Games like Highway to the Moon
If Highway to the Moon is your kind of game, the closest matches are Nex Machina, Beat Hazard and Bleed 2 — 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 Highway to the Moon: Highway to the Moon is a fast-paced scrolling arcade shooter where you take control of Jacob Helaway, stunt man and thrill-seeker extraordinaire, as he makes his way to the Moon in pursuit of the interstellar criminal known only as the Moon Man.
Players who liked Highway to the Moon also play
Steam players who put hours into Highway to the Moon 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.
Nex Machina
WHY THIS
Top pick for Highway to the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
Beat Hazard
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Highway to the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
Bleed 2
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Highway to the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
Crimsonland
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Highway to the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
The Hong Kong Massacre
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Highway to the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
AIRHEART - Tales of broken Wings
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Highway to the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Airheart is a dieselpunk airplane action rogue like game, where every colorful level is built on top of the previous one, all the way up to the stratosphere. Welcome to Granaria, a flying city in the clouds. Meet Amelia - a young pilot and fisherwoman wishing to reach the abundant world's edge.
RIVE
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Highway to the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Highway to the Moon.
This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.
NeverAwake
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Highway to the Moon fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
A girl who never wakes up. She has been fighting monsters in her dreams... "NeverAwake" is a nightmarish twin-stick shooter with a unique worldview and original game rules.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Highway to the Moon at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Highway to the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Action with Highway to the Moon.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Highway to the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Highway to the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Highway to the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Highway to the Moon on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
WOWOWOW KORONE BOX
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Highway to the Moon.
A hololive fangame featuring Inugami Korone of hololive GAMERS! Collect as many Korone Boxes as possible while contending with an endless onslaught of enemies and bosses using whatever weapons you happen to pick up!
SWARMRIDERS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
SWARMRIDERS is a FREE "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" ARCADE mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing minigame" made as a bonus content for the UBERMOSH community.
Action Agents
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Highway to the Moon.
Retrowave Skill-Based Action Roguelike about tough cops fighting crime and keeping peace the old-fashioned way. Choose your cop and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses using a huge arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle. The law will make crime bleed.
SQUIDS FROM SPACE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
SQUIDS FROM SPACE is an 8v8, team-based PvP top-down shooter where humans and the sinister Squid aliens wage war for the future of the Earth!
Gamma Bros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
The original 8-bit twin-stick space shooter about brotherly love, available to play for free.
TimeTekker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
TimeTekker is an arcade shoot em' up where your actions dictate the speed of time itself! Overcome the endless hail of bullets at your own pace and become the ultimate ninja!
Huge Enemy - Worldbreakers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Huge Enemy is a horizontal Shoot ‘em up that takes place in a dark sci-fi universe with Japanese influences.
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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.
Bleed 2
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!
Crimsonland
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.
AIRHEART - Tales of broken Wings
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
Airheart is a dieselpunk airplane action rogue like game, where every colorful level is built on top of the previous one, all the way up to the stratosphere. Welcome to Granaria, a flying city in the clouds. Meet Amelia - a young pilot and fisherwoman wishing to reach the abundant world's edge.
NeverAwake
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Highway to the Moon.
A girl who never wakes up. She has been fighting monsters in her dreams... "NeverAwake" is a nightmarish twin-stick shooter with a unique worldview and original game rules.
Frequently asked about Highway to the Moon
- How much does Highway to the Moon cost?
- Highway to the Moon is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Highway to the Moon?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Highway to the Moon are Nex Machina, Beat Hazard, Bleed 2.
- Who developed Highway to the Moon?
- Highway to the Moon was developed by Vernacular 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 Highway to the Moon.
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