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Frozenbyte · 2006 · 81 % positive of 1,558

24 games that play like Shadowgrounds and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Alien Breed: Impact, Shadowgrounds Survivor and Alien Shooter.

Player tags

  • Top-Down Shooter
  • Sci-fi
  • Aliens
  • Action
  • Shooter
  • Singleplayer
  • Horror
  • Top-Down

At a glance

What games like Shadowgrounds have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Shadowgrounds: Sci-fi (18 of 24), Top-Down Shooter (16) and Aliens (16).
  • They came out between 2007 and 2023, 24 of them after Shadowgrounds (2006).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Alien Shooter (95 % positive of 4,285).
  • 4 games both play and look like Shadowgrounds, among them Shadowgrounds Survivor, Alien Shooter: Revisited and Alien Breed 3: Descent.

By gameplay

Plays like Shadowgrounds

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Shmadow81 % positive of 200Shared: Shooter · Twin Stick Shooter · Shoot 'Em Up
  2. Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop94 % positive of 22,649Shared: Top-Down Shooter · Sci-fi · Aliens
  3. Alien Rage - Unlimited67 % positive of 3,455Shared: Sci-fi · Aliens · Shooter
  4. From Space67 % positive of 1,884Shared: Top-Down Shooter · Sci-fi · Shooter
  5. Alien Shooter - Last Hope77 % positive of 288Shared: Sci-fi · Aliens · Shooter
  6. I am Weapon: Revival70 % positive of 297Shared: Top-Down Shooter · Gore · Twin Stick Shooter
  7. EXOME79 % positive of 277Shared: Sci-fi · Aliens · Shooter
  8. Solstice Chronicles: MIA74 % positive of 310Shared: Top-Down Shooter · Sci-fi · Aliens
  9. Dark Sector76 % positive of 2,829Shared: Sci-fi · Shooter · Horror
  10. Killsquad70 % positive of 3,492Shared: Top-Down Shooter · Sci-fi · Top-Down
  11. REMOTE LIFE90 % positive of 221Shared: Sci-fi · Aliens · Shooter
  12. Alien Swarm94 % positive of 21,274Shared: Top-Down Shooter · Sci-fi · Aliens

By look

Looks like Shadowgrounds

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Serious Sam HD: The First Encounter93 % positive of 8,191
  2. Warhammer 40,000: Fire Warrior (Classic)74 % positive of 478
  3. Greed: Black Border43 % positive of 329
  4. Alien Shooter - Last Hope77 % positive of 288
  5. Red Faction86 % positive of 2,780
  6. Project: Snowblind75 % positive of 681
  7. Alien Breed 3: Descent74 % positive of 578
  8. Forsaken Remastered87 % positive of 255
  9. Red Solstice 2: Survivors69 % positive of 3,226
  10. Quake 487 % positive of 3,424
  11. STRAFE: Gold Edition72 % positive of 2,407
  12. E.T. Armies49 % positive of 314

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.

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