UpGun similar games & best alternatives

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UpGun

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2021

Should you play it?

Face your friends in UpGun! Use each round to accumulate skills and overtake your opponents in this crazy deathmatch!

What works

  • Fun and dynamic upgrade system
  • Great multiplayer with friends
  • Frequent developer updates
  • Low system requirements
  • High replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Small player base limits matchmaking
  • Full version required for online play with others
  • Some balance issues with upgrades
  • Limited maps and content
  • Randomness can frustrate players

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Boring Man - Online Tactical Stickman Combat

  • Deducto 2

  • Shotgun Farmers

  • Catto Pew Pew! CLASSIC

  • A Gentlemen's Dispute

  • Screencheat

Less dominating

Games that feels like UpGun but with less domination over others

  • Perfect Heist 2

  • Reflex Arena

  • War Brokers

  • Grapples Galore

  • Murder Miners

  • Grapple Tournament

More story-driven

Games that feels like UpGun but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Bean Battles

  • Wild Bastards

  • Clone Drone in the Danger Zone

  • Epic Snails

  • Dodgy Deliveries

  • Lethal League Blaze

Less fantastical

Games that feels like UpGun but with less imaginative fiction

  • Project Hardline

  • BLOCKPOST LEGACY

  • BLOCKADE

  • Redmatch 2

  • Super Totally Ultimate Dad Showdown

  • Warfork

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Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with UpGun. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with UpGun. These titles are not in What to play next.

UpGun: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Domination, Intimacy. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Last update: 21/08/2026