Games like Operation Crimson
If Operation Crimson is your kind of game, the closest matches are Cardiac Powder, The Lost and The Wicked and RUINER — 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 Operation Crimson: A story-driven top-down action shooter. Venture into hazardous zones consumed by a biological catastrophe, battle mutated creatures of all shapes and sizes with firearms and melee weapons, and gradually uncover the truth behind the disaster as you advance through tense, tightly paced linear levels.
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Cardiac Powder
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Top pick for Operation Crimson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Operation Crimson.
Cardiac Powder is a nervous twin stick shooter where you have a bomb in you, if you can’t maintain a certain heart rate, it will explode… So one thing to do is keep you in action by fighting your opponents!
The Lost and The Wicked
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Second-strongest match for Operation Crimson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Operation Crimson.
The Lost and The Wicked is a Brutal Twin-Stick Psycho-Thriller. After a shipwreck you wake up in a wicked world with no memory of who you are. Fight through hectic gameplay with a unique grunge art style and original 2+ hour soundtrack as you discover your past and what you did to end up here.
RUINER
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Third-strongest match for Operation Crimson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Operation Crimson.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
Feral Fury
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Ranked #4 for Operation Crimson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Operation Crimson.
Fast-paced twin stick shooter rogue-lite action
The Hong Kong Massacre
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Ranked #5 for Operation Crimson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Operation Crimson.
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
The Ascent
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Ranked #6 for Operation Crimson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Operation Crimson.
The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?
GARAGE: Bad Trip
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Ranked #7 for Operation Crimson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Operation Crimson.
Drug dealer Butch slays hordes of living dead to save a girl. Garage is a bloody topdown shooter inspired by VHS era B-movies.
Gunnheim
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Ranked #8 for Operation Crimson fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Operation Crimson.
Dish out carnage of hellish proportions in Gunnheim, a top-down co-op shooter where the equation is simple: Vikings + Guns = Mayhem!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Operation Crimson.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Operation Crimson.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Operation Crimson.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
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 Operation Crimson.
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 Operation Crimson.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Operation Crimson.
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.
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 Operation Crimson.
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.).
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Frequently asked about Operation Crimson
- What games are most similar to Operation Crimson?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Operation Crimson are Cardiac Powder, The Lost and The Wicked, RUINER.
- Who developed Operation Crimson?
- Operation Crimson was developed by Neluhunt.
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 Operation Crimson.
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