Games like Neon Swarm
If Neon Swarm is your kind of game, the closest matches are Neon Armada - Solar Storm, NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor and Scrapstorm — 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 Neon Swarm: A pure neon arcade survivor-like: dodge swarming hordes, dash through walls of bullets and forge devastating builds from 200+ synergizing items. 6 ships with unique ultimates, 8 mega-bosses, rising Threat levels, endless mode and a daily challenge.
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Neon Armada - Solar Storm
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Top pick for Neon Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
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.
NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor
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Second-strongest match for Neon Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor is a brutal survival roguelite where you’ll face endless hordes of relentless zombies. Choose your survivor and weapons, each with unique abilities and playstyles, and gear up for increasingly intense battles against the undead.
Scrapstorm
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Third-strongest match for Neon Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
A 1-4 player bullet-heaven roguelite where the whole city is hunting you. Draft cards every level until one pistol turns into a screen-clearing mess, and watch out for the traffic, the third rail and whatever is running each district.
Super Robot Survivors
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Ranked #4 for Neon Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
A Roguelite Bullet-Heaven where you rescue astronauts, repair reactors, and hack terminals while blasting hordes of robots in high-stakes, 10-minute showdowns. From the Creative Director of Destroy All Humans! 2 and co-creator of TY the Tasmanian Tiger.
XENOFLEKT
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Ranked #5 for Neon Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
XENOFLEKT is a roguelite space shooter where you will turn enemy bullets into armory: dash into enemy fire to parry and deflect shots, heal your ship, and trigger devastating counter-attacks. Unlock parts, plug-in unique perks with satellites, and get ready to master hundreds of deadly synergies.
Lethal Justice
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Ranked #6 for Neon Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
Restore order in this dystopian city of the future where your choices determine whether you gain the upper hand or succumb to the streets. Fight waves of criminals, mutants and cyborgs while upgrading your firepower. You are outnumbered, not outgunned.
Iron Frame
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Ranked #7 for Neon Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
A bullet-heaven roguelite fought in a single ship. Nine frames, each one rewriting a rule of the run rather than its numbers. Ten guns across forty tiers, ten bosses to break, and a hull that visibly grows with every level. Survive long enough and the swarm stops being the problem.
Nova Survivors
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Ranked #8 for Neon Swarm fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
A space horde-survival roguelite where the 21 ships aren't skins: each flies its own weapon, ultimate and role, so the same cards build wildly different runs. Chain evolutions and artifacts through a 100-level campaign and endless Survival, and hold out until your build breaks the game.
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The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
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Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Neon Swarm.
Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!
Z.A.T.O. // I Love the World and Everything In It
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
USSR, 1986. A girl goes missing in the closed city of Vorkuta-5, yet not a soul seems to be concerned. Uncover the mystery behind her disappearance and transmit your signal to the universe.
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Frequently asked about Neon Swarm
- What games are most similar to Neon Swarm?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Neon Swarm are Neon Armada - Solar Storm, NO LIFE: Zombie Survivor, Scrapstorm.
- Who developed Neon Swarm?
- Neon Swarm was developed by ElixStudio.
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