Games like Burst
If Burst is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hover Hazard, Find Out and Dear Esther — 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 Burst: Challenge your music! Destroy enemies. Avoid obstacles. Run for your life...and points. Go for a high score and always fight to the beat! Only .ogg files are supported.

Players who liked Burst also play
Steam players who put hours into Burst 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.
Hover Hazard
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Top pick for Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Burst.
1 - 4 player/s. Navigate your spaceship inside a deadly arena. Dodge bullets, saws and lasers, while avoiding and using other obstacles in your way.
Find Out
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Second-strongest match for Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Burst.
Find Out - this is an adventure game in which you will have to escape from an unknown location, surrounded by a large maze.
Dear Esther
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Third-strongest match for Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Burst.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Puzzle Dimension
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Ranked #6 for Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Burst.
Find solutions to 100 unique puzzles and experience the satisfaction of "Aha" moments!
FRACT OSC
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Ranked #7 for Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Burst.
FRACT is a musical exploration game. You arrive in a forgotten place and explore the vast and unfamiliar landscape to discover the secrets of a world built on sound. You rebuild its machinery by solving puzzles and bring the world back to life by shaping sound and creating music in the game.
Sanctum
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Ranked #8 for Burst fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Burst.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
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 Burst.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Burst.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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More from David Mulder
Other recommendable Steam games by David Mulder, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Super Switch
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Another title from David Mulder, the studio behind Burst. Shares Indie with Burst.
Super Switch is a difficult platformer in which you have to actively switch between 2 dimensions. It's tougher than iron and extremely rewarding.
Not Without My Poop
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Another title from David Mulder, the studio behind Burst. Shares Indie and Casual with Burst.
Take control of an ambitious young dung beetle, on the journey of getting his dung ball to where it's going.
Smithy
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Another title from David Mulder, the studio behind Burst. Shares Indie with Burst.
Smithy is an underground rodent that happens to be an excellent weapons smith. Purchase and upgrade weapons while destroying everything standing in your way to collect more gold!
Eight Mini Racers
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Another title from David Mulder, the studio behind Burst. Shares Casual with Burst.
1 - 8 player local multiplayer 2D top-down racing game. Racing, rockets, mines, steering failure, engine failure, repair kits, speed boosts and up to 8 players.
Hover Hazard
WHY THIS
Another title from David Mulder, the studio behind Burst. Shares Indie and Casual with Burst.
1 - 4 player/s. Navigate your spaceship inside a deadly arena. Dodge bullets, saws and lasers, while avoiding and using other obstacles in your way.
Prime Shift
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Another title from David Mulder, the studio behind Burst.
Do you like Chess and/or MOBA's? Then you'll love Prime Shift, an online 1v1 strategy board-type game.
Butterfly Moment
WHY THIS
Another title from David Mulder, the studio behind Burst. Shares Casual with Burst.
Catch pretty little butterflies while admiring great views. Relax, unwind and let your rhythm guide you.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dear Esther
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Indie and Casual with Burst.
Begin a journey through one of the most original first-person games of recent years.
Frequently asked about Burst
- What games are most similar to Burst?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Burst are Hover Hazard, Find Out, Dear Esther.
- Who developed Burst?
- Burst was developed by David Mulder.
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 Burst.
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