- #1 METROPOCRE
97% matchMostly Positive71% of 14 reviews2022
Dev: LGV
Windows · Mac · Linux
METROPOCRE! A violent, bloody and animalistic adventure. Follow Felix, a mentally unstable rabbit, in his path to acquire his dreamed pair of wings.
Why similar: Psychedelic 12.7%, Fast-Paced 12.1%, 1980s 11.2%, Difficult 10.6%, Surreal 9.9%
- #2 Murder Inc
96% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2025
Dev: PigeonDev
Windows
Murder Inc is a top-down adrenaline-fueled shooter where time moves only when you do. Use this to dodge bullets, plan your attacks, and craft action scenes worthy of a blockbuster.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 21%, 1980s 18.1%, Violent 14.4%, Difficult 11.1%, Top-Down 10%
- #3 Hotline Miami
96% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 121,152 reviews2012
Dev: Dennaton GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 10.4 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 17.7%, 1980s 14.9%, Violent 14.5%, Psychedelic 12.4%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #4 GOST of Time
95% matchPositive100% of 29 reviews2024
Dev: IzHard
Windows
42 and more ways of using your own dead body in time travel. GOST of Time is an absurdist top-down action and puzzle game with time-traveling mechanics.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 19.7% ★, Fast-Paced 16%, 1980s 14.4%, Psychedelic 13.2%, Difficult 9.6%
- #5 Bot slash Bot
94% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Traveller's Box
Windows
You click - You dash - You slash. Bot slash Bot is a fast-paced, top-down Hack n‘ Slash in which you control a rogue robot slashing & dashing through your former co-machines holding you captive! It's all about speed. Time is running out.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 25.6%, Swordplay 18.4% ★, Hack and Slash 14.9%, Difficult 12.4%, Top-Down 7.9%
- #6 Deathopolis
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ritual GamesPub: TheGamesfortress
Windows
Deathopolis is an arcade style fast paced shooter. Take on a series of rooms collecting prizes and clearing out waves of enemies using guns and power-up abilities.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 16.8%, 1980s 16.3%, Surreal 10.8%, Difficult 10%, Violent 9.5%
- #7 NYX: The Awakening
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Black Sail Games
Windows
Imprisoned by the ancient goddess Nyx, Vicky has to overcome her fears and fight the creatures that have invaded her town. Go back to the 80's and prepare yourself for a blast of neon nostalgia. Save your world and escape the nightmare!
Why similar: Fast-Paced 21.5%, 1980s 18.5%, Psychedelic 18.5%, Surreal 12.7%, Action 8.1%
- #8 Formilion
92% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: fdm-person
Windows
Kill till you get through. Formilion is a top-down arcade blood shooter about a searching a person.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 18%, Psychedelic 14.7%, Violent 12.5%, Difficult 12.1%, Top-Down 9.2%
- #9 Zombie Soup
91% matchVery Positive91% of 94 reviews2023
Dev: AeonSparx InteractivePub: Astrolabe Games
Windows · Mac
Zombie Soup is a top-down shooter combined with hack and slash action that follows Ricky, a backpacker who is thrown into an unexpected adventure in an unfamiliar town as he shoots and dodges his way through hordes of bizarre creatures and challenging bosses to save a kidnapped girl!
Why similar: 1980s 16.2%, Psychedelic 15%, Fast-Paced 14.7%, Bullet Hell 12.7%, Difficult 11.9%
- #10 Medieval Fury
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Meowplings
Windows
Medieval Fury is a fast-paced action game, overflowing with raw medieval brutality, deadly sword duels, and relentless combat set in the Dark Times — an age consumed by blood and vengeance.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 20.4%, Swordplay 19.6% ★, Violent 13%, Difficult 11.1%, Top-Down 10.6%
- #11 GUN SOLVER
90% matchNo user reviews
Dev: WackSoft
Windows
GUN SOLVER is a mind-bending top-down shooter where every gunfight is a puzzle to be solved. Use experimental bullets to dodge, teleport and kill enemies in slow motion. Strategize, improvise, and destroy the machines tearing the world apart at the seams.
