Games Like Paint the Town Red

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 31.8% ★, Voxel 23% ★, Multiplayer 10%, Roguelike 8.2%, Co-op 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its arena-focused combat, limb-slicing dismemberment, and chaotic melee improvisation capture the same fast, silly brutality even from a different camera angle.

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 34.4%, Violent 18%, Voxel 15.1% ★, Physics 10.2%, Sandbox 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: Its sandbox structure leans freer than Paint the Town Red, but the combination of first-person violence, physics, and extreme gore hits a very similar itch.

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 39.9%, Fighting 23.9% ★, Multiplayer 15.1%, First-Person 10.7%, FPS 5.4%

Why You'll Like It: It delivers weighty first-person melee combat, gore, and the same joy of turning fights into messy, skillful chaos in multiplayer.

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

Why similar: Gore 34.1%, Fighting 25% ★, Violent 23.1%, Action 5.8%, Funny 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It turns melee combat into exaggerated physics comedy with ridiculous weapons and dismemberment, making it one of the closest VR alternatives.

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 29.8%, Fighting 23.5% ★, Violent 16%, Physics 9%, Sandbox 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: If your favorite part was battering enemies around with physical weapons and brutal impacts, this VR sandbox pushes that idea even further.

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 53.1%, Multiplayer 19%, FPS 10.7%, First-Person 10.4%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Like Paint the Town Red, it thrives on over-the-top first-person carnage, hilarious combat moments, and wildly brutal melee encounters.

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 39.3%, Beat 'em up 21.1%, Violent 16.7%, Funny 7.2%, Co-op 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Even though it is side-on rather than first-person, its savage arena combat, gore, and relentless beat-em-up energy are a strong thematic fit.

Drunken Wrestlers 2 is a funny physics-based multiplayer fighting game. Features include character customization and a powerful mod editor integrated with Steam Workshop.

Why similar: Fighting 39.9% ★, Gore 25.3%, Physics 12.9%, Multiplayer 11.6%, Funny 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: This is pure physics-driven brawling with clumsy, funny, and violent multiplayer fights that echo Paint the Town Red's slapstick side.

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 36.9%, Violent 21.2%, FPS 9.6%, First-Person 8.7%, Action 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the first-person perspective and lets you tackle encounters with melee weapons, gadgets, and stylish over-the-top violence.

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

Why similar: Gore 45.5%, Violent 15.8%, FPS 6.8%, Physics 6.7%, First-Person 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: This VR arena fighter focuses on grisly melee combat and physical enemy interactions in a way that feels very close to Paint the Town Red's combat sandbox.

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

Why similar: Gore 45%, Violent 19.1%, Physics 13.8%, Sandbox 12.7%, Funny 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Although more of a sandbox toybox than a brawler, it shares the same fascination with gore, physics, and creative violence.

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 26.5%, Violent 25.7%, Physics 14.8%, Sandbox 10.9%, First-Person 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: It leans heavily into first-person physical violence, improvised kills, and sandbox cruelty, making it a strong VR match for the same kind of chaotic combat.

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 23.7%, First-Person 19.8%, Roguelite 15.2%, Roguelike 15%, Violent 13.4%

Why You'll Like It: This first-person roguelite emphasizes vicious melee combos, nonstop aggression, and run-based carnage much like Paint the Town Red's Beneath mode.

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 58.7% ★, Difficult 18.3%, First-Person 15.9%, Action 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: It swaps the voxel chaos for a heavier dark-fantasy style, but the first-person melee focus and aggressive combat pacing feel very compatible.

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 46.4%, Co-op 17.1%, First-Person 10.9%, FPS 10.5%, Multiplayer 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person melee, outrageous gore system, and love of improvised weapon violence make it a natural pick for Paint the Town Red fans.

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 33.6% ★, Physics 17.9%, Multiplayer 12.1%, Sandbox 11.9%, Co-op 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: It is less combat-centered, but the destructible voxel world and physics sandbox experimentation strongly echo Paint the Town Red's tactile chaos.

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 37.9% ★, Physics 15.8%, Multiplayer 15.3%, Funny 11.1%, Co-op 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: This keeps the goofy physics-brawler spirit and multiplayer chaos, just with less gore and a much sillier tone.

