Games Like Angry Arrows

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 Co-Op 35.2%, 4 Player Local 31%, Action 17%, Indie 13.5%, Adventure 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This is the definitive archery-based local multiplayer game that matches the precision and intensity of the seed game.

A co-op Crossbow Shooter with Bullet-Time Parkour! Race through levels and horde mode, chaining combos of slow-mo sniping and destruction to climb the leaderboards. Build maps in the Level Editor.

Why similar: Action 64.6%, Adventure 35.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines high-speed archery with parkour and action, capturing the thrill of being a skilled bowman.

Grab your friends, neighbors, extended family and that handsome cashier from the grocery store and get ready for some sweet, award-winning, couch and online multiplayer. With your trusty bow, shoot, dodge and deflect arrows in this zany isometric archery game.

Why similar: Action 58.2%, Indie 41.8%

Why You'll Like It: A direct thematic match that focuses on chaotic, fast-paced archery combat with friends.

No Heroes Here is a frantic co-op game for 1 to 4 players, available in local and online modes. Craft and use several items effectively whilst coordinating your ragtag band of non-heroes to defend castles and survive! ...Oh, as well as saving the Kingdom in the meantime!

Why similar: 4 Player Local 36.1%, Local Co-Op 34.9%, Indie 10.6%, Action 9.4%, Adventure 9%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative tower defense game that requires players to manage multiple tasks under pressure, similar to the hostage rescue mechanics.

Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 46.4%, 4 Player Local 36.5%, Action 10.2%, Indie 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Requires intense cooperative communication to manage a ship, mirroring the teamwork needed in Angry Arrows.

Enter the futuristic year of 1984, an age where ducks run wild in a frantic battle for glory. Blast your friends with Shotguns, Net Guns, Mind Control Rays, Saxophones, Magnet Guns, and much, much more. This is DUCK GAME. Don't blink.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 48.3%, Local Co-Op 22.9%, Action 19.6%, Indie 9.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers the same frantic, high-lethality local multiplayer experience that makes every round feel like a high-stakes duel.

Can you deal with unrelenting disaster and hold your ship together long enough to destroy the enemy invaders? Repair systems, extinguish fires, arm the torpedoes, avoid deadly solar flares, destroy your friends and clone them back again; it's all in the life of a Catastronaut!

Why similar: Action 58.2%, Indie 41.8%

Why You'll Like It: A high-pressure cooperative game that demands constant coordination to prevent total failure.

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! Battle through dungeons and power up your hero - if a friend kills you they take your place and it’s their turn to crawl. It's a race to gain enough XP and loot to take on the hulking final boss!

Why similar: 4 Player Local 47.7%, Local Co-Op 32.2%, Action 10.6%, Indie 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A brilliant local multiplayer dungeon crawler where players compete and cooperate in a pixelated, high-intensity environment.

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 40.3%, Action 23.1%, Local Co-Op 19.9%, Indie 16.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features fast-paced, arena-based local multiplayer combat that feels very similar to the seed game's action style.

Nidhogg is the epic award-winning game of fencing tug-of-war complete with flying giant worms.

Why similar: Action 38.5%, Indie 38.2%, Local Co-Op 23.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on the same 'one fatal mistake' tension, where every movement and strike is critical to survival.

Extreme Exorcism is a paranormal platformer where every move you make comes back to haunt you.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 33.8%, Indie 25%, Action 21.5%, Adventure 19.7%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer where every move you make is recorded and played back against you, creating a unique, high-stakes local multiplayer challenge.

From the creators of Rogue Legacy comes a "true-cooperative" action RPG. FULL METAL FURIES puts an emphasis on team play with a unique combat system where everyone is important. Play on the couch, alone or with friends, or make it an online party for up to four players!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 31.1%, 4 Player Local 30.3%, Action 16.9%, Adventure 11.1%, Indie 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: A deep cooperative action game that rewards team synergy and precise combat execution.

