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Games like Long Rescue

If Long Rescue is your kind of game, the closest matches are Deadship Protocol, You Are Circle and Gunblade Ranger — 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.

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About Long Rescue: Long Rescue is a Survival Roguelite where you battle waves of enemies across multiple worlds in pursuit of the villain who stole your dog. Build and customize your character with crazy ability combinations to grow into a powerful force capable of defeating your nemesis. Will you rescue your dog?

2026ActionWindows · macOS · Linuxby Pixel Octopus
Long Rescue — Steam game cover

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Steam players who put hours into Long Rescue 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. Deadship Protocol

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Long Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    Bullet heaven auto-shooter with ONLINE AND COUCH CO-OP for 1-4 players. Fight hordes of energy-feeding aliens, recover eight Protocol Cores, and choose powerful upgrades. Leave the reactor undefended, then fight your way back before the ship runs out of power.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  2. You Are Circle

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Long Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    You are a circle in a sharp world. Fight jagged enemies in a neon twin-stick bullet-hell roguelite, build devastating ability combos, and grow from fragile to unstoppable through shifting neon labyrinths.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  3. Gunblade Ranger

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Long Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    An action shooting Roguelite focused on relentless attacks and brutal executions. Fight through the wasteland, execute enemies to restore ammo, collect weapons and mutations, and create your own killing build. Local 2 player co-op supported.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. Hyper Sentinel Fusion

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Long Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    Pilot an agile starfighter to tear down alien megastructures under fire, then pull off a high-stakes heist from within before everything explodes. When you die time rewinds, sending you back to Moonbase Alpha - your hub for reinvention. Spend your bounty on epic upgrades, ready for the next run.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  5. Toypunk

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Long Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    A roguelite third-person puppet-shooter where you wield an entire toybox of absurd weaponry. Fight hordes of cotton-stuffed baddies across fantastical biomes in single-player or co-op. Experience crazy synergies and unlock more toys between runs!

    ActionSteam ↗
  6. The Whisker Watch

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Long Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    Paws up, Watchers! Team up as two house cats in a chaotic 2-player co-op action roguelite. Protect your Human after dark, upgrade your mansion by day, smash Void-born monsters, upgrade weapons and combat gadgets, grab the loot, and have fun making mischief.

    ActionIndieSteam ↗
  7. Neon Armada - Solar Storm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Long Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    A top-down arena roguelite you can learn in one wave and spend a hundred hours mastering. Waves close in from every edge; the shop between them decides what you become. 32 ships, 28 weapons, 115 mods to combine — then endless mode, where the caps come off.

    2026ActionSteam ↗
  8. Scrapstorm

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Long Rescue fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    A 1-4 player bullet-heaven roguelite where the whole city is hunting you. Draft cards every level until one pistol turns into a screen-clearing mess, and watch out for the traffic, the third rail and whatever is running each district.

    ActionIndieRPGSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.

    2014ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    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.

    2016ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Disfigure

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    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!

    2023ActionIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Die in the Dungeon: Origins

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Fight your way through a mysterious dungeon in this deck-building, turn-based roguelike game where you don't use cards, but DICE! Deal with enemies by combining dice on your board, boost their effects with magical relics, and discover the story behind Die in the Dungeon!

    2023StrategyIndieRPGFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Long Rescue.

    A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!

    2021ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Long Rescue

Does Long Rescue have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Long Rescue supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Co-op).
What games are most similar to Long Rescue?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Long Rescue are Deadship Protocol, You Are Circle, Gunblade Ranger.
Who developed Long Rescue?
Long Rescue was developed by Pixel Octopus and published by MadOctopus.

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 Long Rescue.

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