- #1 Pancake Patrol
97% matchPositive90% of 31 reviews2024
Dev: Power Plins Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Recruit companions, crush monster hordes and duel bullet hell bosses in this delicious Survivors-like meets Bullet Hell genre mix! Unlock a variety of delicious food weapons, face the horde, master intense patterns and conquer Boss Rush. Choose your heroes and join the Pancake Patrol!
Why similar: Boss Rush 41.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.1%, Action Roguelike 12.1%, Roguelite 8.6%, Nonlinear 6.8%
- #2 Puppet Kings
96% matchMostly Positive73% of 30 reviews2017
Dev: Timba GamesPub: Plug In Digital
Windows
Puppet Kings is a modern take on the Breakout genre taking block-breaking to new levels of fun by introducing characters, boss rush as primary game mode and a roguelike twist.
Why similar: Boss Rush 48.2% ★, Action Roguelike 13.1%, Roguelite 10.1%, Nonlinear 9.3%, Arcade 6.2%
- #3 Just Squat
96% match8 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Soonsoo
Windows
Just Squat is a shmup and visual Nobel game that focuses on boss fight by growing up a boy. Grow the boy by encountering various events at the gym and school, and push Babel out with all your might! The difficulty of boss fight and the boy's growth will be determined by the exercise you choose!
Why similar: Boss Rush 44.3% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 14.6%, Top-Down Shooter 11.7%, Old School 6.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #4 Bourbon Risky
95% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2026
Dev: HaJoonHeonPub: Jang Hajun
Windows
Bourbon Risky is a simple but deep boss rush action game with retro style graphics. Smash all enemies in your way with your eternal companion that blasting bullets and lasers!
Why similar: Boss Rush 71.1% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 10.9%, Old School 5.7%, Action 4.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.2%
- #5 Bread & Butter
94% matchPositive95% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: DaniDangerStudio
Windows
A roguelite arena shooter starring you, a gutsy bread slice, and your butter buddy battling side by side. Survive waves of evil veggies, stack wild weapon combos, and unleash absurd builds in relentless top-down chaos.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.4%, Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.9%, Roguelite 13.3%, Roguelike 6.1%
- #6 HOUSE OF GOD
94% matchVery Positive87% of 54 reviews2020
Dev: Glass Revolver
Windows
As The House of God races towards heaven, Jack blasts their way to the conductor in this chaotic and fast-paced Rogue-Lite.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 17.3%, Action Roguelike 16.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.8%, Roguelite 11.7%, Old School 8%
- #7 Dream Flash
93% matchVery Positive100% of 50 reviews2019
Dev: Ramaf Party
Windows
Fast paced boss rush rogue-lite that follows a soul exploring the dreamscape. Collect a wide array of items and weapons in order to make the soul even more powerful. Gain the power to transform into even stronger forms in order to combat increasingly difficult enemies.
Why similar: Boss Rush 46.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.1%, Action Roguelike 14.6%, Roguelite 9.4%, Roguelike 5.3%
- #8 a land Goo's crazy
92% matchPositive100% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: Velest
Windows
A 2D action roguelike where you have to slash, dash, dodge, manage your stamina, and collect loot to beat 12 unique levels. The boss fights are difficult. And it’s your duty to regain the memory of the Goo’s and rid the land of the corrupt king.
Why similar: Boss Rush 57.9% ★, Action Roguelike 20.7%, Roguelite 7.1%, Surreal 5.6%, Action 3.5%
- #9 Voidcutter Fuzor
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Howling Cat Games LLC
Windows · Linux
Battle through waves of enemies, taking their power for your own in this retro-styled arcade shoot'em up.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 19.5%, Top-Down Shooter 18.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.1%, Arcade 8.2%, Roguelike 6.6%
- #10 The Void Rains Upon Her Heart
91% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 1,928 reviews2018
Dev: Veyeral GamesPub: The Hidden Levels
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 21.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Help her heart battle tough bosses in this Boss Rush, Bullet-hell with rogue-like elements. Fight through several randomly chosen boss battles leading up to a final battle. Each defeated monster will give her random gifts that power up her heart. Don't let her heart break!
Why similar: Boss Rush 44.6% ★, Action Roguelike 21.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.7%, Roguelite 8.5%, Action 3.3%
- #11 Hyper Shapes
90% matchMostly Positive76% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: BlindShot StudioPub: JanduSoft
Windows
Hyper Shapes is a frenetic minimalist Boss Rush where understanding the enemies attack patterns and weaknesses is key.
