Games Like Brigador: Up-Armored Edition

Isometric insurgent simulator. Fight on foot and in vehicles, build and steal a private arsenal and bring the war home to the businessmen who started it all in this continuation of the Brigador saga.

Why similar: Destruction 12.5%, Cyberpunk 11.1%, Vehicular Combat 10%, Dystopian 9.6%, Twin Stick Shooter 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: This direct follow-up retains the distinct atmosphere, tactical depth, and destructive gameplay of the original.

SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.6%, Twin Stick Shooter 13.7%, Roguelite 12.2%, Action Roguelike 11.5%, Difficult 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similarly intense, tactical top-down shooter experience with deep weapon mechanics and high difficulty.

RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 27.7%, Twin Stick Shooter 18%, Top-Down Shooter 15.3%, Isometric 8.8%, Difficult 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the brutal, fast-paced combat and dark cyberpunk aesthetic that defines the Brigador experience.

Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 44.7%, Cyberpunk 14.2%, Difficult 10.2%, Top-Down Shooter 9.9%, Sci-fi 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: A masterclass in twin-stick shooting that provides the same high-octane, arcade-style intensity.

Take command of your own mercenary outfit of 'Mechs and the MechWarriors that pilot them, struggling to stay afloat as you find yourself drawn into a brutal interstellar civil war.

Why similar: Mechs 74.7% ★, Sci-fi 10.4%, Robots 9.5%, Difficult 3.3%, Action 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: Provides the definitive tactical mech experience with deep customization and a focus on heavy, lumbering combat.

You are a friendly-but-deadly Mech on a journey searching for your missing pilot in this action-packed roguelite shooter. Choose your missions and rewards, research skills, equip expansions, mod your weapons, install plugins, customize your looks and stylishly cut your way through hordes of evil AI.

Why similar: Mechs 22.2% ★, Twin Stick Shooter 18.2%, Top-Down Shooter 9.7%, Difficult 9.5%, Robots 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, mech-based twin-stick shooter that emphasizes mobility and overwhelming firepower.

The year is 3015. The battlefields are dominated by war machines known as BattleMechs. Level entire cities and decimate the enemy in your BattleMech. Follow a quest for glory and revenge. Manage an expanding mercenary company. Fight alongside your friends with a four-player PvE co-op.

Why similar: Mechs 43.8% ★, Vehicular Combat 23.4%, Destruction 21.6%, Shooter 7.9%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers the most immersive mech-piloting experience with a heavy emphasis on customization and destructive warfare.

NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 30.8%, Action Roguelike 16.6%, Cyberpunk 15.6%, Roguelite 10.8%, Robots 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk-themed action-roguelite that features extensive mech customization and challenging combat.

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.2%, Mechs 24.1% ★, Action Roguelike 20.4%, Roguelite 9.3%, Sci-fi 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical 2D combat where players must board and dismantle complex alien ships from the inside.

Sandbox of destruction. Billion different ways to build your mech. Feel the weight and impact of obliteration in this modern old school mech combat sim.

Why similar: Mechs 24.9% ★, Twin Stick Shooter 17.9%, Destruction 14.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.5%, Vehicular Combat 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features physics-based mech combat that mirrors the destructive nature of the seed game.

Red Faction: Guerrilla re-defines the limits of destruction-based game-play with a huge open-world, fast-paced guerrilla-style combat, and true physics-based destruction.

Why similar: Destruction 68.8%, Sci-fi 16.6%, Shooter 8%, Action 5.3%, Atmospheric 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same satisfying, physics-based environmental destruction that makes Brigador so unique.

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.6%, Difficult 19%, Top-Down Shooter 17.1%, Twin Stick Shooter 14.1%, Roguelite 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-difficulty, fast-paced roguelite shooter that rewards precise movement and aggressive play.

Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 36.1%, Difficult 17.3%, Robots 15.4%, Shooter 9.7%, Sci-fi 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: An intense twin-stick shooter that maintains high-speed combat and constant pressure.

A masterful combination of top-down shooter and endless replayability with procedural levels. Blast your way through walls & enemies with guns and cybernetic abilities. Install perks from cyber chambers and upgrade your character stats after each death. Can you stop the Overseer?

