Games like Gauntlet of IRE
If Gauntlet of IRE is your kind of game, the closest matches are Turtle Up, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy and Dimensum - Bizzarre Huntseeker — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its dark, stressful and tense. 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 Gauntlet of IRE: A 35 part obstacle course that is deceptively simple and infuriatingly obvious in the most difficult way.

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Steam players who put hours into Gauntlet of IRE 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.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
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Shares a stressful mood with Gauntlet of IRE.
Second-strongest match for Gauntlet of IRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Gauntlet of IRE.
A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.
Dimensum - Bizzarre Huntseeker
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Third-strongest match for Gauntlet of IRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gauntlet of IRE.
「Run, Jump, Attack, Combo Attack, Dash !」 "Dimensum - Bizzarre Huntseeker" is a 2D Side-Scrolling Action RPG game. The variety of mysterious dimensional armies has released several bizarre creatures to attack the innocence from various worlds. Now, just get rid of them anyway.
Space Foes
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Ranked #4 for Gauntlet of IRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gauntlet of IRE.
A space shooter inspired by old school games. You set the order of the levels, get new weapons and upgrades. Each stage has a boss and a sub-boss with unique skills and challenges.
Sword of Destiny
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Ranked #5 for Gauntlet of IRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gauntlet of IRE.
Fight to restore the peace and justice in the world by thwarting the treacherous plans of the King, who turns the innocent into mindless skeletons to conquer the world.
Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends
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Shares a stressful mood with Gauntlet of IRE.
Ranked #6 for Gauntlet of IRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gauntlet of IRE.
Climb a surreal mountain on a pogo stick and make friends along the way.
OmniBus
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Ranked #7 for Gauntlet of IRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gauntlet of IRE.
OmniBus is next-to-last gen physics game about the most powerful bus in the universe that can’t stop or even slow down for reasons incomprehensible to the simple human mind.
Eryi's Action
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Shares an unsettling mood with Gauntlet of IRE.
Ranked #8 for Gauntlet of IRE fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Gauntlet of IRE.
One fine day, Eryi went to eat the melon that she had been SO looking forward to... but it was nowhere to be found! Then she noticed a note on the table. She picked it up and read: "Your melon looked delicious, so I took it. From Farta X" Fuming with rage, Eryi set out from her house to get her melon back from Farta.
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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.
Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Gauntlet of IRE.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Gauntlet of IRE.
A game I made for a certain kind of person. To hurt them.
Pogostuck: Rage With Your Friends
WHY THIS
Shares a stressful mood with Gauntlet of IRE.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gauntlet of IRE.
Climb a surreal mountain on a pogo stick and make friends along the way.
Eryi's Action
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with Gauntlet of IRE.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Gauntlet of IRE.
One fine day, Eryi went to eat the melon that she had been SO looking forward to... but it was nowhere to be found! Then she noticed a note on the table. She picked it up and read: "Your melon looked delicious, so I took it. From Farta X" Fuming with rage, Eryi set out from her house to get her melon back from Farta.
Frequently asked about Gauntlet of IRE
- Does Gauntlet of IRE run on Steam Deck?
- Gauntlet of IRE is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- Is Gauntlet of IRE free to play?
- Yes — Gauntlet of IRE is a free-to-play title on Steam. You can install and play it without buying anything, though some games include optional in-app purchases.
- What games are most similar to Gauntlet of IRE?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Gauntlet of IRE are Turtle Up, Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy, Dimensum - Bizzarre Huntseeker.
- Who developed Gauntlet of IRE?
- Gauntlet of IRE was developed by KillerPokeGames.
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 Gauntlet of IRE.
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