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2024PCSteam Deck playable81 % positive8.79 €

A blisteringly fast retro-styled shooter with chunky low-fi pixel visuals, where you fight through a city overrun by mutant horrors and a ruthless military, backed by a heavy metal soundtrack.

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

The closest matches for Anomalous are Incision, Prodeus and Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun. Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Anomalous special – the reasons are listed right on each game.

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Incision

92 %Match

2025PCSteam Deck playable85 % positive13.99 €

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Sci-fi setting
  • Action-packed real-time combat

A fast, brutal retro-style first-person shooter where you carve through nightmarish industrial mazes, altered cities and alien structures to destroy the Growth.

Prodeus

Dark, serious atmosphere

Prodeus is a fast, brutal retro-style first-person shooter in the vein of Doom and Quake, blending chunky low-res visuals with modern lighting and effects. Gory weapons, high speed and dark sci-fi levels drive the experience.

Butcher

Dark, serious atmosphere

A fast, extremely gory 2D pixel-art shooter where you play a cyborg blasting through grim levels, killing enemies with chainsaws, shotguns or environmental hazards. A throwback to early 90s action games.

Severed Steel

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A fast, stylish FPS built around acrobatic stunts, bullet time and fully destructible voxel environments. You play a one-armed heroine sliding, diving and shooting through levels to a driving electronic soundtrack.

Beyond Citadel

Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)

A fast-paced retro shooter in the style of 90s classics with an anime look, punchy gunplay and brutal action. You fight through a heavily armed mechanical fortress to uncover the secret beneath it.

Dimensional Slaughter

Sci-fi setting

A very fast, bloody movement shooter with a retro look and roguelike elements. Ammo comes from moving and health from killing, which pushes you into aggressive, fluid play through strange dimensions.

You Are Empty: Absolute Edition

Dark, serious atmosphere

A surreal 2006 first-person shooter in which you awaken as a man fighting through a Soviet-flavored world overrun by mutants and madness. The Absolute Edition brings the cult title to modern PCs with fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

HyperViolent

Dark, serious atmosphere

A brutal pixel-art retro shooter set on a remote mining asteroid, where you fight through monstrous hordes and uncover the secret of an awakened ancient evil.

Hrot

Distinctive, stylised art style

A 90s-style retro FPS set in a grim, brutalist socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1980s. Fast gunplay, key hunting and an oppressive atmosphere define the experience.

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