Why similar: Time Manipulation 21.8% ★, Fast-Paced 17.3%, Psychedelic 15.3%, Difficult 9.9%, Surreal 9.1%
- #12 Furi Demake - The Chain
89% matchVery Positive90% of 438 reviews2023
Dev: SylphPub: The Game Bakers
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 23%
Fight your way free in this 8-bit-inspired version of Furi's first boss fight against The Chain. Frantic action, nervous controls, a blend of shoot and sword fight reimagined in 90s style. Only 1 boss fight! A gift to Furi’s fans.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 21.1%, Hack and Slash 15.8%, Difficult 15.5%, Bullet Hell 14.6%, Retro 9.8%
- #13 Post Void
89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 12,026 reviews2020
Dev: YCJY Games
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 57%
Post Void is a hypnotic scramble of early first-person shooter design that values speed above all else. Keep your head full and reach the end; Kill what you can to see it mend; Get the high score or try again.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 23.9%, Psychedelic 21.3%, Difficult 12.1%, Surreal 11.1%, Violent 10.2%
- #14 For the Greater Good
87% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Alexander Urban
Windows · Mac · Linux
For the Greater Good is a violent, story-driven action game where a group of outcasts unleash their unique powers to exterminate a blood cult hell-bent on world domination.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 22.6%, Difficult 16.6%, Hack and Slash 12.7%, Violent 12.2%, Top-Down 11.1%
- #15 Ghostrunner
86% matchVery Positive91% of 65,586 reviews2020
Dev: One More LevelPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Ghostrunner offers a unique single-player experience: fast-paced, violent combat, and an original setting that blends science fiction with post-apocalyptic themes. It tells the story of a world that has already ended and its inhabitants who fight to survive.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 26.4%, Swordplay 23.8% ★, Difficult 13.4%, Hack and Slash 11.6%, Violent 9.8%
- #16 HyperShot
88% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Pirate Dog Games
Windows
In this Bullet Hell shooter, the more enemies you shoot, the more enemies spawn! Keep moving so you don't get surrounded, and shoot enough enemies to clear each level.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 27.4%, Bullet Hell 17.9%, Difficult 14.7%, Shooter 9.1%, Top-Down 8.5%
- #17 Tackle for Loss
86% matchVery Positive100% of 89 reviews2026
Dev: Indifferent Penguin
Windows · Mac
Tackle. Die. Repeat. Use American football skills to dash through a bloody 2D underworld. Fast, top-down carnage until the floor is cleared. You’re at the top of your game... but unfortunately, your C.T.E. is catching up.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 17.2%, Violent 12.8%, 1980s 12.6%, Difficult 11.4%, Psychedelic 9.6%
- #18 a FISTFUL of COWBOYS
85% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2024
Dev: frog 🐸
Windows
Ultra hyper auto-shooting cowboy mayhem
Why similar: Fast-Paced 31.4%, Bullet Hell 22.1%, Psychedelic 22%, Shooter 10.3%, Action 6%
- #19 Sa[meow]rai: Silverwing Stray
84% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 狗红工作室Pub: GCORES PUBLISHING
Windows
"Sa[meow]rai" is a top down action role-playing game centered around one-hit kills and rich interactivity.You play as a law-enforcer with an implant called "Gyakugawa Emergency Reboot Device," fighting for every second of your remaining time in a morally ambiguous cyberpunk city.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 26.9%, Hack and Slash 16%, Swordplay 15.3% ★, Violent 12.3%, Retro 8.7%
- #20 Christmas Massacre
84% matchVery Positive91% of 1,065 reviews2021
Dev: Puppet Combo
Windows
Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Christmas is coming and Larry's got a big problem - his Christmas tree is telling him to KILL! Lead him through his murder rampage.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 21.2%, 1980s 17.9%, Psychedelic 14.3%, Violent 12.7%, Difficult 12.2%
- #21 Pixel Samurai
83% matchVery Positive90% of 130 reviews2022
Dev: ArtofKingsgame
Windows
A journey of a lost samurai. Encounter five samurai and challenge them to a duel. Unleash your katana strike and deflect incoming attacks. Fight for honor or die with shame.