Why similar: Boss Rush 67% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18%, Arcade 8%, Action 4.1%, 2D 2.4%
- #12 Tell Me Owl
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: GlebGPub: TBD
Windows
Embark on an exciting journey in a top-down western shooter inspired by classic NES action games. Battle through handcrafted levels, buy abilities, upgrade weapons to face multi-phase bosses in a world where a man's best friend is his revolver.
Why similar: Boss Rush 39.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19%, Old School 8.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 8.1%, Arcade 7.2%
- #13 War In Heaven
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: SteventusPub: Steventus Games
Windows
Chaotic boss-rush, bullet-hell-y, twin-stick arena shooter mayhem! Dynamically changing arena forces you to be vigilant: Watch the bullets, watch the walls!
Why similar: Boss Rush 49.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 14%, Arcade 5.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
- #14 Eclipse Breaker: Boss Rush
88% match3 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Lunar Workshop
Windows
Face a gauntlet of relentless bosses in this free minigame from action roguelite, Eclipse Breaker. Test your skill in 15–20 minute sessions built for fast-paced but strategic runs, before jumping into the complete adventure later this year.
Why similar: Boss Rush 50.6% ★, Action Roguelike 15.3%, Roguelite 12.2%, 1990's 9.5%, Roguelike 4.3%
- #15 Space Slinger
87% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 8bitditsPub: D^2
Windows · Mac
Space Slinger is an arcade roguelike about a traveler and his recoil-packed gun where you shoot to move. Unlock unique weapons and broken builds as you conquer space one enemy at a time.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 22%, Top-Down Shooter 20.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.7%, Roguelite 12.3%, Arcade 5.6%
- #16 Gunlocked 2
85% matchVery Positive86% of 77 reviews2026
Dev: FromLefcourt
Windows
Movement is your weapon. A sci-fi action roguelike and shmup combined, in Gunlocked 2 you'll pilot and upgrade a state-of-the-art warship against endless waves of deadly aliens. Deep customization, branching paths, and tons of unlockables offer endless replayability!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 16.7%, Action Roguelike 16.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 14%, Roguelite 11.8%, Old School 8.2%
- #17 STARR RINGER
86% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Sterling McKay
Windows
Grab the fate of all life in your hands. Blast your way through the cosmos, destroying monstrous cosmic beasts and the space cultists summoning them, on your path to stopping your mother from unleashing the chaos realm upon the universe, in this sci-fi cosmic horror bullet-hell, STARR RINGER.
Why similar: Boss Rush 28.8% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.6%, Arcade 8.9%, Shooter 6.4%
- #18 DUCKLYTE
86% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: LGV
Windows · Mac · Linux
DUCKLYTE is a top-down shooter with roguelite elements where you play as a constipated little duck trying to stay alive as long as possible in a randomly generated farm with progressively stronger enemies.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.5%, Action Roguelike 18.9%, Roguelite 14.5%, Old School 9.2%, Roguelike 6.6%
- #19 Entomophobia
84% matchPositive88% of 40 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!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.6%, Action Roguelike 19.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.3%, Roguelite 12.7%, Arcade 7.1%
- #20 STELA BOSS
83% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: pastro
Windows
Face challenging bosses and hordes of enemies in an action roguelike, using elemental weapons and unique combinations to master each cycle.
Why similar: Boss Rush 54.5% ★, Action Roguelike 19.4%, Roguelike 6.7%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, Roguelite 4.5%
- #21 Microbes and Machines
84% 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: Action Roguelike 18.9%, Top-Down Shooter 17.5%, Roguelite 13.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.2%, Roguelike 6.7%
- #22 The Way of Ping-Pong
81% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RoeBox
Windows
A roguelike bullet-hell shooter where table tennis meets ancient mythology. Wield your paddle to strike enemies with bouncing balls, retrieve them to attack again, and craft powerful builds through strategic upgrades.
Why similar: Roguelite 17.1%, Top-Down Shooter 16.7%, Action Roguelike 15.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.8%, Arcade 9.9%
- #23 Buster Breaks Out
79% matchPositive100% of 29 reviews2026
Dev: Nose Corporation
Windows · Linux
A fast-paced brick-breaking roguelite starring Buster Ball. Build wild ball synergies, smuggle in powerful contraband, defeat the 5 prison wardens, and climb to freedom.
Why similar: Roguelite 15.6%, Action Roguelike 15.5%, Surreal 15.4%, Old School 12.9%, 1990's 10.2%
- #24 Perish Song
82% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Leach Studios
Windows
Perish Song is a 2D action rogue-lite. Traverse through different environments as you battle unique enemies and bosses. Discover the secrets of the world as you dash and blast through anything standing in your path. Each death is an opportunity to learn, adapt, and overcome.
