Games Like Paint the Town Red

Hack, slash, shoot and loot your way through procedurally generated dungeons! Smack your enemies into spikes with your inventory sack!

Why similar: Gore 32.3%, Violent 17.2%, First-Person 16.6%, Roguelite 12.3%, Roguelike 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: This is one of the closest matches to Paint the Town Red's first-person brawling, combining chunky melee combat, procedural runs, and a rough-and-ready roguelite feel.

MORDHAU is a multiplayer medieval slasher. Create your mercenary and fight in brutal battles where you will experience fast paced combat, castle sieges, cavalry charges, and more.

Why similar: Gore 39.4%, Fighting 23.8% ★, Multiplayer 15.4%, First-Person 10.9%, FPS 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: If you want the same close-quarters brutality in multiplayer form, MORDHAU delivers weighty first-person melee, gore, and lots of unscripted carnage.

Chivalry 2 is a multiplayer first person slasher inspired by epic medieval movie battles. Players are thrust into the action of every iconic moment of the era - from clashing swords, to storms of flaming arrows, to sprawling castle sieges and more.

Why similar: Gore 52.5%, Multiplayer 19.3%, FPS 10.9%, First-Person 10.6%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the same gleeful melee mayhem and over-the-top violence, just scaled up into massive medieval battles.

GoreBox is a chaotic physics-driven sandbox where creativity meets destruction. Use the Reality Crusher to spawn, manipulate, and obliterate anything. Customize, roleplay, or face devious creatures. In this world, your imagination rules, and chaos is your playground!

Why similar: Gore 33.7%, Violent 17.9%, Voxel 15.6% ★, Physics 10.3%, Sandbox 8%

Why You'll Like It: If the appeal is physics sandboxes, gore systems, and experimenting with violent chaos, GoreBox is one of the closest modern alternatives.

Mortal Sin is a chaotic, blood-soaked roguelike where skill is power, and overconfidence is death. Carve through procedurally generated nightmares with brutal melee and flashy, satisfying combos.

Why similar: Gore 22.4%, First-Person 20%, Roguelite 16%, Roguelike 15.7%, Violent 12.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person melee, grimy violence, and run-based structure make it a strong fit if your favorite part of Paint the Town Red is chaotic close-range combat with roguelite momentum.

ELDERBORN - a Metal AF* Slasher with brutal FPP melee combat and souls-like/RPG character progression. In the times of legend, barbarian tribes need a new dark messiah. Be that merciless slayer. Uncover ancient secrets in the city of doom. Forge your own destiny! *Action Fantasy.

Why similar: Fighting 58.4% ★, Difficult 18.4%, First-Person 16.1%, Action 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: ELDERBORN is a fast, heavy-hitting first-person melee game where aggressive movement and brutal weapon swings create that same satisfying combat rhythm.

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.

Why similar: Fighting 31.4% ★, Voxel 22.9% ★, Multiplayer 10.2%, Roguelike 8.5%, Co-op 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: Though not first-person, it nails the same arena-combat loop of grabbing weapons, slicing enemies apart, and surviving escalating waves.

Dive into a sandbox full of action and customization! Choose from different game modes like deathmatch, conquest, king of the hill, zombie survival and many more. Create your own scenarios and content in the easy to use in-game editors or use one of the 50k+ workshop items from other players...

Why similar: Sandbox 24.8%, Physics 20.1%, FPS 15%, First-Person 11.6%, Action 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its voxel visuals, first-person action, and sandbox battles echo Paint the Town Red's low-poly chaos while giving you even more freedom to cause havoc.

A deadly virus is spreading across Los Angeles, turning its inhabitants into zombies. Bitten, infected, but more than just immune, uncover the truth behind the outbreak and discover who - or what - you are. Survive, evolve and become the ultimate Zombie Slayer.

Why similar: Gore 49.8%, Co-op 18.3%, First-Person 12.2%, FPS 11.7%, Action 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: For brutal first-person weapon combat and gore-heavy body damage, Dead Island 2 scratches a very similar itch with a bigger campaign behind it.

First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Why similar: Gore 48.7%, Multiplayer 16.4%, FPS 15.5%, First-Person 12.7%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the same first-person melee immediacy and improvised-weapon violence, with parkour adding even more momentum to each fight.