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.8%, Cyberpunk 16.8%, Top-Down Shooter 14.2%, Action Roguelike 9.3%, Dystopian 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A cyberpunk-themed twin-stick shooter with procedurally generated levels and destructible walls.

Danger Scavenger is fast-paced action, cyberpunk-themed, roguelite skyline crawler. Blow up, cut, shoot enemy robots on the roofs of skyscrapers. Choose your way to higher levels, loot, buy stuff, upgrade yourself, fight against greedy corporations, be a rebel!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 22.1%, Cyberpunk 15.2%, Top-Down Shooter 14.5%, Robots 12.1%, Action Roguelike 11.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, cyberpunk-themed roguelite shooter that emphasizes verticality and aggressive combat.

Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 27.9%, Top-Down Shooter 19%, Cyberpunk 14.7%, Difficult 13.2%, Action Roguelike 13%

Why You'll Like It: An arena-based twin-stick shooter that focuses on massive destruction and overwhelming enemy swarms.

Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 26%, Mechs 25.4% ★, Action Roguelike 12.1%, Difficult 11.5%, Roguelite 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A bullet-hell twin-stick shooter with deep mech-like customization and challenging boss encounters.

HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 32.6%, Top-Down Shooter 23.1%, Mechs 11.4% ★, Sci-fi 7.1%, Isometric 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down tactical shooter that features heavy weaponry, chaotic destruction, and cooperative mech support.

Control powerful mechs from the future to defeat an alien threat. Each attempt to save the world presents a new randomly generated challenge in this turn-based strategy game.

Why similar: Mechs 59.2% ★, Isometric 15.1%, Roguelite 12%, Sci-fi 10.2%, Indie 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on tactical mech combat where environmental manipulation and positioning are key to survival.

Control a fully armed Mech and fight through cyberpunk cities, military bases and industrial ruins. Capture and defend territories, build turrets and structures, and wage war against powerful enemies!

Why similar: Mechs 23.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.5%, Cyberpunk 13.6%, Isometric 9.3%, Dystopian 8.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down mech combat game that incorporates tower defense elements for a tactical twist.

Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!

Why similar: Mechs 22.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.4%, Destruction 18.3%, Twin Stick Shooter 16.5%, Sci-fi 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: A frantic twin-stick shooter that features satisfying weapon upgrades and destructible environments.

Armechgeddon is a chaotic action rogue-lite with a minimalist control scheme. Pick the right mech and pilot for the job, and lay waste to hundreds of enemies with your custom arsenal.

Why similar: Mechs 24.5% ★, Action Roguelike 19.8%, Roguelite 16.3%, Destruction 11.7%, Robots 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelite focused on mech-based combat and bullet-hell mechanics in a high-intensity environment.

A classical science fiction point and click adventure which takes you into a deep story and murky atmosphere, while solving logical puzzles. Accompany Tessa Carter and her talking robot as she finds out about herself and searches for a way to survive.

Why similar: Sci-fi 40.6%, Robots 38.8%, Atmospheric 17.7%, Indie 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, responsive top-down shooter with roguelite elements that demands high skill and precision.

Devader is an intense 90's-style twin-stick shooter, complete with crazy old-school bosses, powerful strategic abilities and multiple endings. Upgrade your robot with nukes, shields, turrets and more to exterminate the relentless invaders.

Why similar: Mechs 21.2% ★, Twin Stick Shooter 19.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.8%, Cyberpunk 11.5%, Isometric 10.6%

Why You'll Like It: An intense arena-based twin-stick shooter that emphasizes defensive tactics and heavy weaponry.

A classic real-time strategy game with an epic single player campaign, multiplayer & coop, set in the alternate reality of 1920+

Why similar: Mechs 84.8% ★, Sci-fi 10.5%, Action 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: A real-time strategy game featuring diesel-punk mechs that capture a similar industrial aesthetic.

Gungrave G.O.R.E is a stylish third-person action shooter by South-Korean Studio IGGYMOB in which you take on the role of Grave, a gunslinger of resurrection and badass anti-hero of your dreams, mowing down tons of enemies in a gory ballet of bullets.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 74.3%, Action 25.7%

Why You'll Like It: An over-the-top action shooter that focuses on pure, destructive firepower.