Why similar: Boss Rush 51.4% ★, Action Roguelike 17.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.7%, Roguelite 8.5%, Pixel Graphics 3.3%
- #25 Probo Rush
81% matchPositive97% of 32 reviews2023
Dev: Silkworm
Windows
Probo Rush is a classic shoot 'em up bullet hell game with a boss rush twist. Fight against machines, aliens, and nature as you take on 15 challenging boss battles. With adjustable health and an Assist Mode, Probo Rush offers a challenging but accessible gaming experience.
Why similar: Boss Rush 52% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 14.6%, Old School 7.5%, Arcade 6.5%, Pixel Graphics 5.7%
- #26 Grimrush
82% matchPositive88% of 25 reviews2017
Dev: Merge HeroesPub: Pohjoinen Pelinkehitys ry
Windows
Grimrush is a top down action game in which you must face off a gauntlet of seven brutal boss fights. Utilize three characters and a large selection of active and passive abilities. Balance offense and defense to take down the bosses and maximize your score!
Why similar: Boss Rush 54.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.9%, Action 12%
- #27 FAR FROM DEAD
78% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2026
Dev: Brian O'Keefe
Windows · Mac
A twitchy shoot 'em up boss rush game inspired by run 'n gun classics. Fight your way through seven challenging bosses and hitch a ride off this awful planet.
Why similar: Boss Rush 60.3% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 14.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%, Shooter 4.2%, Old School 4.2%
- #28 Super Smash Asteroids
80% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2023
Dev: Switchback
Windows
"Super Smash Asteroids" is a high-speed, twin-stick, top-down, rogue-like space shooter. Choose from 6 unique ships, upgrade with 70+ items & blast through epic bosses. Level up for intense, action-packed battles in a futuristic universe. Buckle up for a thrilling journey to glory!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.2%, Action Roguelike 18.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.5%, 1990's 9.5%, Arcade 9.1%
- #29 Mobocalypse
78% 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!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 19%, Roguelite 18%, Old School 12%, Action 9.7%
- #30 BALL x PIT
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 25,014 reviews2025
Dev: Kenny Sun and FriendsPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 13.8 hrsMean: 20.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 18.4%, Top-Down Shooter 17.8%, Roguelite 17.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.2%, Arcade 9.7%
- #31 Weaponized
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Vector Hound
Windows · Mac
Weaponized is a fast, violent retro vector shooter. Use your machine gun to carve through asteroids and extract ore. Grab and hurl enemies, snipe through rocks, fight massive bosses. Make your quota and get out before it's too late. Earn. Endure. Weaponize.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.8%, Roguelite 15.2%, Top-Down Shooter 12%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.6%, Arcade 9.7%
- #32 Rogue Rocks
79% matchMostly Positive77% of 47 reviews2019
Dev: AUX-IN Games
Windows · Linux
Rogue Rocks is a space rocks shoot-em-up with minimalist roguelite elements. Blast your way to the center of a procedurally generated galaxy before you get caught!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.3%, Top-Down Shooter 16.5%, Roguelite 15.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.9%, Action 9.3%
- #33 Kantmis-Zero
76% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Kagawa
Windows
"Kantmis-Zero" is a boss rush action game. As the only chosen one on the Kantmis continent, you must follow the divine instructions and complete the trials.
Why similar: Boss Rush 72.1% ★, Action 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%, 2D 6%, Combat 4.9%
- #34 Cyber Strike
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sprinkle Games
Windows
Cyber Strike is a butt clenching bullet hell dungeon crawler. Navigate through intense shootouts, strategic dodges, and cybernetic boss battles. Save a digital world from viruses and virtual foes. Rewrite destiny as you save cyber space in this thrilling adventure.
Why similar: Boss Rush 63.4% ★, Action Roguelike 19%, Action 9%, Arcade 8.6%
- #35 Demonborg Mining Co
75% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Ouch Giver Games
Windows
Demonborg Mining Co is a unique rogue-lite about mining the insides of giant demon cyborgs with your auto-firing turret loaded drill drone.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 20%, Top-Down Shooter 18.5%, Roguelite 14.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.9%, 1990's 7.9%
- #36 RedRaptor
76% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2023
Dev: Novax GamesPub: Eastasiasoft Limited
Windows
Blast off for a retro arcade experience in RedRaptor, a vertical shoot’em up inspired by genre classics of the ’90s!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.2%, 1990's 13.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Arcade 6.5%
- #37 Death of a Dungslinger
75% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Bokoyoss Games
Windows
Abruptly reincarnated as a dung beetle, you’ll battle a colorful cast of the neighborhood’s baddest bugs as you scoot, scuttle, and shoot your way through charming 3D worlds. Ball up whatever material you can find, then sling it at your foes—or hop on and ride it around to outmaneuver them!