Blade & Sorcery is a built-for-VR medieval fantasy with full physics driven melee, ranged and magic combat. Become a powerful warrior, ranger or sorcerer and devastate your enemies.

Why similar: Gore 29.6%, Fighting 23.6% ★, Violent 15.8%, Physics 9.2%, Sandbox 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is basically a pure physics-driven melee sandbox, making it a great pick if your favorite part of Paint the Town Red is freeform violent experimentation.

VR horror-slasher with physically correct combat system and dynamic battles across arenas in the dark fantasy world.

Why similar: Gore 45.2%, Violent 15.7%, FPS 6.9%, Physics 6.8%, First-Person 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers another heavily physical first-person melee experience built around dismemberment, arena survival, and weapon-based carnage.

Welcome to the zombie apocalypse experience of a lifetime – and now more beautiful than ever. Caught in the midst of an epic zombie outbreak on the tropical island of Banoi, your only thought is: Survive!

Why similar: Gore 34%, Multiplayer 17.7%, Co-op 14.1%, Violent 11.1%, FPS 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Like Paint the Town Red, it makes smashing enemies apart with found weapons feel messy, tactile, and gleefully excessive.

MAXIMUM Action is a brutal and satisfying physics-based first person shooter influenced by Hong Kong cinema, heroic slow motion bloodshed, and old-school FPS ACTION.

Why similar: Gore 38.4%, Violent 20.8%, FPS 10.8%, Physics 9.7%, First-Person 7%

Why You'll Like It: While more gun-focused, it shares the same over-the-top first-person violence, environmental playfulness, and delight in stylishly wrecking rooms full of enemies.

Ghat's story is far from over: Zeno Clash 2 picks up where the deliciously brazen first game left off. After 4 years of waiting, the sequel to the surreal first-person brawler brings more variety in combat and levels, and even more bizarre storytelling into the beguiling world of Zenozoik.

Why similar: Fighting 38.8% ★, Beat 'em up 26.5%, Action 10.2%, First-Person 8%, FPS 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: Few games focus on first-person fistfights this directly, and its bizarre world only adds to the same punch-first, think-later energy.

The critically acclaimed Vermintide 2 is a visually stunning and groundbreaking melee action game pushing the boundaries of the first person co-op genre. Join the fight now!

Why similar: Gore 38.4%, Co-op 15.5%, Multiplayer 13.9%, First-Person 9.6%, Roguelite 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps sandbox arenas for co-op missions, but the first-person melee gore and constant swarms still deliver that same visceral crowd-clearing satisfaction.

Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.

Why similar: Gore 44.8%, Violent 19.1%, Physics 14%, Sandbox 12.5%, Funny 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Even without the first-person action, it overlaps strongly on gore, physics, and the joy of testing how violently a sandbox can react.

Prepare the perfect heist in a fully destructible, simulated voxel world. Tear down walls with vehicles or use explosives to create your own shortcuts. Shape the environment to your advantage in the most creative ways you can imagine. Play solo or with up to 12 players in multiplayer.

Why similar: Voxel 33.8% ★, Physics 17.8%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Sandbox 11.5%, Co-op 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is less combat-focused, but the voxel destruction, first-person perspective, and sandbox experimentation appeal to the same love of reactive chaos.

HARD BULLET is a physics-based action game, where enemies flood the neon-lit city bringing destruction to its streets. Use slow-motion, a huge arsenal, and brutal combat to survive and unlock new weapons. Prepare for the next RIDE by mastering your skills in Sandbox and Arena modes.

Why similar: Gore 26.1%, Violent 25.4%, Physics 15.1%, Sandbox 10.8%, First-Person 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its sandbox gun-and-melee combat leans even harder into interactive gore and physics, making it a natural fit for fans of improvised brutality.

BONEWORKS is an Experimental Physics VR Adventure. Use found physics weapons, tools, and objects to fight across dangerous playscapes and mysterious architecture.

Why similar: Physics 22.7%, Gore 17.5%, Violent 15.4%, Sandbox 11.4%, First-Person 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its physics-first first-person combat makes every swing, grab, and thrown object feel tactile in a way Paint the Town Red players usually appreciate.

