Games Like ANOMONAUT

A small retro inspired indie shmup that takes inspiration from the pixel games of yesterday and combines it with modern game engine technology.

Why similar: Experimental 49.4%, Top-Down Shooter 25.1%, Action 8%, Combat 7%, Indie 6.2%

a.sector is a multiplayer, top-down space shooter. Collect loot, earn coins, play with friends! See if you can summon the boss or conquer some dark elite enemies!

Why similar: Perma Death 32.5%, Top-Down Shooter 23.9%, Space 16.2%, PvE 7.8%, Combat 5.8%

Fast-paced top-down physicsy space dogfighting action

Why similar: Experimental 45.1%, Top-Down Shooter 24.1%, Space 9.3%, Action 8.1%, Combat 4.7%

The Triennale Game Collection is a free virtual exhibition of video games created for the 21st International Exhibition of Triennale Milano by five of the world’s most renowned independent game designers, showcasing these artists’ experimental approach to interactivity.

Why similar: Experimental 88.5%, Indie 11.5%

A Topdown Rouge like shooter. Defeat enemies and collect randomized buffs to help you survive and find the keys needed to progress.

Why similar: Perma Death 36.1%, Top-Down Shooter 31.2%, PvE 10.1%, Top-Down 6.4%, Action 5.6%

Prepare for an endless onslaught of the undead in Mortalis Meltdown, a heart-pounding, action-packed top-down zombie shooter! Embrace the thrill of survival as you face wave after wave of relentless zombies, their numbers growing ever larger and their hunger for flesh never-ending.

Why similar: Perma Death 39%, Top-Down Shooter 38.3%, Action 8.4%, PvE 7.3%, 2D 3.6%

Druta-Cinta is a relaxing and replayable game to play in your free time that doesn't require your full attention. Time is controlled by the player, and the speed of obstacles matches the player, so take your time in here.

Why similar: Experimental 50.1%, Top-Down Shooter 24.9%, PvE 9.9%, Combat 5.2%, Action 4.9%

Retro pixel-art top-down space shooter. Battle waves of alien invaders across world landmarks, upgrade your ship, collect power-ups, tackle events & missions, defeat epic bosses, and chase high scores.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 42.6%, Space 17.4%, Top-Down 11.9%, Action 8.7%, 2D 6.5%

Memoir En Code: Reissue is an autobiographical game album. Designed to be experienced similarly to a music album, this short experimental game explores different bits of the author's life as a series of interactive tracks.

Why similar: Experimental 80.3%, Indie 19.7%

The laboratory contains 4 sub-games. Through these sub-games, you can experience the magnificence of the universe, the beauty of the earth, the spectacle of the moon and the completely different world you see while driving a spaceship at a speed close to the speed of light.

Why similar: Experimental 71.8%, Space 27.2%, Singleplayer 1%

One wrong delivery can start a war. Smuggle cargo in a Tetris-style hold. Dodge faction inspections. Betray whoever pays. A pixel-art space rogue-like where every run is one bad jump from total loss.

Why similar: Perma Death 34%, Top-Down Shooter 28.3%, Space 14.9%, Top-Down 7.1%, Action 5.5%

In Metaverse you will dig, discover, design, deploy, and defend. Explore, build upon, or tear apart your own procedurally generated voxel planet. And now in the early stages of our multiplayer implementation, help conquer or build the planets of others.

Why similar: Experimental 79.5%, Action 7.2%, Adventure 7.1%, Indie 6.2%

Troid Blaster is a physics based asteroids roguelike with permadeath and perks

Why similar: Perma Death 42.4%, Space 26.7%, Action 13%, Indie 10.6%, Sci-fi 7.2%

Rogue-like top-down-shooter with pixel-art, physics and hard survival.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 39.7%, Space 29%, Action 16.9%, Indie 14.4%

Dig your way out of debt. Star Scavenger is a roguelike top-down shooter about blasting asteroids to get the precious minerals inside. Scavenge, dodge pirates, and beat the market to free yourself from an unjust punishment.

Why similar: Perma Death 31.7%, Top-Down Shooter 31.6%, Space 20.8%, 2D 5.1%, Action 4.5%

Lead a team of marines inside a space station infested with monsters. Level up your squad and upgrade your weapons in order to clean the station of any threat. But don't forget to manage your squad as health and fatigue will play a big role in your squad's performance.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40.1%, Action RPG 23.8%, Action 13.5%, Top-Down 12%, Sci-fi 5.8%

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Shoot, defend, combine found items in an unexpected way. Complete contracts and uncover secrets to defeat the mysterious enemy. Ahead is a labyrinth filled with insidious dangers, anomalies and many rewards.

