Games like Shoot 'm Up
If Shoot 'm Up is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ripper, Operation: Black Genesis - The Immortal Trials and Unreal Tournament 3 — 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 Shoot 'm Up: Tactical multiplayer chaos.That's what would describe this game in 3 words. It's fast, it's messy, it's challenging. Do you like blowing up zombies to bits together with your friends? Protecting your base from the enemy team? Grab your gear and start the chaos!
Players who liked Shoot 'm Up also play
Steam players who put hours into Shoot 'm Up 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.
Ripper
WHY THIS
Top pick for Shoot 'm Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
Ripper is a top-down shooter with fully destructible environments, fog of war, and Steam multiplayer. Break through walls, survive enemy waves, and battle your friends.
Operation: Black Genesis - The Immortal Trials
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Shoot 'm Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shoot 'm Up.
top-down co-op survival horror game where players deploy into deadly Quarantined Zones, fight mutated experiments, and extract with everything you can carry—because if you die, you lose it all.
Unreal Tournament 3
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Shoot 'm Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shoot 'm Up.
Now includes the free Titan Pack expansion! The Titan Pack gives players a substantial amount of enhanced features and new content, including many original environments, new gametypes, the namesake Titan mutator, powerful deployables and weapons, new characters, and the Stealthbender.
POSTAL Redux
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Shoot 'm Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
POSTAL Redux is a high definition remake of the classic dark and surreal twin-stick isometric shooter. Take control of The POSTAL Dude as he fights to survive in a world gone mad with violence.
DOOM Eternal
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Shoot 'm Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shoot 'm Up.
Hell’s armies have invaded Earth. Become the Slayer in an epic single-player campaign to conquer demons across dimensions and stop the final destruction of humanity. The only thing they fear... is you.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Shoot 'm Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shoot 'm Up.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
Rise of the Triad
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Shoot 'm Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Shoot 'm Up.
Apogee Software and Interceptor Entertainment proudly present the rebirth of the cult-classic first-person shooter, “Rise of the Triad”. Bigger, better and more ludicrous than ever before.
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Shoot 'm Up fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Shoot 'm Up at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shoot 'm Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Shoot 'm Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shoot 'm Up on Steam right now. Shares Action with Shoot 'm Up.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shoot 'm Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shoot 'm Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shoot 'm Up on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Shoot 'm Up on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Shoot 'm Up.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shoot 'm Up.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Shoot 'm Up.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
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 Shoot 'm Up.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Shoot 'm Up.
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 Shoot 'm Up.
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!
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Frequently asked about Shoot 'm Up
- How much does Shoot 'm Up cost?
- Shoot 'm Up is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Shoot 'm Up have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Shoot 'm Up supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Cross-Platform Multiplayer, Online PvP).
- What games are most similar to Shoot 'm Up?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Shoot 'm Up are Ripper, Operation: Black Genesis - The Immortal Trials, Unreal Tournament 3.
- Who developed Shoot 'm Up?
- Shoot 'm Up was developed by DukeSoft.
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 Shoot 'm Up.
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