- #1 Alienzix
97% matchMixed66% of 50 reviews2017
Dev: Xero TR-MMXZPub: Xitilon
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Oldschool 2Д-shooter of the Windows 2000 epoch, controlled by mouse. 2-player local cooperative mode with several difficulty levels.
Why similar: Action 41.8%, Indie 31.2%, Retro 12.1%, Arcade 10.3%, 2D 4.7%
- #2 Handsome Mr. Frog
96% matchVery Positive91% of 242 reviews2016
Dev: Cowboy Color
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Jump, lick, and spit your way through four worlds in a new-school arcade adventure starring the nominal Handsome Mr. Frog, a good looking fellow whose hat was jacked by a bunch of unattractive normies.
Why similar: Action 50.3%, Indie 34.3%, Retro 8%, Arcade 7.5%
- #3 Pilots Of Darsalon
95% matchMostly Positive77% of 44 reviews2020
Dev: Dr. Kucho! Games
Windows · Mac
Your job is to locate and transport the containers to your base avoiding enemies on your way. Your ship is equipped with a hook to carry the containers. This is a physics based arcade game, inspired on the very early classics and with a strong Commodore 64 feel on it.
Why similar: Action 46.2%, Indie 32.1%, Side Scroller 7.8%, Retro 6.2%, Arcade 4.8%
- #4 Call of Tomsk-7
96% matchVery Positive81% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Daniel MercierPub: Mercier Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Fight for your life in Call of Tomsk-7, a simple side-scrolling shooter. Horrifying monsters are pouring out of the forgotten and abandoned Soviet-era Tomsk-7 biological weapons facility. You must fight the creatures in a seemingly endless battle of attrition.
Why similar: Action 47.4%, Indie 33.3%, Side Scroller 19.3%
- #5 Castle Clamber
94% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Trederia
Windows · Mac
Castle Clamber is an arcade action platformer for one or two players inspired by games of the 80s and 90s.
Why similar: Action 42.3%, Indie 33.6%, Retro 14%, Arcade 10.1%
- #6 Drones
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: Sharksauce
Windows
Blast your way through hordes of enemies in the progressive wave mode to defeat the overseer, or test your skills with the endless survival mode to become the greatest warrior on the leaderboard.
Why similar: Action 50%, Indie 38.5%, Arcade 11.5%
- #7 Retro Space Shooter
93% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Gable Games
Windows
Retro Space Shooter is a refreshingly modern 3D physics-based implementation of a top-down retro arcade space shooter. Expertly pilot your drone ship through an onslaught of enemy fire and fight seemingly endless waves of enemy ships and bosses.
Why similar: Action 48.2%, Indie 37.1%, Retro 8%, Arcade 6.8%
- #8 Avoid - Sensory Overload
92% matchVery Positive86% of 224 reviews2014
Dev: 48h StudioPub: Strategy First
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 18.3 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Avoid is a fast-paced arcade game that will test your reflexes!
Why similar: Action 55%, Indie 34.3%, Arcade 10.6%
- #9 Path of the Sramana
90% matchMixed65% of 31 reviews2020
Dev: SpiritElder
Windows
‘Path of the Sramana’ is a fantasy platformer game, following a young shaman journeying through the spirit realm, as she searches for her father’s soul.
Why similar: Action 43.8%, Indie 34.8%, Side Scroller 21.3%
- #10 Scrollonoid
91% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Vadjra
Windows
Scrollonid it's a 2D symbiosis of arkanoid and scroll shooter game.
Why similar: Action 49.7%, Indie 37%, Arcade 13.3%
- #11 Valiant Gears
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gaze Interactive
Windows
Valiant Gears is a 3D old school shoot 'em up game. Hop on your Valiant Gear, a ferocious battle machine and defend the planet by fighting the alien robots!
Why similar: Action 52.6%, Indie 40.5%, Arcade 6.8%
- #12 WireNet
91% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: Xero TR-MMXZPub: Xitilon
Windows
Minimalistic scroll-shooter with green-on-black pseudo-vector display. Rush through the isometric madness of WireNet to the NeuroCore!
Why similar: Action 41.7%, Indie 31.1%, Retro 12.8%, Arcade 9.9%, 2D 4.5%
- #13 Smooth Mover
89% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2019
Dev: BlurryBit
Windows · Mac
Move smoothly through a series of rage-inducing levels!
