Games like Smashteroids
If Smashteroids is your kind of game, the closest matches are Pixel Evolution, Neon Armada - Solar Storm and Ballwark: Pinball Siege — 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 Smashteroids: Smashteroids is a neon arcade shooter-roguelite. Blast and dodge relentless swarms of glowing enemies, cash your kills in a shop between waves, and stack absurd upgrades across 20+ unique ships. Push each run deeper through hazard-strewn planets until a screen-filling boss stands in your way.
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Pixel Evolution
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Top pick for Smashteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Smashteroids.
A twin-stick arena shooter where every run rebuilds the game itself. Collect pixels, survive the constant HP drain, and complete each upgrade checklist to COMPILE the next era — evolving from 1-bit monochrome all the way to 3D, one boss at a time.
Neon Armada - Solar Storm
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Second-strongest match for Smashteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Smashteroids.
A top-down arena roguelite you can learn in one wave and spend a hundred hours mastering. Waves close in from every edge; the shop between them decides what you become. 32 ships, 28 weapons, 115 mods to combine — then endless mode, where the caps come off.
Ballwark: Pinball Siege
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Third-strongest match for Smashteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
Pinball meets Vampire Survivors in this dopamine-packed arcade roguelite! Launch enchanted balls, build deadly machines, and forge powerful synergies to crush relentless hordes.
Gnomekeeper
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Ranked #4 for Smashteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
Gnomekeeper is a cozy-weird bullet-heaven roguelite. You’re one garden gnome, the sun has quit, and everything in the garden wants you gone. Fend off the swarm, cobble together a ridiculous build, and see if you make it to morning.
Chrome Survivor
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Ranked #5 for Smashteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
In this bullet heaven roguelite combine weapons into powerful evolutions, collect items to enhance your runs, equip and craft powerful cybernetic augments that change the way you play. Can you complete a 9 modded nightmare difficulty run and become John Cyberpunk?
Warriors of the End
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Ranked #6 for Smashteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
Warriors of the End is a fast-paced tower-defense horde-battler roguelike. Defend the Princess against enemy hordes by strategically positioning and upgrading your towers, customize unique characters with deadly weapons and spells, discover mindblowing synergies and create game-breaking builds!
Dead Broke
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Ranked #7 for Smashteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
An arena roguelite where money is your life, your ammo, and your currency. Shoot, gamble, and survive in a casino from hell: every bullet costs, every coin saves you. 13 characters, 5 endings, and local co-op. The House always wins... until you stop owing it.
Turbo Caster
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Ranked #8 for Smashteroids fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
Turbo Caster is a survivors-like game with a circuit-style spell building system and roguelite elements. Play as a powerful wizard who uses magical runes to craft spells, discover chaotic synergies, and survive relentless waves of enemies while shaping your own arcane playstyle.
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Smashteroids.
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STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Smashteroids.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Smashteroids.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Smashteroids.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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Frequently asked about Smashteroids
- What games are most similar to Smashteroids?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Smashteroids are Pixel Evolution, Neon Armada - Solar Storm, Ballwark: Pinball Siege.
- Who developed Smashteroids?
- Smashteroids was developed by Switchback.
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 Smashteroids.
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