Games like SUFFER
If SUFFER is your kind of game, the closest matches are Ion Fury, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun and HROT — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its brutal difficulty ramps fairly, dark and grim. 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 SUFFER: SUFFER is a brutally difficult retro-styled first person shooter! Become the Spirit of Anarchy and take on the police state in this horror-punk twist on classic PC gaming.
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Ion Fury
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with SUFFER.
Top pick for SUFFER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
3D Realms, creators of Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Max Payne, team up with Voidpoint to bring back the legendary Build Engine, famous for classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood. Fast-paced FPS combat across huge, secret-packed levels. Ion Fury is the real deal!
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SUFFER.
Second-strongest match for SUFFER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
HROT
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for SUFFER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
HROT is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.
BRUTAL JOHN 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with SUFFER.
Ranked #4 for SUFFER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Join BRUTAL JOHN and BRUTAL DOG in a ultraviolent old-school FPS set in a world overrun by crypto-mining technologies, where it’s up to you to destroy them and reclaim control. Prepare for an adrenaline ride that pays homage to the best shooters of the '90s.
Prodeus
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for SUFFER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Prodeus is a first-person shooter of old, re-imagined using modern rendering techniques and technology. Experience the quality you’d expect from a modern AAA game, designed with retro aesthetics and gameplay that invoke the tech-imposed limits of older hardware.
Forgive Me Father
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SUFFER.
Ranked #6 for SUFFER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Forgive Me Father is a dark retro horror FPS set in a comic book style world inspired by the novels of H.P. Lovecraft. As the only one left with full senses, you begin a journey in search of answers and relief. How long can you last?
Dread Templar
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SUFFER.
Ranked #7 for SUFFER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Dread Templar is a fast-paced hardcore old-school FPS, combining classic 90s shooter and modern FPS elements. Unlock and combine dozens of weapon upgrades and skills, embrace the Dread Force and obliterate hordes of fiendish enemies. Become the scariest thing in hell and get your revenge!
Blood: Refreshed Supply™
WHY THIS
Shares a grim mood with SUFFER.
Ranked #8 for SUFFER fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with SUFFER.
Things are about to get… bloody! Soak up 42 pulse-pounding levels dripping with Lovecraftian atmosphere as you battle your way through armies of sycophantic cultists, zombies, gargoyles, hell hounds, and other insatiable horrors, in your quest to defeat the loathsome Tchernobog.
Reviewers mention these as similar to SUFFER
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Wolfenstein 3D
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SUFFER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SUFFER.
World War II rages. The Nazis are planning to build an unstoppable, mutant army. On a mission to steal the secret plans, you were captured and imprisoned. Now, a lucky break gives you the chance to escape, but a maze of passages and trigger-happy Nazis stand in your way.
Midnight Ultra
WHY THIS
Reviewers of SUFFER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
In the American Southwest, a lone witch hunter travels across the desert, seeking to wipe out cultists of all sorts. Fight a variety of goons and ghouls, through small towns to dimension-spanning motels. Blast your way through a neon-dripped, pixelated nightmare in this high-speed, high-thrills FPS.
Ion Fury
WHY THIS
Shares a hypnotic mood with SUFFER.
Reviewers of SUFFER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
3D Realms, creators of Duke Nukem 3D, Prey, and Max Payne, team up with Voidpoint to bring back the legendary Build Engine, famous for classic shooters like Duke Nukem 3D, Shadow Warrior, and Blood. Fast-paced FPS combat across huge, secret-packed levels. Ion Fury is the real deal!
DUSK
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with SUFFER.
Reviewers of SUFFER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants & even darker forces as you attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth in this retro FPS inspired by the '90s legends.
DOOM II
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SUFFER.
Reviewers of SUFFER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SUFFER.
Hell has invaded Earth, and to save it, you must battle mightier demons with even more powerful weapons. This beloved sequel to the groundbreaking DOOM (1993) introduced players to the brutal Super Shotgun, the infamous Icon of Sin boss, and more intense FPS action.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SUFFER.
Reviewers of SUFFER cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with SUFFER.
Now includes all three premium DLC packs (Unto the Evil, Hell Followed, and Bloodfall), maps, modes, and weapons, as well as all feature updates including Arcade Mode, Photo Mode, and the latest Update 6.66, which brings further multiplayer improvements as well as revamps multiplayer progression.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below SUFFER at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SUFFER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
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?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under SUFFER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SUFFER.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SUFFER on Steam right now. Shares Action with SUFFER.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
shapez
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SUFFER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SUFFER.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SUFFER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Bit Blaster XL
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SUFFER on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Dictators:No Peace Countryballs
WHY THIS
Priced ~67% under SUFFER on Steam right now. Shares Indie with SUFFER.
Dictators : No Peace Countryballs is a war simulation and dictator game. This is a fun,simple and some say a funny countryballs game. If you like simulation games, you will love playing Dictators : No Peace. Play as a dictator of your favourite country and colonize the world.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with SUFFER.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 SUFFER.
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.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with SUFFER.
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.).
Iron Snout
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
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.
Star Fetchers
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
The introduction to a wild ride with gangsters and deep state conspiracy theories
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!
Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Remedy, a recent graduate from the Saturnian healing school, must descend to Hurtland and use her powers to heal everyone from stray ducks to dark lords, and finally cure the ailing Prince Hingst. It's a short, whimsical adventure with plenty of heart(s).
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Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SUFFER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Load up your Boltgun and unleash the awesome Space Marine arsenal to blast your way through an explosion of sprites, pixels and blood in a perfect blend of Warhammer 40,000, frenetic gameplay and the stylish visuals of 90’s retro shooters.
BRUTAL JOHN 2
WHY THIS
Shares a dark mood with SUFFER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Join BRUTAL JOHN and BRUTAL DOG in a ultraviolent old-school FPS set in a world overrun by crypto-mining technologies, where it’s up to you to destroy them and reclaim control. Prepare for an adrenaline ride that pays homage to the best shooters of the '90s.
Forgive Me Father
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with SUFFER.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with SUFFER.
Forgive Me Father is a dark retro horror FPS set in a comic book style world inspired by the novels of H.P. Lovecraft. As the only one left with full senses, you begin a journey in search of answers and relief. How long can you last?
Frequently asked about SUFFER
- How much does SUFFER cost?
- SUFFER is listed on Steam at 2.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to SUFFER?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside SUFFER are Ion Fury, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, HROT.
- Who developed SUFFER?
- SUFFER was developed by Shawn Perolis and published by Anarchy Softworks 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 SUFFER.
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