Why similar: Action 43.1%, Indie 33.1%, Arcade 16.8%, 2D 7%
- #14 Realm Hacker
89% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: KaiChih TsengPub: KAICHIH Games
Windows
Realm Hacker is a game based on cyber worlds and hackers, allowing you to manipulate characters while building blocks, while using dexterous movement to pass the game level.
Why similar: Action 42.6%, Indie 32.8%, Side Scroller 9.6%, Retro 7.1%, Arcade 5.4%
- #15 Retro Vaders: Reloaded
86% matchPositive93% of 29 reviews2020
Dev: Andrew Nutter666 Jaggar
Windows · Mac
The original Retro Vaders game rebuilt from the ground up with a brand new engine, complete graphics overhaul and a heap of new content.
Why similar: Action 49.6%, Indie 38.2%, Retro 9%, 2D 3.2%
- #16 Dungeon Bosses
88% matchMixed42% of 12 reviews2019
Dev: Kiiega
Windows
Dungeon Bosses is a classic game with bosses and unusual style. The game also has an interesting story, which is revealed in the course of game progress.
Why similar: Action 53%, Indie 40.8%, 2D 6.1%
- #17 KnightRoyale
85% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: abdulkadirPub: teodlegames
Windows
KnightRoyal is a Indie retro pvp Pixel-Game to play from time to time, if you are looking for a Indie retro pvp Pixel-Game to play from time to time, you are here right KnightRoyal is the perfect game for you then.
Why similar: Action 52.5%, Indie 40.4%, Retro 7%
- #18 DUMB Infernal
84% matchMostly Positive74% of 43 reviews2020
Dev: Beem Media
Windows
Enter the infernal hellscape as a lone warrior fending off an army of monsters in arcade style combat.
Why similar: Action 53.1%, Indie 40.9%, Arcade 6%
- #19 GRAY GROFA
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TPM.CO SOFT WORKS
Windows
GRAY GROFA is an unparalleled side-scrolling shooter puzzle game developed for the 8-bit MSX computer. 2 years have been spent hand-tuning the game's visuals, movements and puzzles in a tireless pursuit for aesthetic perfection.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #20 Line/Dash
87% matchMostly Positive76% of 51 reviews2016
Dev: Gamera Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Line/Dash is an Arcade-oriented game that doubles as a procedural player-controlled multimedia sculpture.
Why similar: Indie 42.4%, Action 37.3%, Arcade 14%, 2D 6.4%
- #21 The Kaiju Offensive
82% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Suspicious Ducks
Windows
The Kaiju Offensive is a 2D top-down brawler where you fight as a giant monster. In this arcade-inspired romp, your objective is plain and simple. You, the kaiju, need to destroy all the buildings in the city.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #22 Twisted: Enhanced Edition
83% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Szekretar
Windows
Twisted:EE is an action-platformer game combined with the best gameplay elements like time and object manipulation, clever enemies, traps and other challenges.
Why similar: Action 45.1%, Indie 34.7%, Side Scroller 20.1%
- #23 DECEIVER
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Helvetica Scenario
Windows · Mac · Linux
Launch your spider drone at walls, ceilings, and enemy heads in this indie multiplayer shooter where "move" and "attack" are synonymous.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #24 Onslaught VR
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MindWalker Games
Windows
Jump into the fray with Onslaught VR! Armed with multiple gun types, devastating AOE attacks, and aerial capabilities, you'll face off against multiple enemies and powerful commanders. Good luck, soldier... you'll need it.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #25 Prototype-CUBE
81% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Enzian Game Development Team
Windows
Using Sword and Bullet, while evading the barrage and swords, running stylishly through the buggy chess world, High difficulty level exhilarating action 3D shooting game!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #26 Attack of the Labyrinth +
84% matchMixed66% of 71 reviews2015
Dev: Timedrop Studios
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 91%
The forces of evil have invaded the land. A labyrinth of evil has appeared in the kingdom and legions of monsters are pouring out of its vile depths. The king has called upon a small party of heroes, the Champions of Virtue, to vanquish the demon within and free the land from a grim fate!
