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Games like The American Dream

If The American Dream is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ricky's Furry Duck Hunt, Deadly Desire and TYRONE vs COPS — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its absurd humor stands out, every action involves guns and unsettling. 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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About The American Dream: Look down the barrel of a future where all your everyday needs are solved with guns.

2018ActionIndieAdventure14.99 USDMetacritic 72Windowsby Samurai Punk
The American Dream — Steam game cover
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Absurd humor stands outEvery action involves gunsSatire of american gun cultureUnsettlingChapter resumeGun as tool

Players who liked The American Dream also play

Steam players who put hours into The American Dream 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.

  1. Ricky's Furry Duck Hunt

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for The American Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    Join Ricky as he hunts some ...peculiar... looking ducks in this arcade-style point-and-click game.

    2023ActionSportsIndie0.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Deadly Desire

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for The American Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    An FPS shooter story game set in the Haluwa at the beginning of the Calculus pandemic. Answering the question "What if they were right?"

    2023ActionIndieAdventure2.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. TYRONE vs COPS

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for The American Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.

    2022ActionIndie0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. TYRONE vs COPS VR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for The American Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    Sip lean and shoot cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America... Fully reimagined for VR!

    2022ActionIndieCasual1.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Apocalipse Maromba

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for The American Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    "Muscle Apocalypse" is a quick 2D platform shooter game inspired by memes from the Brazilian bodybuilding and fitness universe, with its main objective on making the player smile! This is a parody that combines comedy, bodybuilding, and fun, without using real names, images, or brands.

    2023ActionIndieAdventure1.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. RUSLICSTAN INVADES

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for The American Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    Save Ukraine from the hordes of swamp savages! Enjoy physics-based combat and lowbrow dark comedy along the way!

    2023ActionIndieAdventure4.99 USDSteam ↗
  7. THE CORRIDOR

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for The American Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The American Dream.

    THE CORRIDOR is a 20-30 minute experience about the relationship between player and game.

    2020IndieAdventure1.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. HappyFunland

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for The American Dream fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with The American Dream.

    Explore the abandoned remains and uncover the dark secrets of Mort Grisly's HappyFunland theme park, Home of Randy Rodent! A darkly comedic VR horror experience where the fun never dies!

    2024Action17.49 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The American Dream at current Steam store prices.

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The American Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The American Dream.

    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.

    2006IndieSimulationCasual4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Vampire Survivors

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The American Dream on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    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!

    2022ActionIndieRPG4.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. R.E.P.O.

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~53% under The American Dream on Steam right now. Shares Action with The American Dream.

    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.

    2025ActionEarly Access6.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. PEAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The American Dream on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    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?

    2025ActionIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. Titanfall® 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under The American Dream on Steam right now. Shares Action with The American Dream.

    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.

    2020Action4.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Slay the Spire

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~58% under The American Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The American Dream.

    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!

    2019StrategyIndie6.24 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Inscryption

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~47% under The American Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The American Dream.

    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...

    2021StrategyIndieAdventure7.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Cookie Clicker

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under The American Dream on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The American Dream.

    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.

    2021StrategyIndieSimulation4.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The American Dream.

    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.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with The American Dream.

    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.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Helltaker

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The American Dream.

    Helltaker is a short game about sharply dressed demon girls.

    2020IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The American Dream.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The American Dream.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. 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 The American Dream.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with The American Dream.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

More from Samurai Punk

Other recommendable Steam games by Samurai Punk, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.

  1. Screencheat

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Samurai Punk, the studio behind The American Dream. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    Screencheat is a ridiculous competitive split-screen first-person shooter where everyone is invisible, so players are forced to look at each other’s screens to win. Supporting both local and online multiplayer, combat in Screencheat is fast and furious with a wide variety of one-hit kill weapons.

    2014ActionIndie14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Feather

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Samurai Punk, the studio behind The American Dream. Shares Indie and Adventure with The American Dream.

    Feather is a multiplayer game about exploration, relaxation and immersion. Transform yourself into a bird, take flight, and enjoy a zen-like, picturesque landscape on your own terms. Swoop, glide, and backflip your way around mysterious locations to uncover hidden paths that only birds can follow!

    2019IndieAdventureSimulation9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. KILLBUG

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Samurai Punk, the studio behind The American Dream. Shares Action with The American Dream.

    KILLBUG is a fast-paced, first-person movement shooter set in an endless arena. Slash and shoot your way through hordes of ravenous insects, mastering fluid aerial movement mechanics as you fight for glory on the leaderboards.

    2023Action6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Roombo: First Blood

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Samurai Punk, the studio behind The American Dream. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    Roombo: First Blood is a comedic, top-down, stealth-action game about being a robot vacuum cleaner and fending off burglars from your home. A short, experimental game and the first in the JUSTICE SUCKS series.

    2019ActionIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. JUSTICE SUCKS: Tactical Vacuum Action

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Samurai Punk, the studio behind The American Dream. Shares Action and Indie with The American Dream.

    JUSTICE SUCKS is a stealth/action game about a killer robot vacuum cleaner on a quest for vengeance through a 90s TV universe. Stalk your prey, hack smart devices, turn them into deadly traps and consume the blood of your enemies to unleash devastating powers.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDSteam ↗
  6. TRIOS - lofi beats / numbers to chill to

    WHY THIS

    Another title from Samurai Punk, the studio behind The American Dream.

    TRIOS is a relaxing, minimalist maths puzzle game. Take your time, chill out with some numbers. Deceptively simple, surprisingly challenging.

    2021Casual7.99 USDSteam ↗

Frequently asked about The American Dream

Does The American Dream work on Steam Deck?
The American Dream is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
How much does The American Dream cost?
The American Dream is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to The American Dream?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The American Dream are Ricky's Furry Duck Hunt, Deadly Desire, TYRONE vs COPS.
Who developed The American Dream?
The American Dream was developed by Samurai Punk.

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 The American Dream.

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