
Circle Shoot is a 2D top-down shooter game that employs unconventional controls, challenging players to master 20 levels on Normal difficulty and 10 levels on Hard difficulty using both ranged and melee weapons.
60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Intentionally Awkward Controls, Difficult, Singleplayer, Action.

Circle Shoot is a 2D top-down shooter game that employs unconventional controls, challenging players to master 20 levels on Normal difficulty and 10 levels on Hard difficulty using both ranged and melee weapons.
Anti-gravity + Bamboo-copter + jet backpack
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 63.7% ★, Quick-Time Events 19.3% ★, Difficult 8.2%, Action 5.4%, Indie 2.4%
A cantaloupe with strong hind legs feels incredible pain.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 79.8% ★, Difficult 9.5%, Action 5.7%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 1.2%
SPINGUN is a "manic two-button arcade shooter". Two buttons. One spaceship. Zero chance to survive.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 65.3% ★, Shooter 10.3%, Minimalist 9%, Difficult 8.9%, Action 2.6%
It's a simple little game, but this eraser can drive you crazy. Just give it a try.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 71% ★, Difficult 12.8%, Minimalist 12.7%, 2D 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Vexation is the only rage game that's fun to play! Every level is a different genre and art style all packaged within their own little pockets of terrible game design. But while fun, it's still a rage game...
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 67.2% ★, Quick-Time Events 17.1% ★, Difficult 9.6%, Action 2.9%, 2D 2.2%
Manipulate your wrists, elbows and shoulders to get the arrow to the bow, draw it, aim and fire!Probably Archery gives the player more control over the minutia of their joint movements with tons of crazy scenarios to conquer, multiplayer battles to fight and brutal target challenges to dominate.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 92.8% ★, Difficult 3.2%, Action 2.3%, Indie 1.7%
Foodie Bear is an adorkable platform action game. Our fat hero will eat a lot during the journey. He will become fatter and fatter, face more dangers at the same time. He will eat his favorite ice cream eventually !!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 82.5% ★, Difficult 10.8%, Action 3.5%, 2D 2.4%, Indie 0.6%
Take the role of a flightless Dodo in this tough as nails platformer featuring a unique two button control scheme
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 80.2% ★, Difficult 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.6%, 2D 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.3%
The lion fly in the sky... because King of Beasts.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 93.4% ★, Action 4.1%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 1%
This difficult video game is living proof of how difficult it is to make video games.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 74.2% ★, Difficult 10.7%, Minimalist 7.1%, 2D 3.5%, Action 2.1%
Versus Purgatory is a micro-roguelike shoot-em-up with mind-bending gameplay in which you delve into a dungeon, controlling two characters at the same time.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 59% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17%, Shooter 10.1%, Difficult 8%, Top-Down 3.8%
This is a precise platform game modeled after the King of Jumps.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 82.6% ★, Difficult 8.2%, 2D 3%, Pixel Graphics 2.9%, Action 1.9%
TwinGrip is a twin-stick physics-based puzzle-platformer video-game. That's a lot of hyphens. Control each leg of your vessel individually with a controller, or both at the same time with the mouse! Master this unique control scheme and find your way home!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 91.5% ★, Minimalist 4%, 2D 2.4%, Indie 1.9%, Singleplayer 0.3%
Insomnia is a top-down shooter with psychological horror elements. Take part in fierce firefights, perform tasks covertly, act on intuition. Will you be able to survive all the enemies, stop moral outrage around you, and save others without losing your mind?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.1%, Shooter 20.8%, Quick-Time Events 20.1% ★, Action 8.1%, Top-Down 7.7%
Make Me LAG is the first game that features a revolutionary new control scheme: your character actions are determined by the game frame count! Use external softwares and other tricks to lower the FPS count and control your character to defeat evil monsters and save the world!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 89.9% ★, Action 6.9%, Indie 3.2%
A hilariously hard QWOP-like tiny 3D mind twisting catch animals game! It's a EASY game!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 93.4% ★, Difficult 4.2%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 0.9%
A rage-inducing skill based game with a dynamic story that unfolds following the player choices
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 79.7% ★, Difficult 10.7%, Minimalist 6.5%, Action 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%
You take on the role of a lost astronaut who must return to the spaceship in zero-gravity space. Refill oxygen, avoid obstacles, and head towards the destination. Discover endless possibilities in this unique space adventure!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 86.5% ★, Difficult 11.4%, Singleplayer 1.2%, Indie 0.9%
Take control of Vandozer's three pistons to jump, skid, and cling your way through many challenging levels!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 75.7% ★, Difficult 10.7%, Action 9.4%, Indie 4.2%
You are an arm. Yes, seriously, just an arm. And to be it you have to use your mouse. Oh, and everything is physics based. If it sounds hard it's because it is. Drag, jump, punch and arm around to... wait, what kind of a mission could a disembodied arm possibly have?
