- #1 TowerFall Ascension
72% matchVery Positive95% of 3,547 reviews2014
Dev: Maddy Makes Games Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.2 hrs≥1hr: 78%
TowerFall Ascension is the definitive version of the hit archery combat game. Inspired by classics from the golden age of couch multiplayer, it's a 4-player local party game centering around hilarious, intense versus matches. The core mechanics are simple and accessible, but hard to master and combat is fierce.
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 20.1%, 2D Fighter 18.8%, 4 Player Local 18.3%, Local Co-Op 17.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.2%
- #2 Asteroids: Multiplayer
71% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Irongate Apps
Windows · Linux
A modern version of the classic arcade game
Why similar: 4 Player Local 18.7%, Local Co-Op 17.8%, Team-Based 15.9%, Local Multiplayer 13.1%, Top-Down Shooter 11.6%
- #3 Bamerang: Warm-Up Duel
70% matchVery Positive91% of 57 reviews2020
Dev: Lululu Entertainment
Windows
Warm up your boomerang throwing skills in the free duel mode of Bämeräng, the fast paced boomerang fighting game. Fight for the favor of the goddess in an outlandish, colorful world in this local multiplayer game.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 25.4%, 2D Fighter 14.3%, Top-Down Shooter 13.7%, Local Multiplayer 12.7%, Retro 7%
- #4 Hellcrackers
69% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2025
Dev: Balazs Maczak
Windows
Hellcrackers is a survivors-like you can play solo or with up to 8 friends locally. Fight waves of monsters, and buy upgrades from the coins you collect! If you are a few coins short you can always accept curses for some extra cash!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 22.2%, Top-Down Shooter 17.4%, Local Multiplayer 15.9%, Arcade 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
- #5 2KXX
68% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: STUDIO 185
Windows
2KXX is a local multiplayer game. Fight your friends on a selection of various characters, maps, and game modes. Spice your Match with a list of modifiers that can make your life easier or worse.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27%, Local Multiplayer 16.6%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Team-Based 8.2%, Arcade 7.5%
- #6 Mystic Strife
68% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: jSpeak
Windows · Linux
Mystic Strife is a fast-paced chaotic party fighting game for up to eight friends. Choose one of six characters with unique abilities and prepare yourself for a simple yet surprisingly deep platforming deathmatch!
Why similar: Archery 30% ★, 4 Player Local 14.5%, Local Co-Op 11.6%, 2D Fighter 11.6%, Arcade 6.4%
- #7 Charset Crossfire
73% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: Lemon & PlumPub: Groombridge34
Windows
A retro maze shooting game with a weird and wacky menagerie of enemies.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 21.6%, Top-Down Shooter 19.6%, Arcade 12.5%, Retro 11.3%, Local Co-Op 9.1%
- #8 To The Death
67% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Rob Ager
Windows
Fast-paced top down shooter. Single player or 2-4 players in local multiplayer / co-op. Sci-fi setting. 3D physics makes the gameplay more dynamic / immersive than traditional 2D shooters. Varied weapons, enemies and interactive environments. All set to a pounding rock / electronica score.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 23%, Local Co-Op 18%, Top-Down Shooter 16.8%, Local Multiplayer 14.2%, Arena Shooter 10.5%
- #9 Slalomancers
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Kwing
Windows
Slalomancers is a 1-button multiplayer space shooter that's easy to learn and hard to master! Weave your way around bullets and blast enemy ships to smithereens!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 23.5%, Local Co-Op 17.6%, Top-Down Shooter 15.1%, Local Multiplayer 13.5%, Retro 7.3%
- #10 Ballistic Tanks
66% matchVery Positive82% of 244 reviews2016
Dev: Kirklight Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 84%
Ballistic Tanks is the best tank game you've played since the 80's. Battle in exhilarating local multiplayer, or challenge yourself in an intense solo/co-op arcade mode. Play 5 game modes in over 50 maps; and destroy your enemies in a frenzy of bullets, lasers, and explosions!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 23.8%, Local Co-Op 18.1%, Local Multiplayer 12%, Top-Down Shooter 9%, Arena Shooter 6.2%
- #11 Plummet
66% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2020
Dev: ORBMIT Productions
Windows
Immerse yourself in an action packed battle against your friends to be the last one standing on top of the plateau. Outmaneuver your opponents as your favorite hero, using its special abilities in your own unique way. Topple your foes while not losing your step in a game that's always on the edge.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 33.7%, Local Multiplayer 22%, 2D Fighter 12.6%, Top-Down Shooter 11.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