MADNESS: Project Nexus is a third-person Run n' Gun / Beat'Em Up filled with arcade-style action and button-mashing brutality. Gun your way through droves of bad guys in the Story Campaign, or build your perfect killing machine in the neverending onslaught of Arena Mode.

Why similar: Gore 39%, Beat 'em up 21.2%, Violent 16.5%, Funny 7.4%, Co-op 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: This one trades perspective for arena brutality, but the nonstop carnage, weapon pickups, and beat-em-up intensity are very much in the same lane.

GORN is a ludicrously violent VR gladiator simulator, made by Free Lives, the developers of Broforce and Genital Jousting.

Why similar: Gore 33.9%, Fighting 25% ★, Violent 23%, Action 5.8%, Funny 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: It is a more cartoonish VR take on the same idea: ridiculous melee combat, exaggerated gore, and pure sandbox bloodbath energy.

Fight, sneak, and hack your way through randomly generated cities. It's like Nuclear Throne meets Deus Ex, mixed with the anarchy of GTA. Rogue-lite meets immersive sim, and goes completely insane.

Why similar: Multiplayer 16.8%, Roguelite 16.1%, Gore 15.4%, Roguelike 15%, Co-op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: It is less about first-person melee specifically, but its sandbox missions, emergent brawls, and run-based mayhem match the seed game's anarchic spirit.

Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.

Why similar: Gore 38.2%, Violent 24%, FPS 12.6%, Co-op 10.9%, First-Person 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: For a co-op spin on the formula, Darktide delivers chunky first-person melee, hordes of enemies, and nonstop close-range chaos.

Humanity is fighting a losing battle against the virus. Experience a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by hordes of zombies, where your parkour and combat skills are key to survival. Traverse the City freely during the day, but watch the monsters take over during the night.

Why similar: Gore 36%, Violent 19.7%, Multiplayer 14.4%, Co-op 12.5%, First-Person 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like the first game, it keeps the emphasis on first-person melee and improvised weapon chaos, just in a larger and more traversal-heavy world.

Melon Simulator™ is a chaotic, co-op (1 - 4 players), first person melee combat game. Almost anything that isn't nailed down can be used to whack, slice, and throw at the oncoming melon hoard...

Why similar: Fighting 18.7% ★, Gore 16.1%, Beat 'em up 10.3%, Violent 9.4%, Physics 6%

Fight & strategize your way through spectacles and arenas - rise from lowly slave to Grand Champion and earn your freedom. Or... die trying. This Gladiator RPG Roguelite features in-depth career management and a unique physics simulated combat system. To those who are about to die, I salute you!

Why similar: Gore 36.5%, Physics 17.1%, Roguelite 14%, Difficult 13.3%, Sandbox 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: Its arena structure, weapon variety, and roguelite progression make it a solid alternative if you enjoy the survive-wave-after-wave side of Paint the Town Red.

You are Wendigo. A hard-hearted contract killer tasked with annihilating a fanatical cult. With your trusted arsenal at the ready, experience what has been called "The most violent game in VR". EARLY ACCESS includes RAID, ARENA and SANDBOX modes with a story campaign and much more on the way.

Why similar: Gore 62.1%, Violent 25.3%, Sandbox 5.7%, Action 3.6%, FPS 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: If you want an even harsher VR version of brutal first-person violence, Blood Trail is built almost entirely around graphic, physics-heavy combat.

PERISH is a stylish 1-4 player FPS with a cross to bear. Slay hordes of creatures on the black sands of Purgatory and sell their gold-stained corpses to craven priests. Kill magnificent bosses and use the proceeds to gain entrance to Elysium, a place of cosmic revelations.

Why similar: Gore 35.8%, Violent 20.9%, Roguelite 9%, FPS 7.6%, Multiplayer 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op roguelite FPS is less improvised than Paint the Town Red, but its fast arena combat, brutal tone, and repeat-run structure hit some of the same adrenaline.

Fight upon the Ravenfield together with your Blue allies! Take down those pesky Reds using helicopters, tanks, guns, and active ragdoll physics!

Why similar: FPS 26.6%, Sandbox 17.6%, First-Person 15.1%, Physics 13.7%, Funny 10.8%

Stick it to the Stickman is a physics-based brawler where you fight heaps of red stickmen to become the boss. Choose from hundreds of unique moves to construct the perfect combat machine and fight your way to the top of the corporate ladder.

