Games like Hook and Gun
If Hook and Gun is your kind of game, the closest matches are Neon Swarm, Alien Grounds and Psycho Ripper — 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 Hook and Gun: A fast-paced 2D top-down action roguelike set in a rising industrial elevator. Use your grappling hook to snatch, corrupt, and turn enemy weapons against them. Battle through relentless waves of security robots, harvest scrap to unlock powerful upgrades and survive the ascent to escape the facility.
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Steam players who put hours into Hook and Gun 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.
Neon Swarm
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Top pick for Hook and Gun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
A pure neon arcade survivor-like: dodge swarming hordes, dash through walls of bullets and forge devastating builds from 200+ synergizing items. 6 ships with unique ultimates, 8 mega-bosses, rising Threat levels, endless mode and a daily challenge.
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Second-strongest match for Hook and Gun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
Single-player arena shooter. Weird weapons. Relentless robots. Easy to play, hard to score. Enter the chaos, shoot the bots, and compete in the Monthly Challenge.
Psycho Ripper
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Third-strongest match for Hook and Gun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
Psycho Ripper is a top down action shooter with modified conditional formations. Explore a randomization of challenges as you blast through a sentient crystal mine, confronting progressively baneful threats and equip unusual armaments, as you speculate further through a grand and unknown chaos.
Discarded
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Ranked #4 for Hook and Gun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
Discarded is action rougelike, arena shooter where you face waves of relentless enemies. You’re alone and outgunned - move fast, shoot faster, dodge the bullets and upgrade on the fly. Keep up with the pressure or get shredded like the rest.
NovaShift: Universe
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Ranked #5 for Hook and Gun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
Survive shifting universes where the rules themselves change. Build your arsenal across 15-wave runs, claim the Keys, and face a finale built from the worlds YOU conquered. Adapt or die — the strongest build means nothing in the wrong universe.
Deep Space Survivor: Endless Starfield
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Ranked #6 for Hook and Gun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
"Deep Space Survivor: Endless Starfield" is a survivor-style game. Your interstellar battleship accidentally enters an unknown universe, fighting its way through endless enemies, roaming multiple star systems, and collecting meteor resources to forge your ultimate orbital weapon.
Steel Knight's ARMIS
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Ranked #7 for Hook and Gun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
"Steel Knight's ARMIS" is a roguelike robot game. Lead the rebellion through five chapters, fighting against the Imperial Army and Earth Federation. Customize and upgrade your robot to survive the intense battles ahead.
The Machine God
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Ranked #8 for Hook and Gun fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
The Machine God is a hyper-aggressive roguelike about the dance between blade and bullet. Slash and dash through a city consumed by a fanatical hivemind, and master the art of Gun Fu.
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Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Hook and Gun.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
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Frequently asked about Hook and Gun
- What games are most similar to Hook and Gun?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Hook and Gun are Neon Swarm, Alien Grounds, Psycho Ripper.
- Who developed Hook and Gun?
- Hook and Gun was developed by Giant Beak Games.
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 Hook and Gun.
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