Games like Red Death
If Red Death is your kind of game, the closest matches are Project Starship, State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem and Cuphead — 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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Steam players who put hours into Red Death 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.
Project Starship
WHY THIS
Top pick for Red Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?
State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Red Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Prepare for bullet hell action and crazy driving! Your town is on fire, anarchy reigns the streets, aliens rampage in the sky! Grab your gun and join the fun!
Cuphead
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Red Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Ikaruga
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Red Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!
LUFTRAUSERS
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Red Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Red Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. From Japanese indie developer Yotsubane, this retro top-down shooter is a wild ride you won't want to miss out on.
Nex Machina
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Red Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.
Beat Hazard
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Red Death fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Red Death at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Red Death on Steam right now. Shares Action with Red Death.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Red Death on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Red Death on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Red Death.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Red Death on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under Red Death on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Red Death.
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).
Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Red Death.
Jigoku Kisetsukan is a bullet hell shootergame with anime-style drawings and chip music.
Shooty Skies
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
The creators of Crossy Road present Shooty Skies! Shoot, dodge, duck, goose and weave. Take to the skies!
WOWOWOW KORONE BOX
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Red Death.
A hololive fangame featuring Inugami Korone of hololive GAMERS! Collect as many Korone Boxes as possible while contending with an endless onslaught of enemies and bosses using whatever weapons you happen to pick up!
SWARMRIDERS
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
SWARMRIDERS is a FREE "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" ARCADE mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing minigame" made as a bonus content for the UBERMOSH community.
Touhou Fantasia / 东方梦想曲
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
This is a fan-made Touhou shmup with one single stage, similar to the extra stage of official Touhou games. This game has an auto dodging system, which gives you a choice to ignore all the danmaku and only focus on the story.
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More from Panda Indie Studio
Other recommendable Steam games by Panda Indie Studio, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Project Starship
WHY THIS
Another title from Panda Indie Studio, the studio behind Red Death. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?
Reset 1-1
WHY THIS
Another title from Panda Indie Studio, the studio behind Red Death. Shares Indie with Red Death.
The world has ended, Demons have risen to conquer the uninhabited and flourishing nature outside. It's your turn, with your unknown identity, to find your path for a new beginning. Let's not beat about the bush here. Reset 1-1 is everything you loved about the late 80's/early 90's. It's a blast from the past, with a fresh spin.
Null Drifter
WHY THIS
Another title from Panda Indie Studio, the studio behind Red Death. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Null Drifter is a 1BIT LO-FI shooter, a journey into the void inside a computer simulation! Lose yourself in this frenetic yet chill experience!
Project Starship X
WHY THIS
Another title from Panda Indie Studio, the studio behind Red Death. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
The Rogue-Lite shooter where you CRASH-KILL comical abominations! Pilot your spaceship as Swagthulhu in this original and wacky "Lovecraftian Parody"!
Pixel Survivor - Pixel Up!
WHY THIS
Another title from Panda Indie Studio, the studio behind Red Death. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
A pixel SURVIVOR ROGUE-LITE that will give you a hypnotic addiction! You do all the usual "Survivor" stuff, but this time you'll have to hire a therapist in order to stop playing!
Z-Warp
WHY THIS
Another title from Panda Indie Studio, the studio behind Red Death. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.
Feeble Light
WHY THIS
Another title from Panda Indie Studio, the studio behind Red Death. Shares Action and Indie with Red Death.
Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!
Frequently asked about Red Death
- How much does Red Death cost?
- Red Death is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Red Death?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Red Death are Project Starship, State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem, Cuphead.
- Who developed Red Death?
- Red Death was developed by Panda Indie Studio, WrathSchneider and published by Panda Indie Studio.
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 Red Death.
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