Games like Xotic
If Xotic is your kind of game, the closest matches are Hard Reset Extended Edition, Dead Effect and Sanctum — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its leaderboard competition fuels addiction, score chasing drives replayability and atmospheric. 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 Xotic: Rack up huge scores by shooting enemies, detonating chain reactions, and discovering secret power-ups and point multipliers
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Steam players who put hours into Xotic 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.
Hard Reset Extended Edition
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Xotic.
Top pick for Xotic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
Over-the-top destruction, loads of enemies & a beautifully realized cyberpunk setting. Hard Reset is here to shake up the shooter scene. Try the demo now.
Dead Effect
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Xotic.
Second-strongest match for Xotic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
Sanctum
WHY THIS
Shares weapon upgrades and a retro mood with Xotic.
Third-strongest match for Xotic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
You think Tower Defense games are all about building? You thought wrong. Sanctum is not your average Tower Defense title. When the havoc starts, you get to join the fray! As one of the world’s first First Person Shooter - Tower Defense games, Sanctum has taken the best of both worlds to deliver an epic, one-of-a-kind experience.
E.Y.E: Divine Cybermancy
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Xotic.
Ranked #4 for Xotic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
In a dark Cyberpunk world, you (and up to 3 friends) wage war against the all-powerful Federation in this Source-powered FPS/RPG.
Strike Vector
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Xotic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
"Strike Vector is gorgeous shooter with strong mechanics and lots of customisation" 7.7/10 – IGN"it more than makes up for by being a gorgeous, intensely competitive experience that matches its aesthetic appeal with pure shooter satisfaction"– 7.
Wolfenstein: The New Order
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Xotic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Xotic.
Wolfenstein®: The New Order reignites the series that created the first-person shooter genre. Wolfenstein offers a deep game narrative packed with action, adventure and first-person combat.
Wolfenstein: The Old Blood
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Xotic.
Ranked #7 for Xotic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Xotic.
Wolfenstein®: The Old Blood™ is a standalone prequel to the critically acclaimed first-person action-adventure shooter, Wolfenstein®: The New Order. This adventure spans eight chapters and features the hallmarks of MachineGames – thrilling action, immersive story, and intense FPS combat.
F.E.A.R. 3
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Xotic.
Ranked #8 for Xotic fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Xotic.
F.E.A.R. 3 delivers all the hallmarks that define the F.E.A.R. brand: terrifying paranormal experience, frenetic combat and a dramatic storyline.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Xotic
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AudioSurf
WHY THIS
Shares score chasing and a hypnotic mood with Xotic.
Reviewers of Xotic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with Xotic.
Ride your music. Audiosurf is a music-adapting puzzle racer where you use your own music to create your own experience. The shape, the speed, and the mood of each ride is determined by the song you choose.
Trine 2: Complete Story
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Xotic.
Reviewers of Xotic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
Three Heroes make their way through dangers untold in a fairytale world, featuring physics-based puzzles, beautiful sights and online co-op.
Beat Hazard
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with Xotic.
Reviewers of Xotic cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
Experience your music collection like never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Xotic at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Xotic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Xotic.
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 Xotic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
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 Xotic on Steam right now. Shares Action with Xotic.
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 Xotic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Xotic.
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 Xotic on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Xotic.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Xotic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
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 Xotic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
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 Xotic on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Xotic.
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.).
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!
Hog Hunter 2021
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
Hog hunter is a short atmospheric game about catching hogs out in the wild, be careful though not everything in the woods is safe...
Counter-Strike 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Xotic.
For over two decades, Counter-Strike has offered an elite competitive experience, one shaped by millions of players from across the globe. And now the next chapter in the CS story is about to begin. This is Counter-Strike 2.
Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six Siege
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Xotic.
Rainbow Six® Siege is the reference in tactical team shooters, where elite strategy and execution triumph. Enjoy free access to Quick Match, Unranked, and Dual Front game modes with a selection of operators.
Team Fortress 2
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Xotic.
Nine distinct classes provide a broad range of tactical abilities and personalities. Constantly updated with new game modes, maps, equipment and, most importantly, hats!
Unturned
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Xotic.
You're a survivor in the zombie infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.
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Frequently asked about Xotic
- Does Xotic work on Steam Deck?
- Xotic is currently rated Unsupported on Steam Deck. It may not launch or may have significant issues that block normal play.
- How much does Xotic cost?
- Xotic is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Xotic?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Xotic are Hard Reset Extended Edition, Dead Effect, Sanctum.
- Who developed Xotic?
- Xotic was developed by WXP Games, LLC.
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 Xotic.
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