Why similar: Action 45.6%, Indie 35.1%, Arcade 19.3%
- #27 Pop Pop Boom Boom VR
82% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Thorne Media, LLC
Windows
You brought a bow to a bomb fight. Challenge: Survive.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #28 Demon Grade VR
81% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Richard Stenson, Solus GamesPub: Solus Games, Inc.
Windows
Demon Grade is a VR FPS featuring free 360 degree movement, with no jogging in place, no teleporting, and no rails. In Demon Grade, you will explore dynamically generated levels in first person perspective while fighting relentless demonic enemies and collecting demon shards to unlock various weapons.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #29 Rise High
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: eiloware
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Rise High is an arcade action game in which you have to defend your workers from an alien invasion while they try to build skyscrapers!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #30 CANDLE UNDER WATER
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: polytanQ
Windows
Light a yellow candle by controlling the water level! Easy action puzzle.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #31 Scuffle Scoundrels
78% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Moped Games
Windows
Scuffle Scoundrels is an oldschool arcade brawler for 2-to-4 rivals of all ages. With explosive powerups, deadly hazards, and imposing animal captains, it's sink or be sunk in this fast paced pirate romp!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #32 JumpStream
77% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2018
Dev: Digital Continue
Windows
JumpStream is a competitive platformer built in real-time by an audience, using Mixer Interactive! The goal is to work with your audience to construct an emergent path to complete challenges in the fastest possible time.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #33 Seek & Destroy - Steampunk Arcade
78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: GamestormVRPub: Showstorm Ltd
Windows
You are Armed with a Steam Powered Rail Gun + Hammers + TESLA Powered Lightning + Magnets! SEEK & DESTROY to rack up the biggest score!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #34 Midnight Grub Session
76% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Crumb Goblin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get down with the thiccness
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #35 Garrison Gauntlet
77% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Ryan Silberman
Windows
Garrison Gauntlet is an oldschool-style action-platformer where you play through over four stages of intense challenges! A little robot that is to serve as nothing more than as one of the many robotic minions owned by the evil tyrant, Garrison, you must stop his forces from the inside!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #36 Encounter of Galaxies
79% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Obi-Wanya
Windows
Encounter of Galaxies is a vertical scrolling shooter with an open world and elements of trade.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #37 Kyber Knights
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Portaalin Pojat Oy
Windows
A multiplayer VR game by an Arcade for Arcades. Kyber Knights is a fun and easy multiplayer game developed exclusively for VR Arcades. Simple controls and an easy to control Operator View make this fast paced shooter a great choice for Arcades. CURRENTLY ONLY IN LAN.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #38 SincereMen
75% match5 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Utopia EntertainmentPub: Rhyton Solutions GmbH
Windows
This game is a First Person Shooter video game based on VR technology with realistic graphic and hardcore action shooter gameplay. The main character is a trained ranger that come to help his partner from the edge of the chopper using a heavy machinegun and try to save him.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #39 BEAT.R.
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ae.studio
Windows
3D blocks exploding everywhere while colors and sounds delight you in every way. This infinite runner is sure to grab your attention for at least 30 seconds.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #40 XENOCAVE
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BLUE LED
Windows
XENOCAVE is a retro-styled, scrolling platformer that elevates the genre with a unique fusion of ability and fine-tuned mechanics inspired by the classics. Specifically, imagine an amalgam of Mario's fluid controls, the double-jump and rapid-fire of Ghosts 'n Goblins, and the themes of Crystal Caves.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #41 BeeBeeQ
65% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popup Asylum
Windows
BeeBeeQ is an asymmetric local multiplayer game where one VR player controls a Chef while up to four xbox controller players control Bees. Armed with a spatula and a fly swat the VR chef player has to try cook while the bees steal food, sting and generally harass him.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #42 Refraction
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Zilby
Windows · Mac · Linux
Refraction is a top-down, arena action game where you use quick reflexes to take down hordes of enemies. You must rely on your skill and your wit as you fight to survive, in the hope that you can live long enough to take down the core of all corruption.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #43 The War of the Worlds: Andromeda
73% matchMostly Negative30% of 20 reviews2018
Pub: Mediamas Europa
Windows · Linux