Why similar: Boss Rush 57.2% ★, Old School 11.7%, Surreal 10.5%, Nonlinear 9.2%, Retro 5.3%
- #38 Dead on Delivery
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LabZeene GamesPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Dead on Delivery is a fast-paced top-down action roguelite where you play as a pizza delivery driver in a zombie apocalypse, facing relentless hordes of the undead in intense arena combat while using improvised weapons and strategic abilities to create unique builds and survive each new run.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 17.1%, Top-Down Shooter 16.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.4%, Roguelite 11%, Arcade 8%
- #39 Space Force Bargain Bin
73% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Sled Dog Games
Windows · Linux
Repel the humans! Safeguard the future of all alienkind! Fueled by a large selection of quirky upgrades and power-ups, strengthen the alien alliance to destroy Humanity's Last Hope in this fast-paced retro action-arcade shooter with roguelite and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.7%, Roguelite 16.1%, Arcade 11.1%, 1990's 8.9%, Action 8.8%
- #40 Quantum Contours
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: JakePub: Who's Paying For Mike
Windows
Shoot, dash, deflect, teleport through portals, and upgrade. Blast your way through challenging and unique bosses as you gain valuable upgrades in this short and sweet bullet hell top-down arena shooter.
Why similar: Boss Rush 49.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.8%, Action Roguelike 14.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 6.9%, Shooter 4.3%
- #41 Shoot or Shout
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sanya
Windows
A rogue-lite action game where you need to choose when to shoot or shout at wacky enemies to keep them from eating you! Earn dozens of powerups to help you defeat unique bosses across dimensions.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 22%, Roguelite 15.9%, Surreal 15%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.4%, Roguelike 7.7%
- #42 Bananner Nababber
72% matchVery Positive94% of 141 reviews2022
Dev: LazroolPub: GZ Storm
Windows
It's a nice sunny day in Neo-Tartaria and ruthless killer Harry Pippels and his pretend friend Humpty-Ho are guzzling down some sprutzels and racking up a debt at the bar. Their life of luxury is soon interrupted however when the Elder Demon's diabolical crypto schemes threaten the lands.
Why similar: Boss Rush 65.3% ★, Arcade 9.1%, Action 7.7%, Old School 6.4%, Pixel Graphics 3.8%
- #43 99 Waves
71% matchVery Positive90% of 105 reviews2024
Dev: Cold9Pub: Cosnow Company
Windows
99 Waves is a casual platformer rogue-lite game about a vengeful young man who challenges a god. Can he defeat countless monsters, the greatest warriors, and mythical beings to reach the despicable god and become a legend?
Why similar: Boss Rush 56.8% ★, Action Roguelike 17.8%, Roguelite 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%, Roguelike 4.1%
- #44 BonkCity
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: 44G
Windows · Mac
Four modes. One block. Play the daily seed everyone on Earth plays, climb a server-verified leaderboard, go Endless for the bragging rights, or paste a Bonk Code to run any scenario seed-for-seed. A 90s hip-hop horde survivor that plays offline and plays with friends.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Action Roguelike 17.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.4%, Roguelite 12.6%, 1990's 10.4%
- #45 Christmas Blaster
72% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: ArcadeNightmare
Windows
Christmas Blaster: Christmas Blaster is an Arcade-type action video game. Santa needs to save Christmas and face creatures with a lot of explosion in this action-packed game.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.5%, Roguelite 14.2%, 1990's 12.5%, Arcade 8.5%
- #46 Proper Bullet Hell
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2025
Dev: IGE
Windows
Roguelike Shooter Where Your Bullets Hurt You!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Action Roguelike 17.9%, Roguelite 12.6%, Arcade 11.1%, Action 9.5%
- #47 Chorus of the Night
71% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: Matt Sayer
Windows · Mac
Fight through hordes of burnt CDs, flying TVs, and faceless suits in this frantic, run-based, twin-stick shooter. Forget firing bullets, though - you'll be flinging vinyl records, throwing drumsticks and swinging guitars to fend off the enemies of music and maybe, just maybe, survive the night.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.2%, Action Roguelike 22.7%, Roguelite 15.4%, Arcade 8.3%, Shooter 6.6%
- #48 Burning Skies
70% matchNo user reviews2026
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.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21%, Action Roguelike 19.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.6%, Roguelite 12.9%, Arcade 6.3%
- #49 Nah, I'd Shotgun
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Mister Zerker
Windows
Dive into the deepest pits of hell, shotgun the hell out of big bad demons then blast them out of the existence, do not hesitate or crumble or you will get humbled, fast.
