Games like Blaster!
If Blaster! is your kind of game, the closest matches are Clobber Barons, AStation and MT Force Aliens Uprising — 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 Blaster!: One Super Bomb. One Eagle. One mission with no second chance. BLASTER! is a classic Defender-style side-scrolling shooter. Fight through 20 underwater and space levels, upgrade your arsenal, take down powerful bosses, and get the Super Bomb to its target - in Original or Enhanced presentation.
Players who liked Blaster! also play
Steam players who put hours into Blaster! 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.
Clobber Barons
WHY THIS
Top pick for Blaster! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
A short, arcade-style throw back to the beat 'em ups of the early 90's. Use the money you beat out of wealthy criminals to charge your power attacks while attempting to find the mastermind behind the criminal racket taking over your city.
AStation
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Blaster! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blaster!.
Astation is a digital game console that takes inspiration from the retro 999-in-1 cartridges. Dive into the world of Astation to discover a wide variety of games!
MT Force Aliens Uprising
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Blaster! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
Dive into the heart-pounding action as MT Force, an elite government unit racing against time to unravel the mysteries of enigmatic anomalies. Rumors suggest that a mysterious scientist made contact with aliens, and now everything is out of control!
Terrifier: The ARTcade Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Blaster! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
Terrifier: The ARTcade Game, a bloody retro fighting beat em up with frenetic action and a lot of fun and references to the Terrifier franchise.
Dragon Climax
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Blaster! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
A retro action martial arts game inspired by classics, like Kung Fu Master and Shinobi with modern elements!
DEVIL BLADE REBOOT
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Blaster! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
An immersive pseudo-3D shoot 'em up experience that pushes the limits of pixel art. Push your score higher with the innovative Berserk System: the closer they are, the more points you get!
Mega Man Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Blaster! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blaster!.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
Contra: Operation Galuga
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Blaster! fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Blaster!.
The legendary Contra series returns! This reimagining of the classic run-'n'-gun action game from the ‘80s features new stages, new enemies, new play mechanics, and co-op combat for up to 4 players!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Blaster!.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with Blaster!.
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.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
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!
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dragon Climax
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
A retro action martial arts game inspired by classics, like Kung Fu Master and Shinobi with modern elements!
DEVIL BLADE REBOOT
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Blaster!.
An immersive pseudo-3D shoot 'em up experience that pushes the limits of pixel art. Push your score higher with the innovative Berserk System: the closer they are, the more points you get!
Mega Man Legacy Collection
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Blaster!.
Mega Man Legacy Collection is a celebration of the 8-bit history of Capcom’s iconic Blue Bomber featuring faithful reproductions of the series’ origins with the original six Mega Man games.
Contra: Operation Galuga
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Blaster!.
The legendary Contra series returns! This reimagining of the classic run-'n'-gun action game from the ‘80s features new stages, new enemies, new play mechanics, and co-op combat for up to 4 players!
Frequently asked about Blaster!
- What games are most similar to Blaster!?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Blaster! are Clobber Barons, AStation, MT Force Aliens Uprising.
- Who developed Blaster!?
- Blaster! was developed by Metropolis and published by TopWare Interactive.
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 Blaster!.
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