Games like MADNESS: Project Nexus
If MADNESS: Project Nexus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Loadout, BURNER and Temple of Rust — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its aesthetics, deep story and mod support. 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 →MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person action indie game released in 2021 by GIBBING TREE, LLC. The game features both a campaign mode and an arena mode, offering melee combat with blocking mechanics alongside ranged gunplay. Players have access to a modding system, which reviewers note contributes to the game's replayability. Set in a dark and grim world according to player descriptions, the experience combines critical hits with hack-and-slash and arena shooter elements. The game is playable on Steam Deck and currently priced at $24.99 USD. Reviewers describe the combat as satisfying, and highlight the deep story alongside mod support as key hooks. It holds a 97% positive rating from over 9,000 Steam reviews.
About MADNESS: Project Nexus: MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person Run n' Gun / Beat'Em Up filled with arcade-style action and button-mashing brutality. Gun your way through droves of bad guys in the Story Campaign, or build your perfect killing machine in the neverending onslaught of Arena Mode.
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Loadout
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Top pick for MADNESS: Project Nexus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Loadout is an outrageous new multi-player shooter that’s all about the guns, baby! Build a massive variety of absolutely insane weaponry - billions of combinations - totally customized, totally unique, and totally deadly.
BURNER
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Second-strongest match for MADNESS: Project Nexus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
voxel style survival game with rouge like, platformer, and brawler elements, randomly generated levels in real time. sent to another dimension, burner must collect $50,000 to make it back home, upgrade stats and buy weapons between levels. In development since 2021.
Temple of Rust
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Third-strongest match for MADNESS: Project Nexus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Temple of Rust is a top-down action roguelike. Fight through the wastelands using your sling and various types of ammunition along with special boots for powerful jump attacks. Create unique attack combinations with special upgrades and blast your way to the multiple cores of corruption.
Need for sharp
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Ranked #4 for MADNESS: Project Nexus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
You need to beat all enemies at all of game maps. You can raise money, buy upgrades and abilities for yourself. How fast do you walk so fast time.
No More Heroes
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Shares a dark mood with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Ranked #5 for MADNESS: Project Nexus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Fight your way to the top in this HD remaster of everyone's favorite assassin action game! As all-American otaku Travis Touchdown, use your trusty beam katana to hack-and-slash though the competition and claim the title of world's #1 assassin!
Zombies and Keys
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Ranked #6 for MADNESS: Project Nexus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
"Zombies and Keys" is a short but intense, easy to learn zombie brawler. Be a strongman stuck in a zombie apocalypse. There's no gun. Beat 'em up, find keys, and escape.
Infected Shelter
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Shares a dark mood with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Ranked #7 for MADNESS: Project Nexus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Infected Shelter is an ultra-violent rogue-lite post-apocalyptic beat'em up. Singleplayer and co-op for up to four players.
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood
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Ranked #8 for MADNESS: Project Nexus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood is a cartoon-style third-person shooter. You take the role of a last-standing hard-boiled Legionnaire taking on an entire rebel army. A small campaign with various objectives, such as defending civilians, escorting a tourist bus and a mass-chicken-murder map.
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Half-Life
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Reviewers of MADNESS: Project Nexus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Named Game of the Year by over 50 publications, Valve's debut title blends action and adventure with award-winning technology to create a frighteningly realistic world where players must think to survive. Also includes an exciting multiplayer mode that allows you to play against friends and enemies around the world.
METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE
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Reviewers of MADNESS: Project Nexus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Developed by Kojima Productions and PlatinumGames, METAL GEAR RISING: REVENGEANCE takes the renowned METAL GEAR franchise into exciting new territory with an all-new action experience. The game seamlessly melds pure action and epic story-telling that surrounds Raiden – a child soldier transformed into a half-human, half-cyborg ninja who...
ULTRAKILL
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Reviewers of MADNESS: Project Nexus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
ULTRAKILL is a fast-paced ultra-violent retro FPS that combines the skill-based style scoring of character action games with the unadulterated carnage inspired by the best shooters of the '90s. Rip apart your foes with varied destructive weaponry and shower in their blood to regain your health.
NO THING
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Reviewers of MADNESS: Project Nexus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
The year is 1994 and it is the future. NO THING is a minimalistic surreal action game set in totalitarian regime of future. Tells the story of an office clerk who is sent with important message to the Queen of Ice.
The Last Stand Legacy Collection
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Reviewers of MADNESS: Project Nexus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Survive the zombie apocalypse and make humanity's last stand in this three-game legacy bundle, revamped for modern hardware. Explore, build, and survive for as long as you can in The Last Stand, The Last Stand 2, and The Last Stand: Union City.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below MADNESS: Project Nexus at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under MADNESS: Project Nexus on Steam right now. Shares Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under MADNESS: Project Nexus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
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Priced ~60% under MADNESS: Project Nexus on Steam right now. Shares Action with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under MADNESS: Project Nexus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~60% under MADNESS: Project Nexus on Steam right now. Shares Action with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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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 MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 MADNESS: Project Nexus.
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 MADNESS: Project Nexus.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with MADNESS: Project Nexus.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
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 MADNESS: Project Nexus.
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 MADNESS: Project Nexus.
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.
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 MADNESS: Project Nexus.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
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Frequently asked about MADNESS: Project Nexus
- Does MADNESS: Project Nexus run on Steam Deck?
- MADNESS: Project Nexus is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does MADNESS: Project Nexus cost?
- MADNESS: Project Nexus is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does MADNESS: Project Nexus have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — MADNESS: Project Nexus supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to MADNESS: Project Nexus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside MADNESS: Project Nexus are Loadout, BURNER, Temple of Rust.
- Who developed MADNESS: Project Nexus?
- MADNESS: Project Nexus was developed by GIBBING TREE, LLC.
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