Why similar: Perma Death 23.8%, Space 19.6%, Action 12.5%, Combat 10.1%, Adventure 10%

The dark underbelly of 1990s Europe, criminal enterprise, and rivers of blood. Rise from a petty crook to a criminal legend, where every shot must be precise and any mistake is fatal. A brutal, top-down tactical shooter.

Why similar: Perma Death 39.2%, Top-Down Shooter 35.2%, Top-Down 8.3%, Action 5.9%, 2D 4.6%

Switch between multiple arcane Shards to outwit and obliterate your enemies in this top-down shooter roguelike. Plan your path with a unique skill tree levelling system, and fight for survival against enemies wielding the same powers as you.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 35.2%, Perma Death 29.4%, Top-Down 9.4%, Action 9.1%, Combat 8.2%

Dap is a horror-action-adventure about gathering and protecting a pack of fragile creatures called Daps. Lead your Daps to safety through an eerily beautiful world, fighting off threats, solving puzzles, and avoiding the infection that twists your companions into something alien and terrifying…

Why similar: Experimental 42.4%, Top-Down Shooter 21.8%, Combat 9.6%, Mystery 6.5%, Top-Down 5.6%

Deidia is an Idle Game / Exploration / Incremental / Data-Corruption Glitch-Venture Hybrid game where you explore a lonely unstable world, use glitches, forgotten ruins. Its exploring an offline abandoned game / server with a ram corruptor played with platforming, very ambient, experimental.

Why similar: Experimental 80.3%, Adventure 10%, Indie 9.7%

Load dice as bullets. Shoot d-heads. Survive the arcade machine that wants you dead.

Why similar: Experimental 56%, Top-Down Shooter 29.6%, Indie 5.2%, Top-Down 3.6%, Action 3.5%

Brutal twin stick shooter with fun and clever enemies. Also has roguelite and Sci-Fi stuff.

Why similar: Perma Death 30.4%, Top-Down Shooter 25.3%, Space 11.6%, PvE 9%, Top-Down 7.3%

The biggest feature is that it produces state changes such as petrification in real time until it becomes incapacitated. Multiple types of materials can be selected for petrification. The content of the game is an avoidant STG where the ending branches depending on the action in the boss battle.

Why similar: Experimental 50.8%, Top-Down Shooter 30.4%, Action RPG 8.8%, Action 6.8%, Indie 2.8%

Engage in an intense space shooter that you can play in single-player or multiplayer with up to 6 players. Play a variety of different spaceships, each with their own unique stats, components, and playstyles!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 35.2%, Space 18.2%, Top-Down 10.5%, Combat 9.3%, Action 7.8%

Imagine waking up on a small dock with no recollection of who you are or how you got there. The first person you find is a grumpy, old man who enlists you to work on his ferry boat which seems to have materialized behind you.

Why similar: Experimental 77.8%, Adventure 11%, Indie 10.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%

Put your Steam Deck trackpads to intense use as you fight endless enemies, bosses, and difficulties in this old-school, arcade-like shoot out. With a play area mapped as a 1:1 of your right trackpad for targeting, experience the fun of the most precise and intense use of Deck trackpad aiming.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 34.4%, Perma Death 21.2%, Space 14.8%, Action 11.2%, PvE 5.7%

After an asteroid catastrophe, your rocket ship crash-lands in the wilderness of Mars. Explore the planet's mysteries, strategize your escape, and build a shelter to protect yourself!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.5%, Space 25.1%, Top-Down 11.9%, Combat 8.1%, Action 7.5%

Containment Breach is a wave-based zombie survival game where you can blow the limbs off of enemies. Earn points to unlock doors, buy and upgrade weapons, perks, and equipment. See how fast you can escape the facility or choose to stay and go for the highest round possible.

Why similar: Perma Death 38.1%, Top-Down Shooter 32.2%, PvE 10.4%, Top-Down 6.4%, Action 5.5%

Scavenger SV-4 is a highly replayable atmospheric first-person science fiction game. Part simulator, part roguelike, it has elements of action, combat, resource management, and a dash of horror. It is not quite like any game you have played before.

Why similar: Space 26.8%, Experimental 25.5%, Perma Death 24.3%, Action 6%, Indie 5.8%

A hardcore arcade in retro soviet style. Red Falcon based on a cross between two classic retro games: Invaders and Tetris. Feel the power of soviet technology and destroy non-soviet sectarians heresy, that comes from another universe.

