Games like AFTERBURN
If AFTERBURN is your kind of game, the closest matches are TOP DOG, Furious Angels and Thunder Wolves — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its controls feel buttery smooth, explosions sound satisfyingly crisp and epic. 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 AFTERBURN: Your daily dose of air combat. Super easy to pick up, minimum requirements and vibrant visuals. Setup your aircraft and jump into action!
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Steam players who put hours into AFTERBURN 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.
TOP DOG
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with AFTERBURN.
Top pick for AFTERBURN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with AFTERBURN.
Dogfight your way through short, intense and randomized runs. Hard but easy to pickup, with daily leaderboards and minimum hardware requirements
Furious Angels
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with AFTERBURN.
Second-strongest match for AFTERBURN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
Furious Angels is a brutal score attack shooter with different waves each day. Compete on the leaderboards, transform into a flying tank and shred the skies to pieces!
Thunder Wolves
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with AFTERBURN.
Third-strongest match for AFTERBURN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
When this “wolf pack” strikes, you hear the thunder roll. The Thunder Wolves attack from the air. They are mercenaries, and the best helicopter pilots in the world. Every one of them is ready for action at all times—and ready to fight evil, wherever it lurks.
Tunnel Blast
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for AFTERBURN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
Tunnel Blast is an action game where you control a pilot flying through a series of tunnels. But they are dangerous, and you need to blast your way through them!
Space Battle SVF
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for AFTERBURN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
This game is a 3D space flight shooter. Arcade type game. It's a game to shoot a lot of missiles.
Project Wingman
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with AFTERBURN.
Ranked #6 for AFTERBURN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
Project Wingman is a flight action game that lets you take the seat of advanced fighter jets and become a true ace. Fight in various missions and gamemodes ranging from intense aerial dogfights to large scale ground assault in an alternate scorched earth setting.
ACE COMBAT™ 7: SKIES UNKNOWN
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with AFTERBURN.
Ranked #8 for AFTERBURN fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Simulation with AFTERBURN.
Become an ace pilot and soar through photorealistic skies with full 360 degree movement; down enemy aircraft and experience the thrill of engaging in realistic sorties! Aerial combat has never looked or felt better!
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TOP DOG
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with AFTERBURN.
Reviewers of AFTERBURN cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Simulation with AFTERBURN.
Dogfight your way through short, intense and randomized runs. Hard but easy to pickup, with daily leaderboards and minimum hardware requirements
LUFTRAUSERS
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with AFTERBURN.
Reviewers of AFTERBURN cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
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.
F-19 Stealth Fighter
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with AFTERBURN.
Reviewers of AFTERBURN cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Simulation with AFTERBURN.
F-19 STEALTH FIGHTER takes combat flying to new heights. With dazzling graphics and authentic, real-world scenarios. F-19 creates action-packed excitement that keeps you coming back for more! It's easy to learn, but satisfyingly tough to master.
Furious Angels
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with AFTERBURN.
Reviewers of AFTERBURN cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
Furious Angels is a brutal score attack shooter with different waves each day. Compete on the leaderboards, transform into a flying tank and shred the skies to pieces!
Super Kick Off (Game Boy/Game Gear/Master System/Mega Drive/SNES)
WHY THIS
Reviewers of AFTERBURN cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Experience the thrill of the beautiful game in this collection of editions of the acclaimed 'Kick Off' series developed for home and handheld consoles in the early 1990s. Includes 40 fully-customizable teams, and a variety of game modes, from friendlies to leagues to international cups.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below AFTERBURN at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under AFTERBURN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with AFTERBURN.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under AFTERBURN on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under AFTERBURN on Steam right now. Shares Action with AFTERBURN.
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.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under AFTERBURN on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Simulation with AFTERBURN.
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.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under AFTERBURN on Steam right now. Shares Indie with AFTERBURN.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under AFTERBURN on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under AFTERBURN on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under AFTERBURN on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
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.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Simulation with AFTERBURN.
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.
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with AFTERBURN.
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
WHY THIS
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!
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with AFTERBURN.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
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Frequently asked about AFTERBURN
- Is AFTERBURN verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — AFTERBURN 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 AFTERBURN cost?
- AFTERBURN is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to AFTERBURN?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside AFTERBURN are TOP DOG, Furious Angels, Thunder Wolves.
- Who developed AFTERBURN?
- AFTERBURN was developed by MorfeoDev.
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 AFTERBURN.
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