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 84.8% ★, Difficult 11.4%, Action 3.1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Destruction is a game that destroys enemies up to 25 stages. A variety of powerful enemies will attack you. Don't let your guard down and use three modes and a variety of skills to destroy your enemies.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32.8%, Shooter 20.7%, Difficult 16.1%, Action 9.6%, Top-Down 9.6%
You have one goal: reach the flag. What's so difficult about that? The rules of getting there aren't going to be posted, but they'll be taught to you anyway.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 70.5% ★, Difficult 12.1%, Minimalist 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 3.1%, Action 3%
A sci-fi top-down shooter game. 2D top-downYou shooting game. You get kidnapped by alien from far away and infested by their blood, which makes you able to use their weapon. You have to get out there before they catch you and do some weird thing with your body
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 38%, Shooter 27.6%, Action 11.2%, Top-Down 7.9%, 2D 7.7%
Slash Quest is a quirky action adventure with unconventional controls and unlikely heroes. Spin a magic talking sword through exotic lands, fight nasty creatures, overcome puzzles and make friends on your way to reunite it with its rightful wielder, the Queen.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 73.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.2%, Top-Down 5.9%, 2D 3.8%, Action 2.5%
رجل عالق في برميل وسط صحراء مليئة بالتحديات! استخدم الماوس لتقفز وتدحرج وكافح نحو القمة. لعبة فيزيائية تعتمد على الدقة والإصرار، غلطة واحدة قد تعيدك للبداية! A man stuck in a barrel in a desert of challenges! Use your mouse to jump, roll, and climb to the top. One mistake can send you back to start!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 82.9% ★, Difficult 12.1%, Action 2.7%, Indie 1.3%, Singleplayer 1%
Platforming is much harder when you don't have a jump button! Walk, jump, climb and parkour by directly controlling each leg of a confused baby robot. Go from a glitching toddler to a somersaulting acrobat in the story mode, share a multi-legged robot, or compete against friends in minigames!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 86.7% ★, Difficult 6.1%, 2D 4.1%, Action 2.6%, Singleplayer 0.6%
A retro-ish, rhythm-ish game about catching raindrops and dodging hazards with an unusual two-level control scheme. You've got to try it to understand it.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 87.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 4.1%, Action 3.8%, 2D 3.3%, Indie 0.8%
You're all bound up and stuck in a hospital gown, but that won't keep you down! Hop to it in this silly 3D physics based parkour platformer, Bound Up & Squirming!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 82.7% ★, Difficult 11.4%, Action 3.2%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 1.3%
You are a machine learning model tasked with driving an active ragdoll in a computer physics simulation. Take manual control of your feet to retain balance, walk, navigate obstacles, and perform various tasks. A challenging game partially inspired by Bennett Foddy's work.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 73.2% ★, Difficult 12%, Minimalist 9.6%, Action 2.4%, Singleplayer 1.5%
Ambidangerous is a top-down shooter that puts your ambidexterity to the test. Simultaneously control two elite soldiers as you fight your way through four randomized areas, five unique bosses, and a dozen enemy types. Take the challenge alone or share the controller with a friend for co-op play!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 58.4% ★, Top-Down Shooter 16.7%, Difficult 8.2%, Top-Down 4.9%, 2D 3.5%
It's a difficult game about a man with hooks.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 80.6% ★, Difficult 13%, 2D 3.5%, Singleplayer 1.5%, Action 1.4%
Cranked Up is an offbeat and challenging platformer game where you control rocket-powered donuts trying to save the world from an evil pizza.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 83.5% ★, Difficult 11.8%, Indie 4%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Goblins are prohibited from entering a local tavern, but luckily, they hatched a cunning plan. Move and balance the three goblins to help them quench their thirst and end goblin discrimination in this cute wobbling simulator.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 84.7% ★, Difficult 11.8%, Indie 2.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%
Skate through an increasingly burdensome path by controlling your individual feet and body tilt in this desperately difficult challenge game.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 77.3% ★, Difficult 13.6%, Top-Down 3.5%, Action 3%, Indie 1.7%
Circle Tank is a one-button minimalist coffee-break tank action game. Through three acts, mash uncontrollably as an onslaught of cuboid enemies threaten your existence. Intentionally awkward controls make this a rage-inducing challenge that will put you to the test. Can you survive?