Why similar: Swordplay 35.2% ★, Difficult 25.2%, Action-Adventure 11.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Combat 7.4%
- #22 Negative Time
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Round Owl
Windows
Negative Time is a bullet hell rogue-lite shooter where each time you get hit, you are sent further and further back in time, until you are sent into the past they tried so hard to erase. Maybe in there lies the key to your escape?
Why similar: Time Manipulation 28.1% ★, Bullet Hell 20%, Difficult 15%, Fast-Paced 14.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
- #23 Planes, Bullets and Vodka
82% matchVery Positive86% of 2,589 reviews2016
Dev: NukGames
Windows
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 12.6 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Fly through danger filled procedurally generated tunnels, avoiding thousands of enemies, on this throwback to the golden age of arcade games.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 19.9%, Bullet Hell 15%, 1980s 14.2%, Difficult 11.3%, Retro 9.6%
- #24 UBERMOSH:OMEGA
81% matchVery Positive90% of 480 reviews2019
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 36%
UBERMOSH:OMEGA, the apex of Walter Machado's Cult Classic series UBERMOSH.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 23.2%, Bullet Hell 13.9%, Hack and Slash 13.4%, Psychedelic 13%, Retro 9.1%
- #25 Changa
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: bohoa
Windows
A psychedelic trial-by-fire journey to sever the knot of suffering. Mastery in movement and combat will be needed on this path to inner peace. Bounce, dodge, fly, and fight the illusions of material and immaterial reality in this new kind of arcade bullet hell.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 25.4%, Psychedelic 24.9%, Bullet Hell 17.2%, Difficult 15.8%, Combat 6.2%
- #26 UBERMOSH Vol.7
80% matchVery Positive83% of 475 reviews2019
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
You play as a Saint fighting in a gun-filled pit, defeating as many opponents as you can in a 90 seconds match, the UBERMOSH, an enlightenment ritual of combat.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 25.5%, Bullet Hell 14.3%, Hack and Slash 13.9%, Difficult 11.2%, Retro 10.2%
- #27 Laser 77 - Virtual Lab
79% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: ALLD
Windows
Shoot, slash and dash your way against virtual enemies and try to max your score in this 2D, top-down action game.
Why similar: Difficult 17.9%, Top-Down 14.7%, Hack and Slash 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%, Action 10%
- #28 Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number
79% matchVery Positive94% of 76,956 reviews2015
Dev: Dennaton GamesPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6.2 hrsMean: 18.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 23.7%, Violent 15.5%, 1980s 14.3%, Difficult 13.5%, Top-Down 7.5%
- #29 RitualRX
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Paden Houck
Windows · Linux
RitualRX is a brutally violent, blisteringly fast, adrenaline-filled shooter set within a pastel paradise ruled by cults. Control excommunicated sinners as you shoot, slash, and slaughter your way through a city where ritual is prescribed and the only treatment administered is an overdose of lead.
