Games like Puppet Kings
If Puppet Kings is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, Slimekeep and Hell is Other Demons — 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 Puppet Kings: Puppet Kings is a modern take on the Breakout genre taking block-breaking to new levels of fun by introducing characters, boss rush as primary game mode and a roguelike twist.
Players who liked Puppet Kings also play
Steam players who put hours into Puppet Kings 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.
The Void Rains Upon Her Heart
WHY THIS
Top pick for Puppet Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Help her heart battle tough bosses in this Boss Rush, Bullet-hell with rogue-like elements. Fight through several randomly chosen boss battles leading up to a final battle. Each defeated monster will give her random gifts that power up her heart. Don't let her heart break!
Slimekeep
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Puppet Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
In a world becoming corrupted by the evil Slime King, KILL or CAPTURE various slimes to grow stronger and save Slimetopia! Venture through procedurally generated levels in this fast-paced roguelike, if you're tough enough to not get slimed...
Hell is Other Demons
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Puppet Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Puppet Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
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!
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Puppet Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Puppet Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
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.
Duck Paradox
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Puppet Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Shoot bouncing bullets in this roguelike precision platformer killing corrupted ducks while searching for Dr. Paraducks’ beloved pet throughout the multiverse! To return to safety you’ll need to tackle difficult-to-master trials, run after run, earning upgrades, while maintaining your sanity!
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Puppet Kings fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Puppet Kings at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Puppet Kings on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Puppet Kings.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Puppet Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
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!
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~55% under Puppet Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action with Puppet Kings.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Puppet Kings on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Puppet Kings.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Puppet Kings on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Puppet Kings.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Puppet Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
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?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Puppet Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Puppet Kings on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
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 Puppet Kings.
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 with Puppet Kings.
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 Puppet Kings.
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 Puppet Kings.
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?
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 Puppet Kings.
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 Puppet Kings.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Puppet Kings.
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.
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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.
The Void Rains Upon Her Heart
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Help her heart battle tough bosses in this Boss Rush, Bullet-hell with rogue-like elements. Fight through several randomly chosen boss battles leading up to a final battle. Each defeated monster will give her random gifts that power up her heart. Don't let her heart break!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
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!
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
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.
Duck Paradox
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
Shoot bouncing bullets in this roguelike precision platformer killing corrupted ducks while searching for Dr. Paraducks’ beloved pet throughout the multiverse! To return to safety you’ll need to tackle difficult-to-master trials, run after run, earning upgrades, while maintaining your sanity!
ScourgeBringer
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Puppet Kings.
ScourgeBringer is a fast-paced free-moving roguelite platformer. Help Kyhra to explore the unknown and slash her way through ancient machines guarding the seal of her past, and maybe the redemption of humanity.
Frequently asked about Puppet Kings
- How much does Puppet Kings cost?
- Puppet Kings is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Puppet Kings?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Puppet Kings are The Void Rains Upon Her Heart, Slimekeep, Hell is Other Demons.
- Who developed Puppet Kings?
- Puppet Kings was developed by Timba Games and published by Plug In Digital.
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 Puppet Kings.
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