Games like Best Buds vs Bad Guys
If Best Buds vs Bad Guys is your kind of game, the closest matches are Guns of Fury, Kero Blaster and Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider — 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 Best Buds vs Bad Guys: Best Buds vs Bad Guys is a 2D run ’n’ gun from a game developer Dad and his 11 year old son, with a special message behind it. Travel to 11 different worlds, all presented in classic 16-bit style, with a catchy chip-tune soundtrack and lots of over-the-top weapons!
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Guns of Fury
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Top pick for Best Buds vs Bad Guys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!
Kero Blaster
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Second-strongest match for Best Buds vs Bad Guys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
C&F Inc. teleporters are going offline all over the place, and it's up to an intrepid frog employee to fix the situation.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
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Third-strongest match for Best Buds vs Bad Guys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. Created to defend a totalitarian state, the Moonrider rejects its programming and now seeks vengeance on its creators.
Blasting Agent: Ultimate Edition
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Ranked #4 for Best Buds vs Bad Guys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Trouble in Antarctica!The Black Hand of Fate, an international Terrorist Group has constructed a secret base within the heart of a Volcano, and have built a massive army of bio-engineered soldiers and genetic monsters to take over the world! You are the only one that can put a stop to their dastardly plans. You are the Blasting Agent!
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Best Buds vs Bad Guys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Clash Force
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Ranked #6 for Best Buds vs Bad Guys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
A bite-sized, 8-bit style run-and-gun inspired by Saturday morning cartoons of the 80s!
HUNTDOWN
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Ranked #7 for Best Buds vs Bad Guys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
In the mayhem-filled streets of the future where criminal gangs rule and cops fear to tread, only the bounty hunters can free the city from the corrupt fist of felony. Lay waste to the criminal underworld and make a killing in this hard boiled action comedy arcade shooter.
Beekyr Reloaded
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Ranked #8 for Best Buds vs Bad Guys fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
The giant hornets have destroyed your hive and taken the pollen. Fight the swarms alone or with a friend and destroy the dangerous hornet queen! The insect world is very dangerous but... what are you waiting for to get your revenge?
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Best Buds vs Bad Guys at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~80% under Best Buds vs Bad Guys on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~60% under Best Buds vs Bad Guys on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~70% under Best Buds vs Bad Guys on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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
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Priced ~80% under Best Buds vs Bad Guys on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
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Priced ~50% under Best Buds vs Bad Guys on Steam right now. Shares Action with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
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Priced ~80% under Best Buds vs Bad Guys on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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!
STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™
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Priced ~50% under Best Buds vs Bad Guys on Steam right now. Shares Action with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~60% under Best Buds vs Bad Guys on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
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.
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More from Reset Games Ltd
Other recommendable Steam games by Reset Games Ltd, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Machine Gun Fury
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Another title from Reset Games Ltd, the studio behind Best Buds vs Bad Guys. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
When tyranny takes control… someone has to pull the trigger. Machine Gun Fury brings back the golden age of arcade military shooters with pure reflex-driven carnage — no cover, no excuses. It’s you, your grenades, and pure run-and-gun chaos. No mercy. Lock and load, soldier!
House of Pain
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Another title from Reset Games Ltd, the studio behind Best Buds vs Bad Guys. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
House of Pain is a brutal hack and slash platformer. Battle hordes of twisted gore-encrusted mutant enemies. Explore, fight and wield deadly weapons such as the chainsaw, axe, machete and flame thrower. Avoid deadly traps while surviving the terror legions of twisted monsters and huge creatures.
Robo50
WHY THIS
Another title from Reset Games Ltd, the studio behind Best Buds vs Bad Guys. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Robo50 is a fast-paced arcade-style shooter. Equip the mechanised Robo50 body armour and administer excessive force to eliminate the criminal scourge and clean up the streets. Destroy gang hideouts and weapon stores, track down the criminal kingpin’s lair and unleash an armoury of enhanced weapons.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Guns of Fury
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Guns of Fury is a retro-inspired action platformer that combines the run & gun and Metroidvania genres. Explore a vast interconnected world, gain new abilities and weapons, battle epic bosses and stop the plans of an evil corporation before it’s too late!
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider is a side-scrolling action platformer that channels the golden age of classic 16-bit action games in a full-throttle quest for revenge. Created to defend a totalitarian state, the Moonrider rejects its programming and now seeks vengeance on its creators.
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
HUNTDOWN
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Best Buds vs Bad Guys.
In the mayhem-filled streets of the future where criminal gangs rule and cops fear to tread, only the bounty hunters can free the city from the corrupt fist of felony. Lay waste to the criminal underworld and make a killing in this hard boiled action comedy arcade shooter.
Frequently asked about Best Buds vs Bad Guys
- How much does Best Buds vs Bad Guys cost?
- Best Buds vs Bad Guys is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Best Buds vs Bad Guys?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Best Buds vs Bad Guys are Guns of Fury, Kero Blaster, Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider.
- Who developed Best Buds vs Bad Guys?
- Best Buds vs Bad Guys was developed by Reset Games Ltd.
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