Games like Destroy Space Aliens
If Destroy Space Aliens is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hollow Knight, ANIMAL WELL and Rogue Legacy 2 — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, nostalgic and retro. 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 Destroy Space Aliens: Challenge yourself and enter the castle of the Legendary Sir Frank Jones V to destroy invading space aliens! Slash, blast, and dash your way to victory in this retro side-scrolling action/adventure.
Players who liked Destroy Space Aliens also play
Steam players who put hours into Destroy Space Aliens 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.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Top pick for Destroy Space Aliens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania progression with Destroy Space Aliens.
Second-strongest match for Destroy Space Aliens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Third-strongest match for Destroy Space Aliens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Ranked #4 for Destroy Space Aliens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Destroy Space Aliens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Destroy Space Aliens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Ranked #7 for Destroy Space Aliens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Constance
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Ranked #8 for Destroy Space Aliens fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Destroy Space Aliens at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Destroy Space Aliens on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
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 ~50% under Destroy Space Aliens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Destroy Space Aliens.
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 ~63% under Destroy Space Aliens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Destroy Space Aliens.
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 ~75% under Destroy Space Aliens on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Destroy Space Aliens.
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 ~75% under Destroy Space Aliens on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
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!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Destroy Space Aliens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Destroy Space Aliens.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Destroy Space Aliens on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Destroy Space Aliens.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Destroy Space Aliens on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
"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!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!
Transformice
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Transformice is an MMO platformer about dozens of mice running to bring back the cheese! Will the almighty Shaman help you or just ruin everything? Millions of levels, hectic physics, skill trees, and more importantly... hats!
You Have to Win the Game
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
You Have to Win the Game is a free exploration platformer with a retro 1980s PC aesthetic.
BEEP
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Destroy Space Aliens.
A combination of platforming with a gravity gun, BEEP is an amazing physics-platformer. Despite its friendly art style, this is a hardcore platformer in the truest sense.
Teeworlds
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Teeworlds is a free online multiplayer game, available for all major operating systems. Battle with up to 16 players in a variety of game modes, including Team Deathmatch and Capture The Flag. You can even design your own maps!
The Desolate Hope
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
On a distant edge of an unknown planet, an abandoned structure sits in silence. Constructed by an unmanned research vessel sent from Earth, the Lun Infinus station was designed to run simulations for a five year period, exploring possibilities of human colonization in the case that Earth became uninhabitable.
Super Blue Boy Planet
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
SBBP is a 2D platformer with pixel graphics. Blue boy’s girlfriend is kidnapped by aliens so he goes through 21 levels to save her and he also fight bosses along the way.
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Hollow Knight
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Forge your own path in Hollow Knight! An epic action adventure through a vast ruined kingdom of insects and heroes. Explore twisting caverns, battle tainted creatures and befriend bizarre bugs, all in a classic, hand-drawn 2D style.
ANIMAL WELL
WHY THIS
Shares metroidvania progression with Destroy Space Aliens.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate your environment in surprising and meaningful ways. Encounter beautiful and unsettling creatures, as you attempt to survive what lurks in the dark. There is more than what you see.
Rogue Legacy 2
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Rogue Legacy 2 is what you'd get if you mashed Rogue Legacy and a sequel together. Every time you die, your children will succeed you, and each child is unique. Your daughter might be a Colourblind Archer, and your son could be a Pacifistic Chef. Either way, one of them is getting conscripted.
Blasphemous
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Blasphemous is a brutal action-platformer with skilled hack’n slash combat set in the nightmare world of Cvstodia. Explore, upgrade your abilities, and perform savage executions on the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to break eternal damnation.
Iconoclasts
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Join renegade mechanic Robin and uncover the secrets of a dying planet. Explore a big world filled with intricate puzzles, interesting characters and menacing bosses in a beautiful platform adventure that tells a personal story about faith, purpose and the challenge of helping people.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch is a Metroidvania action game featuring exploration, intense combat and challenging platforming.
Owlboy
WHY THIS
Shares a nostalgic mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Owlboy is a story-driven platform adventure game, where you can fly and explore a brand new world in the clouds! Pick up your friends, and bring them with you as you explore the open skies, in one of the most detailed adventures of this era.
Constance
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Destroy Space Aliens.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Destroy Space Aliens.
Constance is a 2D hand-drawn action adventure featuring a paintbrush-wielding artist, striving to escape from a colorful but decaying inner-world, created by her declining mental health.
Frequently asked about Destroy Space Aliens
- How much does Destroy Space Aliens cost?
- Destroy Space Aliens is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Destroy Space Aliens?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Destroy Space Aliens are Hollow Knight, ANIMAL WELL, Rogue Legacy 2.
- Who developed Destroy Space Aliens?
- Destroy Space Aliens was developed by Flying Fire, LLC.
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