Cookie Cutter: Overkill Edition similar games & best alternatives

Cookie Cutter: Overkill Edition

PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch • 2023

Should you play it?

Fueled by love but driven by rage, Cherry embarks on a blood-soaked quest for revenge, explores the massive Megastructure, and eviscerates the armies of Infornet in a best-in-class action-adventure that breaks tropes and bones.

What works

  • Unique hand-drawn art and animation
  • Engaging and fluid combat system
  • Varied weapons and abilities
  • Interesting cyberpunk story and characters
  • Large map with satisfying exploration

Things to keep in mind

  • Parry system has a very tight and inconsistent timing window
  • Some bugs including map progress reset and audio issues
  • Occasional performance issues on steam deck
  • Some platforming sections are frustrating
  • Lack of full voice acting beyond early game

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Katanaut

  • DEAD OR SCHOOL

  • Ghost 1.0

  • Trinity Fusion

  • Mandragora: Whispers of the Witch Tree

  • Rogue Legacy 2

Less exploratory

Games that feels like Cookie Cutter: Overkill Edition but with less exploration of areas and secrets

  • They Always Run

  • Dust & Neon

  • Blade Assault

  • Soda Girls

  • Anomaly Agent

  • Dark Light

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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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).

Cookie Cutter: Overkill Edition: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Violence, Exploration. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Leadership.

Last update: 03/08/2026