SYNTHETIK 2 is a unrelenting tactical-shooter rogue-lite. Play alone or with friends. Loot powerful tech. Experience the next level in gun-play. Upgrade your androids to rival the machine gods!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 29.6%, Top-Down Shooter 20.2%, Action Roguelike 12.7%, Roguelite 11.4%, Shooter 8%

A classic reawakens – Assault Suit Leynos is back and in high definition! Get ready for all-out robotic war as the fan-favourite Mega Drive classic is reworked with all new HD visuals for the ultimate alien-blasting experience!

Why similar: Mechs 66.8% ★, Robots 23.9%, Action 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic mech action game that emphasizes heavy weaponry and intense side-scrolling combat.

The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.

Why similar: Cyberpunk 31%, Difficult 24.6%, Sci-fi 15.3%, Top-Down 13.1%, Atmospheric 7.5%

STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.

Why similar: Soundtrack 23.8% ★, Roguelite 21.6%, Action Roguelike 17.5%, Difficult 14.1%, Shooter 13.4%

RIG Riot is a roguelike third-person mech-action shooter. Fight increasingly difficult enemies while completing objectives, level up, and choose the Weapons and Volatile Mods that will let you return from your raids victorious. Discover thousands of permanent parts, and build a RIG unlike any other.

Why similar: Mechs 35.4% ★, Robots 14.7%, Action Roguelike 12%, Difficult 11.2%, Roguelite 8.8%

Event[0] is a sci-fi narrative exploration game where you build a relationship with a lonely spaceship computer to get home to Earth.

Why similar: Sci-fi 60.5%, Atmospheric 27.7%, Indie 11.9%

Space Run Galaxy is the sequel to Space Run, the game from one-man studio Passtech, which seduced hundreds of thousands of players with its dynamic and original gameplay. By twisting the tower-defense game style, Space Run offered an addictive real-time spaceship construction strategy experience.

Why similar: Indie 100%

This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 39.8%, Destruction 28.8%, Robots 9.3%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Shooter 8.2%

Fast-paced Roguelike shooter in a dystopian steampunk future.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 16.3%, Isometric 13.9%, Cyberpunk 13.6%, Action Roguelike 11.8%, Dystopian 11.8%

Get ready to put a sizable dent in the profits of megacorporations in Deadlink, a guns-blazing cyberpunk FPS with roguelite elements. Your mission is to conduct covert ops while piloting a humanoid combat shell. And no, "covert" doesn’t mean "quiet."

Why similar: Cyberpunk 23.7%, Dystopian 18.7%, Difficult 16.7%, Action Roguelike 15%, Roguelite 12.4%

Build a civilization that will stand the test of time in the largest space-based strategy game ever! Choose from dozens of unique races and make a name for yourself across the galaxy through diplomacy, espionage, technological advances, and more.

Why similar: Sci-fi 100%

Squeeze into your toga and slide on your sandals to rally the angry mobs of Okhlos and bring down the oppressive god of mythological Greece!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 38%, Difficult 24.7%, Roguelite 21.2%, Action 10.4%, Indie 5.7%

Fast paced Top-down shooter! Smartly use IRCM to evade the constant barrage of bullets and missiles and destroy everything that stands in your way.

Why similar: Roguelite 38.8%, Mechs 20.7% ★, Action 15.7%, Indie 8.2%, Twin Stick Shooter 4.4%

RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 42.8%, Isometric 21.5%, Top-Down 14.9%, Shooter 13.7%, Action 7.1%

C&F Inc. teleporters are going offline all over the place, and it's up to an intrepid frog employee to fix the situation.

Why similar: Difficult 40.1%, Soundtrack 25.2% ★, Shooter 22.8%, Action 8.1%, Indie 3.8%

The new reference in RTS at its best! The Wargame series returns to duty, larger, richer and more spectacular than ever before. In Wargame Red Dragon, you are engaged in a large-scale conflict where Western forces clash against the Communist bloc.

Why similar: Difficult 74.8%, Action 25.2%

Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!

Why similar: Cyberpunk 43.7%, Shooter 19.2%, Difficult 15%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Action 8.7%

Pilot your fully customizable Arsenal mech and join your fellow mercenaries in defending humanity from the corrupted machines and gigantic robots in this post-apocalyptic action game!

