Games like Black Future '88
If Black Future '88 is your kind of game, the closest matches are 30XX, Voidigo and Rogue Stormers — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its accessibility buffs ease entry, looping runs reward perseverance and atmospheric. 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 Black Future '88: Black Future ’88 is a Synth-Punk roguelike 2D action Shooter. Vertically climb an always evolving procedural tower to reach the top and kill its insane owner…before your heart explodes. Shoot, slash, dash and upgrade yourself to survive the endless waves of Homicidal AI, Traps & Colossal Wardens.
Players who liked Black Future '88 also play
Steam players who put hours into Black Future '88 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.
30XX
WHY THIS
Top pick for Black Future '88 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
Jump, shoot, and slash your way through 30XX, the roguelike action platformer you can play with a friend! Explore lush, ever-changing worlds that mix precise platforming with fevered combat. Destroy fearsome Guardians. Master unique Powers. Rediscover the thousand years we've lost.
Voidigo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Future '88.
Second-strongest match for Black Future '88 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
Rogue Stormers
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with Black Future '88.
Third-strongest match for Black Future '88 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.
NeuroVoider
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Future '88.
Ranked #4 for Black Future '88 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Future '88.
Ranked #5 for Black Future '88 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Black Future '88 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Black Future '88 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
Skul: The Hero Slayer
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Black Future '88 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
Guide 'Skul' on his quest to single-handedly take on the Imperial Army and rescue his King from captivity, in an action-packed rogue-lite 2D platformer for the ages.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Black Future '88 at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Black Future '88 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Black Future '88 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
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.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Black Future '88 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Black Future '88 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Black Future '88 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~65% under Black Future '88 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Black Future '88.
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.
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Black Future '88.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Steam Engine Simulator
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Steam Engine Simulator shown on AngeTheGreat's YouTube channel.
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Black Future '88.
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.
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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.
Voidigo
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Future '88.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Future '88.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
From indie Chilean developer ACE Team comes a new side-scrolling action adventure game featuring a complex fighting engine in procedurally generated levels that destines its three warriors to battle a different abyss each time! Choose your hero and also learn to possess your enemies in the abyss…
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
Wizard of Legend is a no-nonsense, action-packed take on wizardry that emphasizes precise movements and smart comboing of spells in a rogue-like dungeon crawler that features over a hundred unique spells and relics!
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Black Future '88.
Build a powerful deck, cast spells on the fly, battle evolving enemies, find game-changing artifacts, make friends or make enemies, just make it to Eden.
Frequently asked about Black Future '88
- Is Black Future '88 verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Black Future '88 is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Black Future '88 cost?
- Black Future '88 is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Black Future '88 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Black Future '88 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Black Future '88?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Future '88 are 30XX, Voidigo, Rogue Stormers.
- Who developed Black Future '88?
- Black Future '88 was developed by SUPERSCARYSNAKES and published by Good Shepherd Entertainment, Surefire.Games.
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