Why similar: Psychedelic 18%, 1980s 15.9%, Violent 15.1%, Difficult 13.2%, Surreal 10.5%
- #30 I Can See the Future
78% matchVery Positive81% of 72 reviews2017
Dev: Sergey LirPub: Bitlock Studio
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 15.7 hrs≥1hr: 29%
This is my job. Dying again and again. But I'm used to it. That's how I can see the future. What's waiting for me? Good question.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 26.3%, Violent 17.3%, Difficult 15.5%, Top-Down 14.9%, Action 10%
- #31 3 Hell
76% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: BekviPub: Tsh
Windows
3 Hell is a close-combat arena game where aggression is the only survival strategy.The arena doesn’t wait. Enemies don’t hesitate.Power comes at a price — and time is never on your side.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 24.6%, Swordplay 17.5% ★, Bullet Hell 15.5%, Difficult 15.2%, Hack and Slash 15%
- #32 The DarkCity
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Capital Wolf
Windows
Prepare for a visceral and heart-pounding fusion between fast-paced hack-and-slash action, platforming, and a first-person shooter. As a fearless inquisitor sent by the church, you must unleash hell on the vampire legions that plague this isolated and obliviated city.
Why similar: Swordplay 27.3% ★, Fast-Paced 23%, Hack and Slash 17.3%, Violent 15%, Shooter 9.5%
- #33 👾 Foreign Frugglers
77% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Ultimo Games
Windows
The Fruggle is real! Four brave survivors need to protect mother earth from spacey invaders in this pixelated arcade style 2d shoot 'm up.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 19.7%, 1980s 16.2%, Difficult 11.6%, Retro 11.1%, Violent 10.2%
- #34 Neon Dodge
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Mavixen
Windows
Neon Dodge is a frantic, vaporwave-themed bullet hell where you cannot shoot. Master the dodge to survive the impossible challenges that a mysterious Voice throws at you... Or watch your death counter ascend to infinity.
Why similar: 1980s 27.4%, Difficult 25.6%, Bullet Hell 24.8%, Retro 10.3%, Action 6.8%
- #35 Time Rift
75% matchVery Positive97% of 134 reviews2022
Dev: LightshardsPub: Abiding Bridge
Windows
Time Rift is a fast-paced puzzle-shooter. You’re a hacker-turned-security tester, but your skills will only get you so far - to take down global megacorp VaultCo, you’ll have to manipulate the flow of time!
Why similar: Time Manipulation 33.2% ★, Fast-Paced 26.5%, Difficult 15.4%, Retro 12%, Shooter 3.7%
- #36 Katana ZERO
74% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 74,545 reviews2019
Dev: AskiisoftPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 9.0 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Katana ZERO is a stylish neo-noir, action-platformer featuring breakneck action and instant-death combat. Slash, dash, and manipulate time to unravel your past in a beautifully brutal acrobatic display.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 19.3%, Time Manipulation 15.4% ★, Hack and Slash 12.7%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Difficult 10.3%
- #37 InKing
73% matchVery Positive98% of 168 reviews2024
Dev: Team Digital ToiletPub: Jungle Game Lab
Windows
is a fast-paced 2D top-down action game. Players take on the role of an ink bottle warrior on a journey to become the king of tools. Use your fast attacks, moves, and powerful skills to defeat the tools that stand in your way, prove that ink and pen are the best tools, and become the King of Tools.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 29.3%, Hack and Slash 18.8%, Difficult 16.5%, Top-Down 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%
- #38 ACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID
75% matchMostly Positive78% of 50 reviews2021
Dev: deadworld games
Windows
ACIIIIIIIIIIIIIIID is a a fast-paced arcade game with bullet-hell elements.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 25.1%, 1980s 19.5%, Difficult 15.1%, Surreal 11.4%, Psychedelic 10.8%
- #39 Animus - Stand Alone
74% matchMostly Positive75% of 69 reviews2019
Dev: TENBIRDS
Windows
ANIMUS is an Action RPG that calls upon you to bring an end to a dying world. Button mashing will get you killed. Keep a keen eye on your stamina as you block, dodge, and strike down your enemies.
