Games like Pulsewave
If Pulsewave is your kind of game, the closest matches are PERKS, Harpoon Arena and Space Fighter — 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 Pulsewave: Rhythm-reactive track flyer. Fly neon highways carved from the music — grab orbs and dodge hazards locked to every beat, kick and drop. Climb global leaderboards, take the Daily Challenge, or load your OWN songs and ride tracks built from them. Pure neon, pure rhythm.
Players who liked Pulsewave also play
Steam players who put hours into Pulsewave 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.
PERKS
WHY THIS
Top pick for Pulsewave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulsewave.
Perks is a chaotic 1-6 player physics shooter where the scoreboard is a weapon. While the leaders fight to stay on top, the team in last place gets first pick of game-changing perks to demolish the competition, leaving the winners with nothing but leftovers.
Harpoon Arena
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Pulsewave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pulsewave.
A fast-paced top-down team shooter. Direct player contact is limited, so use a harpoon to pull enemies to your side and finish them off with teammates! Accuracy and cold calculation will lead you to victory. Just avoid other harpoons flying from all directions...
Space Fighter
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Pulsewave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Pulsewave.
A top-down multiplayer action game where you pilot starfighters with up to 8 players. Fight fast-paced PvP battles in classic versus modes, prove your skill in action-packed combat races, or team up with other pilots to defend against alien sieges and hunt bosses.
Paint Chips
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Ranked #4 for Pulsewave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulsewave.
Paint the ground! Paint your enemies! Paint your enemies ground! The ground is your enemy! Paint it!
Append
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Ranked #5 for Pulsewave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulsewave.
Destroy friends, strangers, or bots in this online multiplayer arena shooter. Collect powerups, combine weapons, build your defenses and obliterate the opposition. Hundreds of weapon combinations and multiple game modes.
Warix
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Pulsewave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulsewave.
Warix is a fast-paced 1v1 territory capture fighting game set in a dark, microscopic world. Control a glowing cybernetic nanobot, draw trails to claim turf, and destroy your rival in high-speed combat. Parry bullets, steal boost, and outsmart players online or battle a relentless solo AI.
TYPER3000
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Pulsewave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Pulsewave.
TYPER3000 is a strategic typing game that combines precise typing with action survival and tower defence. By typing quickly, you control attacks, activate defences and adapt to increasing waves of enemies. There is also a multiplayer and COOP function.
Raiders Rise
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Pulsewave fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Pulsewave.
Explore hostile planets, face endless hordes of devourers, collect crystals, and upgrade your equipment. Choose the hero that best suits your playstyle, cooperate with your allies to survive… or betray the other team at the perfect moment and claim victory.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pulsewave.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Pulsewave.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Pulsewave.
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?
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 Pulsewave.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Pulsewave.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Pulsewave.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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Frequently asked about Pulsewave
- Does Pulsewave have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Pulsewave supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Pulsewave?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Pulsewave are PERKS, Harpoon Arena, Space Fighter.
- Who developed Pulsewave?
- Pulsewave was developed by Grindare Studio.
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 Pulsewave.
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