Games like Impulse
If Impulse is your kind of game, the closest matches are Defuse or u ded, PBA Pro Bowling 2027 and Padel Rivals — 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 Impulse: Impulse is a fast-paced voxel style multiplayer arena shooter focused on momentum. Wall run across maps, carry speed into slides and jumps, grapple onto the environment or other players, and use your weapons and abilities to gain an advantage
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Defuse or u ded
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Top pick for Impulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Impulse.
Fast-paced FPS game to play with others, featuring lots of silly weapons, abilities, and maps.
PBA Pro Bowling 2027
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Impulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Impulse.
Dominate the lanes in PBA Pro Bowling 2027! Customize your bowler’s unique style and arsenal with in-depth ball mechanics and Perks. Forge your legacy in PBA Tour Mode and Online Leagues, and defend your title in Online Tournaments and Ranked Play. This is where champions are made.
Padel Rivals
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Impulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Impulse.
Master every bounce, create your own style and rise from street courts to grand stadiums in the arcade game Padel Rivals. Enjoy its narrative career mode where you can play solo or with friends. Start the match and forget about leaving the court!
A2K: Jet Strikers
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Ranked #4 for Impulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Impulse.
Movement-based action-shooter, inspired by the golden era of early 2000s games. Jetpacks, Momentum, Rocket-Jumps and violent Gunfights!
REK
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Ranked #5 for Impulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Impulse.
A robot fighting simulator powered by the same AI as our real world humanoid robots. Become Pro in the Sim and qualify for fighting real robots at live REK events.
Velocade
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Ranked #6 for Impulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Impulse.
Rev up, ram hard, and be the last one standing. Velocade is a chaotic party vehicular combat game where up to 10 players battle across wild, dynamic arenas. Customize your car and garage, form your crew, and dominate every mode.
KILLNETIC
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Ranked #7 for Impulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Impulse.
KILLNETIC is a gothic steampunk MULTIPLAYER movement shooter. It takes the speed and momentum tech of shooters like ULTRAKILL and Quake and drops it into fast, competitive PvP!
Combat Master: Season 5
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Impulse fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Impulse.
Join fast-paced action-packed combat. Play Combat Master -- AAA experience on any hardware. Best-in-class multiplayer gunfight. Next-level extreme performance. Lightning-speed loading time and a whole lot more.
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Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Impulse.
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.).
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 Impulse.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Impulse.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Disfigure
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Impulse.
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!
Control, I'm Not Coming Back
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Impulse.
Control, I'm Not Coming Back is a short and emotional narrative game about a lost astronaut searching for a reason to keep going forward while facing the emptiness of space. Inspired by the Hopecore aesthetic, it’s a story about positivism, friendship and our human connection with Voyager 1.
DORONKO WANKO
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Impulse.
『DORONKO WANKO』 is a DORONKO Action Game. In this game, You can become a cute, innocent Pomeranian, make your master's home messy and dirty. "Will the master be angry with me?" Don't worry. Because you are a sweet doggie.
Landfall Archives
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Impulse.
Break into the Landfall Archives to steal and play previously unreleased games, demos, interactive slide shows, and even an unreleased version of Totally Accurate Battle Simulator from 2017!
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Frequently asked about Impulse
- Does Impulse have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Impulse supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, LAN PvP).
- What games are most similar to Impulse?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Impulse are Defuse or u ded, PBA Pro Bowling 2027, Padel Rivals.
- Who developed Impulse?
- Impulse was developed by Patrick Dooly.
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 Impulse.
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