- #12 Toto Temple Deluxe
66% matchVery Positive86% of 51 reviews2015
Dev: Juicy Beast
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 6.0 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Toto Temple Deluxe is a fast-paced, local-multiplayer king-of-the-hill style game in which players must steal an egg-laying goat from their friends and try to keep it on their own head for as long as possible. You know, normal stuff.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 39.2%, Local Co-Op 23.8%, Local Multiplayer 23%, Action 6.7%, Casual 4.4%
- #13 Beardbarians
65% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: SquareSweets GamesPub: Monocle Media
Windows · Linux
Prepare your hair to attack, smack and knock back anyone who dares oppose you in Beardbarians! Pick from a colourful cast of characters and stages to duke it out with friends, locally or online, or work together to protect your gem from goblins by upgrading your abilities in the tower defence mode!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27.9%, 2D Fighter 19%, Local Co-Op 15.5%, Local Multiplayer 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
- #14 Friday Night Bullet Arena
66% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2016
Dev: Red Nexus Games Inc.
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Friday Night Bullet Arena is a top-down multiplayer shoot-a-thon with a twist: each player only gets one bullet! You can catch your own bullet to fire again, but catching other bullets is... not recommended.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27.8%, Top-Down Shooter 17.1%, Local Multiplayer 15.5%, Retro 8.7%, Arcade 7.9%
- #15 OctaFight
65% matchPositive95% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Pixel Almost Perfect
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.9 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
OctaFight is an explosive combat game. A tribute to good old couch multiplayer titles, offering intense and devastating versus matches. Move, jump, shield, throw and trigger your bomb on time to be the last in one piece!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27.7%, 2D Fighter 15.4%, Local Multiplayer 14.2%, Retro 11.7%, Arcade 9.2%
- #16 Miami Fighters
63% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: Miami Fighters
Windows · Linux
Miami Fighters is a couch co-op brawler where strategy meets chaos. Team up or go free-for-all with friends, or throw bots into the mix, and cause absolute madness with up to 4 players!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 22.9%, Local Co-Op 19.9%, Local Multiplayer 15.7%, Arena Shooter 10.1%, Arcade 9.5%
- #17 Pocky & Rocky Reshrined
63% matchVery Positive89% of 245 reviews2023
Dev: Winning Entertainment Group Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%
The original cute and hardcore shrine maiden shooter is now available on Steam! Completely new game, a sequel to the home original "Pocky&Rocky" (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)! The adventures of Pocky&Rocky begin once again.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 29.3%, Local Co-Op 20.5%, Local Multiplayer 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, Action 9.6%
- #18 Vectoroids
69% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: LoadUpGames.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
Blast your way through waves of asteroids and UFOs in Arcade Classic Mode. Team up in 4-Player Co-Op, then battle friends in Deathmatch and Last Man Standing across 5 different battle maps. Chase those arcade highscores while keeping the nostalgia alive!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 16.6%, Team-Based 11.4%, Local Co-Op 10.9%, Arena Shooter 10.2%, Local Multiplayer 9.4%
- #19 Galactic Wars EX
64% matchPositive89% of 35 reviews2022
Dev: Volcano BytesPub: JanduSoft
Windows
Galactic Wars EX is a pixel perfect co-op retro arcade shmup retrogaming experience for modern pcs
Why similar: Local Co-Op 21.1%, Top-Down Shooter 19.3%, Team-Based 10%, Retro 9.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.4%
- #20 Jamestown+
63% matchVery Positive88% of 248 reviews2019
Dev: Final Form GamesPub: Batterystaple Games
Windows
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Set sail for 17th-century British Colonial Mars in Jamestown+: a cooperative shoot-em-up for 1-4 brave souls, designed to be exciting for players of all skill levels.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 28.3%, Local Co-Op 20.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.9%, Top-Down Shooter 10.3%, Retro 10%
- #21 VASARA Collection
64% matchVery Positive82% of 145 reviews2019
Dev: QUByte Interactive
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