The world is over, get up and start the battle of revenge! With the first-person shooter of The War of the Worlds: Andromeda, load your weapons and lead your team to fight through swarms of fierce aliens. Turn the battle around through 14 epic levels of brutal combat, based on the world of H.G. Wells.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #44 Defection
72% match3 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Sergey Saratov
Windows
Defection is a third-person multiplayer shooter with hand-drawn styling.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #45 Double Stretch
72% matchMostly Negative24% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: ARGamesPub: Metal Fox
Windows
Double Stretch - an unusual top down flight shooter.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #46 One minute of death
71% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Krzysztof Konopka
Windows
O.M.O.D. is pretty difficult platform game.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #47 Gunnihilation
73% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Robo Pixel Games
Windows
Ultraviolent bullet-hell platformer Gunnihilation is dual stick 16-bit mayhem that fuses several forms of 2D shoot 'em up, from run-and-gun classics like Contra and Metal Slug, to the arena-based slaughter of Smash TV.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #48 Tech Clash
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Interstellar PunksPub: ESAT
Windows
In the far future huge companies compete for the control of the technological market, in this mayhem the CEOs of the biggest companies reunite and decide to fight it off in a tournament! Each company will provide a champion in what would be the fight of the century!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #49 The Pit
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zero KnowledgePub: Zero Knwoledge
Windows
The Pit is a platform game with touches of action and puzzles, which will force you to understand and know how to use all the skills you have.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #50 ALIEN FIELD
69% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Mindware
Windows
Totally new, attack! Rogue Like Dot Eat! Psychedelic full throttle! Explode your concentration in 3 minutes and knock out the high score!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #51 Space Slam
71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: ;)Pub: Quickdraw Studios
Windows
In SPACE SLAM there is only one way to mine: ramming planets at full speed with your spacecraft. View the action in VR with your HTC Vive or in flat mode!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #52 Shoot'n'Scroll 3D
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: PlayMobileFreePub: Dikobraz Games
Windows
Helicopter arcade game. Shoot'em-up action with plenty of adventures and adrenaline.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #53 Nebula
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: Szekretar
Windows
Nebula is an action platformer with a high emphasis on using everything at your disposal to succeed, such as the gravity gun. The game takes place on an abandoned space station where you need to survive the deadly traps, defeat your enemies and solve physics based puzzles.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #54 Derelict (DO NOT BUY)
68% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2018
Dev: JEPR DEV
Windows · Mac
DO NOT BUY... A massive Space Station was found after 20 years of being lost, your mission is to walk among the infested interior in order to carry out your mission. Dangers beyond comprehension lurk in the shadows, be ready...
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #55 Escape Lizards
70% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Egodystonic StudiosPub: Independent
Windows
Escape Lizards is simple: Tilt the platforms to roll your lizard egg from the start point to the finishing bell at the end of the level. However, things are never as simple as they seem...
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #56 Quip Anomaly
70% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: mentics
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 85%
Quip Anomaly is a deep space dodge 'em up game. Guide Virnu to dodge hazards, acquire research, and obtain power ups. As you unlock each level, you will learn more about Virnu and her story.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #57 HVRGUN
52% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Jonathan Bartram
Windows
Welcome to HVRGUN, the worlds best Assault Pilot Training program. Where you'll be placed directly into a virtual battlefield and test your ability to dodge, shoot, and destroy an endless onslaught of enemies!
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #58 Weird creatures
70% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: mchernykh
Windows
Blow-up your mind with the easy fantasy shooting simulator. You will travel across forests, deserts and snowy mountains, accompanied by a powerful ally vehicle to care of. Various weird inhabitants resist you to collect art pieces. Ever struggle to be rewarded.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #59 SHNIPERS
65% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Brenden CameronPub: Brenden Cameron Games
Windows · Mac
SHNIPERS is a combat platformer where up to 4 players fire bullets that bounce off of everything! A game of "bullet-hell pong" where your shots are as much a danger to you as they are to your enemies.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%
- #60 ARIS
57% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TBM StudiosPub: Lit Network
Windows
Strategically clear your way of enemies to gather points, salvage killed enemies for extra points, all while avoiding and engaging in combat with other different types of enemies. Added effects and game mechanics make for challenging gameplay in a fast paced environment.
Why similar: Action 56.5%, Indie 43.5%