Games like Vacuum Uprising
If Vacuum Uprising is your kind of game, the closest matches are Spelunky 2, BattleBlock Theater® and Broforce — 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 Vacuum Uprising: Rip the ground from under your feet and hurl it at your enemies! Vacuum Uprising is a pixel-perfect destruction platformer with physics-based combat, epic boss fights, and local multiplayer for up to 4 players.

Players who liked Vacuum Uprising also play
Steam players who put hours into Vacuum Uprising 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.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Top pick for Vacuum Uprising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Vacuum Uprising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Broforce
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Vacuum Uprising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Broforce is an action-packed side-scrolling run ‘n’ gun ode to freedom, putting you in control of an under-funded, overpowered paramilitary organization dealing exclusively in excessive force.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Vacuum Uprising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
SpeedRunners
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Vacuum Uprising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
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.
Duck Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Vacuum Uprising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
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.
Move or Die
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Vacuum Uprising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.
Overcooked
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Vacuum Uprising fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Vacuum Uprising.
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 Vacuum Uprising.
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 Vacuum Uprising.
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?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Vacuum Uprising.
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.
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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.
Spelunky 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for treasure and missing family.
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Move or Die
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.
Overcooked
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Vacuum Uprising.
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Frequently asked about Vacuum Uprising
- Does Vacuum Uprising have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Vacuum Uprising supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, PvP).
- What games are most similar to Vacuum Uprising?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Vacuum Uprising are Spelunky 2, BattleBlock Theater®, Broforce.
- Who developed Vacuum Uprising?
- Vacuum Uprising was developed by QrowTech.
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 Vacuum Uprising.
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