style feel meet randomly generated dungeons, a complete skill tree, permanent death and 9 classes with different traits.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for STRAFE: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Dread Templar
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Ranked #4 for STRAFE: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Dread Templar is a fast-paced hardcore old-school FPS, combining classic 90s shooter and modern FPS elements. Unlock and combine dozens of weapon upgrades and skills, embrace the Dread Force and obliterate hordes of fiendish enemies. Become the scariest thing in hell and get your revenge!
Ion Fury
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Ranked #5 for STRAFE: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
3D Realms, creators of Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Max Payne, team up with Voidpoint to bring back the legendary Build Engine, famous for classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood. Fast-paced FPS combat across huge, secret-packed levels. Ion Fury is the real deal!
WRATH: Aeon of Ruin
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for STRAFE: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Blast, slice and shred through your enemies in this hardcore FPS inspired by the icons of the '90s, powered by the legendary Quake-1 Tech. Taking place in a realm left to rot, take up arms, unearth long-forgotten secrets and hunt down the Guardians of the Old World.
Prodeus
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Ranked #7 for STRAFE: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Ziggurat 2
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Ranked #8 for STRAFE: Gold Edition fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Ziggurat is back, and now it's even better! Use powerful weapons and spells to break through hordes of enemies and explore labyrinthine dungeons in this hectic roguelite FPS, while you improve your skills and discover new equipment.
Reviewers mention these as similar to STRAFE: Gold Edition
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Quake
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Shares a retro mood with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Reviewers of STRAFE: Gold Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Reviewers of STRAFE: Gold Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
DOOM
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Shares an epic mood with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Reviewers of STRAFE: Gold Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
DUSK
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Reviewers of STRAFE: Gold Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Reviewers of STRAFE: Gold Edition cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below STRAFE: Gold Edition at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under STRAFE: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under STRAFE: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under STRAFE: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under STRAFE: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under STRAFE: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Action with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under STRAFE: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under STRAFE: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under STRAFE: Gold Edition on Steam right now. Shares Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
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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 with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 STRAFE: Gold Edition.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with STRAFE: Gold Edition.
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.
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Frequently asked about STRAFE: Gold Edition
- Does STRAFE: Gold Edition run on Steam Deck?
- STRAFE: Gold Edition is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does STRAFE: Gold Edition cost?
- STRAFE: Gold Edition is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to STRAFE: Gold Edition?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside STRAFE: Gold Edition are Tower of Guns, Immortal Redneck, Turbo Overkill.
- Who developed STRAFE: Gold Edition?
- STRAFE: Gold Edition was developed by Pixel Titans and published by Devolver Digital.
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