Games like Swarmbreak
If Swarmbreak is your kind of game, the closest matches are Star Scrap, SteelGuard and Iron Grave:Planet 9 — 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 Swarmbreak: Swarmbreak is a twin-stick roguelike shooter where you aim every bullet, stack every perk, and push every run to its breaking point. All that stands between you and oblivion is the ridiculous build you cobbled together from 27 perks, 14 weapons, and a character passive that bends the rules.
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Steam players who put hours into Swarmbreak 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.
Star Scrap
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Top pick for Swarmbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmbreak.
A broke bounty hunter. A sarcastic robot. 1,000,000 credit debt. Star Scrap is a chaotic twin stick space roguelite. Blast through increasingly difficult waves of enemies to pay it off.
SteelGuard
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Second-strongest match for Swarmbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmbreak.
Pilot customizable mechs in an epic battle against hordes of enemiesor dive into intense PvP battles where precision aiming can turn the tide, or let your mech's auto-firing system handle the heat of combat. With rogue-lite elements, each run offers a unique challenge and opportunity for growth.
Iron Grave:Planet 9
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Third-strongest match for Swarmbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmbreak.
Iron Grave: Planet 9 is a sci-fi mech survivor game. Pilot multiple mechs with unique skills and evolution, slaughter enemies, unlock upgrades. Set on the ninth planet over a century from now, fight alongside your squad and become a hero.
Irradiant Skies
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Ranked #4 for Swarmbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmbreak.
Irradiant Skies is an arcade roguelite blending brick-breaking and bullet-parrying combat. Reflect enemy attacks, chain powerful upgrades, and master unique ships as you ascend through waves of enemies.
Homesider Survivors
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Ranked #5 for Swarmbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmbreak.
HOMESIDER SURVIVORS is a single player survivor-like auto-shooter. You find yourself far from home against countless hordes of aliens...but they're the ones who have to survive, because they kidnapped the wrong guy. Kill, die, level up, and try again until you get home.
Toadled: Eating Frenzy
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Ranked #6 for Swarmbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmbreak.
Toadled: Eating Frenzy is an action roguelike with an appetite! Play as a toad and eat everything on your path to grow bigger and mutate into new, disgusting forms. Consuming human flesh? Fair game. Police cars, tanks, missiles? Mild indigestion. Try out hundreds of appetizing build combinations!
Helmscape
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Ranked #7 for Swarmbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmbreak.
Lead a party of fantasy heroes in action-packed battles...in SNAKE formation! Choose your party and venture forth into an ever-changing world as you discover new heroes and find better loot to keep gearing up.
Hex Weaver
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Ranked #8 for Swarmbreak fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Swarmbreak.
Hex Weaver is a bullet-hell dungeon crawler. Collect runes and craft your own spell combinations freely. Every run delivers a fresh shooting experience—shred the dungeon's darkness with endless, evolving bullet patterns!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Swarmbreak.
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.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmbreak.
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?
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 Swarmbreak.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmbreak.
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.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmbreak.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmbreak.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Swarmbreak.
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.
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Frequently asked about Swarmbreak
- What games are most similar to Swarmbreak?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Swarmbreak are Star Scrap, SteelGuard, Iron Grave:Planet 9.
- Who developed Swarmbreak?
- Swarmbreak was developed by CallOfPort.
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 Swarmbreak.
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