Games like Monster Showdown
If Monster Showdown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ashes of the Ark, VAR: Exterminate and Last Day: Zombie Survival VR — 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 Monster Showdown: Monster Showdown is an action packed VR shooter. Increase your chances of survival against an ever growing horde of monster by exploring your environment and strengthening yourself by picking up Perks, Ranged Weapons and Melee Weapons.
Players who liked Monster Showdown also play
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Ashes of the Ark
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Top pick for Monster Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
Built exclusively for VR, Ashes of the Ark puts you into a survival situation where zombies have taken over the failing space station. Handle the most realistic weapons with real-life movements, freely explore the Ark, and solve puzzles in VR. Can you stop the Flood before they reach the cryo-sector?
VAR: Exterminate
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Monster Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
The fight is here, humanity’s fate is in your hands! Match up different offensive and defensive upgrades between waves and fend off the onslaught of zombies. Level up and strengthen core abilities and progress to new areas where strains of the virus have evolved.
Last Day: Zombie Survival VR
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Monster Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
A stranger, who awakens in a room with no recollection of how they got there, soon discovers they're pawns in a deadly game perpetrated by a notorious unknown person.
Sleep Tight
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Ranked #4 for Monster Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
Sleep Tight is a fast paced action horror game. Survive the waves of monsters if you can, upgrade different weapons to help you. Remember pay attention, listen closely, and don't let them get you!
Pathogen: Survival
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Ranked #5 for Monster Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
Pathogen: Survival is an arcadey wave based FPS zombie game that prioritises progression and customisation.
Wanted Killer VR
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Monster Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
Choose from a team of unique heroes and use their skills to fight your way through the ranks of the evil corporation that’s trying to wipe you out. Upgrade your arsenal and use bullet-time to take out your enemies in style. Fast-paced arcade action and one-of-a-kind gunplay – this is Wanted Killer VR!
After the Fall®
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Ranked #7 for Monster Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Monster Showdown.
From the team that brought you Arizona Sunshine® comes an epic VR action FPS with intense co-op gameplay at its core. Team up with friends and take on a hostile VR world filled with ferocious undead--mutated and twisted by the relentless cold.
LONN
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Ranked #8 for Monster Showdown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Monster Showdown.
Grab. Throw. Obliterate. Physics-driven VR where telekinesis meets cyberpunk chaos. You're an elite bounty hunter dismantling a mind-transfer cult—using swords, guns, and anything you can hurl. 8hr campaign, roguelike missions, arena battles. Total freedom. Zero limits.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Monster Showdown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Monster Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monster Showdown.
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 Monster Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
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 Monster Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Monster Showdown.
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
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Priced ~47% under Monster Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
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 Monster Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Monster Showdown.
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 Monster Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monster Showdown.
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 Monster Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monster Showdown.
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
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Monster Showdown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Monster Showdown.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Monster Showdown.
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.).
Star Fetchers
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Disfigure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Monster Showdown.
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
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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!
Hello Neighbor Alpha 2
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Monster Showdown.
Welcome to Alpha 2 of Hello Neighbor. Play against an advanced, self-learning AI in what eventually became Act 1 of Hello Neighbor - the stealth horror home invasion sim.
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Frequently asked about Monster Showdown
- How much does Monster Showdown cost?
- Monster Showdown is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Monster Showdown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Monster Showdown are Ashes of the Ark, VAR: Exterminate, Last Day: Zombie Survival VR.
- Who developed Monster Showdown?
- Monster Showdown was developed by Virtual Uppercut Studios, Yahya Danboos and published by Virtual Uppercut Studios.
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 Monster Showdown.
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