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 29.6%, Violent 20.1%, Beat 'em up 12.1%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Physics 7%

Why You'll Like It: This one translates the same chaotic, weapon-grabbing, environmentally destructive fight energy into a 2D multiplayer format.

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 38.8%, Violent 20.8%, FPS 10.6%, Physics 9.5%, First-Person 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: It is more gun-focused overall, but its slow-motion carnage, over-the-top ragdolls, and gleeful ultraviolence are very much in the same spirit.

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 49.3%, Multiplayer 16.1%, FPS 15.3%, First-Person 12.5%, Action 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its first-person melee combat, ragdolls, and weapon-swinging brutality scratch a similar itch even though it is more open-world and survival-oriented.

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 16.7%, Gore 15.9%, Roguelite 15.6%, Roguelike 14.6%, Co-op 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Its emergent sandbox combat, co-op chaos, and run-based structure make it a good fit if you like Paint the Town Red's unpredictability over its perspective.

Besiege castles and raid villages in Chivalry: Medieval Warfare, a fast-paced medieval first person slasher with a focus on multiplayer battles

Why similar: Gore 41%, Multiplayer 17.1%, Violent 16.5%, First-Person 9.2%, Action 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is an older but still fitting source of first-person melee chaos, gore, and absurdly funny battlefield violence.

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 37.1%, Physics 17%, Roguelite 13.4%, Difficult 13.1%, Sandbox 10.9%

Why You'll Like It: The gladiatorial arena structure, physics-based melee, and run-based progression line up well with the roguelite brawler side of Paint the Town Red.

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 22.5%, Gore 17.6%, Violent 15.6%, Sandbox 11.6%, First-Person 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: It is less gory, but the first-person physics sandbox combat and freedom to experiment with objects feel spiritually close.

Goofy Ragdolls and Physics Simulated duels that will challenge your tactics. Customise & Upgrade your Gladiator, dismember opponents in the arena and climb the Leaderboard. All for free!

Why similar: Gore 26.3%, Fighting 21.3% ★, Beat 'em up 15.7%, Physics 10.2%, Violent 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: Its physics-based arena sword fighting and deliberately messy, unpredictable combat mirror Paint the Town Red's love of chaotic melee outcomes.

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 horde...

Why similar: Fighting 18.9% ★, Gore 16.4%, Beat 'em up 10.3%, Violent 9.5%, Physics 5.9%

Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal. Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world.

Why similar: Fighting 39.2% ★, Beat 'em up 28.4%, FPS 10%, Action 9.5%, First-Person 8%

Why You'll Like It: Few games commit this hard to first-person brawling, and its raw hand-to-hand combat gives it a similar punch-first feel.

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 33.9%, Multiplayer 16.6%, Roguelike 15.9%, Co-op 11.6%, Funny 9.9%

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 35.8%, Physics 23.6%, Violent 15.5%, Sandbox 14.8%, Action 8.7%

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 37.1%, Violent 26.7%, Physics 14.6%, Sandbox 11.3%, Action 3.6%

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 26.4%, Sandbox 18.2%, First-Person 15%, Physics 13.6%, Funny 10.7%

Explore, fight, survive and unravel mysteries in this unique and unforgiving 3D isometric RPG set in an original dark, low fantasy world. Exanima's exceptional attention to detail and realistic simulation of all things aim to provide a deeply immersive and dynamic gameplay experience.

Why similar: Physics 46.1%, Difficult 24.1%, Roguelike 11.5%, Action 8.8%, Adventure 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: Its physics-driven melee is slower and more punishing, but the unpredictable weapon interactions and bodily impacts appeal to the same kind of player.

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 39.1% ★, Beat 'em up 26.4%, Action 10.3%, First-Person 7.9%, FPS 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It expands on the original's weird, close-quarters first-person fighting and keeps that uncommon emphasis on melee over gunplay.

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 30.2%, Sandbox 26.7%, Funny 23.3%, Action 6.8%, Adventure 5.4%

The sequel to the million-plus selling Dead Rising, Dead Rising 2 takes the zombie survival horror to Fortune City, America’s latest and greatest entertainment playground.

