Games like Prodeus
If Prodeus is your kind of game, the closest matches are Quake II, Turbo Overkill and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its classic fps mechanics, retro graphics and variety of weapons. 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 →Prodeus is a retro-styled first-person shooter developed by Bounding Box Software Inc. and published by Balor Games. Released in 2022 at $24.99 USD, the game brings classic FPS mechanics to modern hardware through contemporary rendering techniques, delivering a boomer shooter experience with retro aesthetics. Players and reviewers highlight its extensive weapon arsenal and satisfying variety of combat options as standout features. The title holds a 93% positive rating from over 4,000 Steam reviews, and is marked as playable on Steam Deck. Session play tends toward short bursts, and difficulty sits at a normal level with single-player focus.
About Prodeus: 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.
Players who liked Prodeus also play
Steam players who put hours into Prodeus 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.
Quake II
WHY THIS
Top pick for Prodeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Prodeus.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Prodeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Prodeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
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.
Quake
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Prodeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Prodeus.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
REKKR: Sunken Land
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Prodeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Prodeus.
A retro FPS set in a faux norse-celtic fantasy world in the midst of a war with the dead. Grab an axe, get revenge.
Nightmare Reaper
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Prodeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
Blast through a cursed nightmare solo or with up to 3 friends. A retro-inspired FPS where looter shooter weapons meets boomer shooter chaos and rogue-lite elements.
Ion Fury
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Prodeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
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!
Blood: Refreshed Supply™
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Prodeus fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Prodeus.
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 Prodeus
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Quake II
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prodeus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Prodeus.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
Quake
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prodeus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Prodeus.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
DOOM
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prodeus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Prodeus.
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.
Shadow Warrior
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prodeus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Adventure with Prodeus.
Shadow Warrior is a bold reimagining of the classic 3D Realms’ shooter from independent developer Flying Wild Hog (Hard Reset) starring the legendary and quick-witted warrior Lo Wang.
Selaco
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prodeus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
Selaco is a brand new original shooter inspired by classics, featuring thrilling action set pieces, destructibility, smart enemies and a fleshed out story taking place within an immersive game world.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prodeus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Ion Fury
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prodeus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
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!
AMID EVIL
WHY THIS
Reviewers of Prodeus cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
A retro FPS for the ages! Once branded a HERETIC. Now YOU have been chosen as our champion! Reclaim our sacred weapons. Take back our ancient lands. If you can stand... AMID EVIL.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Prodeus at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Prodeus on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Prodeus.
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.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Prodeus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Prodeus on Steam right now. Shares Action with Prodeus.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Prodeus on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Prodeus on Steam right now. Shares Action with Prodeus.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
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 and Casual with Prodeus.
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.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Prodeus.
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 Prodeus.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Prodeus.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Prodeus.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
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 Prodeus.
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.
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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.
Quake II
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Prodeus.
You are humanity’s last hope to stop the Strogg, a hostile alien race waging war against Earth. Play this military sci-fi FPS, now upgraded for modern platforms with improved visuals, new campaign content, online multiplayer/co-op, and more.
Turbo Overkill
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
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.
Quake
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Prodeus.
Developed by the award-winning id Software, Quake® is the ground-breaking, original dark fantasy first-person shooter that inspires today’s retro-style FPS games. With Quake (Enhanced), experience the authentic, updated, and visually enhanced version of the original.
Nightmare Reaper
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Prodeus.
Blast through a cursed nightmare solo or with up to 3 friends. A retro-inspired FPS where looter shooter weapons meets boomer shooter chaos and rogue-lite elements.
Frequently asked about Prodeus
- Does Prodeus run on Steam Deck?
- Prodeus 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 Prodeus cost?
- Prodeus is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Prodeus have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Prodeus supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Prodeus?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Prodeus are Quake II, Turbo Overkill, Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun.
- Who developed Prodeus?
- Prodeus was developed by Bounding Box Software Inc. and published by Balor Games.
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