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Games like SWORDY

If SWORDY is your kind of game, the closest matches are Beat Me!, Vortex Of Pain and River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~ — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its comedic, funny and intense. 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 SWORDY: Swordy is a local party brawler with chaotic physics-based action. Master the weapons of war, using momentum and timing to fight for your life in a world built on the bones of a ruined empire.

2016ActionSportsIndieAdventureCasualEarly Access14.99 USDWindowsby Frogshark
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Steam players who put hours into SWORDY 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. Beat Me!

    WHY THIS

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

    Beat Me! is a physics-based multiplayer game for up to 6 players. Play with comical fantasy characters in a wide variety of fun and surprising environments. Challenge your friends locally or beat others over the internet!

    2020ActionIndieCasual12.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Vortex Of Pain

    WHY THIS

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

    Vortex of Pain is classic old-school 2D beat 'em up action in 3D...-ish. Use various fighting mechanics as you blast through dangerous zones stuffed with breakable props, explosives, and weapons. Fight alone or with your co-brawlers to liberate your city from simulation theory -obsessed maniacs.

    2018ActionIndieEarly Access8.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with SWORDY.

    Third-strongest match for SWORDY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with SWORDY.

    This is the River City sports challenge! The Rule is simple, be the # 1 in 4 events by all means. That's it! Hitting and kicking? Of course! Wooden swords dumbbells and even bombs are available to use. The great sports challenge where anything's possible has just begun!!!

    2015ActionSportsAdventure19.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Grumpy Football

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for SWORDY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with SWORDY.

    Grumpy Football is a fun and exciting football game. Rich skills, interesting physics system, and various shooting methods. Use all means to defeat your opponent! ! Email: [email protected]

    ActionSportsIndieSteam ↗
  5. A Gummy's Life

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with SWORDY.

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

    A Gummy’s Life is a local & online party multiplayer with candy-coated physics-based fights. Choose your favorite gummy, customize it to your taste and show who rules over the sugar! Play with friends, family or AIs in multiple manic game modes or battle online - as easy as taking candy from a baby.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. SpiderHeck

    WHY THIS

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

    Spiders with laser swords! Duel to the death against your friends or choose to team up and hold back swarms of savage enemies. Swing, stab and shoot with style, effortlessly performing movie-worthy parkour.

    2022ActionIndieCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for SWORDY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Sports with SWORDY.

    Drunk-Fu: Wasted Masters is a ludicrous physics based ragdoll brawler with over the top combat, online multiplayer and customizable characters.

    2018ActionSportsIndie9.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Unruly Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for SWORDY fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SWORDY.

    LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Reviewers mention these as similar to SWORDY

Surfaced from review text: when other players write 'if you liked X, try Y', we catch the name and resolve it back to a Steam game.

  1. SpeedRunners

    WHY THIS

    Shares an intense mood with SWORDY.

    Reviewers of SWORDY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Sports with SWORDY.

    Cut-throat multiplayer running game that pits 4 players against each other, locally and/or online. Run, jump, swing around, and use devious weapons and pick-ups to knock opponents off-screen! One of the most competitive games you'll ever play.

    2016ActionSportsIndie2.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. STARWHAL

    WHY THIS

    Shares physics based combat and an intense mood with SWORDY.

    Reviewers of SWORDY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Sports with SWORDY.

    The local multi-player space narwhal fighting game that has rocked the internet is finally ready for its big debut in a fully loaded release! Flop it out with 1-4 players in a retro, epic narwhal battle in space! The heart-piercing action is furious and unrelenting. STARWHAL will change your life.

    2014ActionSportsIndie11.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Duck Game

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with SWORDY.

    Reviewers of SWORDY cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SWORDY.

    Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

    2015ActionIndie12.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

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

  1. Garry's Mod

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~67% under SWORDY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY on Steam right now. Shares Action and Early Access with SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY on Steam right now. Shares Action with SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with SWORDY.

    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 and Casual with SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY.

    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 SWORDY.

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

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  5. Bongo Cat

    WHY THIS

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

    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?

    2025IndieSimulationMassively MultiplayerFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

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

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

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

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with SWORDY.

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

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. 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 SWORDY.

    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 ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. A Gummy's Life

    WHY THIS

    Shares a comedic mood with SWORDY.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SWORDY.

    A Gummy’s Life is a local & online party multiplayer with candy-coated physics-based fights. Choose your favorite gummy, customize it to your taste and show who rules over the sugar! Play with friends, family or AIs in multiple manic game modes or battle online - as easy as taking candy from a baby.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure3.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. SpiderHeck

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SWORDY.

    Spiders with laser swords! Duel to the death against your friends or choose to team up and hold back swarms of savage enemies. Swing, stab and shoot with style, effortlessly performing movie-worthy parkour.

    2022ActionIndieCasual5.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Unruly Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SWORDY.

    LET'S KUNG FU THEM ALL! Play solo or co-op and take control of four unlikely heroes that battle a diverse lineup of enemies, show off your Kung-Fu skills and journey west across stunning different environments in order to hunt for the scattered remnants of the Sacred Scroll.

    2019ActionIndieAdventure6.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about SWORDY

How much does SWORDY cost?
SWORDY is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does SWORDY have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — SWORDY supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
What games are most similar to SWORDY?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SWORDY are Beat Me!, Vortex Of Pain, River City Super Sports Challenge ~All Stars Special~.
Who developed SWORDY?
SWORDY was developed by Frogshark.

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 SWORDY.

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