Games like ReX
If ReX is your kind of game, the closest matches are Chicken with Robot Legs, Super Strawberry Man and Hirocato - The Delivery Hero — 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 ReX: Rex is a classic hardcore 2D platformer shooter, you play as a soldier to hunt down an evil scientist. Fight your way through with powerful weapons and put an end to his mad experiments.
Players who liked ReX also play
Steam players who put hours into ReX 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.
Chicken with Robot Legs
WHY THIS
Top pick for ReX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with ReX.
Chicken with Robot Legs is a fast-paced Runner-Vania where you're always moving and always exploring. Your goal: find a way home. Discover upgrades that let you reach new areas and uncover the secrets scattered throughout a strange, unfamiliar world.
Super Strawberry Man
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for ReX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
Super Strawberry Man is a 2D Old-school Action Platformer based on the biography of Strawberry man whose mission is to reinstate peace in the Fruitis City.
Hirocato - The Delivery Hero
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for ReX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
Jump, dash, rewind, and deliver food on time in Hirocato - The Delivery Hero! Play as Cato, a crazy cute cat on a food delivery mission. Parkour through tricky levels, avoid obstacles, and rewind time to fix mistakes. Enjoy hand-made pixel art and great music. Can you complete every delivery?
RE:AKTOR
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for ReX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
RE:AKTOR is a metroidvania about going fast and rewinding time. Race the clock, unlock new abilities and shortcuts, and solve temporal puzzles. Tear through walls and enemies with damage that scales with momentum, and punch ever deeper into a mysterious underground facility.
Destructivator 2
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for ReX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
A platform shooter that brings 90's gaming smashing into your face! Blast and insta-melee your way through hordes of alien soldiers, robots, bosses and loads more. Fight on foot, in a fighter or in a bomber. Take on bosses and ensure that the alien menace won't threaten Earth ever again!
GRAVV: Between Two Worlds
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for ReX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
Control gravity, switch between two opposing worlds and overcome obstacles for as long as you can manage in this retro 2D platform game. Do you accept the challenge?
Johnny Explorer
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for ReX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
As Johny, you go deeper and deeper into the cave in search of treasures, watch out for the many traps and enemies waiting for your life
GIGANTIC ARMY
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for ReX fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
Side-scrolling mech-shooting bad-assery is BACK!GIGANTIC ARMY is a heartfelt homage to 16-bit era mech shooters such as Cybernator / Assault Suits Valken, Metal Warriors, and Front Mission: Gun Hazard, developed by the studio behind the acclaimed shooter SATAZIUS.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below ReX at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under ReX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
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?
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under ReX on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ReX.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under ReX on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with ReX.
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 ~80% under ReX on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with ReX.
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.
Placid Plastic Duck Simulator
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under ReX on Steam right now. Shares Casual with ReX.
The ultimate high-tech rubber duck simulation, Placid Plastic Duck brings you dangerous levels of relaxation. With chill music, dreamy 3D graphics, and many different happy ducks, your only priority is to float around. Zero Ducks given.
Peggle Deluxe
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under ReX on Steam right now. Shares Casual with ReX.
Take your best shot with energizing arcade fun! Aim, shoot, clear the orange pegs, then sit back and cheer as 10 whimsical teachers guide you to Peggle greatness.
STAR WARS™ Republic Commando™
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under ReX on Steam right now. Shares Action with ReX.
You are the leader of an elite squad of Republic Commandos, your mission is to infiltrate, dominate, and ultimately, annihilate the enemy. Your squad will follow your orders and your lead, working together as a team - instinctively, intelligently, instantly. You are their leader. They are your weapon.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under ReX on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with ReX.
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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ReX.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with ReX.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with ReX.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with ReX.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with ReX.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with ReX.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 ReX.
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.
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Frequently asked about ReX
- How much does ReX cost?
- ReX is listed on Steam at 4.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to ReX?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside ReX are Chicken with Robot Legs, Super Strawberry Man, Hirocato - The Delivery Hero.
- Who developed ReX?
- ReX was developed by Ali Asfand and published by SA Industry.
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 ReX.
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