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Games like Abyssalis

If Abyssalis is your kind of game, the closest matches are Lost Colony, Fascist and EON Survivor — 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 Abyssalis: Descend through the ocean layers, purify marine life, and survive the abyss in this bullet hell roguelite. Face colossal bosses, choose powerful upgrades, and uncover the curse's origin. Can you save the ocean before you become fish bait?

ActionIndieAdventureWindowsby Veneficus
Abyssalis — Steam game cover

Players who liked Abyssalis also play

Steam players who put hours into Abyssalis 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. Lost Colony

    WHY THIS

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

    Lost Colony is a sci-fi twin-stick shooter roguelike. Battle aliens and rogue drones with your evolving combat drone companion. Explore a shifting colony, collect alien tech to upgrade weapons, boost your drone's powers, and uncover the dark forces behind the colony's fall.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  2. Fascist

    WHY THIS

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

    As National Guard, stand defiant against relentless hordes. Unleash righteous fury. Old Glory waves eternal and America endures because YOU fight!

    2026ActionIndieAdventure2.50 USDSteam ↗
  3. EON Survivor

    WHY THIS

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

    Harvest vital resources behind enemy lines and survive relentless waves! Deploy from a carrier forced to retreat, collect fast, and secure your cargo before time runs out. Push your luck in this fast-paced rogue-lite space shooter—or be left behind.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  4. HYPERWIRED

    WHY THIS

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

    Hyperwired is a classic top-down action shooter, where your spaceship has a plug hanging from it. Wire yourself into sockets, gather upgrades, and unlock ships as you explore a procedurally generated galaxy with roguelike elements.

    2026ActionIndie7.19 USDSteam ↗
  5. Freedom Squid Fighter

    WHY THIS

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

    Take control of a heavily armed squid and blast through destructible worlds in Freedom Squid Fighter. Soar through the air, tunnel through dirt and rock with powerful weaponry, and outmaneuver enemies across fully destructible landscapes.

    ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  6. Space Slinger

    WHY THIS

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

    Space Slinger is an arcade roguelike about a traveler and his recoil-packed gun where you shoot to move. Unlock unique weapons and broken builds as you conquer space one enemy at a time.

    2026ActionIndieAdventureSteam ↗
  7. Cosmic Run

    WHY THIS

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

    Cosmic Run is a single-player space roguelite where you battle relentless galactic enemies, strategically upgrade your ship, and help the Zogark family survive their journey across the galaxy. Build powerful combinations, adapt to chaotic encounters, and escape one broken system after another.

    2026ActionStrategyIndie9.89 USDSteam ↗
  8. Yee-Haw!!

    WHY THIS

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

    In this fast-paced roguelite, survive in a true bullet hell and destroy thousands of enemies with the help of your brave cowboy. Yeeeee-Haw!!

    2025ActionAdventureCasual0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

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

  1. 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 Abyssalis.

    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 ↗
  2. 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 Abyssalis.

    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 ↗
  3. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Sheepy: A Short Adventure

    WHY THIS

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

    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.

    2024IndieAdventureFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Awaria

    WHY THIS

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

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

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

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

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Expendabros

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗
  8. Iron Snout

    WHY THIS

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

    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 ↗

Frequently asked about Abyssalis

What games are most similar to Abyssalis?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Abyssalis are Lost Colony, Fascist, EON Survivor.
Who developed Abyssalis?
Abyssalis was developed by Veneficus.

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 Abyssalis.

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