Games like Shadow Wake
If Shadow Wake is your kind of game, the closest matches are ASTRO ACE, Lober Lobe and Royal Odyssey — 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 Shadow Wake: Shadow Wake is a classic retro-arcade game with an 80s vibe. Lasers. Neon. Space. Battle hordes of aliens in fast-paced combat, manage your ship’s energy, and upgrade your gear.
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Steam players who put hours into Shadow Wake 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.
ASTRO ACE
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Top pick for Shadow Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Wake.
ASTRO ACE is a retro-style addictive arcade space shooter. From the distant universe, an evil alien fleet is invading the solar system. You will have to ride a powerful spaceship and fight against endless waves of enemies.
Lober Lobe
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Second-strongest match for Shadow Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Wake.
Shoot psychic orbs, collect useful thoughts, upgrade your Probe with speed, maneuverability, satellites, resistance and suppress negative thoughts in this Brain centric, procedurally generated bullet hell shoot 'em up.
Royal Odyssey
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Third-strongest match for Shadow Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Wake.
Royal Odyssey is a retro-style arcade space shooter where you pilot Prince Zayven’s ship through a deadly asteroid storm, blasting your way to survival.
Storm Mined
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Ranked #4 for Shadow Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Wake.
Inspired by the cult classic Mine Storm, Storm Mined modernizes arcade space shooting with rogue-lite upgrades and rhythm-based stages.
Master Blaster
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Ranked #5 for Shadow Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Wake.
Grab your controller, charge your blasters and prepare for the physics shooter of the Universe! Take on diverse gameplay challenges, manage and upgrade your resources and abilities while you unfold the mysteries of the Cosmos. Defeat LORD CHAOSBRINGER and earn your title as the MASTER BLASTER!
Incremental Space Defense Force League
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Ranked #6 for Shadow Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Wake.
Pilot an A.C.E combat craft in a incremental retro styled sci-fi shoot 'em up where every run earns data shards, unlocks upgrades via 7 skill trees, fight bosses, conquer 100 prestige levels and push deeper into a war against the Worms invading the colony.
Galactic Patrol
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Ranked #7 for Shadow Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shadow Wake.
A lost 1998 arcade-style shooter returns! Fight through 25 levels and 300+ waves of alien attacks inspired by classic shoot-'em-ups like Space Invaders and Galaga, featuring top-down, side-scrolling, and rear-view gameplay.
Chaos Moon : 1CC Edition
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Ranked #8 for Shadow Wake fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shadow Wake.
A classic style SHMUP in the tradition of 80's and 90's vertical scrolling shooters. Maximize your run and get to the top of the High-score Leaderboard. Can you achieve the rank of Fleet Admiral? It's a challenge. Visit our website for a free playable browser demo of the game.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shadow Wake.
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?
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shadow Wake.
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.
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 Shadow Wake.
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 Shadow Wake.
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 Shadow Wake.
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. Shares Indie and Simulation with Shadow Wake.
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.
There Is No Game: Jam Edition 2015
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Shadow Wake.
A little game that’s not a game, winner of an old game jam that nobody’s ever heard of. So DON'T INSTALL IT!
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Frequently asked about Shadow Wake
- What games are most similar to Shadow Wake?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shadow Wake are ASTRO ACE, Lober Lobe, Royal Odyssey.
- Who developed Shadow Wake?
- Shadow Wake was developed by Binary Omen.
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 Shadow Wake.
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