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Games like Prison City
Retroware, Programancer · 2023 · Windows
Steam: 84 % positive of 153 reviews, as of Oct 28
Prison City is a dystopian, action-packed side-scroller with tight mechanics and intricate level design. Battle Techno-Terrorists with your chakram and grenades, eat hot dogs for health, and locate contacts to help take down bosses.
24 games that play like Prison City and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Hotline Miami, SANABI and RoboCop: Rogue City.
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Plays and looks like Prison City
These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.
By gameplay
Plays like Prison City
Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.
Hotline Miami
95 % positive of 110,797
Shared: Retro · Shooter · Pixel Graphics
SANABI
96 % positive of 42,093
Shared: Side Scroller · 2D Platformer · Retro
RoboCop: Rogue City
85 % positive of 28,794
Shared: Futuristic · Dystopian · Shooter
Steel Assault
77 % positive of 387
Shared: Side Scroller · 2D Platformer · Futuristic
Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
98 % positive of 12,711
Shared: Futuristic · Singleplayer · Action
Mega City Force
75 % positive of 290
Shared: Dystopian · Shooter · Pixel Graphics
Guns of Fury
87 % positive of 982
Shared: Side Scroller · 2D Platformer · Retro
Door Kickers: Action Squad
94 % positive of 8,797
Shared: 2D Platformer · Retro · Shooter
Retro City Rampage™ DX
87 % positive of 1,690
Shared: Retro · Shooter · Pixel Graphics
Prison Run and Gun
90 % positive of 493
Shared: Retro · Pixel Graphics · Platformer
Gravity Circuit
95 % positive of 3,060
Shared: Side Scroller · 2D Platformer · Retro
Rampage Miami
88 % positive of 217
Shared: Futuristic · Retro · Shooter
More matches
- Neon Inferno92 % positive of 390Shared: Side Scroller · Futuristic · Retro
- BioMenace Remastered98 % positive of 191Shared: 2D Platformer · Retro · Shooter
- HUNTDOWN93 % positive of 4,109Shared: Side Scroller · 2D Platformer · Futuristic
- BUTCHER89 % positive of 1,056Shared: Retro · Shooter · Pixel Graphics
- Furi90 % positive of 11,294Shared: Boss Rush · Sci-fi · Story Rich
- Bot Vice92 % positive of 1,351Shared: Shooter · Pixel Graphics · Singleplayer
- SPRAWL86 % positive of 2,093Shared: Futuristic · Dystopian · Shooter
- Intrusion 292 % positive of 1,696Shared: Side Scroller · Shooter · Sci-fi
- Beyond Citadel96 % positive of 4,534Shared: Shooter · Pixel Graphics · Sci-fi
- Soda Crisis92 % positive of 2,924Shared: Side Scroller · Shooter · Sci-fi
- Blazing Chrome87 % positive of 1,338Shared: Side Scroller · Retro · Shooter
- RoboCop: Rogue City - Unfinished Business83 % positive of 4,093Shared: Futuristic · Dystopian · Shooter
By look
Looks like Prison City
Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.
Contra Anniversary Collection
76 % positive of 1,209
Cyber Shadow
83 % positive of 1,307
Oniken: Unstoppable Edition
80 % positive of 663
Blazing Chrome
87 % positive of 1,338
Jet Gunner
73 % positive of 123
Blaster Master Zero
93 % positive of 1,044
Zexion
89 % positive of 559
METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
84 % positive of 808
Axiom Verge
90 % positive of 5,874
HUNTDOWN
93 % positive of 4,109
Super Cyborg
86 % positive of 588
Vengeful Guardian: Moonrider
85 % positive of 494
More matches
- Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon 284 % positive of 1,553
- Alien Splatter Redux90 % positive of 142
- Panzer Paladin76 % positive of 335
- Bloodstained: Curse of the Moon93 % positive of 3,843
- Blaster Master Zero 288 % positive of 553
- Haunted Lands77 % positive of 253
- BioMenace Remastered98 % positive of 191
- Star of Providence95 % positive of 3,198
- Secret Agent HD97 % positive of 186
- A Robot Named Fight!87 % positive of 799
- Iron Meat95 % positive of 996
- Commander Keen93 % positive of 1,472
At a glance
What games like Prison City have in common
- The tags they share most often with Prison City: Shooter (15 of 24), Retro (12) and Side Scroller (9).
- They came out between 2012 and 2025, 5 of them after Prison City (2023).
- Best rated by Steam players: Bomb Rush Cyberfunk (98 % positive of 12,711).
How these matches work
Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.