Games like ERSATZ
If ERSATZ is your kind of game, the closest matches are Skybolt Zack, Play Faster and Super Hexagon — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its liberal checkpoints reduce frustration, atmospheric and challenging. 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 ERSATZ: ERSATZ is a speed focused Hardcore Action Platformer with a musical twist! Featuring an Original Electronic Soundtrack also by Paris Stalker, the game's creator, hear and feel the music build as you progress and hazards, obstacles, boss attacks & controller vibrations move to the ever present beat!
Players who liked ERSATZ also play
Steam players who put hours into ERSATZ 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.
Skybolt Zack
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ERSATZ.
Top pick for ERSATZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Skybolt Zack is a brand new fast-paced arcade gaming experience! With his Rocket Punches Zack leaps from enemy to enemy, destroying anything standing in his way! Match the colour of the enemies with the buttons on the gamepad to rid the world of Dr Kaz’s robot army!
Play Faster
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ERSATZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Play Faster is a precision platformer built for fast movement, instant retries, and endlessly replayable runs. Master movement, optimize routes, and climb online leaderboards with built-in speedrunning tools.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with ERSATZ.
Third-strongest match for ERSATZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Beeftacular
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with ERSATZ.
Ranked #4 for ERSATZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Beeftacular is a fast-paced platformer where you have to clean levels from rotten meat chunks as fast as possible. Jump your way through the level and use your attacks to hack all of them into pieces. Compare your speedruns with your friends and the world.
iZBOT
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with ERSATZ.
Ranked #5 for ERSATZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
iZBOT is fast paced, double jumping, wall sliding, edge of your seat platformer that delivers delicious bite sized challenging platforming levels while always keeping you in the action.
Electronic Super Joy
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with ERSATZ.
Ranked #6 for ERSATZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music. Run, jump, smash & fly your way through 45+ weird & different levels, with low-gravity, world rotation, giant monsters & swarming missiles.
Super Rude Bear Resurrection
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with ERSATZ.
Ranked #7 for ERSATZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Super Rude Bear Resurrection is an ultra-tight, masocore platformer that anyone can beat! Use your corpses to get ahead, or take on the ultimate challenge and try to defeat the entire game without dying!
Dustforce DX
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with ERSATZ.
Ranked #8 for ERSATZ fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Take control of a nimble janitor to rid the world of dust and debris.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ERSATZ at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ERSATZ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
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?
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ERSATZ on Steam right now. Shares Action with ERSATZ.
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 ~50% under ERSATZ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ERSATZ.
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 ~50% under ERSATZ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
"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 ~50% under ERSATZ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
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 ~50% under ERSATZ on Steam right now. Shares Indie with ERSATZ.
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.
TYRONE vs COPS
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ERSATZ on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Awaken the latent power of your melanin and kill cops in this thought-provoking game on police brutality in America.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ERSATZ.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
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 ERSATZ.
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 ERSATZ.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
Narrow it down
Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Super Hexagon
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with ERSATZ.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.
Electronic Super Joy
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with ERSATZ.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Electronic Super Joy is a brutally hard platformer set in a world of pulse-pounding electronic music. Run, jump, smash & fly your way through 45+ weird & different levels, with low-gravity, world rotation, giant monsters & swarming missiles.
Super Rude Bear Resurrection
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with ERSATZ.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with ERSATZ.
Super Rude Bear Resurrection is an ultra-tight, masocore platformer that anyone can beat! Use your corpses to get ahead, or take on the ultimate challenge and try to defeat the entire game without dying!
Frequently asked about ERSATZ
- How much does ERSATZ cost?
- ERSATZ is listed on Steam at 1.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ERSATZ?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ERSATZ are Skybolt Zack, Play Faster, Super Hexagon.
- Who developed ERSATZ?
- ERSATZ was developed by Paris Stalker and published by Paris Stalker, ALL iN.
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 ERSATZ.
For library-aware picks tuned to your specific taste, sign in with Steam on the home page.