IRON CRYPTICLE is an arcade twin-stick dungeon shooter with RPG elements for 1 to 4 players LOCAL CO-OP! A mysterious, malevolent force has abducted Cryptonia’s princess – along with the king’s royal golden treasures (shaped curiously like large foodstuffs...). Kingsguard to the rescue!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 51.4%, Action 28.9%, Indie 19.7%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style action game with pixel graphics and local co-op that feels like a natural progression from the seed game.

Ultimate Chicken Horse is a party platformer game where you build the level as you play, placing traps and hazards to screw your friends over, but trying not to screw yourself.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 51.7%, 4 Player Local 38.5%, Action 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A competitive platformer where players build the level to sabotage each other, matching the chaotic local party vibe.

Super Treasure Arena is a frantic, retro-inspired arena shooter for up to 4 players, where collecting and stealing loot from your opponents is the key to victory.

Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, action-packed arena game with pixel graphics that fits perfectly into a local multiplayer library.

Join the Galactic Tournament in this fast-paced comical action shooter. Level-up your Hero and unlock an arsenal of weapons. Lay waste to your friends and foes in local, LAN and online multiplayer matches, or hone your skills in single player and custom games.

Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%

Why You'll Like It: A twin-stick shooter that emphasizes competitive local multiplayer action in a stylized, indie package.

Dodge, jump, and dash your way through hundreds of terrifying geometric levels and epic bosses. Too tough? Bring your friends!

Why similar: 4 Player Local 46.3%, Local Co-Op 40.5%, Action 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, high-difficulty platformer that focuses on team-based survival and precision movement.

Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 48.1%, Local Co-Op 21.9%, Action 18.8%, Indie 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced local multiplayer game where the environment constantly changes, forcing players to adapt or fail instantly.

Welcome to BattleBlock Theater! You’ve got no where to go but up...on stage. Play single player or co-op to free your friends and save Hatty Hattington! Jump, solve and battle your way through a mysterious theater inhabited by highly technological felines.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 62.9%, Action 21.5%, Indie 15.6%

Why You'll Like It: A classic cooperative platformer that balances humor with challenging, precision-based level design.

Shoot, reflect, and jetpack your way through ChargeShot -- a local-multiplayer, space-bounty-hunter, deathmatch game with a focus on fast-paced, twitch gameplay. Prove to your friends that you are the greatest warrior in the galaxy. No friends? No problem.

Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%

Why You'll Like It: A 4-player local multiplayer shooter that focuses on fast, one-hit-kill mechanics.

Spelunky is a unique platformer with randomized levels that offer a challenging new experience each time you play. Journey deep underground and explore fantastic places filled with all manner of monsters, traps, and treasure.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 59.4%, Indie 24.8%, Action 9.7%, Adventure 6%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the 'back to square one' difficulty and pixel-art adventure aesthetic that defines the seed game.

A revolutionary crowd-based retro brawler

Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled action game that focuses on group-based combat and cooperative movement.

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: 4 Player Local 83%, Indie 17%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the same slapstick, physics-based local multiplayer chaos that makes party games memorable.

Overcooked returns with a brand-new helping of chaotic cooking action! Journey back to the Onion Kingdom and assemble your team of chefs in classic couch co-op or online play for up to four players. Hold onto your aprons… it’s time to save the world again!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 56.3%, 4 Player Local 30.2%, Action 7%, Indie 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: The gold standard for high-pressure cooperative coordination where one mistake can ruin the entire run.

Fast paced platforming action, cooperative gameplay up to 4 players, an elite squad of agents with amazing skills, space travels, exploration, unique missions, fancy characters, incredible fights with huge bosses, trade, minigames and much more!

Why similar: 4 Player Local 35.9%, Local Co-Op 26.6%, Action 21.9%, Indie 15.5%

Why You'll Like It: A 4-player local platformer that requires players to swap characters and coordinate to overcome obstacles.

Raiders of the Lost Island is a LOCAL co-op party game where up to 4 players compete in looting treasures from a sinking island, while building a boat to survive the final wave.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 37.1%, Local Co-Op 31.1%, Action 13.6%, Adventure 12.1%, Indie 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A competitive party game that blends adventure elements with the need for quick, decisive action.