Why similar: Swordplay 29% ★, Fast-Paced 28.5%, Hack and Slash 16%, Difficult 9.4%, Violent 7.7%
- #40 UBERMOSH:SANTICIDE
73% matchVery Positive89% of 490 reviews2018
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 39%
SANTICIDE is the sixth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH. A must buy for arcade and top-down enthusiasts.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 26.4%, Bullet Hell 14.3%, Difficult 12.6%, Hack and Slash 11.2%, Retro 9.4%
- #41 Pyro Fighters
73% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2020
Dev: ondydev
Windows · Mac
Pyro Fighters is a scrolling space shooter with platforming physics. Use your flame gun to propel yourself in the air and fight through an alien army with up to four players.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 25.9%, Bullet Hell 17.5%, Difficult 15.2%, Retro 10.9%, Action 10.9%
- #42 Temples Vs Buildings
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Valhalla Pigz
Windows
Temples vs Buildings is a roguelike with shoot'em up elements. The player will control flying temples of many cultures and fight against a vast array of flying buildings.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 25.7%, Bullet Hell 19%, Difficult 15.7%, Retro 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%
- #43 Sefir: Mafia Story
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: Septime Studios
Windows
Sefir: Mafia Story is a reflex and fast thinking based 2D top down shooter game.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 21.8%, Difficult 18.5%, Top-Down 13.2%, Shooter 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
- #44 Trailblazer (C64/CPC/Spectrum)
71% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Mr Chip SoftwarePub: Pixel Games UK
Windows
In this heart-pounding fast-paced surreal arcade racer, originally released in 1986, thunder into the unknown down a series of challenging hyperspace highways against the clock.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 32.2%, Surreal 17.3%, 1980s 13.6%, Retro 12.9%, Difficult 12.6%
- #45 One Fool's Move
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Robert Espina
Windows · Linux
One Fool’s Move is a relentless challenge of reflex and wit, help your kitty escape- or don't. See how fast you can last.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 35.2%, Bullet Hell 21.8%, Difficult 20.7%, Action 15.3%, Indie 6.9%
- #46 Pill Baby
70% matchVery Positive88% of 129 reviews2022
Dev: Talha Kaya
Windows · Mac · Linux
A stylish hack and slash game about an immigrant who takes drugs for her job. Play as Anna, finding a job and moving to a new country. Explore her new life, struggles, loneliness, relationships, language barrier.
Why similar: Psychedelic 27.8%, Fast-Paced 27.3%, Hack and Slash 18.6%, Action 11.5%, Indie 7.5%
- #47 BLOODSAINT
69% matchVery Positive97% of 150 reviews2024
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows
"BLOODSAINT is not a remaster of a 94's retro-hardcore minigame about a cleric performing a ritual for a ruthless synthetic deity, but pretty close."
Why similar: Fast-Paced 33.3%, Top-Down 17.6%, Retro 14.4%, Difficult 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 7.1%
- #48 Hypnorain
71% matchMixed65% of 20 reviews2016
Dev: Keyreal
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Hypnorain is a vertical bullet hell shooter. The player guides a character through handcrafted levels, shooting and dodging their way through an army of enemies and their mesmerizing bullet patterns.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 22.6%, Psychedelic 16.9%, Difficult 15.5%, Retro 11.5%, Surreal 10%
- #49 Ghostrunner 2
68% matchVery Positive80% of 10,897 reviews2023
Dev: One More LevelPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Blood will run in Ghostrunner 2, a hardcore FPP slasher set in a post-apocalyptic cyberpunk future. Become the ultimate cyber ninja and prepare for epic boss fights, improved skills, an interactive story, new game modes, and captivating synthwave soundtrack.
Why similar: Swordplay 24.5% ★, Fast-Paced 24.5%, Hack and Slash 15.3%, Difficult 13.4%, Violent 10.3%
- #50 Rampage Miami
70% matchVery Positive86% of 228 reviews2019
Dev: RewindApp
Windows
Find yourself diving into a retro-futuristic city infested with bad guys!
