Games like Black Hole Surfers
If Black Hole Surfers is your kind of game, the closest matches are Mine or Burn, HordeFall and Space Mine Raider — 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 Black Hole Surfers: Trapped after being sucked into a black hole, your only hope is to gather resources from the passing debris, upgrade your ship and survive long enough to find a way to escape. A unique blend of bullet-heaven action and incremental upgrading, will you find your way back home in Black Hole Surfers?
Players who liked Black Hole Surfers also play
Steam players who put hours into Black Hole Surfers 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.
Mine or Burn
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Top pick for Black Hole Surfers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Start with a basic mining ship and snowball into an asteroid-crushing powerhouse in this incremental bullet hell roguelite. Mine asteroids, battle rival miners, stack upgrades, create powerful builds, and survive escalating threats across dangerous star systems.
HordeFall
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Second-strongest match for Black Hole Surfers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
A bulletheaven x incremental game that runs as a desktop companion in the corner of your screen! While you work, your hero automatically fights thousands of enemies. Unlock upgrades and manage your economy, attributes, and spells. Your screen is your battlefield - minimal space, maximum progress!
Space Mine Raider
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Third-strongest match for Black Hole Surfers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Space Mine Raider is a mining and bullet hell incremental game with a focus on strong power progression and combat. Warp in, mine resources, fight enemies and bosses, and extract with your spoils to upgrade your ship.
Magical Girl: incremental gaiden
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Ranked #4 for Black Hole Surfers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Short Bullet Hell about Magical Girl with a skill tree! Fight against Shadows, gather resources, upgrade skill tree and defeat all the Witches to save humanity!
Catnip Cosmos
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Ranked #5 for Black Hole Surfers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
Shoot. Upgrade. Incrementally progress further. Pilot cat-operated spaceships on timed Zoomies runs in this space shooter. Combine pilots for powerful synergies, defeat boss challenges to unlock new weapons and improve exponentially.
Porkanoid
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Ranked #6 for Black Hole Surfers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
An incremental, circular, pig-themed brick breaker mission: rescue your friend trapped across bizarre cosmic worlds by smashing rotating rings of bricks with your pig-headed ball. Keep moving to survive, unlock devastating power-ups, master innovative mechanics, and become stronger with every run.
Elecade
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Ranked #7 for Black Hole Surfers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Strike down rampaging machines with chain lightning. Elecade is a 1-bit action game with incremental upgrades, where you power up and climb to the top of a space facility.
Tether Space Program
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Ranked #8 for Black Hole Surfers fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
You signed. Now you owe. Fly out on the company tether, snatch orbs before the shift clock dies, and watch the payslip bill you for the privilege. Upgrade, requisition, chain, repeat until the debt is paid. A first-person arcade retrieval job with incremental bones.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Black Hole Surfers.
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.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
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?
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
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.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Black Hole Surfers.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Black Hole Surfers.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
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Frequently asked about Black Hole Surfers
- What games are most similar to Black Hole Surfers?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Hole Surfers are Mine or Burn, HordeFall, Space Mine Raider.
- Who developed Black Hole Surfers?
- Black Hole Surfers was developed by Mulch Rats and published by Triplevision Games Limited.
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 Black Hole Surfers.
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