Why similar: Gore 39.5%, Co-op 15.8%, Multiplayer 13.6%, Action 11.3%, Funny 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: The improvised weapon comedy and gleeful mass carnage make it a good pick if you love Paint the Town Red's absurd violence more than its perspective.

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 41.2%, Violent 23.9%, FPS 13%, First-Person 8.1%, Difficult 5.5%

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 22.4%, Difficult 16.6%, Action 13.2%, Funny 9.6%

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 44.7%, Violent 25.2%, Action 10.1%, Physics 6.2%, Funny 5.7%

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 24.4%, Multiplayer 23.5%, Sandbox 21.2%, Funny 10.1%, FPS 7.7%

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 42.8%, Violent 25.3%, Sandbox 8.1%, Funny 7.6%, Physics 7.4%

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 47.8%, Violent 28.5%, First-Person 8%, Action 7%, Funny 5.9%

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 57.3%, Multiplayer 10.5%, Co-op 8.8%, Funny 7.3%, First-Person 6.3%

This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

Why similar: Gore 51.5%, Multiplayer 11.7%, FPS 9.4%, Funny 9.1%, Co-op 7.1%

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 21.2%, FPS 21%, Roguelite 15.1%, Roguelike 12.2%, First-Person 12%

Chaos Town is a top-down shooter focused on fast-paced combat, character progression, and fully destructible environments.

Why similar: Gore 36.4%, Violent 20.7%, Action 19.1%, Difficult 10.4%, Indie 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: Gore 45.9%, Violent 24.4%, Physics 13.5%, Sandbox 9.7%, Action 4.7%

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 55.8%, Violent 33.3%, Action 7.8%, Indie 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 46.8% ★, Voxel 34.5% ★, First-Person 6.2%, Funny 5.9%, Action 5.8%

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 31.9% ★, Multiplayer 14.2%, Physics 12.6%, Sandbox 10.3%, First-Person 10%

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 48.2% ★, Multiplayer 21.3%, Funny 12.7%, Physics 8.3%, Action 4.6%

Grab a weapon, demolish your enemies, level up, become more powerful, let the gore flow, let the limbs fly. BrainBread 2 introduces a zombie fps mixed with RPG / Arcade elements, the game is very action-packed and generally fast-paced.

Why similar: Gore 33.1%, Multiplayer 18.6%, FPS 13%, Co-op 9.1%, First-Person 6.5%

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 31.3%, Violent 17.4%, Roguelite 12.2%, FPS 9.8%, Roguelike 8.1%

Redeemer: Enhanced Edition is a brutal close-quarters brawler. Punch, crush, shoot, and use the environment to destroy enemies. Master deep melee combat, execute savage finishers, and fight for redemption as Vasily, a former elite operative hunted by a cybernetic corporation.

Why similar: Gore 29.1%, Fighting 21.3% ★, Beat 'em up 20.9%, Violent 17.6%, Action 5.2%

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: Sandbox 91.3%, Indie 8.7%

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: Gore 41.6%, Fighting 25.8% ★, Physics 13.9%, Sandbox 5.6%, Multiplayer 4.9%

Anger Foot is a lightning fast action FPS where the only things harder than your ass kicking feet are the ass kicking beats.

Why similar: Gore 34.1%, Violent 22.4%, FPS 14.4%, First-Person 8.8%, Arcade 6.8%

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 39.1% ★, Gore 27.8%, Physics 10%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Funny 3.4%

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 36.3%, Violent 21.2%, Roguelite 8.7%, FPS 7.5%, Multiplayer 6.5%

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 32%, Violent 15.6%, Difficult 15%, Sandbox 13.6%, First-Person 10.9%

In Viscera Cleanup Detail, you step into the boots of a space-station janitor tasked with cleaning up after various horrific sci-fi horror events. Instead of machineguns and plasma-rifles, your tools are a mop and bucket. That hero left a mess, and it's up to you to deal with the aftermath.

Why similar: Gore 49.5%, Multiplayer 11.9%, Physics 10.1%, Co-op 8.9%, First-Person 8%