Games like Jamestown
If Jamestown is your kind of game, the closest matches are Retromancer, Jamestown+ and Blazing Chrome — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its ship synergies add replayability, challenging 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 →About Jamestown: Jamestown: Legend Of The Lost Colony is a neo-classical top-down shooter for up to 4 players, set on 17th-century British Colonial Mars. It features all the intensity, depth, and lovingly handcrafted pixels of a classic arcade shooter, with a modern twist: deeply-integrated cooperative gameplay.
Players who liked Jamestown also play
Steam players who put hours into Jamestown 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.
Retromancer
WHY THIS
Top pick for Jamestown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
What happens when nostalgia and necromancy mix? A Retromancer happens! Grab a few friends, choose your champions, and battle your way through 6 brutal zones filled with screeching bats, burrowing worms, deranged cultists, and giant ants.
Jamestown+
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Jamestown.
Second-strongest match for Jamestown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
Set sail for 17th-century British Colonial Mars in Jamestown+: a cooperative shoot-em-up for 1-4 brave souls, designed to be exciting for players of all skill levels.
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Jamestown.
Third-strongest match for Jamestown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Galacide
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Jamestown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
Command destructive spaceships to obliterate hordes of enemy vessels, while quickly solving puzzles to weave through networks of vibrantly colorful, adversarial machines!
Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jamestown.
Ranked #5 for Jamestown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
INVERSUS Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jamestown.
Ranked #6 for Jamestown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Jamestown.
INVERSUS is is a competitive and cooperative arcade shooter for 1 to 4 players online or on the couch. Fight for territory in a dynamic negative-space map where open paths for your team are the walls of your opponent's team. Strategize and trap the enemy to win!
Super Hydorah
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Jamestown.
Ranked #7 for Jamestown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
Sine Mora EX
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Jamestown.
Ranked #8 for Jamestown fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Jamestown.
Sine Mora EX is a side-scrolling shoot'em up that provides a unique challenge, where time is the ultimate factor. Mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation, Sine Mora EX is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an excessive tale and an Arcade Mode.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Jamestown at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Jamestown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jamestown.
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 Jamestown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
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 Jamestown on Steam right now. Shares Action with Jamestown.
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 Jamestown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jamestown.
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 Jamestown on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Jamestown.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Jamestown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
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 Jamestown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
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 Jamestown on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Jamestown.
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 Jamestown.
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 Jamestown.
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 Jamestown.
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.
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Jamestown.
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.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Blazing Chrome
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Jamestown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Assault Android Cactus+
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jamestown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
INVERSUS Deluxe
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Jamestown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Jamestown.
INVERSUS is is a competitive and cooperative arcade shooter for 1 to 4 players online or on the couch. Fight for territory in a dynamic negative-space map where open paths for your team are the walls of your opponent's team. Strategize and trap the enemy to win!
Super Hydorah
WHY THIS
Shares a retro mood with Jamestown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Jamestown.
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
Sine Mora EX
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Jamestown.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Jamestown.
Sine Mora EX is a side-scrolling shoot'em up that provides a unique challenge, where time is the ultimate factor. Mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation, Sine Mora EX is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an excessive tale and an Arcade Mode.
Frequently asked about Jamestown
- Is Jamestown verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Jamestown is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Jamestown cost?
- Jamestown is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Jamestown have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Jamestown supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen PvP, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Jamestown?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Jamestown are Retromancer, Jamestown+, Blazing Chrome.
- Who developed Jamestown?
- Jamestown was developed by Final Form Games.
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