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 85.7% ★, Shooter 5.8%, Action 4.4%, Pixel Graphics 2.6%, Indie 0.8%
Play as a Vacuum Cleaner! ACUVAC is a Cleaner Collectathon with Destruction, Limb Controls, and a mix of Arcade and Sandbox elements! Suck, Blow, and Swing your hose around in this vibrant, Physics-based Action-Adventure!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 88.8% ★, Difficult 9.2%, Action 1.3%, Singleplayer 0.7%
Swing your hammer and spread your wings as you make the difficult climb to the top of Mount Olympus.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 84.3% ★, Difficult 12.6%, Indie 1.4%, Action 1%, Singleplayer 0.7%
L30-P4RD is Sci-Fi Top-down shooter. You explore planets as a member of the L30-P4RD, a special force that pioneered planets for civilization.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40.9%, Shooter 31.7%, Action 13.3%, Top-Down 11.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%
SWAT God is the world's fastest shooter. Unique mouse control gives you limitless speed and precision. Merciless enemies that only get harder. Are you fast enough?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 32.4%, Shooter 24%, Minimalist 17.7%, Action 9.4%, 2D 6.8%
Tilt and jump your way out of the depths of a grand city. A difficult game where falling is your biggest obstacle, get used to starting over. Don't get too tilted :)
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 84.6% ★, Difficult 12.5%, Action 2.5%, Singleplayer 0.4%
That magical girl has abandoned her costume and become a stick!!! This is an STG where the spinning stick is your ship. It can turn and attack in all directions! The strongest! But because it's a stick, you have to work hard to avoid bullets and walls! Defective!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40.7%, Shooter 32.3%, Action 10%, 2D 8%, Pixel Graphics 4.1%
You are bread. Your mission, become toast! Take on all hazards to deliciousness as you head on an epic adventure in one of the the toughest games ever baked. All of the game modes (including Bagel Race) are now unlocked so there's sure to be something to suit everyone's taste!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 80.1% ★, Difficult 13.1%, Action 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%, Indie 1.5%
Ball is Life is a challenging 3D precision platformer and visual novel with simple levels and plenty of balls. Hop to the beat of a lo-fi soundtrack and discover new shenanigans.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 82.3% ★, Difficult 12.2%, Action 3.3%, Indie 1.2%, Singleplayer 1%
Operation Thunder is a top-down shooter with a tactical twist and destructible walls. Use your guns, gadgets and wits to outsmart your enemies and become a hero. Good luck, Soldier.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 38.8%, Shooter 22.9%, Top-Down 9.1%, 2D 7.2%, Action 7.1%
Swing through ropes and overcome obstacles.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 84.3% ★, Difficult 13.2%, Singleplayer 1.3%, Action 1.2%
3 SECONDS REMAINING is a simple top-down shooter made by tiny.ROM,
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 42.8%, Shooter 25.6%, Top-Down 9.1%, 2D 7.8%, Action 7%
Become the fella. Walk on the stilts.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 80% ★, Difficult 14%, Action 3.7%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.8%
Take on the role of a security guard in this fast-paced 2D action-strategy game. Outsmart intruders using CCTV, weapons, and clever tactics to defend your building!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 36.5%, Shooter 27.2%, Action 10.9%, Top-Down 9.8%, 2D 7.6%
"Just Defense" is a simple Topdown view defense game.Upgrade your weapons, build turrets and kill enemies.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40%, Shooter 29.1%, Action 11.9%, Top-Down 11.4%, Combat 5.9%
Spearhead is the story of agents who join secret organizations in a chaotic world surrounded by infectious diseases. Experience the story of six agents joining.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40.6%, Shooter 21.7%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, 2D 8.1%, Top-Down 7.1%
ReCoil is a 2D Top-Down Shooter with a unique twist to it's genre. The recoil of your weapons launches you back.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 45.2%, Shooter 15.6%, Top-Down 11%, Action 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
Bot Crusher Arena is an open top-down shooter where the player takes on the role of a cyborg participating in an arena elimination with other cyborgs. The task is to survive in the arena and defeat all enemies. Don't let the enemies hit you.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 46%, Shooter 26.8%, Top-Down 11.5%, 2D 7.7%, Action 5%
This is a game where you can learn about chopsticks while challenging physics-based puzzles with handling chopsticks. Inspired by Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 85.6% ★, Difficult 12.5%, Indie 1.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%
Control the UFO. Carry the Luggage. DON'T DROP IT. – A simple yet challenging foddian game for aliens.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 76.1% ★, Difficult 12.8%, Minimalist 5.4%, Action 3%, 2D 2.7%
You are a single ship outnumbered and outgunned by the enemy fleet. The one advantage you have is a powerful magnet that is capable of capturing the enemy bullets and firing them back at the enemy!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 42.6%, Shooter 25.7%, Top-Down 10.3%, 2D 7.9%, Action 7%
Explore a world like no other, where your keyboard becomes a level, and each key represents a room on that level. You’ll face various logic puzzles, challenging arcade levels, cunning enemies, and unexpected surprises.
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 61.1% ★, Minimalist 14.3%, Difficult 11.9%, 2D 5%, Indie 3.4%
Experience the supermarket version of Grand Theft "Shopping Cart"! This is no easy job. You'll need plenty of patience, a sharp mind, and nimble hands to become a qualified shopping cart pusher, otherwise, I guarantee you'll never find all the carts!
Why similar: Intentionally Awkward Controls 72.4% ★, Difficult 14.6%, Minimalist 11.1%, Indie 1%, Singleplayer 0.9%
Vacubot is a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Players must survive increasingly challenging battlefields by using a variety of weapons to fight off swarming enemy robots and powerful bosses.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 34.7%, Shooter 29.2%, Top-Down 9.5%, Action 9.1%, 2D 7.3%
You destroy the runaway electronic organ AISZ. Vertical scroll STG with all 5 levels.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 42.4%, Shooter 31.7%, Action 12.9%, 2D 9.1%, Indie 2%
Pop-Cute Shooting game‼︎
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 44.7%, Shooter 26.8%, Top-Down 10.6%, 2D 8.2%, Action 7%