Why similar: Beat 'em up 33.6%, Multiplayer 16.7%, Roguelike 16.4%, Co-op 11.2%, Funny 10.1%

STANDBOX is a single-player physics sandbox about bullying a ragdoll. Shoot him, push him, watch him get back up until he doesn't.

Why similar: Gore 36.7%, Violent 26.6%, Physics 15%, Sandbox 11.1%, Action 3.7%

The golden age of violent flash games now in your VR headset. Fully physics based combat with melee and firearms featuring copious amounts of blood, gore and destruction.

Why similar: Gore 51.3%, Physics 18.5%, Sandbox 11.3%, Violent 10.9%, Action 6.8%

Sword With Sauce is a fast-paced stealth-action game where you pick weapons, gadgets, and a playstyle to eliminate enemies. Go in loud or stay unseen—it's your choice.

Why similar: Gore 36.6%, Violent 20.9%, FPS 9.7%, First-Person 8.9%, Action 6%

Superfighters Deluxe is a unique action game that combines brawling, shooting and platforming in dynamic sandboxy 2D levels. Lots of weapons and fun gameplay systems interlock to create absurd action-movie chaos.

Why similar: Gore 29.4%, Violent 19.8%, Beat 'em up 12.2%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Physics 7.1%

Be the leader of wobblers from ancient lands, spooky places, and fantasy worlds. Watch them fight in simulations made with the wobbliest physics system ever created, make your own wobblers in the unit creator and send your army off to fight your friends in multiplayer.

Why similar: Physics 30.4%, Sandbox 26%, Funny 23.7%, Action 6.7%, Adventure 5.3%

Gang Beasts is a silly multiplayer party game with surly gelatinous characters, brutal slapstick fight sequences, and absurd hazardous environments, set in the mean streets of Beef City.

Why similar: Fighting 35.6% ★, Physics 16.6%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Beat 'em up 13.7%, Funny 11.8%

Clustertruck is a chaotic physics based truckformer. Jump your way through insane levels in a game of "the floor is lava" on top of speeding trucks driven by terrible drivers.

Why similar: Physics 26.7%, First-Person 22.5%, Difficult 16.6%, Action 12.9%, Funny 9.7%

Do whatever you want in a physics sandbox full of chaotic destruction, endless player-made creations and unpredictable adventures. Build, destroy, roleplay and mess around solo or with friends!

Why similar: Physics 24.3%, Multiplayer 24%, Sandbox 20.6%, Funny 10.3%, FPS 7.8%

RAGDORE is a physics-driven sandbox where limbs fly, bones snap, and movement changes with every injury. Experiment with traps, crushers, trampolines, and more in colorful maps designed for creative destruction and dynamic ragdoll mayhem.

Why similar: Gore 50.8%, Violent 22.6%, Physics 12.4%, Sandbox 8.8%, Action 4.3%

Voxel Project offers an immersive sandbox experience set in a fully destructible voxel environment. Explore a dynamic world teeming with vehicles, dynamic fire mechanics, enemy NPCs, voxel gore, weapon customization, and a bunch of additional features to discover.

Why similar: Voxel 31.8% ★, Multiplayer 14.4%, Physics 12.6%, First-Person 10.1%, Sandbox 10%

Welcome to the laboratory! Here tests are taken upon highly durable human clones using newest weapon technologies. Your goal is to head these tests.

Why similar: Gore 42.6%, Violent 25.2%, Sandbox 7.9%, Funny 7.8%, Physics 7.6%

My Friend Pedro is a violent ballet about friendship, imagination, and one man’s struggle to obliterate anyone in his path at the behest of a sentient banana.

Why similar: Gore 44.2%, Violent 25.1%, Action 10.2%, Physics 6.3%, Funny 5.9%

Toribash is an innovative free-to-play online turn-based fighting game where you’re able to design your own moves. Complete control over character's body, hundreds of game mods and bloody mess with full body dismemberment - you've never been able to annihilate your enemies like that before!

Why similar: Fighting 39% ★, Gore 27.4%, Physics 10.1%, Multiplayer 8.8%, Funny 3.5%

You are a goblin gladiator in this mini-FPS roguelite. Fight your way through the Arenas. Wreck junkbots. Delight the crowd. Get paid. Cause chaos.

