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 28%, Violent 17.9%, First-Person 17.7%, Roguelite 13.4%, Roguelike 12.1%

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 29.3%, Fighting 27.4% ★, Multiplayer 18.1%, First-Person 12.9%, FPS 6.4%

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 48.3%, Multiplayer 20.9%, FPS 11.8%, First-Person 11.6%, Action 7.4%

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

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: First-Person 20.8%, Gore 19.2%, Roguelite 17%, Roguelike 16.8%, Violent 12.8%

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.

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

Why similar: Gore 31.9%, Violent 20.6%, Voxel 18.4% ★, Physics 12.1%, FPS 8.4%

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.

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% ★, Difficult 18.6%, First-Person 16.5%, Action 7%

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 33.4% ★, Voxel 24.6% ★, Multiplayer 10.9%, Roguelike 9.2%, Difficult 7.1%

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: Physics 26.8%, FPS 19.8%, First-Person 15.5%, Action 14.7%, Funny 14.3%

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 56.7%, First-Person 16.8%, FPS 15.9%, Action 6.3%, Adventure 4.4%

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 44.6%, Multiplayer 17.6%, FPS 16.7%, First-Person 13.8%, Action 7.2%

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.

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 35.4%, Multiplayer 22.1%, Violent 13.7%, FPS 10.5%, First-Person 9.2%

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

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

Why similar: Gore 43.6%, Violent 18%, FPS 8%, Physics 7.9%, First-Person 7.8%

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

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%, Fighting 27.8% ★, Violent 18.6%, Physics 10.9%, First-Person 5.7%

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.

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: Blood 29.8% ★, Gore 24.3%, Violent 16.8%, FPS 8.8%, Physics 8%

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.

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

Why similar: Blood 41.9% ★, Gore 24.9%, Violent 15%, Physics 11.3%, Funny 3.9%

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.

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 40.6% ★, Beat 'em up 28%, Action 10.8%, First-Person 8.6%, FPS 5.3%

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.

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 37.4%, Violent 25.1%, Physics 15.1%, First-Person 7.9%, Action 5.8%

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.

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: Blood 38.1% ★, Gore 22.3%, Beat 'em up 17.1%, Violent 13.3%, Funny 6.1%

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.

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 42.1%, Multiplayer 18%, First-Person 12.6%, Roguelite 11.2%, FPS 10.1%

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.

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 42.3% ★, Physics 22.3%, Multiplayer 15.2%, First-Person 10.4%, Action 5.2%

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.

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

Why similar: Blood 25.7% ★, Gore 22.6%, Fighting 19.4% ★, Violent 17.9%, Funny 4.6%

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.

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 26.8%, Violent 17.9%, Gore 16.4%, First-Person 10.4%, FPS 9.6%

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.

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 19.2%, Roguelite 19%, Roguelike 17.4%, Gore 14.2%, Violent 10.7%

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: FPS 46.8%, First-Person 34.8%, Action 18.5%

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 37%, Violent 24%, Multiplayer 17.6%, First-Person 10.9%, Action 5.6%

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: Blood 22.6% ★, Fighting 15.8% ★, Gore 11.9%, Beat 'em up 8.8%, Violent 8%

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: Blood 38.4% ★, Fighting 25.6% ★, Gore 21.6%, Physics 10.3%, Action 3.2%

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 42.6%, Blood 29.5% ★, Violent 21.8%, Action 3.2%, FPS 2.5%

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.

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 37.8%, Roguelike 18.9%, Multiplayer 18.6%, Funny 11.1%, Action 10.2%

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 26.2%, Violent 18.6%, Blood 14.6% ★, Roguelite 8.4%, FPS 6.8%

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.

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: Blood 32.1% ★, Gore 23.9%, Violent 22.4%, Physics 12.5%, Action 3.1%

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 32.1%, First-Person 18.5%, Physics 16.7%, Funny 13.2%, Action 11.2%

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: Blood 33.9% ★, Violent 17.3%, Gore 16.1%, FPS 8.2%, First-Person 7.6%

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: Blood 32.6% ★, Gore 25%, Violent 16.8%, FPS 9.4%, First-Person 6%

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 40.9%, Blood 24.8% ★, Physics 17.4%, Violent 9.4%, Action 6.3%

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 41%, Funny 32.1%, Action 8.9%, Adventure 7.2%, Indie 5.9%

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 27.2%, Violent 21.2%, Beat 'em up 13.3%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Physics 7.8%

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 22.6%, Difficult 16.5%, Action 12.7%, Funny 9.7%

Half Sword is a physics-based medieval combat simulator featuring historically accurate XV-century arms and armor. We are not afraid to show the brutal nature of medieval combat with in-depth blood and gore features.

Why similar: Blood 38.7% ★, Gore 23.2%, Fighting 20.2% ★, Physics 11.1%, First-Person 3.5%

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: Blood 30.7% ★, Gore 29.5%, Violent 20.2%, Funny 6.4%, Physics 6.1%

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: Blood 37.3% ★, Gore 32.6%, Violent 16.7%, Physics 9.3%, Action 3.2%

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: Blood 27.4% ★, Gore 26%, Violent 21.4%, Action 8.6%, Physics 5.4%

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

Why similar: Blood 43.3% ★, Gore 26.4%, Violent 13.4%, Physics 12.4%, Funny 2.3%

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 37.4% ★, Physics 17.9%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Beat 'em up 14.6%, Funny 12.7%

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: Blood 22.5% ★, Gore 19.3%, Violent 14%, Roguelite 10.9%, FPS 8.2%

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: Indie 100%

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 45.9% ★, Voxel 35.1% ★, First-Person 6.3%, Funny 6.1%, Action 5.7%

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

Why similar: Gore 32.7%, Violent 21.5%, Action 19.9%, Difficult 11.1%, Indie 6.7%

REDEEMER is a intense Brawler where you will punch, hack and blast your way through enemies using fists, hammers, fire arms and even the environment.

Why similar: Gore 26.9%, Fighting 23.3% ★, Beat 'em up 23.3%, Violent 19.2%, Action 5.6%

APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

Why similar: Blood 32.3% ★, Gore 20.9%, Violent 16.7%, Beat 'em up 13.8%, Difficult 6.9%

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 35.6% ★, Blood 19.9% ★, Gore 17%, Physics 9.4%, Multiplayer 8.1%

Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!

Why similar: FPS 29%, Roguelite 28.1%, First-Person 20.9%, Action 12.3%, Adventure 5.8%

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: Blood 41.8% ★, Gore 31.1%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Funny 5.9%, First-Person 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 20.9%, FPS 20.6%, Roguelite 15.8%, Roguelike 12.7%, First-Person 11.9%

Build your own vehicles or download one of the more than 200,000 creations already uploaded to the Workshop and experience the dynamic driving and destruction physics of Brick Rigs!

Why similar: Physics 30.4%, Multiplayer 30.2%, Funny 13.1%, FPS 9.9%, First-Person 9.4%

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 42.6%, Violent 30.8%, First-Person 9.1%, Action 7.6%, Funny 6.7%

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.

Why similar: Physics 29.2%, Roguelike 24.6%, Difficult 21.8%, Roguelite 14.2%, Action 6.7%

One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.

Why similar: Blood 37.3% ★, Gore 19.1%, Violent 14.5%, Beat 'em up 14.3%, Difficult 7.4%

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 52%, Violent 36%, Action 8.5%, Indie 3.5%