Why similar: Mechs 65.3% ★, Robots 17.1%, Sci-fi 7.5%, Action 5.8%, Cyberpunk 3.1%

Super Rude Bear Resurrection is an ultra-tight, masocore platformer that anyone can beat! Use your corpses to get ahead, or take on the ultimate challenge and try to defeat the entire game without dying!

Why similar: Difficult 59.2%, Action 24.8%, Indie 16%

Load up and roll out, in this twin stick shooter with roguelike progression! Blast your way through arcade-style levels, using pinball-style physics mixed with an arsenal of devastating weapons. Defeat waves of enemy bots, battle big bosses, and upgrade your mech between runs.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.7%, Mechs 19.4% ★, Cyberpunk 13.2%, Action Roguelike 9.7%, Robots 9.6%

Granvir is a 3rd person action roguelite mech-builder with co-op multiplayer. Scavenge the battlefield for parts to replace and upgrade your Granvir and weaponry. PIlot your Granvir and manage your campaign between battles to find the best equipment and stay supplied while fighting a guerilla war.

Why similar: Mechs 44.6% ★, Robots 18.1%, Action Roguelike 12.8%, Roguelite 9.1%, Sci-fi 8.4%

In this roguelike action-adventure, control humanoid "Labor" and giant "Arms" to uncover the mysteries of the world. Create fully-customizable robots, strengthen them, and take down hordes of enemies!

Why similar: Mechs 38.7% ★, Isometric 14.1%, Action Roguelike 13.5%, Robots 11.7%, Roguelite 10.3%

Even you can become a great artist! Wrestle subjectivity as you attempt to sell your art to rude customers in order to progress in this confusing art scene. The only thing threatening you is your expensive wine and baguette addiction! Will your art end up in the Louvre or on your parents' fridge?

Why similar: Indie 100%

Cursed Castilla (Maldita Castilla EX) is an arcade action platformer full of creatures from medieval myths from Spain and the rest of Europe, as well as from chivalric romances. The extended version of the classic Maldita Castilla, originally created by the indie Locomalito.

Why similar: Difficult 67.3%, Action 19.8%, Indie 12.9%

Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Why similar: Difficult 45.2%, Atmospheric 16.1%, Top-Down 12.1%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Action 9.4%

Explore a lovingly crafted world with all its odd inhabitants as you experience the ethereal realm and deliver messages to the spirits. Make your mark in the wordless narrative - with a Tiny Echo.

Why similar: Isometric 60.1%, Atmospheric 26.6%, Indie 13.4%

Vital Shell is a single player top-down arena shooter that puts you in control of mechs inspired by classic fantasy archetypes. Unlock powerful synergies with unique weapons, traits, and abilities as you take on increasingly challenging waves of enemies in a shattered realm.

Why similar: Mechs 39.3% ★, Top-Down Shooter 20.3%, Action Roguelike 13.5%, Roguelite 11.4%, Top-Down 8.1%

Pilot the Megacopter, a sentient weapon that gains power by feeding on the blood of its enemies. Play through the campaign featuring seek and destroy, boss, rescue, and defense missions against the evil reptoid army. Upgrade Megacopter with the fabled AZ-TECH: ancient weaponry and armor.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 33.1%, Vehicular Combat 24.1%, Top-Down Shooter 21.9%, Isometric 17.7%, Action 3.2%

Heat Signature is a game from the developers of Gunpoint where you break into spaceships, make terrible mistakes, and think of clever ways out of them. You take a mission, fly to the target ship, sneak inside, and make clever use of your gadgets to distract, ambush and take out the crew.

Why similar: Top-Down 20.8%, Top-Down Shooter 19.2%, Sci-fi 18.5%, Roguelite 18.1%, Action Roguelike 9.8%

Retrowave Action Roguelike featuring tough agents battling crime to the electrifying music of artists like Droid Bishop, Timecop1983, and more! Choose your agent and dive into hardcore action against enemies and bosses, utilizing a vast arsenal and special abilities that will define your playstyle

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 22.1%, Top-Down Shooter 14.7%, Dystopian 12.5%, Action Roguelike 11.4%, Difficult 10%

Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Why similar: Sci-fi 62.2%, Atmospheric 37.8%

Your Excellency, in this short systems-management survival game, we prepare for the awakening of our Lord. He hungers for human sacrifice. Sinners try to hide their dark secrets, but all must be purged...

Why similar: Difficult 100%