For the very first time, highly acclaimed Japanese Arcade Shoot’em Ups - VASARA (2000) and VASARA 2 (2001) - are made available to the whole world via this package: VASARA COLLECTION!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 20.3%, Top-Down Shooter 17.4%, Local Co-Op 14.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 8.7%, Retro 8%
- #22 Shoot Shoot Mega Pack
65% matchPositive100% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Actual Humans
Windows · Mac
Shoot Shoot Mega Pack is a minimalist party game/2D shooter for up to four players. You can choose a preset game, create your own rulesets, or let the game do it for you. However you decided to play, just make sure you do it with friends!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 16.9%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Local Co-Op 12.2%, 2D Fighter 12.2%, Arena Shooter 10.7%
- #23 Zombie Vikings: Stab-a-thon
65% matchMostly Positive76% of 70 reviews2016
Dev: Zoink Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 14.7 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Battle your friends in this free to play game based in the Zombie Vikings universe! With weapons like Blunt Fish Trauma and The Pülverizer for Patient People you'll hack and slash for your life in this brawler game for up to 4 players.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 35.4%, Local Co-Op 30.5%, Local Multiplayer 22.2%, Action 8.4%, Indie 3.6%
- #24 PuPaiPo Space Deluxe
65% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: BolHut
Windows · Linux
Hop into your spaceship and battle waves of opponents in your journey to find the legendary space pizza! Now 100% more Deluxe than ever!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 18.9%, Top-Down Shooter 17.9%, Arena Shooter 12.2%, Local Co-Op 11.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 8.6%
- #25 Backfire Brigade
62% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Pierre Nury
Windows
Backfire Brigade is a chaotic couch co-op firefighting game for two to four players. Coordinate with your fellow firefighters to rescue victims trapped in burning buildings while extinguishing the flames.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 37%, 4 Player Local 23.8%, Arcade 14.4%, Local Multiplayer 12.7%, Action 6.5%
- #26 SKIRMISH
63% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Bullet Giraffe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Destroy your friends in SKIRMISH! This Local-Multiplayer Top-Down Space Shooter is a blast! Be the last ship in one piece to be victorious!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 21.9%, Local Co-Op 18.2%, Top-Down Shooter 15.2%, Local Multiplayer 14.4%, Arcade 8.6%
- #27 SHOCKWAVE TRIGGERS
61% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: Shinu Real Arts
Windows
SHOCKWAVE TRIGGERS is an arcade high resolution pixel art shmup/shoot'em up, in which you use the power of Shockwaves and a good timing to get the most bonus from your destroyed enemies. It's simple: shoot, dodge, wait and SHOCKWAVE!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 18.6%, Local Co-Op 15.7%, Local Multiplayer 11.3%, Arcade 9.9%, Retro 8.2%
- #28 DEAD
63% matchVery Positive90% of 88 reviews2020
Dev: George
Windows · Linux
a classic arcade shooter game. You can play with up to 4 people locally, or using Steam Remote play.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 23.2%, Local Co-Op 17.4%, Local Multiplayer 13.3%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Arena Shooter 8.6%
- #29 Demons with Shotguns
63% matchVery Positive90% of 62 reviews2016
Dev: MindShaft Games, LLC
Windows · Mac
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%
The ultimate couch fragger gibfest! Armed with a powerful shotgun, bullet deflecting shield and power-up tarot cards, 2 to 4 local players will battle it out to collect each others souls in 9 different competitive game modes across 4 realms & 40 arenas. This is frantic local multiplayer action at its bloodiest!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27%, Local Co-Op 20.9%, Local Multiplayer 15.5%, Arena Shooter 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%
- #30 Wishmere
64% matchMostly Positive72% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Crayder Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Wishmere is a brawler-fighting game that gives you the power and creativity to fight your battles your way. Play with friends in local matches, discover the story of Wishmere or survive and conquer over 30+ challenge maps!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27.8%, Local Co-Op 19.8%, 2D Fighter 13.5%, Local Multiplayer 13.2%, Arcade 7.1%
- #31 Clippy Commando
61% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: Daniel Harnden
Windows
An arcade top-down shooter where you play as a genocidal paper clip armed with heavy weaponry fighting hordes of office supplies to the death. Save the Clipenberg Empire from the threat of the Rulerian Alliance in Story Mode, or go for a high score in Infinite Mode.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 24.6%, Local Co-Op 18.8%, Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Arcade 9.8%, Shooter 6%