Why similar: Experimental 50.7%, Top-Down Shooter 22.4%, Perma Death 10.9%, Top-Down 6.3%, Combat 5.3%

Blast your way through an endless horde of enemies in this pixel art top-down shooter. Collect their remains in order upgrade your character for increased combat abilities. Tekla is a top-down shooter with roguelite elements.

Why similar: Perma Death 32.1%, Top-Down Shooter 31.2%, Top-Down 10.2%, PvE 8.7%, Combat 5.6%

Start as a mortal. End as a god. Carve through corrupted hordes, evolve your arsenal and unlock cosmic powers that clear the screen with a wave of your hand. A narrative-driven bullet-heaven roguelite.

Why similar: Perma Death 26.3%, Top-Down Shooter 22.5%, Space 14.5%, Action RPG 11.6%, PvE 9%

This is a rogue-like top-down shooter where you control a spaceship that is sent out to explore the caves on the Moon. Once you enter the caves, you find out that there are enemies. It is up to you to survive against them while also trying to find the path down to the next level of the caves.

Why similar: Perma Death 24.2%, Top-Down Shooter 20.9%, Space 14%, Action 10%, Indie 8.6%

Stickman: Waves of Doom is a horde survivor game with minimalistic graphics where endless enemies crash down upon you in waves of pure chaos and destruction while maintaining steady FPS.

Why similar: Perma Death 37.2%, Top-Down Shooter 31.6%, PvE 10.4%, Top-Down 7.2%, Action 6.4%

n-body is a chill space golf videogame! Launch stars in different solar systems with relaxing soundscapes and slowly form constellations.

Why similar: Experimental 71.9%, Space 18.2%, 2D 5.7%, Indie 3.5%, Singleplayer 0.7%

The quiet and peaceful countryside in Scapeland is the perfect place to built up your own little paradise. Multiply your funds by selling plants and animal products. Enlarge your property, explore new areas and meet new people. This farming game is all about the happy and stress-free life of a farmer... or is it?

Why similar: Experimental 63.9%, Action 13%, Adventure 11.9%, Indie 11.1%

Shoot, Fly, Open, Win.

Why similar: Experimental 64.8%, Action 10.4%, Adventure 9.8%, Combat 7.3%, 2D 4.1%

Cute and simple top down action shooter. Save the kingdom from the all consuming curse, you are not the first to try and will not be the last.

Why similar: Perma Death 42.2%, Top-Down Shooter 35.7%, Top-Down 7.5%, Action 6.8%, 2D 4.9%

Nastya, she is 18 years old. Every day she draws images of the monsters that come to her and describes them. And every night, Nastya has a dream where she fights her monsters. And with each dream, you have to get out of the dream.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 49.1%, PvE 16.7%, Top-Down 11%, Action 8.9%, 2D 6.2%

3 SECONDS REMAINING is a simple top-down shooter made by tiny.ROM,

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 47.3%, PvE 13.3%, Top-Down 10.6%, Combat 9.4%, Action 8.6%

Julian Luxemburg has prepared a dinner for two at his place – but things go awry when the date does not show up and he is left waiting at his dinner table, the clock’s ticking growing unbearably loud. „Dinner Date” is the character portrait of Julian: by becoming his subconsciousness you gain a clear vantage point on the worries which...

Why similar: Experimental 85.7%, Indie 13.3%, Singleplayer 1.1%

Kittens of Fear is a fast-paced, first-person horror game. 100% jump-scare free.

Why similar: Experimental 57.8%, Perma Death 34.9%, Adventure 4.6%, Indie 2.3%, Singleplayer 0.4%

Boomerang Battles is a fast paced action roguelike where you battle your way through 100 floors of a deadly dungeon with your trusty boomerang in a bid for your freedom. Pick your favourite boomerang, learn its attack patterns, find upgrades, and battle against exciting bosses. Escape if you can.

Why similar: Perma Death 38.3%, Top-Down Shooter 31.6%, PvE 11.2%, Top-Down 8.1%, Action 4.5%

Blackhole Survivors is a fast-paced survival game where you control a growing black hole. Absorb planets, level up, and choose powerful upgrades to survive longer. Master movement, physics, and strategy to achieve the highest score.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32.2%, Perma Death 25.2%, Space 11.5%, PvE 8.7%, Action 7.8%

After a freak storm over the Atlantic, you find yourself stranded on the shores of a mysterious island. Do you have what it takes to escape the Lost Sea?