Why similar: Boss Rush 74.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Action 4.9%, Shooter 3.2%, Combat 1.4%
- #50 Terminator 2D: NO FATE
66% matchVery Positive84% of 1,408 reviews2025
Dev: Bitmap BureauPub: Reef Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Experience the thrill of Terminator 2: Judgment Day with arcade action & pixel-perfect graphics! In this unique story blending iconic scenes from the movie with original scenarios and multiple endings, humanity’s fate is yours to decide.
Why similar: Boss Rush 44.7% ★, 1990's 13.8%, Arcade 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%, Shooter 6.5%
- #51 Regular Spacecraft - Defending the Mothership
69% matchPositive94% of 16 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.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.7%, Action Roguelike 21.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.4%, Roguelite 13.4%, Roguelike 6%
- #52 Asterogue
69% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gillspee
Windows
A roguelite space shooter based around the classic arcade game. Shoot asteroids, ships, and take down the mothership in a multi-stage boss fight, avoiding lasers and explosions. Upgrade your ship during and after your run in this casual simple roguelite.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.5%, Top-Down Shooter 25.3%, Roguelite 15%, Arcade 6.8%, Shooter 5.3%
- #53 Box Wrangler
68% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2024
Dev: Wyatt Schwanbeck
Windows
Dive into Box Wrangler, a thrilling multiplayer roguelike where every game is a fresh challenge! Earn XP to level up during each match while collecting coins to boost your skills for future battles. Harness the power of an array of weapons and enhancements, reaching ridiculous levels of power.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.2%, Arcade 10.7%, Top-Down Shooter 10.5%, Roguelite 9.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.1%
- #54 WayDown
70% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2018
Dev: CakeNeq Games
Windows
After a traumatic battle, you've been cursed to walk the earth unable to truly die, you're thrust into battle after battle, dying over and over unable to rest. Until you find the last Nazi bunker, Bunker 666.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.8%, Action Roguelike 23%, Roguelite 15.4%, Roguelike 6.9%, Shooter 6.6%
- #55 100% Clean Inc.
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: PotionWorksPub: CozyPuzzleGames
Windows · Linux
100% Clean Inc. is a top-down Roguelite shooting game. Follow the new intern as he explores the cleaning company building, where things seem to be going wrong.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.1%, Action Roguelike 21.9%, Roguelite 16.8%, Roguelike 8.8%, Surreal 6.8%
- #56 Dead Sector
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: Jim O'ConnorPub: Exeter Game Studios
Windows · Linux
A cyberpunk roguelike arcade shooter. Hack through hostile cyberspace across three escalating sectors, pick hacking programs from a randomised loadout, and blast through ICE before the trace meter catches you.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.3%, Top-Down Shooter 16.6%, Old School 12%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.2%, Roguelike 8.5%
- #57 The Outer Space Bugs
68% 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.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.7%, Action Roguelike 21.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.6%, Roguelite 14.2%, Roguelike 6.9%
- #58 Boss Pit
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Sticky Bit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Boss Pit is Punch-Out! with swords and shields instead of boxing gloves. Every fight is a boss fight against a fantasy monster. There is no world to travel, levels to traverse, or trash monsters to grind. Just encounter after encounter of deadly bosses in a Colosseum of death and destruction.
Why similar: Boss Rush 47.2% ★, Old School 15.5%, Arcade 12.2%, Action 10.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
- #59 Plumbum
67% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: JMAA Games
Windows
PLUMBUM is a retro top-down roguelike shooter where you'll have to survive the innumerable hordes of mooks and goons in the cursed corridors of this cursed game. Will you survive as long as you can, or will you die trying?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.9%, Action Roguelike 20.9%, 1990's 9.4%, Arcade 8.3%, Old School 7.8%
- #60 Waspkeeper
67% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: LGV
Windows · Mac · Linux
Waspkeeper is an action roguelite game where your main goal is to survive as long as possible in a field full of venomous wasps with one out of four playable characters.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.4%, Action Roguelike 21.9%, Roguelite 14.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.1%, Roguelike 5.9%