Games like Black Paradox
If Black Paradox is your kind of game, the closest matches are Woodpunk, Red Zirion and Steredenn: Binary Stars — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its flying delorean feels unique, atmospheric and hypnotic. 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 Paradox: Buckle up for shoot ‘em up chaos in this fast-paced and hyper-stylized roguelite. As the infamous bounty hunter Black Paradox, it’s up to you to travel through space and defeat the Hellraisers – the most dangerous criminal organization in the galaxy.
Players who liked Black Paradox also play
Steam players who put hours into Black Paradox 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.
Woodpunk
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Paradox.
Top pick for Black Paradox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Woodpunk is an exhilarating roguelike bullet hell retro pixel art shooter in a medieval Woodpunk universe, where the primary energy resource is WOOD.
Red Zirion
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Black Paradox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Red Zirion is a retro shooting game with upgradeable attributes in the roguelike style. Game inspired by groups of heroes and animated series from the 80s.
Steredenn: Binary Stars
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Black Paradox.
Third-strongest match for Black Paradox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Black Paradox.
Ranked #4 for Black Paradox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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?
Dungeon Souls
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Black Paradox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Dungeon Souls is an action-adventure roguelike dungeon crawler which draws heavy inspiration from Nuclear Throne, Risk of Rain, and Overture. Explore vast procedurally generated dungeons, collect loot, and slay hordes of challenging enemies!
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Black Paradox.
Ranked #6 for Black Paradox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Black Paradox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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.
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Black Paradox.
Ranked #8 for Black Paradox fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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!
Reviewers mention these as similar to Black Paradox
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Neon Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Black Paradox.
Reviewers of Black Paradox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?
Kill to Collect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Black Paradox.
Reviewers of Black Paradox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.
Steredenn: Binary Stars
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Black Paradox.
Reviewers of Black Paradox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
Robot terminator
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Black Paradox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
This is a third person action adventure game，The player is on an island full of monsters，Players can explore freely in bad weather，The player must kill the monster or avoid the monster's attack and survive as long as possible.
Terminator 2D: NO FATE
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Black Paradox.
Reviewers of Black Paradox cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Black Paradox.
Experience the thrill of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with arcade action & pixel-perfect graphics! In this unique story blending iconic scenes from the movie with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Black Paradox at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Black Paradox on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Black Paradox.
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 ~67% under Black Paradox on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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 ~53% under Black Paradox on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Paradox.
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.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Black Paradox on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~70% under Black Paradox on Steam right now. Shares Action with Black Paradox.
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.
Slay the Spire
WHY THIS
Priced ~58% under Black Paradox on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Black Paradox.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~47% under Black Paradox on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Black Paradox.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under Black Paradox on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Black Paradox.
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.
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. Shares Indie with Black Paradox.
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?
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 Black Paradox.
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 Black Paradox.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Black Paradox.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Black Paradox.
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 Indie with Black Paradox.
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 and Indie with Black Paradox.
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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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Black Paradox.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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?
Mega City Force
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Black Paradox.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle
One Step From Eden
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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.
Wizard of Legend
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Black Paradox.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Black Paradox.
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!
Frequently asked about Black Paradox
- Does Black Paradox run on Steam Deck?
- Black Paradox 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 Black Paradox cost?
- Black Paradox is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Black Paradox have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Black Paradox 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 Paradox?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Black Paradox are Woodpunk, Red Zirion, Steredenn: Binary Stars.
- Who developed Black Paradox?
- Black Paradox was developed by Highwalls.
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