Why similar: Perma Death 61.6%, Action 13.6%, Adventure 12.4%, Indie 11.1%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Explore the farthest reaches of Human Space in this open-world space adventure. Compelled to journey to the Galactic Core by a mysterious hyperintelligence, you must fight your way through dozens of star systems teeming with clashing empires, expansionist AIs, and fearsome xenophobes.

Why similar: Space 23.2%, Perma Death 19.4%, Top-Down Shooter 17.7%, Action RPG 16.9%, Top-Down 6.7%

A fast-paced top-down shooter where aiming is controlled by rotating the camera. Use your character’s enhanced abilities to carve the fastest route through each level. Chase faster times, earn ranks, and unlock new challenges.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 53.5%, Combat 17.4%, Action 13.1%, Top-Down 8.6%, Indie 6.2%

A top-down action game like no other. Use asteroids to block enemy bullets and smash enemy ships in this physics-based test of skill. Conquer 25 levels, vanquish 5 bosses, and maneuver through 5 tricky bonus waves.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 36.8%, Space 16.3%, PvE 13.6%, Top-Down 10.9%, Action 6.1%

INSPIRE is a Stylized Top-Down Shooter set in the near future. Customize your arsenal, soar through the skies with your jetpack, and shoot your way through an alien invasion alongside your transformable backpack companion.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 29.4%, Action RPG 17.5%, Mystery 13.1%, Combat 10%, PvE 9%

Rogue Protocol is a space-themed rogue-like top-down shooter where you warp between sectors and fight off waves of enemies. Fight and collect scrap to upgrade your ship and help your allies find and terminate the universe's central threats.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 41.7%, Space 20.3%, Action 14%, Top-Down 12.9%, Sci-fi 6.3%

Eternal Curse is a top-down twin-stick shooter roguelite bullet heaven. Burn, shoot, and slay your way through hordes of cursed residents on an unfortunate island. Loot and escape the island or die before succumbing to the corrupting power of the Eternal Curse!

Why similar: Perma Death 36.1%, Top-Down Shooter 30.3%, PvE 8.9%, Top-Down 6.3%, Combat 5.9%

Solitarius is a 2D top-down wave shooter set in a sci-fi space environment. It is a free minigame that contains six different levels, eight different enemies and nine different weapons. Instead of surviving as long as possible you have to make it through each level.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 37.6%, Space 31.1%, Action 8.9%, Top-Down 6.2%, Combat 4.9%

AstroWars is a top down 2d shooter with monsters and a blue gun. Earn score by killing monsters and try to beat your top score.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 39.7%, Space 15.2%, Action 12.5%, Top-Down 8.9%, Combat 7%

A fast paced singleplayer arena shooter. Choose one of three goals to win each stage, try different maidens and defeat 10 bosses on the way to meet the devil on stage 66. What's the highest score you can reach?

Why similar: Perma Death 36.8%, Top-Down Shooter 29.8%, PvE 10.7%, Top-Down 8.1%, Combat 7.9%

Save the galaxy in this unique space shooter! Based on the legendary Google Play title, Super Space Slayer 2 features completely re-designed mouse, keyboard and gamepad controls that make it even better than the original.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.4%, Space 27.7%, Action RPG 12.6%, Indie 6.5%, Combat 6.2%

Top-down PvE looter shooter. Fight, loot, and survive—extract to keep your items and clear the stage.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 46%, PvE 13.2%, Action RPG 11.6%, Action 10.5%, Combat 9.8%

The world has become overrun by souls originating from earth but entangled with a parallel universe. The cause driven by madness and survival. Defend humanity at all costs. Take on swarms of zombies and huge zombie boss battles. Use powers and weapons obtained through transdimensional technology.

Why similar: Experimental 45.9%, Top-Down Shooter 30.2%, Combat 7.4%, Top-Down 6.9%, Action 4.9%

pemsa is an unofficial cart runner for the famous PICO-8 fantasy console. We've included some classic games developed for this console with permission from the authors, including Celeste, Slipways & Hug Arena.

Why similar: Experimental 80.1%, 2D 7%, Action 4.4%, Adventure 3.8%, Indie 3.7%

Neonis is a highly action packed top-down shooter in which you try to survive as long as possible. The game has a couple different gamemodes, such as: Classic, Chaos, Dodge and Flood. Pick up the buffs to have a higher chance of surviving for a longer period of time.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 39.5%, Space 23.2%, PvE 9.3%, Top-Down 7.9%, Action 6.2%