Games like Hardcore Soldier
If Hardcore Soldier is your kind of game, the closest matches are MOONMAN: THE GAME, Cyber Pet'Scape : Call of Freedom and Lober Lobe — 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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MOONMAN: THE GAME
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Top pick for Hardcore Soldier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
MOON MAN: THE GAME is a 2d platformer shooter. In this game you will find many different worlds and weapons to use. The game is inspired by a certain someone.
Cyber Pet'Scape : Call of Freedom
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Hardcore Soldier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Cybernetically enhance small vulnerable animals in a pixel art hardcore roguelite platformer, where every jump, every mutation, and every mistake can decide their freedom… or their extinction.
Lober Lobe
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Hardcore Soldier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Shoot psychic orbs, collect useful thoughts, upgrade your Probe with speed, maneuverability, satellites, resistance and suppress negative thoughts in this Brain centric, procedurally generated bullet hell shoot 'em up.
Good Person
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Ranked #4 for Hardcore Soldier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Take on the role of the Good Person in this traditional rogue type game in the form of a 1980s aesthetic platformer. Be a Good Person, suppress heathens and seek validation from others.
Hellfish
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Ranked #5 for Hardcore Soldier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Hellfish is a classic side-scrolling shoot 'em up set deep in a corrupted ocean. Battle demonic sea creatures as The Pope using his holy submarine, and customize your righteous weapons in unique ways every time you play.
Contra: Operation Galuga
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Ranked #6 for Hardcore Soldier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hardcore Soldier.
The legendary Contra series returns! This reimagining of the classic run-'n'-gun action game from the ‘80s features new stages, new enemies, new play mechanics, and co-op combat for up to 4 players!
Elsie
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Ranked #7 for Hardcore Soldier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Elsie is a technicolour, hyperkinetic, rogue-like action-platformer filled with procedurally generated levels, an army of robots to blast through, and a wide scope of items & weaponry to make each run unique. Master countless magitek weapons and abilities in order to embrace the chaos.
Lilac 0
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Ranked #8 for Hardcore Soldier fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
The machine world of Molybdion has fallen into disarray. As Nidhogg eats the root of the planet, unending wars rage on the surface! Slice your way through hordes of metallic foes in five frantic levels, defeat fearsome bosses, and dodge countless bullets in this vintage vertical shoot 'em up.
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Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Hardcore Soldier.
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 Hardcore Soldier.
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 and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
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 Hardcore Soldier.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
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 and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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More from James H. Van der Meulen
Other recommendable Steam games by James H. Van der Meulen, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Victim
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Hardcore Soldier. Shares Action and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
A game like none other. Victim invites you into the world of The Ominous Oppression. A desolate landscape of horrors and mental anguish. A place where only the mentally strong can survive and overcome the seemingly endless relentless trials of perpetuating devastation.
First Odium
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Hardcore Soldier.
A psychological Turn Based Combat RPG Dungeon Crawling Horror
Crazy Brain
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Hardcore Soldier. Shares Action with Hardcore Soldier.
Use perceptive skills and cognition to attempt to gather points, collect an accumulated a score and attempt to exit the stage without failing.
Happy Mask
WHY THIS
Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Hardcore Soldier. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
This is what it feels like to be enslaved by your own mind. Toxic happiness and the brutal reality of a world that cannot be argued away. Step into the backward flipside of a perspective of being mocked and rediculed by blind observers that subscribe to the way of the mob.
The Knowledge of Hermit
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Hardcore Soldier. Shares Action and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
A puzzle solving, dungeon crawling, action adventure, role playing game.
TVS Sample Box
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Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Hardcore Soldier. Shares Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
An evolving app with random surprising updates.
Drone Break
WHY THIS
Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Hardcore Soldier. Shares Action and Indie with Hardcore Soldier.
Run and Gun Roguelite where the goal is to upgrade each consecutive alien drone on death so the next can strive to become overpowered enough to escape the all consuming hive mind.
Dissociative
WHY THIS
Another title from James H. Van der Meulen, the studio behind Hardcore Soldier. Shares Indie and Adventure with Hardcore Soldier.
Enter this dark fantasy nightmare adventure game. Spanning a vast unpredictable mindscape of over 2000 unique areas. Answer perplexing questions, gain abilities, power ups and transfer between dark and light worlds in this seemingly endless dreamscape.
Frequently asked about Hardcore Soldier
- What games are most similar to Hardcore Soldier?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hardcore Soldier are MOONMAN: THE GAME, Cyber Pet'Scape : Call of Freedom, Lober Lobe.
- Who developed Hardcore Soldier?
- Hardcore Soldier was developed by James H. Van der Meulen and published by Trash Vomit Studios.
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