- #32 Rocket Wars
63% matchVery Positive91% of 95 reviews2017
Dev: Rooftop Panda
Windows · Linux
Median: 5.2 hrsMean: 23.3 hrs≥1hr: 99%
Fast-paced local multi-player game packed with action. Destroy your friends with all sorts of different weapons and power-ups across multiple game modes!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 26.2%, Local Multiplayer 14.4%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Local Co-Op 10.7%, Arena Shooter 9.2%
- #33 Hot Shot Burn
62% matchVery Positive91% of 193 reviews2020
Dev: Artifex Mundi
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 12.2 hrs≥1hr: 45%
Hot Shot Burn is the hilariously violent party brawler that lets you compete in the galaxy's ultimate televised blood sport. Experience crazy couch battles full of ridiculous flukes and insane skill shots for up to 4 players.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 31%, Local Co-Op 19.4%, Local Multiplayer 17%, Arena Shooter 11.1%, Arcade 9.1%
- #34 Banzai Bat
63% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: Flying Fridge Games
Windows · Mac
Banzai Bat is an action-packed local multiplayer game for 2-4 players filled with different skins, stages and modes. Easy to learn, hard to master. Charge up your baseball bats and make your friends fly!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 34.1%, 2D Fighter 18.7%, Local Multiplayer 17.1%, Arcade 9.2%, Action 7.1%
- #35 Pingers
62% matchPositive96% of 24 reviews2021
Dev: Allen Games
Windows · Mac
Pingers is an addictive 'one-more-round' score chaser which is perfect to play solo or with friends. Ping your way to victory and see just how far you can get!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 23.2%, Local Co-Op 18.4%, Local Multiplayer 15.5%, Team-Based 13.4%, Retro 9.1%
- #36 Undying Knights
65% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Cold Plunge Games
Windows
Undying Knights is a couch and online party game that fuses strategy and reflexes. Enjoy quick rounds with flexible team fights, unique weapons and deadly traps, all with a handicap option that keeps every battle fair.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 23.7%, Local Co-Op 18.5%, Local Multiplayer 18.2%, 2D Fighter 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
- #37 Wild Glory
62% matchPositive89% of 47 reviews2018
Dev: Manalith StudiosPub: LAJE Studio
Windows · Linux
In Wild Glory, you fight against your friends to conquer the Coliseum crowd and become the most acclaimed champion!
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 26.1%, 4 Player Local 25.2%, Local Co-Op 20.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Action 11.1%
- #38 Partition Sector
63% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Arganoid Industries
Windows
Blow up your friends - and snakes - in 7 game modes including Battle Royale, Capture the Flag, King of the Hill, Snake Hunter and "EVERYTHING" - all modes at once! Up to 20 players in local multiplayer, with online play via Steam Remote Play Together - only one player needs to own the game!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 24.7%, Team-Based 17.8%, Local Co-Op 17.3%, Local Multiplayer 17%, Arcade 8.5%
- #39 Shakes on a Plane
62% matchMixed68% of 65 reviews2020
Dev: Huu GamesPub: Assemble Entertainment
Windows
Shakes on a Plane is a chaotic co-op shaking game for one to four players. Flying on various planes with your flight crew, serve up a variety of tasty shakes, burgers, fries and many more dishes before the plane lands on the airport and your passengers rate your services.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 36.2%, Local Co-Op 26.3%, Local Multiplayer 19.9%, Team-Based 7.2%, Action 5.3%
- #40 Crewsaders
63% matchMostly Positive71% of 45 reviews2016
Dev: Titan SquadPub: Plug In Digital
Windows · Mac
Crewsaders is a frenzy couch based multiplayer game. 2 to 6 local players are divided into 2 teams controlling 2 gigantic robots. Cooperate to keep the gears and wheels moving on, and punch your opponents!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 21.7%, 4 Player Local 21.2%, Local Multiplayer 17.6%, 2D Fighter 10.6%, Arcade 9.2%
- #41 Rail Fights
59% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2026
Dev: Korner Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fast-paced one-screen arcade shooter built for chaotic couch party matches and score-driven survival runs. Ride the rail, bump and total opponents solo or in teams with friends, or push your limits against ever-stronger AI in endless, leaderboard-focused challenges.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 26.8%, Local Co-Op 21.9%, Local Multiplayer 17.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.6%, Shooter 6.7%
- #42 Super Rock Blasters!
63% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2017
Dev: QuadraTron Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Ready up a space ship and destroy your friends in this frenetic multiplayer Asteroids reimagining! In Super Rock Blasters, up to 4 players will wheel around space rocks, dodge ricocheting bullets and blast each other into tiny neon colored giblets.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 37.8%, Local Multiplayer 22.2%, Retro 13.3%, Arcade 12.9%, Action 9.5%
- #43 Guntastic
61% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2020
Dev: Ludicrous Games
Windows · Mac
A fast paced couch and online arena brawler with comically violent, one-shot one-kill battles that last for just 25 seconds – after which anyone who's still alive is forcibly eliminated. Explode your friends in this frantic homage to the 16bit coin-op games of the past!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 23.2%, Local Multiplayer 13%, 2D Fighter 12.7%, Retro 8.2%, Arena Shooter 7.9%
- #44 Hastilude
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ghost Crab Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hastilude is a competitive and co-op action game for 1 to 4 players. Climb atop your mount and soar into battle using your wits, reflexes, and an array of weapons and special abilities against your opponents. Dismount your foes and swoop in for the score!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 38.6%, Local Co-Op 26.9%, Local Multiplayer 20.8%, Action 9.2%, Indie 4.4%
- #45 AngelStrike
61% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: HomeLight Games
Windows
AngelStrike is an exciting 2D side-scrolling shoot'em'up with handmade pixel-art and a variety of action-packed missions. Play solo or local co-op with friends to rescue refugees, stealthily deliver supplies, escort your allies, and take down hordes of machines in 40 levels across 5 different areas!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 20.8%, 4 Player Local 17.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.5%, Local Multiplayer 10.9%, Shooter 8.5%
- #46 Last Shape Standing
61% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Ember Works
Windows
Last Shape Standing is at its core a survival game where each player needs to survive through a multitude of chaotic and fun randomly selected challenges, be it bullet hell, PVP, a zombie apocalypse or even dangerous quizzes!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27.2%, Local Co-Op 20.4%, Top-Down Shooter 11.5%, Arcade 9.4%, Local Multiplayer 9.3%
- #47 Astervoid 2000
63% matchMostly Positive71% of 68 reviews2016
Dev: Mad Capacity
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Astervoid 2000 is a 1 to 4 player local-multiplayer space brawler, combining classic arcade action with modern gameplay. Explosive, indestructible, and icy asteroids will slam against your ship, or can be weaponized against your opponents. Perfect support for gamepads & keyboard and mouse.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 30.3%, Local Co-Op 17.2%, Local Multiplayer 15.5%, Arcade 9.7%, Retro 8.7%
- #48 PAC-MAN 256
60% matchVery Positive92% of 2,221 reviews2016
Dev: BANDAI NAMCO Studios VancouverPub: BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 79%
PAC-MAN 256 is the maze that never ends. But the Glitch is coming for you…
Why similar: Arcade 22.8%, Retro 16.9%, 4 Player Local 13.8%, Local Co-Op 13.7%, Local Multiplayer 11.9%
- #49 Jolly Rogers Pirates Rumble
61% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Sun Technologies Inc.
