Games like Lunaris
Below are 27 hand-picked alternatives to Lunaris for fans of action, indie, ranked by imho.run's hybrid recommender. Each pick is scored on three signals: collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries (which players who logged hours in Lunaris also play), content overlap on genres, categories, and storefront tags, and review-mined "vibe" embeddings that catch tonal similarity even when the genre label differs. Sections below cover closest matches, reviewer cross-mentions, cheaper alternatives, free-to-play picks, and Steam Deck–friendly options. No login required — these picks work anchor-only.
About Lunaris: Lunaris is a fast-paced sci-fi top-down roguelite shooter: survive escalating enemy waves, stack powerful passive and active abilities, craft wild build synergies, and turn the arena into a neon storm of lasers and explosions. Every run feels fresh and intense.
Players who liked Lunaris also play
Ranked by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries plus content overlap on genres, tags, and developers.
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Hover Point
Top pick for Lunaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
Hover Point is a physics-based rogue-lite bullet hell where movement is your weapon. Dodge chaotic swarms with auto-fire action, build your skill tree, and climb global leaderboards. Master the chaos solo or in co-op via mouse-only, keyboard-only, or controller-only playstyles.
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No Sweet Looks
Second-strongest match for Lunaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
Nothing but ocean in every direction, and monsters eyeing you down everywhere you go! Wake up, confront the monsters, and find your way home in this top down rouge-like, with a unique take on shooting mechanics.
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Compadrone: Land Wars
Third-strongest match for Lunaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
In this fast-paced roguelite arena shooter with tower-defense twists, control a drone capable of wielding multiple weapons and fight hordes of alien warbots. Collect resources and XP to unlock new weapons, towers, abilities, and drones.
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Protocol : Kill Switch
Ranked #5 for Lunaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
Survive the mainframe in this Digital-Noir roguelite. Outrun the Magenta Corruption, overclock your code at risky Shrines, and fight alongside your upgraded DAEMON. Master high-voltage weaponry to clear swarms of predatory logic. In this arena, you aren't a bug—you’re the virus.
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Gunlocked 2
Ranked #6 for Lunaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
Movement is your weapon. A sci-fi action roguelike and shmup combined, in Gunlocked 2 you'll pilot and upgrade a state-of-the-art warship against endless waves of deadly aliens. Deep customization, branching paths, and tons of unlockables offer endless replayability!
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BALL x PIT
Ranked #7 for Lunaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
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Vital Shell
Ranked #8 for Lunaris fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Lunaris.
Vital Shell is a single player top-down arena shooter that puts you in control of mechs inspired by classic fantasy archetypes. Unlock powerful synergies with unique weapons, traits, and abilities as you take on increasingly challenging waves of enemies in a shattered realm.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lunaris at current Steam store prices.
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Miss Neko
Priced ~51% under Lunaris on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lunaris.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
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QUICKERFLAK
Priced ~51% under Lunaris on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
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Save Jesus
Priced ~51% under Lunaris on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lunaris.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
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Gachi Heroes
Priced ~51% under Lunaris on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
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Trip to Vinelands
Priced ~51% under Lunaris on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lunaris.
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.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Lunaris.
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.
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Ultimate Custom Night
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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Bongo Cat
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lunaris.
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?
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ENA: Dream BBQ
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lunaris.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lunaris.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
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Gunlocked 2
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
Movement is your weapon. A sci-fi action roguelike and shmup combined, in Gunlocked 2 you'll pilot and upgrade a state-of-the-art warship against endless waves of deadly aliens. Deep customization, branching paths, and tons of unlockables offer endless replayability!
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BALL x PIT
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Lunaris.
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
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Vital Shell
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Lunaris.
Vital Shell is a single player top-down arena shooter that puts you in control of mechs inspired by classic fantasy archetypes. Unlock powerful synergies with unique weapons, traits, and abilities as you take on increasingly challenging waves of enemies in a shattered realm.
Frequently asked about Lunaris
- How much does Lunaris cost?
- Lunaris is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Lunaris?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lunaris are Hover Point, No Sweet Looks, Compadrone: Land Wars.
- Who developed Lunaris?
- Lunaris was developed by Flacher and published by Flacher Gang Studio.
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 Lunaris.
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