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Games Like Alien War One

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Shoot 'Em Up, Top-Down Shooter, Action Roguelike.

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A retro roguelite vertical space shooter! Upgrade your ship, buy powerful buffs each run, and blast through waves of enemies. Move forward one row at a time and destroy every foe before they reach the bottom of the screen. Plan carefully—one mistake could cost you the run!

Reviews: No user reviews — 50%
Released: 2026-11-01
Developer: NiceHit Studio
Genres: Action
Platforms: Windows

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    97% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
    Dev: Geloz Games
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    96% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2025
    Dev: DaniDangerStudio
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    95% matchNo user reviews2025
    Dev: Void Star Gamestudio, Limited
    Windows

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    94% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2025
    Dev: Leimar Games
    Windows · Linux

    Mobocalypse is a shooter roguelite where you have to kill hordes of mobs to save the world - and youself!

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    94% matchPositive84% of 43 reviews2022
    Dev: AndyzziGames
    Windows

    Microbes and Machines is a roguelite action game where you control a little bubble robot that fights against the forces of evil.

    Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 21.9%, Top-Down Shooter 16.6%, Roguelite 14.6%, Action Roguelike 14.5%, Procedural Generation 11.3%

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    92% match8 user reviews89% of 8 reviews2026
    Dev: Retired Dev
    Windows

    Classic Arcade Soul. Modern Roguelite Survival. Face endless enemies in this fast-paced top-down combat. Collect Gold to unlock powerful upgrades and survive through diverse arenas. Master your movement, dodge deadly projectiles, and fight through the darkness to reclaim the Demon Castle.

    Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.5%, Top-Down Shooter 20.4%, Action Roguelike 16.8%, Roguelite 13.8%, Procedural Generation 6.9%

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    93% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2021
    Dev: SoftdiskPub: Ziggurat
    Windows

    In this classic top-down shoot 'em up, fly the deadliest ship in the galaxy on a dangerous first-strike mission to annihilate an alien threat before they become too powerful to stop. Pick up upgrades from fallen enemies along the way and become an unstoppable force!

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    91% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
    Dev: Angry Pixel
    Windows

    Defeat the enemies. Upgrade the spacecraft. Defend the mothership. Regular Spacecraft - Defending the Mothership is a shoot em'up game with roguelite elements.

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  10. #10 Planets Ambrosia
    91% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
    Dev: Maltsoft
    Windows

    All-out 360-degree assault! A roguelite shooter where you pilot an sci-fi fighter to eliminate grotesque enemies fused with fruit and machinery, constantly upgrading your weaponry.

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  11. #11 Project Dimension
    90% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: MarzSandwich
    Windows

    Project Dimension is a noir-styled roguelike shooter in infinite randomly-generated dungeons where you push as far as you can. Grab your camera and whatever you can find to clear different theme of dungeons.

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  12. #12 RedRaptor
    89% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2023
    Dev: Novax GamesPub: Eastasiasoft Limited
    Windows

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  13. #13 Burning Skies
    89% matchNo user reviews2027
    Dev: NukGames
    Windows

    Burning Skies is a frantic roguelite bullet hell. Join the resistance and assemble the ultimate warjet, shoot take down giant bosses and avoid many dangers to destroy the tyrants who are ruling the world.

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    88% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: syffin
    Windows

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    87% matchPositive83% of 42 reviews2024
    Dev: VuVuu
    Windows

    Unleash Mass Insect Extermination! Entomophobia is a casual Bullet Heaven with rogue-lite elements. Slay bugs, amass upgrades, and escalate your power against the swarms. Crush, upgrade, dominate – the insect reign ends with you!

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    86% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2023
    Dev: Jhozao
    Windows

    Exterminate the bugs that are hidden on the dark side of the moon. A game based on space exploration, with a variety of items and monsters and a evil to be defeated. Adventure in this space experience and destroy them.

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    86% matchMostly Positive77% of 47 reviews2019
    Dev: AUX-IN Games
    Windows · Linux

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    85% matchVery Positive87% of 55 reviews2020
    Dev: Glass Revolver
    Windows

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    Dev: Howling Cat Games LLC
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    Dev: Ouch Giver Games
    Windows

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    Dev: Huhi Games
    Windows

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    Windows

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    Dev: Studio Hexeye
    Windows

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    81% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    Dev: Brain Seal Ltd
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    79% matchPositive94% of 17 reviews2023
    Dev: BlayzbyFill Games
    Windows

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    Dev: Goose Shroom
    Windows

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  29. #29 80s Horror Survivors
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    Dev: Alligator Virtual
    Windows

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    76% matchNo user reviews2024
    Dev: Michael Aaron Denny
    Windows

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    Dev: AbsurdPoncho
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    74% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
    Dev: CrabDancer
    Windows

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  38. #38 Nebula Cleanup Crew
    73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
    Dev: JazzCat Games
    Windows · Linux

    Nebula Cleanup Crew is a short top down action roguelite shooter with a focus on hot and cold weaponry. Rescue your crew members as you blast enemies and bosses away with super heated and chilled weapons — freeze foes, overheat them and unleash powerful supertemp special attacks!

