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Games like Fallback

If Fallback is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rogue Knight, Koboo: The Tree Spirit and Slashvival — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its challenging, contemplative 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.

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About Fallback: Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.

2019ActionIndieAdventure0.99 USDDeck PlayableMetacritic 72Windowsby Endroad
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Steam players who put hours into Fallback 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.

  1. Rogue Knight

    WHY THIS

    Top pick for Fallback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Experience fast-paced roguelite gameplay. Explore ever-changing locations and fight vicious enemies in souls-inspired 2d combat. Every run you will find variety of items and spells to compliment your playstyle, as well as resources to upgrade your town for future runs.

    2024ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  2. Koboo: The Tree Spirit

    WHY THIS

    Second-strongest match for Fallback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Koboo is a fast paced action rogue-lite platformer where you battle against towering hunters as a small tree spirit by attacking their weak points. Forge powerful synergies, explore the Ancient Forest's branching paths, fish, catch bugs and garden to rebuild your home!

    2024ActionIndieRPG14.99 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. Slashvival

    WHY THIS

    Third-strongest match for Fallback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Slashvival is a third-person action RPG with roguelite elements. Use swords to fight mutant creatures in a medieval low-poly world. Survive intense battles and rescue your family in this thrilling hack-and-slash adventure!

    2020ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  4. Curse of the Dead Gods

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Fallback.

    Ranked #4 for Fallback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Fallback.

    You seek untold riches, eternal life, divine powers - it leads to this accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters.

    2021ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  5. BELOW

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Fallback.

    Ranked #5 for Fallback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Fallback.

    Ranked #6 for Fallback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is a major update featuring a new playable adventurer (The Brute), a completely new outdoor environment (The Black Forest), and lots of new enemies, weapons, armor, traps, potions, scrolls, and other big improvements to the game.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Gloom

    WHY THIS

    Ranked #7 for Fallback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Afflicted by severe amnesia, you drift deep into the Common Dream. You scour for the lost pages of the Necronomicon, while clinging on to any little purpose you have left. Faced with mad dreamers, horrible abominations and eldritch deities, you feel drawn to the dark Abyss deep within.

    2017ActionIndieAdventure9.99 USDSteam ↗
  8. Dead Cells

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Fallback.

    Ranked #8 for Fallback fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Cheaper alternatives

Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Fallback at current Steam store prices.

  1. UBERMOSH

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Fallback on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.

    2015ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. Miss Neko

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Fallback on Steam right now. Shares Action with Fallback.

    Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)

    2019ActionCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  3. QUICKERFLAK

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Fallback on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.

    2022ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Save Jesus

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Fallback on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fallback.

    Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!

    2016IndieCasual0.49 USDDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. Barro

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Fallback on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Fallback.

    Choose your little car and race!

    2018IndieCasualRacing0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  6. Gachi Heroes

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Fallback on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?

    2018ActionIndieAdventure0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  7. Trip to Vinelands

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Fallback on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.

    2016ActionIndie0.49 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  8. TTV2

    WHY THIS

    Priced ~51% under Fallback on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    TTV2 is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame, sequel to Trip to Vinelands.

    2017ActionIndie0.49 USDSteam ↗

Free alternatives

Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.

  1. Ultimate Custom Night

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!

    2018ActionIndieFree To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  2. ENA: Dream BBQ

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fallback.

    Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.

    2025IndieAdventureFreeDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. UNBEATABLE [white label]

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.

    2021ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  4. Star Fetchers

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories

    2020ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  5. The Lab

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.

    Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!

    2016Free To PlayFreeSteam ↗
  6. Tails Noir: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Fallback.

    Tails Noir: Prologue is the first act of a post-noir narrative adventure. Become raccoon private eye Howard Lotor and explore dystopian Vancouver inhabited by animals as you uncover a deeply personal story of change and transformation.

    2019IndieAdventureRPGFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  7. The Riftbreaker: Prologue

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.

    2020ActionStrategyIndieFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗
  8. Khimera: Destroy All Monster Girls

    WHY THIS

    Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Play as Chelshia the chimera in this platforming beat-em-up adventure into the wonderful world of monster girls!

    2016ActionIndieAdventureFreeDeck PlayableSteam ↗

Plays great on Steam Deck

Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.

  1. Curse of the Dead Gods

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Fallback.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Fallback.

    You seek untold riches, eternal life, divine powers - it leads to this accursed temple, a seemingly-infinite labyrinth of bottomless pits, deadly traps, and monsters.

    2021ActionAdventure19.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  2. BELOW

    WHY THIS

    Shares a challenging mood with Fallback.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  3. NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Fallback.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    NECROPOLIS: BRUTAL EDITION is a major update featuring a new playable adventurer (The Brute), a completely new outdoor environment (The Black Forest), and lots of new enemies, weapons, armor, traps, potions, scrolls, and other big improvements to the game.

    2016ActionIndieAdventure29.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗
  4. Dead Cells

    WHY THIS

    Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Fallback.

    Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Fallback.

    Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

    2018ActionIndieAdventure24.99 USDDeck VerifiedSteam ↗

Frequently asked about Fallback

Does Fallback run on Steam Deck?
Fallback 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 Fallback cost?
Fallback is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
What games are most similar to Fallback?
Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Fallback are Rogue Knight, Koboo: The Tree Spirit, Slashvival.
Who developed Fallback?
Fallback was developed by Endroad and published by Endroad, Microids.

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 Fallback.

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