Games like I Hate Running Backwards
If I Hate Running Backwards is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rocket!, Rogue Bricks and Woodpunk — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, intense and retro. 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 I Hate Running Backwards: I Hate Running Backwards is a never-ending adrenaline packed shoot'em down roguelite that puts the emphasis on destruction and fighting never ending waves of enemies while time traveling through procedurally generated worlds!
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Rocket!
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Top pick for I Hate Running Backwards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Destroy enemy ships, blast away asteroids and unlock new weapons / ship abilities in this endless arcade roguelite. Earn resources through each of the 7 game modes to upgrade your weapons to outlast them all.
Rogue Bricks
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for I Hate Running Backwards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Classic brick breaker action evolved! Blast through bricks, grab epic loot, and level up your game. Customize your playstyle with mods and star shards. Build your perfect loadout and bounce beyond limits!
Woodpunk
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Shares a challenging mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Third-strongest match for I Hate Running Backwards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
Beat Hazard 3
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Ranked #4 for I Hate Running Backwards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Are you ready to explore your music collection mapped as a stunning galaxy of wonders? Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven twin stick shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
The Crackpet Show
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Ranked #5 for I Hate Running Backwards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear ‘em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals!
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Ranked #6 for I Hate Running Backwards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Null Vector
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Shares a retro mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Ranked #7 for I Hate Running Backwards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Trade. Gamble. Fight! Test your arcade chops in Null Vector, a twin-stick shooter rogue-lite. Discover and experiment with thousands of weapon combinations, take strategic advantage of machines to trade and gamble for new ship parts, and unleash your own bullet hell upon the Final Boss!
Juicy Realm
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Ranked #8 for I Hate Running Backwards fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Juicy Realm is a roguelike game in which players must square off against bizarre fruits all across the world. The line between the animal and the plant world has become blurred, and the food chain has been completely disrupted.
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Serious Sam 3: BFE
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Shares a stressful mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Reviewers of I Hate Running Backwards cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Serious Sam 3: BFE is a prequel to the original indie fast action FPS and Game of the Year sensation - Serious Sam: The First Encounter!
Serious Sam II
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Reviewers of I Hate Running Backwards cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Serious Sam II is a shot of adrenaline to the hearts of first-person shooter fans across the world. This is serious!
Serious Sam 4
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Shares a challenging mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Reviewers of I Hate Running Backwards cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Serious Sam 4 reignites the classic FPS series in a high-powered prequel loaded with an explosive arsenal, intergalactic carnage, and perfectly timed one-liners.
Minecraft: Story Mode - A Telltale Games Series
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Reviewers of I Hate Running Backwards cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Episode 1 is now FREE - for a limited time! In Minecraft: Story Mode, playing as either a male or female hero named 'Jesse,' you’ll embark on a perilous adventure across the Overworld, through the Nether, to the End, and beyond.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below I Hate Running Backwards at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~67% under I Hate Running Backwards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~67% under I Hate Running Backwards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under I Hate Running Backwards on Steam right now. Shares Action with I Hate Running Backwards.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under I Hate Running Backwards on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under I Hate Running Backwards on Steam right now. Shares Action with I Hate Running Backwards.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Slay the Spire
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Priced ~58% under I Hate Running Backwards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
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Priced ~47% under I Hate Running Backwards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
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Priced ~67% under I Hate Running Backwards on Steam right now. Shares Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
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 I Hate Running Backwards.
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 I Hate Running Backwards.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
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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.
Beat Hazard 3
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Are you ready to explore your music collection mapped as a stunning galaxy of wonders? Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven twin stick shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
The Crackpet Show
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
The Crackpet Show is an action-packed rogue-lite shoot’em-up about mutated animals that fight in a bizarre TV show, crushing their opponents with a variety of weapons. Choose your beastie, gear ‘em up, and go kill your enemies in the name of fame and sweet sponsorship deals!
CRYPTARK
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with I Hate Running Backwards.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Juicy Realm
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with I Hate Running Backwards.
Juicy Realm is a roguelike game in which players must square off against bizarre fruits all across the world. The line between the animal and the plant world has become blurred, and the food chain has been completely disrupted.
Frequently asked about I Hate Running Backwards
- Is I Hate Running Backwards verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — I Hate Running Backwards is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does I Hate Running Backwards cost?
- I Hate Running Backwards is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does I Hate Running Backwards have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — I Hate Running Backwards 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 I Hate Running Backwards?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside I Hate Running Backwards are Rocket!, Rogue Bricks, Woodpunk.
- Who developed I Hate Running Backwards?
- I Hate Running Backwards was developed by Binx Games, Croteam Incubator, Croteam and published by Devolver Digital.
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 I Hate Running Backwards.
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