Revenge will consume you, but redemption will push you to your breaking point.Play as Dusty, a multi- weapon wielding warrior ready to face loads of outlawed criminals, dangerous creatures and the ruthless evil villain that rules them all.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 48.1%, Action 39.6%, Indie 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A solid beat-em-up that offers the cooperative action experience found in many indie adventure titles.

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 39.6%, Local Co-Op 35.9%, Action 14.3%, Indie 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: An arena-based local multiplayer game that shares the same indie, action-focused DNA as the seed game.

Embark on a thrilling co-op adventure in 'Brave Escape,' a challenging platformer demanding teamwork to conquer perilous traps and treacherous terrain.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 81%, Indie 19%

Play alone or with your friends in this cooperative adventure for 1 to 4 players. Make the right moves, and coordinate with your team to rescue people in danger. Have fun, and act fast! The success of your team depends on your choices. Save as many lives as possible in a frantic race against time!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 45.2%, 4 Player Local 38%, Action 10.3%, Indie 6.4%

Command treasure hunters Wyv and Keep through an ancient Amazonian temple in search of the Lost Idol! Use quick reflexes and teamwork to conquer a gauntlet of 60 fiendish puzzles and deadly traps. Unlock the secrets of the mystical Xu'hutl pygmies and their terrifying overlord, the great Quetzecola.

Why similar: Action 40%, Adventure 31.4%, Indie 28.6%

NoReload Heroes is a chaotic co-op party shooter for up to four people. Work as a team to beat the accidental evil you created, and be sure to pick up the best magitech guns on the way, or it's back to the bottom floor with you!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 44.5%, Action 31.8%, Indie 23.6%

Archery - is simple archery game. You need eliminate all balloons and don't let run out arrows

Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%

The party co-op shoot ’em up! Become the king of the night club! Go alone or group your friends! Shoot the party crashers down!

Why similar: 4 Player Local 60.4%, Local Co-Op 39.6%

No Time, you must save the kingdom from demons. Kill all monsters and Stop the Arch Demon! The Salvation of the kingdom lies in your hands.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 36.4%, Local Co-Op 26.8%, Action 14.2%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 10.7%

Two unique characters and a total of 4 islands and 16 levels to explore, Tobe's Vertical Adventure shall bring you back to the 16-bit era.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 38.3%, Action 22.9%, Adventure 21%, Indie 17.7%

Shoot your way through the pages of an ever-changing comic book in this fast-paced roguelike. Play solo, in local or online co-op, expand your weaponry, and upgrade your hero with each run. All that to find out why has your creator lost his faith in you and to prove him wrong.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 66.6%, Action 22.7%, Adventure 10.8%

QuiVr is the defining archery experience, made from the ground up for Virtual Reality. Grab your bow, arrows, and some friends to fight the enemy onslaught.

Why similar: Action 58%, Adventure 42%

FORCED is a challenging 1-4-player game with co-op at its heart! A mix of tactical arcade action, RPG elements and puzzles will forge you and your friends together. As slaves in the toughest gladiator school of them all, you will face a plethora of unique trials - designed to be your death!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 38.1%, 4 Player Local 32%, Action 14.6%, Indie 9%, Adventure 6.2%

Escape failed! All we have left is our will to survive, the endless hordes of enemies, and enough bullets to rip them all to shreds. Blazing trail. Vertical co-op shooter, offering accessible, action-packed gameplay.

Why similar: Action 62.2%, Local Co-Op 37.8%

Q-YO Blaster is a shooting game, with peculiar characters, strange enemies, weapons and many explosions. Enter the miniature world and stop the threat

Why similar: Action 42.4%, Indie 30.1%, Adventure 27.5%

Slay monsters. Defeat epic bosses. Collect magical gear. Become a Warlock and save the universe.

