Games like Nux
Closest overall match: Horizon Shift (★ 1.3). Quickest to finish: The Blue Flamingo at about 3 hours.
Looking for something like Nux? Our model ranked 7 games by how much they share with it. The strongest common threads are steam-trading-cards, Singleplayer and Shoot 'Em Up.
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73%
1. Horizon Shift
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 1.3
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4
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71%
2. The Blue Flamingo
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.1
- Metacritic
- 55
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 4
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69%
3. Incoming Forces
Shares steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 higher; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 2.1
- Metacritic
- 67
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4
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67%
4. Power-Up
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; same release year.
- Year
- 2014
- Rating
- ★ 1.6
- Playtime
- 7h
- Shared genres
- 4
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67%
5. Stellar 2D
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; released within 1 year.
- Year
- 2015
- Rating
- ★ 1.5
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4
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64%
6. Cube Destroyer
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Rating
- ★ 1.6
- Playtime
- 4h
- Shared genres
- 4
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64%
7. Mobile Astro
Shares Shoot 'Em Up, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.3 higher; released within 2 years.
- Year
- 2016
- Playtime
- 3h
- Shared genres
- 4
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What is the best game like Nux?
On our similarity model, Horizon Shift is the closest match to Nux — shares Shoot 'Em Up, steam-trading-cards and Singleplayer; rated 0.4 lower; released within 1 year.
How this list is built
Every game in our catalog is scored against Nux on five signals: weighted tag overlap (rare tags count more), genre overlap, platform family overlap, rating and playtime proximity, and release era. The list is recomputed nightly as ratings and new releases change.
Base game data via RAWG.