Games like Alien Hominid Invasion
If Alien Hominid Invasion is your kind of game, the closest matches are Shing!, Lost Castle / 失落城堡 and Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its funny, hypnotic and intense. 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 →The Behemoth's 2023 action release drops players into an alien invasion of Earth as part of a Mothership crew, blasting through endless enemy waves with an arsenal of weapons and mutations. The core loop combines bullet-hell shooter mechanics with roguelite progression systems, allowing players to unlock and customize their alien's loadout across runs. Online co-op supports up to four players working together against increasingly difficult hordes, with global leaderboards tracking performance across sessions. Reviewers highlight the high-octane bullet-hell combat and satisfying projectile density, while players note that the deep weapon customization and challenging difficulty encourage repeated attempts. The game features short-burst sessions at a medium overall length and is marked as playable on Steam Deck, currently priced at $19.99 with an 87% positive rating from over 1000 Steam reviews.
About Alien Hominid Invasion: Old friends and bitter enemies await as you invade Earth alongside a Mothership full of alien friends! Blast, beam, and bite your way through an endless swarm of enemies as you and up to three of your fellow hominids cause mayhem with a huge arsenal of weapons, mutations, and acrobatic maneuvers.
Players who liked Alien Hominid Invasion also play
Steam players who put hours into Alien Hominid Invasion 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.
Shing!
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Top pick for Alien Hominid Invasion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Lost Castle / 失落城堡
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Alien Hominid Invasion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Lost Castle is an action RPG beat'em up with roguelike elements and randomized dungeons for up to four players online and local!
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Third-strongest match for Alien Hominid Invasion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
Knights of Braveland
WHY THIS
Shares roguelite progression and a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Ranked #4 for Alien Hominid Invasion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Knights of Braveland is a cooperative beat'em up action game with a generated story. You will hack, slash, and smash your way to victory. And with your friends it is much more fun. Play local or online.
Rogue Stormers
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Ranked #5 for Alien Hominid Invasion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
An action packed platform shooter mashed-up with roguelike and RPG elements, crazy 3D graphics and co-op multiplayer for one to 4 players.
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Ranked #6 for Alien Hominid Invasion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is an anime-inspired beat-em-up with varied enemies and deep customization. Play as the rabbit Ninjin, or Akai, the ninja fox, and fight to retrieve the carrots stolen by Shogun Moe! Redeem carrots for weapons, upgrades and more! Supports 2-player online or local co-op.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Alien Hominid Invasion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
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…
Bravery and Greed
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Ranked #8 for Alien Hominid Invasion fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Bravery and Greed is a beat 'em up, roguelite, dungeon brawler for up to four players. Choose from four classic fantasy classes, engage in a deep robust combat system, and play a variety of co-operative and competitive game modes with friends via local, online or both. Get rich, or die trying!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Alien Hominid Invasion
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METAL SLUG
WHY THIS
Shares bullet hell with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Reviewers of Alien Hominid Invasion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
“METAL SLUG ”, the very first title in SNK’s legendary 2D run & gun action shooting game series where all began, returns to the missions on the Steam gaming platform!
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Alien Hominid Invasion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
Cuphead
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Reviewers of Alien Hominid Invasion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Alien Hominid HD
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Reviewers of Alien Hominid Invasion cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
The 2D side-scrolling shooter from The Behemoth is back! With your mighty blaster and a group of mysterious kids by your side, destroy the agency and reclaim your spaceship!
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Alien Hominid Invasion at current Steam store prices.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alien Hominid Invasion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alien Hominid Invasion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
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 Alien Hominid Invasion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Alien Hominid Invasion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under Alien Hominid Invasion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
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 Alien Hominid Invasion on Steam right now. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
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.
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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 with Alien Hominid Invasion.
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.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
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.
Magic Archery
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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.
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More from The Behemoth
Other recommendable Steam games by The Behemoth, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Castle Crashers®
WHY THIS
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Alien Hominid Invasion. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!
BattleBlock Theater®
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Alien Hominid Invasion. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.
Pit People®
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Alien Hominid Invasion. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
In this fast-paced, turn-based, co-op adventure you'll quest and explore, find awesome loot, customize your fighters, and recruit strange species! Come master your destiny in this strategic game of positioning.
Alien Hominid HD
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Alien Hominid Invasion. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
The 2D side-scrolling shooter from The Behemoth is back! With your mighty blaster and a group of mysterious kids by your side, destroy the agency and reclaim your spaceship!
BEHEMOTH
WHY THIS
Shares bullet hell with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Another title from The Behemoth, the studio behind Alien Hominid Invasion. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Dodge ‘n flap your wings in this new arcade extravaganza from The Behemoth! In BEHEMOTH™, you become one with the chicken to secure your flock in the nest and collect as much candy corn as possible!
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Shing!
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Experience the most exciting and immersive beat-em-up combat system ever – become a kickass ninja and slice some demons in style!
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots
WHY THIS
Shares a funny mood with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is an anime-inspired beat-em-up with varied enemies and deep customization. Play as the rabbit Ninjin, or Akai, the ninja fox, and fight to retrieve the carrots stolen by Shogun Moe! Redeem carrots for weapons, upgrades and more! Supports 2-player online or local co-op.
Abyss Odyssey
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Alien Hominid Invasion.
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…
Frequently asked about Alien Hominid Invasion
- Does Alien Hominid Invasion run on Steam Deck?
- Alien Hominid Invasion is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Alien Hominid Invasion cost?
- Alien Hominid Invasion is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Alien Hominid Invasion have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Alien Hominid Invasion supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Alien Hominid Invasion?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Alien Hominid Invasion are Shing!, Lost Castle / 失落城堡, Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef.
- Who developed Alien Hominid Invasion?
- Alien Hominid Invasion was developed by The Behemoth.
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