Why similar: Physics 21%, FPS 20.9%, Roguelite 15.5%, Roguelike 12.5%, First-Person 12%

WorldBox is the ULTIMATE god simulator and sandbox game. A petri dish for your fantasy civilizations. Create your own world or destroy it using many powers. Watch civilizations grow, form kingdoms, colonize new lands, sail to far continents, wars to ignite, empires to fall and towns to burn!

Why similar: Sandbox 90.9%, Indie 9.1%

Welcome to Versus World! Shoot, stab, snipe, and 'splode your opponents to victory in this fast-paced multiplayer FPS. Here, the afterlife of a respawning immortal is seasoned by an up-down crouch.

Why similar: Gore 47.6%, Violent 28.4%, First-Person 8.2%, Action 7%, Funny 6.1%

Become the ultimate badass in Trepang2: A gory, action-packed FPS set in the near future. Unleash all hell on your enemies, dodge bullets and leave a trail of destruction in this hardcore and frenetic shooter.

Why similar: Gore 40.8%, Violent 23.7%, FPS 13.2%, First-Person 8.3%, Difficult 5.6%

Chaos Town is a top-down chaotic shooter game where everything is destructible!

Why similar: Gore 36.1%, Violent 20.5%, Action 19.1%, Difficult 10.5%, Indie 6.2%

A highly customizable virtual stressball and physics sandbox about mutilating ragdolls in various ways using an overwhelming amount of weapons and tools.

Why similar: Gore 43.5%, Violent 19.1%, Physics 17.4%, Sandbox 13.8%, Funny 3.1%

Cut robots apart in VR. Feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Now you live and die in the Crashloop, a roguelike tournament to the death. Lock swords! Shoot shurikens from your wrist! This is CLONE DRONE... in the HYPERDOME!!!

Why similar: Fighting 46.4% ★, Voxel 34.8% ★, First-Person 6.2%, Funny 6%, Action 5.8%

Kill It With Fire is a first-person action game about hunting spiders and causing collateral damage.

Why similar: Physics 31.6%, Funny 21.2%, Co-op 16.8%, Sandbox 16.3%, Action 14.1%

Season's Beatings is a fast and frantic one hit kill FPS best described as first person Hotline Miami. You'll need to memorize enemy patterns and placements, and execute a meticulously thought out plan to succeed! Or...y'know. Just dive in and shoot some fools with a tommy gun.

Why similar: Gore 55.7%, Violent 33.3%, Action 7.9%, Indie 3.1%

Tragedy! Santa; the toy giving folk-hero, and purveyor of fine Christmas goods, has had enough. Endless requests from greedy children wanting more and more every year, tax increases, pressure from elf unions, bills, reindeer!

Why similar: Gore 56.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Co-op 9%, Funny 7.5%, First-Person 6.4%

Stick Fight is a physics-based couch/online fighting game where you battle it out as the iconic stick figures from the golden age of the internet.

Why similar: Fighting 47.7% ★, Multiplayer 21.6%, Funny 12.8%, Physics 8.3%, Action 4.5%

Fight with your whole body. If you lose an arm, it's just a scratch. If you lose the other, it's a flesh wound. If you lose your legs, headbutt them. LET'S FIGHT, FIGHT, FIGHT!

Why similar: Fighting 28% ★, Gore 25.4%, Beat 'em up 15.5%, Physics 11%, Multiplayer 9.8%

UNDERGROUND MECH FIGHTS! Wrap yourself in 5 tons of metal & go smashing through a dark scene of full-on metal-on-metal violence!

Why similar: Fighting 28.6% ★, Violent 17.2%, Physics 11.6%, Gore 9.1%, Roguelite 8.3%

Gladio is a first-person, hack n' slash, action game with parkour elements. Fight against multiple different enemy types across different levels, while managing your health along the way. Survive if you can...

Why similar: Gore 31.7%, Violent 15.5%, Difficult 15.3%, Sandbox 13.3%, First-Person 11.1%

STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.

Why similar: Gore 30.7%, Violent 17%, Roguelite 12.7%, FPS 9.8%, Roguelike 8.4%