Games like Fading Reel
If Fading Reel is your kind of game, the closest matches are Afterwork Apocalypse, Forecast Death and Lawnpocalypse — 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 Fading Reel: A sepia Roguelike — lead a chained squad through 22 waves. Map events split your line, milestone recruits add firepower. Linked Blink, run upgrades, 19 Evolutions, and a permanent meta tree carry you to the final Boss Hydra.
Players who liked Fading Reel also play
Steam players who put hours into Fading Reel 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.
Afterwork Apocalypse
WHY THIS
Top pick for Fading Reel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Reel.
A horde-survival roguelite in a cursed office tower. Weaponise the stapler, the hot coffee and the all-hands microphone, keep your panicking colleagues from quitting mid-fight, and ride the elevator up floor by floor. Overtime is not optional.
Forecast Death
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Fading Reel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Reel.
Survive the chaos of a bullet-heaven action game. Tear through enemy hordes, stack wild ability combos, and endure cataclysms that rewrite the rules mid-fight. The pace ramps up every minute - either you grow stronger, or you get wiped out.
Lawnpocalypse
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Fading Reel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Fading Reel.
Relaxing lawn care becomes thrilling horde survival! Fight, clean up, upgrade, invent game-breaking builds - and mow down hordes of enemies into neatly trimmed stripes of lawn.
Micron Survivor
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Fading Reel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Fading Reel.
Micron Survivor is a survival game with rogue-lite elements where you play as alien microorganisms under the microscope. Evolve, unlock research objectives, find symbiotic weapons, upgrade your builds, and fight hordes of terrestrial organisms to rule the microcosm.
I'm No Demonlord
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Fading Reel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Reel.
"I'm No Demonlord" is a Roguelike shooter bullet hell game. High freedom in mechanics leads to unique playthroughs. As a demon-possessed hero, battle enemies, grow, and unveil dark schemes. Can he accept his new role? Save "kinds" or destroy "outsiders"? Good or evil? The choice is yours.
Flaghead
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Fading Reel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Casual with Fading Reel.
Flaghead is an arena shooter roguelite where you play as a country, surviving through history from the dark ages into the cybernetic futures and beyond.
UberLoop
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Fading Reel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Reel.
Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Explore the map, grab loot from shrines, level up with unique upgrades, unlock new characters, and stack wild abilities to create crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
Gearomancer
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Fading Reel fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Reel.
Step into the mechanical apocalypse in Gearomancer, a fast-paced twin-stick action roguelite. Play as elite V.E.R.T.E.X. agents to dodge brutal bullet hells and obliterate elemental horrors. Harvest Arcane crystals, forge permanent upgrades at your hub, and die to return stronger than ever.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fading Reel at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Fading Reel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Reel.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Fading Reel on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fading Reel.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Fading Reel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Casual with Fading Reel.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Fading Reel on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Fading Reel.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Fading Reel on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Fading Reel.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Fading Reel on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fading Reel.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Insaniquarium Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Fading Reel on Steam right now. Shares Casual with Fading Reel.
The craziest aquarium game ever! Tend to your fish, keep them happy and they'll reward you with coins and jewels. Buy tank upgrades or egg parts which hatch different in-tank pets. These pets can help you feed your fish, collect coins, or even protect against the aliens that will invade your tank.
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 Fading Reel.
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 Fading Reel.
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 Fading Reel.
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 Fading Reel.
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 Fading Reel.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Fading Reel.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Fading Reel.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
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Frequently asked about Fading Reel
- How much does Fading Reel cost?
- Fading Reel is listed on Steam at 2.79 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Fading Reel?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fading Reel are Afterwork Apocalypse, Forecast Death, Lawnpocalypse.
- Who developed Fading Reel?
- Fading Reel was developed by Fadestrand Games.
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 Fading Reel.
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