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    74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
    Dev: Next Step Studios
    Windows · Mac

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    72% matchPositive95% of 22 reviews2025
    Dev: Hi-Develop
    Windows

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  41. #41 Flying Pew Pew
    73% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: NoName
    Windows

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    72% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2024
    Dev: Hyper Bit Games
    Windows

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    71% matchVery Positive96% of 269 reviews2024
    Dev: Shiv
    Windows

    GUNFIELD – A game that combines the genres: shoot 'em up, roguelite. Choose the perfect weapon combinations and upgrade your ship to destroy hordes of enemies and giant bosses, using strategy and a powerful arsenal.

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    70% matchMostly Positive73% of 74 reviews2024
    Dev: MOSS Co., Ltd.Pub: UFO Interactive Games
    Windows

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    70% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Four5Six PixelPub: Huey Games
    Windows · Mac

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    71% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2020
    Dev: Ghost Goats Games
    Windows

    Start off as a weak ship with a simple attack and fight through waves of enemies, earning currency in order to purchase upgrades for your ship. The never ending waves of enemies grow in number, power, and variety as you progress. Purchase upgrades to keep pace with them.

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  47. #47 GUNBUTCHER: RELOADED
    69% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: BOMBCAKE
    Windows

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    71% match8 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2018
    Dev: nkmr appworks
    Windows

    An old arcade style 2d shmup.

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    69% matchNo user reviews2026
    Dev: James H. Van der MeulenPub: Trash Vomit Studios
    Windows

    Psycho Ripper is a top down action shooter with modified conditional formations. Explore a randomization of challenges as you blast through a sentient crystal mine, confronting progressively baneful threats and equip unusual armaments, as you speculate further through a grand and unknown chaos.

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    70% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2022
    Dev: HyperGamesDevPub: HaipaStudios
    Windows

    A fast-paced addicting space shooter with an inspiration taken from many modern games. A project I have been passionately working solo for 2 years+!

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  51. #51 Rick Henderson: Eternal Arena
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Fat Pug Studio
    Windows

    Join the endless arena battle. Select your pilot, upgrade your ship, upgrade your guns, upgrade your drones. Fight, upgrade, die, repeat.

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  52. #52 Fuel Me Up
    67% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2026
    Dev: O Rei LuizPub: A Tenda com Games
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  53. #53 Asteroid Sentinel
    68% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Swords and Railguns
    Windows

    Shoot down masses of asteroids and aliens in this arcade-style shooter with roguelike elements. Level up and upgrade your guns to cope with the endless waves being thrown at you.

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    67% matchVery Positive96% of 171 reviews2022
    Dev: team tsoto
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    Pewt 'em Up! is a retro inspired arcade space shoot 'em up with lots of upgrades, achievements, extras and more.

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  55. #55 A Way To Die
    68% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2022
    Dev: Gael Luguern
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    Enter the human body with A Way To Die! Play as a disease that attempts to infect its host by contaminating organs and mutating! Discover new ways to win every time you play with all the different diseases!

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    69% matchPositive85% of 41 reviews2019
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    Windows

    Vile is an action rogue-lite about fighting demonic creatures and other horrors throughout a vile world. Fight enemies and/or complete random objectives given to you in procedurally-generated dungeons to put a stop to the creatures forever! Collect souls, find new weapons, new artifacts, and battle EPIC bosses!

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    67% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2024
    Dev: RETSUZANPub: Henteko Doujin
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    Blast your way through enemy territory and level up your versatile arsenal of high-tech weapons in this handheld game style retro shmup!

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    66% matchPositive92% of 24 reviews2024
    Dev: Dextrous Games
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    Technocide is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up with a heavy emphasis on player weapons and abilities. You must not let enemies past you and reach your mothership! You will need quick tactical thinking as you weigh your weapons' strengths and weaknesses against your enemies and their positioning.

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    67% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2023
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    Defendor is a throwback to the fast paced arcade games of the 80s.A retro style, arcade shooter where you upgrade your base to increase the capabilities of your ship, unlock new weapons, ships and cause more mayhem.Defend your base until everyone makes it into the escape ship.

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