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Games like Lil Tanks

If Lil Tanks is your kind of game, the closest matches are Airstrife: Assault of the Aviators, The B.L.O.O.M Initiative and Star Legion — 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.

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About Lil Tanks: A side-scrolling shooter with RPG elements that puts you in control of a prototype tank -- defending humanity from the alien scourge known as The Cuur!

2017ActionIndie4.99 USDWindows · Linuxby Lead Money Games
Lil Tanks — Steam game cover

Players who liked Lil Tanks also play

Steam players who put hours into Lil Tanks 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.

  1. Airstrife: Assault of the Aviators

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Lil Tanks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    Use Aileron Rolling or Evading your enemies' attacks while having a realistic damage system. Use different planes with upgradable parts and numerous weapons you can mount to your planes to destroy your enemies. Fly solo or play with your friends and enjoy local coop. A modern re-invented classic.

    2021ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. The B.L.O.O.M Initiative

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Lil Tanks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    A fast-paced top-down shooter where you harvest alien resources, grow living weapons, build battlefield defenses, and fight off alien birdmen and giant worms solo or in split-screen co-op

    2025ActionIndieCasual3.99 USDSteam ↗
  3. Star Legion

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Lil Tanks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    Star Legion is a local co-op top-down shooter where you battle rogue machines in intense missions. Craft gear, survive hostile incursions, and reclaim sectors to spread the glory of the intergalactic Roman Empire.

    2025ActionStrategyIndie4.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Space Dragons

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #4 for Lil Tanks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    Choose your spaceship and defeat the alien threat that comes from the Moon. Blast your way crushing, ripping apart and exploding hostile aliens that are taking control of powerful weapons and military technology from Earth. Find the entity that controls the threat and make it explode into blood.

    2025ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. Viral Reload EX

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #5 for Lil Tanks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    Viral Reload EX is a shoot-em-up with a dash mechanic where you shrink down to fight infections at a microscopic scale! Can you defeat the evil Kyle Kaboom before he destroys the moon?

    2026ActionIndieSteam ↗
  6. WolfFang SkullFang Saturn Tribute Boosted

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #6 for Lil Tanks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Lil Tanks.

    The steel wolf running across the earth × the sonic corpse that buries its prey. DECO shooting game redeployed!

    2024Action8.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Netherspace 2

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Lil Tanks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    A shoot'em'up game for up to 4 players that combines advanced RPG advancement elements with pure space shooter action, 20 unlockable weapons & 4 heroes with varied strengths in their 10 primary stats, along with each ship's 10 aspects, add a huge variety of choices for all gamers.

    2022ActionIndie7.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. BATSUGUN Saturn Tribute Boosted

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #8 for Lil Tanks fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Lil Tanks.

    A PIONEER OF THE BULLET HELL GENRE BY TOAPLAN IS BACK!

    2023Action11.99 USDSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Lil Tanks at current Steam store prices.

  1. POSTAL 2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Lil Tanks on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

    2012ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. The Test

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Lil Tanks on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lil Tanks.

    You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~70% under Lil Tanks on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lil Tanks.

    A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.

    2020IndieAdventure1.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Blood and Bacon

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Lil Tanks on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lil Tanks.

    This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

    2016ActionAdventureCasual0.99 USDSteam ↗
  5. STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Lil Tanks on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lil Tanks.

    You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.

    2009Action2.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. shapez

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~80% under Lil Tanks on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lil Tanks.

    shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!

    2020StrategyIndieSimulation0.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. STAR WARS™ Jedi Knight - Jedi Academy™

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~50% under Lil Tanks on Steam right now. Shares Action with Lil Tanks.

    Forge your weapon and follow the path of the Jedi Jedi Knight: Jedi Academy is the latest installment of the highly acclaimed Jedi Knight series. Take on the role of a new student eager to learn the ways of the Force from Jedi Master Luke Skywalker.

    2009Action2.49 USDSteam ↗
  8. The Test: Hypothesis Rising

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~60% under Lil Tanks on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Lil Tanks.

    The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?

    2020IndieAdventureSimulation1.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Doki Doki Literature Club!

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lil Tanks.

    The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.

    2017IndieFree To PlayCasualFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  2. Life is Strange - Episode 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Lil Tanks.

    Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.

    2015ActionAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lil Tanks.

    Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!

    2023IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Indigo Park: Chapter 1

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    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.

    2024ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. STRAFTAT

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Lil Tanks.

    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.

    2024ActionFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  6. missed messages.

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lil Tanks.

    ‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.

    2019IndieSimulationFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. Awaria

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Lil Tanks.

    Awaria is a short game about working in haunted maintenance tunnels.

    2024ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Grimm's Hollow

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Lil Tanks.

    A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Lil Tanks

How much does Lil Tanks cost?
Lil Tanks is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
Does Lil Tanks have multiplayer or co-op?
Yes — Lil Tanks supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
What games are most similar to Lil Tanks?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Lil Tanks are Airstrife: Assault of the Aviators, The B.L.O.O.M Initiative, Star Legion.
Who developed Lil Tanks?
Lil Tanks was developed by Lead Money 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 Lil Tanks.

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