Games like BallisticNG
If BallisticNG is your kind of game, the closest matches are GRIP: Combat Racing, Distance and Pacer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its breakneck speeds push limits, deep modding community and handles like a dream. 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 →BallisticNG is a high-speed anti-gravity combat racing game developed by Neognosis that draws inspiration from classic titles in this subgenre. The game features a campaign mode with vehicle customization, precision-focused challenges, and the anti-grav physics that define the experience. Players describe it as challenging, hypnotic, and intense, with the handling receiving particular praise. Reviewers highlight a nostalgic design aesthetic and a hypnotic electronic soundtrack that enhances the breakneck speeds. The 96% positive rating from 1,916 Steam reviews reflects strong community reception. A deep modding system with workshop integration supports an active community creating additional content. The game is verified for Steam Deck play and is priced at $14.99.
About BallisticNG: BallisticNG is a high speed, all thrills anti-gravity combat racer and open modding environment developed as a tribute to old school classics such as Wipeout, Rollcage and Jet Moto.
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GRIP: Combat Racing
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BallisticNG.
Top pick for BallisticNG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
Harness gravity-defying speed in classic combat racing taken to the EXTREME. Master wall-riding, ceiling-surfing tracks, and unleash devastating weapons across 29 blistering circuits. Race solo, split-screen, or online with up to 10 players. GRIP delivers white-knuckle racing like nothing else.
Distance
WHY THIS
Shares workshop integration and a hypnotic mood with BallisticNG.
Second-strongest match for BallisticNG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
Pacer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with BallisticNG.
Third-strongest match for BallisticNG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
PACER is high-octane anti-gravity racing at its most destructive. Customise your craft and weapons then engage in the campaign, a single-player race or compete against your rivals in explosive online multiplayer for the ultimate combat racing experience.
Couch Planes
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for BallisticNG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Racing with BallisticNG.
Couch Planes is a fast-paced airborne party game where the craftiest pilot wins. Dodge missiles, grab power-ups, and race through hazard-filled maps in various game modes in chaotic local or online matches. Easy to learn, wild to master, always a blast.
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BallisticNG.
Ranked #5 for BallisticNG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
Phaseshift: Evolved
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for BallisticNG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
Out pace and destroy your opponents in a nostalgic, cyberpunk sci-fi combat racing world. Unlock and upgrade your vehicle, customise your livery and ability loadout, then duke it out in a plethora of game modes with intelligent, personality driven AI.
Cosmic Race: Galactic Showdown
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for BallisticNG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
Cosmic Race is a sci-fi Combat Racing game inspired by retro arcade racers. Race across vibrant alien worlds, defeat opponents in destruction-rich environments, and become the Cosmic Champion.
Screamer
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and a hypnotic mood with BallisticNG.
Ranked #8 for BallisticNG fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Racing with BallisticNG.
High-octane action and anime aesthetics collide in this arcade racing game, featuring fighting mechanics and a storyline that hits hard. In this world, some race for glory while others seek power or revenge. Every race is a fight and every battle is personal.
Reviewers mention these as similar to BallisticNG
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XENO WIPEOUT!
WHY THIS
Reviewers of BallisticNG cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
After centuries of invincibility, it became popular for humans to watch live alien hunting shows, participate in alien hunts, save up money, equipment, and use all the loot you find to move on to new maps and defeat more powerful enemies.
Wreckfest
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BallisticNG.
Reviewers of BallisticNG cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
Wreckfest is a demolition derby themed racing game with soft-body damage modeling, sophisticated driving dynamics and in-depth vehicle upgrading, featuring both demolition derbies and more traditional track races. It’s all about fun, breakneck racing and over-the-top crashes.
Zero-K
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with BallisticNG.
Reviewers of BallisticNG cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with BallisticNG.
With 100+ truly unique units, Zero-K is an RTS of freedom and creativity, tempered by a decade of refinement. Sculpt land into a castle and throw invaders off it with a Jugglenaut. Explore a massive campaign, solo or co-op. Hop online for epic 32 player battles or fast paced 1v1, on 100s of maps.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below BallisticNG at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under BallisticNG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BallisticNG.
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.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under BallisticNG on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
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!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~53% under BallisticNG on Steam right now. Shares Action with BallisticNG.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under BallisticNG on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
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?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under BallisticNG on Steam right now. Shares Action with BallisticNG.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under BallisticNG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BallisticNG.
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!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under BallisticNG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BallisticNG.
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...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under BallisticNG on Steam right now. Shares Indie with BallisticNG.
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.
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 BallisticNG.
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 BallisticNG.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 BallisticNG.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with BallisticNG.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Distance
WHY THIS
Shares workshop integration and a hypnotic mood with BallisticNG.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
Distance is an atmospheric racing platformer. Fusing futuristic arcade racing with parkour, survive a deadly, mysterious, neon-drenched city by jumping, rotating, and flying.
Pacer
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with BallisticNG.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
PACER is high-octane anti-gravity racing at its most destructive. Customise your craft and weapons then engage in the campaign, a single-player race or compete against your rivals in explosive online multiplayer for the ultimate combat racing experience.
BlazeRush
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with BallisticNG.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with BallisticNG.
BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your style and tactics to new enemies, obstacles and tracks.
Screamer
WHY THIS
Shares vehicle customization and a hypnotic mood with BallisticNG.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Racing with BallisticNG.
High-octane action and anime aesthetics collide in this arcade racing game, featuring fighting mechanics and a storyline that hits hard. In this world, some race for glory while others seek power or revenge. Every race is a fight and every battle is personal.
Frequently asked about BallisticNG
- Is BallisticNG verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — BallisticNG is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does BallisticNG cost?
- BallisticNG is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does BallisticNG have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — BallisticNG supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to BallisticNG?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside BallisticNG are GRIP: Combat Racing, Distance, Pacer.
- Who developed BallisticNG?
- BallisticNG was developed by Neognosis.
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 BallisticNG.
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