Why similar: Action 50.3%, Indie 49.7%

Little Bobby’s dead, the BBQ is on fire, Jen’s eating poisonous berries and the birthday cake still needs icing. It’s just another wonderful day out with the kids in Think of the Children, a frantic co-operative parenting simulator.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 36.4%, Action 27.9%, Local Co-Op 24.3%, Indie 5.8%, Adventure 5.6%

A hack and slash action adventure, set in a fantasy pixel art environment. Play solo or co-op in this adventure from bottom to top of Castle Hammerwatch. Kill hordes of enemies with varied looks and features through four unique environments with traps, hidden secrets and puzzles.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 39.6%, 4 Player Local 18.8%, Indie 15.3%, Action 15.2%, Adventure 11.1%

Puzzling Action for One or Two Players.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 54.3%, Action 21.2%, Adventure 17.4%, Indie 7.1%

Fast Pace Shooter

Why similar: 4 Player Local 58.8%, Action 24.5%, Indie 16.7%

Craft your arsenal to avenge your fallen comrades and save the world from the fearsome forces of CLAW!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 43.1%, Action 26.7%, Indie 17.6%, Adventure 12.6%

Never Split the Party is an ultra social rogue-like! You're one of four adventurers joining together to explore a procedurally generated dungeon, amass powerful upgrades, and cooperate with your fellow adventures to conquer and crush the evil dungeon champions!

Why similar: Indie 29%, Local Co-Op 28.3%, Action 23%, Adventure 19.7%

Brigands is a “top-down hack and slash / beat 'em up adventure” game set in a medieval fantasy world. A local co-op game for casual gamers who like high intensity challenges for short periods of time. You can play from 1 to 4 players on a single computer.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 37.1%, Local Co-Op 25%, Adventure 16.6%, Action 11.6%, Indie 9.8%

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 52.9%, Local Co-Op 25.3%, Action 12.9%, Indie 8.9%

Rescue breakfast in this arcade-style bullet hell shoot 'em up!

Why similar: Action 59.1%, Local Co-Op 40.9%

Play Abathor Atlantis Landing and relive the glory of arcades in this action platformer for up to 4 players.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 32.2%, 4 Player Local 27.9%, Action 16%, Adventure 12.4%, Indie 11.5%

Oh Trap! is a couch co-op game for 2 or 4 players. Steal the other team’s treasures! Place traps strategically to either help yourself or stop your opponents.

Why similar: Action 57.4%, Indie 42.6%

GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend! Hand-crafted challenges, secrets, and branching paths galore!

Why similar: Local Co-Op 63.6%, Indie 19.4%, Action 16.9%

The ultimate stealth battle adventure where everyone’s invisible! Risk versus reward guides your journey through the full-length single player campaign and local/online multiplayer. Vigilance is key as environmental tells such as footprints and other disturbances will point out careless cadets.

Why similar: 4 Player Local 38.9%, Action 30.7%, Indie 30.4%

Select one of eleven unique playable gunslingers and seek revenge solo or with your friends in Online or Local Co-Op! Master the specialized controls of each character, collect gold from fallen foes to purchase upgrades, get totally drunk and unleash a tornado of lead across the dusty plains.

Why similar: Action 39.3%, Local Co-Op 35.8%, Indie 24.9%

Barony is the premier first-person roguelike with cooperative play! Adventure alone, or gather a party with iconic and unusual RPG classes to face off against the brutal dungeons. Test your resourcefulness, wits, and friendships, on your quest to lift the evil lich's curse!

Why similar: 4 Player Local 47.4%, Local Co-Op 43.8%, Indie 8.8%

Strikers Edge is a medieval dodgeball with weapons, ancient warriors and special powers. Challenge your opponents in local multiplayer, ascend to the top of the ladder and become the best striker!

Why similar: 4 Player Local 40.2%, Action 35.2%, Indie 24.6%

Take control of Mace in this local co-op side scrolling platform shooter as you travel from assignment to assignment taking on enemy bots and dangerous bosses on different planets.

Why similar: Local Co-Op 33.2%, Action 27.2%, Adventure 21.3%, Indie 18.3%