Why similar: Psychedelic 19.8%, 1980s 18.9%, Fast-Paced 18.4%, Violent 12.2%, Retro 8.3%
- #51 Donuts'n'Justice
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 150 reviews2016
Dev: FobTi interactive
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Donuts 'N' Justice is a fast-paced 2d horizontal shoot-'em-up wherein you take the role of one of two Super Cops in the 1980s to defend their city against gangs, violence and corruption.
Why similar: 1980s 25.1%, Violent 14.8%, Fast-Paced 13.3%, Retro 10.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%
- #52 Vaporware Odyssey
67% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Goodaboutgames
Windows
Vaporware Odyssey is a fast paced action rogue-like combining souls-like and bullet hell mechanics. It features procedurally generated levels and a deeply synergetic upgrade system.
Why similar: Psychedelic 24.4%, Bullet Hell 17.9%, Hack and Slash 17.2%, 1980s 13%, Surreal 10.7%
- #53 FADING HAVEN
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: GRIM RONIN
Windows
Two friends fall into the criminal world of cyberpunk in 1988 megacity. Drowning deeper into violent mafia showdowns, politics and corporate affairs, they are trying not to lose themselves. FADING HAVEN is a dark comedy neo-noir story-driven top-down action shooter with stealth elements.
Why similar: 1980s 19.2%, Difficult 14.6%, Fast-Paced 13.7%, Violent 13.6%, Top-Down 8.2%
- #54 Intrusion Protocol
69% matchPositive91% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Somber Dawn Studios
Windows · Linux
Intrusion Protocol is a classic challenging retro 2-D platformer. Play as a computer virus tasked with infiltrating an enemy network to retrieve mission-critical data. As you find the data you will uncover a story that reveals the secrets of your mysterious purpose.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 29.3%, Difficult 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 16.7%, Action 12.7%, Retro 11.3%
- #55 Zaxtron EXPLUS
67% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: RUOKPub: MBC Entertainment
Windows
ZAXTRON EXPLUS is a fast-paced 1980s-style SHMUP/STG with bright graphics, challenging bosses and loads of secrets to find!
Why similar: 1980s 31.2%, Bullet Hell 26.5%, Shooter 16.8%, Action 11.7%, Combat 8.2%
- #56 Mourn-born
69% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: Crojoh Games
Windows
Use a customizable, futuristic sword to violently chop, crush, and slice through hordes of abominations, and replace body parts with cybernetic implants and enhanced, lab-grown organs.
Why similar: Swordplay 25.2% ★, Hack and Slash 17.6%, Difficult 15.5%, Surreal 12.5%, Top-Down 8.9%
- #57 QUICKERFLAK 2
66% matchVery Positive93% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows
QUICKERFLAK 2 is a retro-hardcore room-beater time-attack super fast-paced minigame.
Why similar: Fast-Paced 31.3%, Bullet Hell 20.9%, Surreal 11.6%, Top-Down 9.6%, Combat 8.5%
- #58 AstroRage2049
66% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2026
Dev: CJPub: Outofthematrix
Windows
A short space shooter game that you can finish in your break time with beginner-friendly gameplay and some special features.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 21.3%, Psychedelic 19.5%, 1980s 17.3%, Shooter 12.9%, Action 8.6%
- #59 1982
67% matchVery Positive93% of 801 reviews2017
Dev: Binary Zoo
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
1982 is a FREE retro inspired blasta-thon that will test your gaming skills to the max.
Why similar: 1980s 27.6%, Retro 19.9%, Bullet Hell 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, Shooter 12.1%
- #60 An Absolutely Not Suspicious Cabin in the Woods
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: K.O.Pub: Cabin Games, Inc.
Windows
In a cabin in the woods, his girlfriend is possessed by The Book of the Dead (or "Necronomicon") that summons monsters in the mist that come in increasingly creepy waves. Will you be able to survive this retro battle against evil that mixes top-down action-rpg with arcade?
Why similar: 1980s 22.5%, Difficult 19.9%, Bullet Hell 17.3%, Top-Down 11.9%, Hack and Slash 10.7%