Windows
JRPR in short is an Action Arena fighting game. It is a local multiplayer shared screen game which needs at least 2 players locally to play. Players control different Pirates and compete to win! How do you win? Nice and easy, just push your enemies of the arena or figure out what do with your Pirate powers.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 29.1%, Local Co-Op 23%, Team-Based 18.2%, Local Multiplayer 16.2%, Arcade 7.7%
- #50 Battlewrights
59% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2026
Dev: Florian Malogajski Dev
Windows · Mac · Linux
Battlewrights is a 4-player local party brawler with quirky characters, a unique movement system and fast, intense versus matches. Get back to the glory days of couch multiplayer and be ready to destroy some friendships.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 29.6%, Local Multiplayer 24.6%, 2D Fighter 22.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Retro 4.6%
- #51 Porcunipine
62% matchMostly Positive78% of 203 reviews2015
Dev: Big Green PillowPub: Curve Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 96%
A party game / arena fighter where balding porcupines with only a single quill left fight to the death for honour, glory, and their enemies' skulls!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 44.3%, Local Multiplayer 21.7%, Local Co-Op 18.7%, Action 10.4%, Indie 4.9%
- #52 Fillit
61% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: 11Sheep
Windows
Experience nostalgic gameplay with mind-blowing new mechanics in this throw back to the days of Xonix and Volfied. Beat your friends and enemies in crazy arenas. And may the faster player win.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 29.8%, Local Co-Op 19.9%, Local Multiplayer 16.3%, Arcade 11.7%, Retro 6.5%
- #53 Gimme Space Battle
65% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: François ProvansalPub: Lotus Game
Windows
It’s intergalactic chaos right on your couch. Up to 8 players, a single keyboard, and an arena where your ships face off in an explosive ballet. Here, you don’t pilot: you shoot and hope that’s enough to stay alive. Spoiler: it won’t be enough.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 19.4%, Top-Down Shooter 16.1%, Local Co-Op 15.8%, Team-Based 14.3%, Local Multiplayer 13.5%
- #54 Axe Me Down
61% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Harmonika Games
Windows
An Indie Platform Battler where your main objective is to push your friends off the screen with throwing Axes. Available for two to six players.
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 22.2%, 4 Player Local 18.1%, 2D Fighter 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Action 8.7%
- #55 Ricochet Rodeo
59% matchPositive89% of 18 reviews2024
Dev: Echidna Studios
Windows
Saddle up for Ricochet Rodeo, a 2D-platform, pvp brawl to see who's the fastest shooter in the pixel-rendered west. Assemble a posse of up to 8 cowboys to dance in chaotic deathmatches where bullets bounce and 1 hit kills.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 27.1%, 2D Fighter 19%, Local Multiplayer 15.6%, Arena Shooter 10.7%, Shooter 6.4%
- #56 PARTICLE MACE
60% matchVery Positive88% of 1,371 reviews2015
Dev: Andy Makes
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 5.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A space game about swinging trash into things and dying.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 19.3%, Local Co-Op 18.1%, Arcade 14.7%, Local Multiplayer 13.1%, Action 8.9%
- #57 Delta Squad
62% match7 user reviews43% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: EskemaGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stop the Dictatorship forces of General Rumanovsky in their attempt to control a mortal virus, make your way through different missions in this top down arcade. Play solo or gather up to 4 friends to play local co-op
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.6%, 4 Player Local 16.5%, Local Co-Op 15.5%, Arcade 12.2%, Local Multiplayer 11.3%
- #58 MagiCarnage
60% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: Colton LaChancePub: Arcane Affinity
Windows
Once every millennium, the greatest magical beings gather together in order to engage one another in tournament combat. Cast powerful spells and shatter your opponents, this is MagiCarnage!
Why similar: 4 Player Local 25.5%, Top-Down Shooter 14.9%, 2D Fighter 14.7%, Arena Shooter 12.1%, Local Multiplayer 8.9%
- #59 Astro Duel
60% matchVery Positive95% of 78 reviews2016
Dev: Rusty MoyherPub: Wild Rooster
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Astro Duel is a competitive local multiplayer party game. Rounds are quick and death is sudden. Blast your friends into space. Run over their helpless bodies for good measure.
Why similar: 4 Player Local 28%, Local Co-Op 13.8%, Local Multiplayer 12.6%, Retro 8.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.1%