Games like GRUEL

If GRUEL scratched a fast-paced and replayable itch for you, keep reading. These games are a good place to start.

CRUEL
A fast run-and-gun horror shooter with roguelike bones. Race a burning apartment block up ten shifting floors, trade soda for perks with a small dog, and blast cultists apart with a revolver, a shotgun or your bare fists. Hard, quick, and funnier than it has any right to be.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
95% of 1,859 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Grind Survivors
A fast survivors-like where a towering demon hunter mows through endless hellspawn. Weapons drop from the demons you kill, each with random traits, and The Forge lets you fuse, reroll and gamble them into something absurd. Dodge through bullet-hell chaos, stack upgrades until the screen fills, and grind demons into dust.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Colorful
69% of 1,387 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 20$12.99
Nightmare Reaper
A retro shooter where a patient in a grim hospital fights her way through her own nightmares. Blast hordes with 80 lootable weapons, grab gold, and spend it on upgrades through little minigames. Fast, bloody, weird, and built to be replayed, solo or with up to three friends.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
93% of 3,408 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$24.99
OMFG: One Million Fatal Guns
A fast, over-the-top roguelike shooter where a robot-hijacked space station hands you more than 30 million differently named guns. Wallrun, slide and blast through waves of machines, chase a high score, and die knowing the next run starts in seconds.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
94% of 2,371 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2Free
Harbinger
Blast, slide, and tear through waves of monsters in Harbinger's retro-inspired combat, a free boomer shooter bringing '90s combat into the modern era. Fight through waves of enemies in brutal arenas and regroup at the tavern to upgrade your arsenal.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
95% of 994 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Enter the Gungeon
A bullet-hell dungeon crawler about a band of misfits hunting a gun that can kill the past. You shoot, loot, dodge-roll and table-flip down through ever-shifting floors of gun-worshipping enemies and bosses, chasing better guns every run. Hard, funny and built to be played again.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
95% of 79,697 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 871$14.99
Army of Ruin
An auto-shooter where your weapons do the aiming and you do the surviving. Guide legendary heroes against the Armies of Evil, stack elemental upgrades into screen-filling builds, and turn hundreds of enemies into loot. Short, colorful runs that make "one more go" a lifestyle.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Colorful
87% of 2,445 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$7.99
Goobies
Goobies is a top-down auto-shooter where thousands of cute blobs swarm you across tiny islands. Pick one of five champions, stack items and artifacts into absurd combos, fight giant bosses and push one run as long as your screen can take it. Simple, fast and very hard to put down.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
90% of 1,877 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$5.99
Gravelord
Gravelord is a fast-paced boomer shooter voiced by a badass protagonist featuring hand-crafted levels filled with secrets and hordes of enemies to kill. Dish out some brutal carnage with powerful guns and collect Tarot Cards to gain even more killing power. Let's put the fun back in funeral!
Fast-paced, Retro, Funny
86% of 152 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Doomsday Hunters
Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
89% of 706 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$15.99
SULFUR
SULFUR is a first-person action-adventure with roguelike runs and extraction stakes: push through caverns, sewers and castle walls, trick mean enemies, grab loot, and get out alive with your guns intact. The draw is the tinkering, as oils, enchantments and attachments turn ordinary firearms into strange personal builds.
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
86% of 11,004 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1,724$29.99
Zombie Party
Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!
Fast-paced, Replayable, Retro
78% of 367 Steam reviews are positive$9.99

Cheaper than GRUEL

Army of Ruin

Move, dodge and level up while your weapons mow down the Armies of Evil in fast, colorful runs.

$7.99

Goobies

Move one champion around tiny islands while thousands of little enemies swarm in, and stack items into combos that grow wilder every run.

$5.99

Impaler Gold

Impaler Gold is a fast-paced minimalistic arena shooter - now expanded and improved.

$4.99

Survivors of the Dawn

A roguelite horde-survival bullet heaven with QUINTILLIONS of bullets over QUINTILLIONS of hordes.

$7.99

Voidigo

A fast, funny twin-stick roguelite where you blast through colorful chaos, stack absurd power-ups and bring a friend along in local co-op.

$4.99

Bounty of One

A colorful western arena roguelite where your gun only fires while you stand still, solo or with up to four friends.

$6.99

Repetendium

Repetendium is a top-down roguelike-lite shooter. Select from a rowdy group of characters to play as and wield an ever expanding variety of gear and…

$5.99

Gunslugs

Lock and load for chaotic, fast-paced action in Gunslugs! Battle the evil Black Duck Army across wild, procedurally generated levels packed with…

$4.99

Rogue Shooter: The FPS Roguelike

A fast-paced mashup of roguelikes and first-person shooters.

$4.99

Blazing Beaks

Armed birds, mutants everywhere, and a greedy streak that can end your run.

$3.74

ARMORED HEAD

Fight off thirty waves of robots in a single arena, spend your coins on turrets and tricks, and hunt down every secret on the way to the gold cup.

$4.99

Antipaint

An action-packed roguelite shooter where you battle famous works of art and each level you beat becomes a masterpiece to add to your colorful…

$7.99

Hidden gems like GRUEL

Funguys Swarm

Move through swarming flames, let your weapons fire themselves and stack upgrades into absurd screen-clearing builds.

$9.99

Arms of God

Level up heroes, stack absurd weapon builds and carve a path through handcrafted levels to the deepest pit of hell.

$11.50

Echoes of Red

ECHOES OF RED is a fast-paced roguelite shooter where you can carry unlimited weapons at once, face endless enemies ever stronger and build your…

$4.99

CRUEL

Blast your way up a collapsing tower floor by floor, where every run reshuffles the rooms and death sends you back to the bottom.

$9.99

Harbinger

Blast, slide, and tear through waves of monsters in Harbinger's retro-inspired combat, a free boomer shooter bringing '90s combat into the modern era.

Free