Games like While you are Downloading
If While you are Downloading is your kind of game, the closest matches are Neon Infinity, Spacey Vade and I, AI — 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 While you are Downloading: A quick and action paced retro styled arcade shooter, or shoot 'em up (shmup) if you like. Perfect to play in short chunks, like when you are waiting for big games to download.
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Steam players who put hours into While you are Downloading 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.
Neon Infinity
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Top pick for While you are Downloading fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
80's neon drenched, couch co-op, endless high score fest, space arcade shooter!
Spacey Vade
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Second-strongest match for While you are Downloading fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Synth-wave styled physics based 2D puzzle shooter filled with nods to the golden era of classic arcade games. Think upside down Peggle crossed with Space Invaders and enemies crafted from the blended remains 70's, and 80’s gaming.
I, AI
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Third-strongest match for While you are Downloading fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Classic scrolling shooter with modern graphics. You are self-aware AI. You were created on space military station developing weapons. Now your goal is to break out of the lab and win your freedom.
Space Warpster
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Ranked #4 for While you are Downloading fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
A fast-paced retro arcade shooter inspired by classic 1980s side-scrolling space combat. Weave through organic obstacles, survive relentless enemy waves, and defeat powerful end-level bosses in a pure, skill-driven singleplayer experience.
A Blast From The Past
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Ranked #5 for While you are Downloading fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
A Blast from the Past is a stunning, classic arcade shooter. Includes gameplay modes for the casual gamer through to "Tournament Mode" for Hi-Score hunters! With 4K/360Hz+ support, experience smooth as silk gameplay in this dazzling arcade blaster with something for every arcade-going fan!
Return Ace
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Ranked #6 for While you are Downloading fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Be shot and shoot back! Rule reversal type Shmup "Return Ace"What you have been given is the power to take advantage of the oncoming malice and return it.Please enjoy the unique sense of incompatibility, tension, and striking that the experience of bullet energy weaves.
Ultra Mission™
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Ranked #7 for While you are Downloading fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Embark on a dangerous investigation in Ultra Mission™, the latest game by Gumbo Machine™. As an agent of the Stellar Exchange Commission, you must traverse the 20 dizzying levels within Otto Labs, each littered with powerful automatons and questionable experiments. This is going to be a blast!
2nd Shot
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Ranked #8 for While you are Downloading fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
In the vast depths of space, lies a man with a dark past. Setting himself apart from that old life, and seeking justice against wrongdoing instead of being the cause of it, Captain Righteous uses the Freedom Fighter, his trusty space fighter to search for and combat the evil Captain Buster!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below While you are Downloading at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
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Priced ~51% under While you are Downloading on Steam right now. Shares Action with While you are Downloading.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
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Priced ~51% under While you are Downloading on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
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Priced ~51% under While you are Downloading on Steam right now. Shares Indie with While you are Downloading.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
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Priced ~51% under While you are Downloading on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
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Priced ~51% under While you are Downloading on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
STRAFTAT
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with While you are Downloading.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
Magic Archery
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with While you are Downloading.
Train a commoner to become the greatest archer in this short incremental game! Increase your stats, gather wealth from quests, buy upgrades, and infuse your arrows with magic.
Coloring Pixels
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with While you are Downloading.
A relaxing coloring by numbers game. Enjoy completing a variety of images with differing themes, complexity, and sizes.
Eternal Senia
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with While you are Downloading.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
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Frequently asked about While you are Downloading
- How much does While you are Downloading cost?
- While you are Downloading is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to While you are Downloading?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside While you are Downloading are Neon Infinity, Spacey Vade, I, AI.
- Who developed While you are Downloading?
- While you are Downloading was developed by Alien Nude LTD.
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