- #1 Witchinour
97% matchVery Positive92% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: mahojigoku
Windows
Witchinour is a roguelite twin stick shooter focused on fast, 60fps action and constantly increasing difficulty. You play as an explorer who comes across a dungeon that an apprentice witch named Nour found herself lost in years ago on a full moon...
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 18.3%, Perma Death 12.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.5%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Difficult 7.5%
- #2 Modest Kind
96% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2017
Dev: Vedanta Team
Windows
Modest Kind is a Rogue-lite Initiation Adventure. Ever heard of Entropy, The Selfish Gene and Schrödinger's cat? This action-heavy, story-driven top-down dungeon crawler will put your knowledge to the test. Your Path to Enlightment begins now.
Why similar: Action 13.3%, Twin Stick Shooter 12.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.7%, Indie 9.9%, Perma Death 9.1%
- #3 Atomic Heist
96% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Live Aliens
Windows
Atomic Heist is a sci-fi roguelike twin-stick shooter. Control your combat ship and fight your way out of the overrun space station. The nuclear core you have to steal is leaking radiation, so you need to hurry and escape! Manage your ammo carefully and collect power-ups to enhance your ship.
Why similar: RPG 24.1%, Twin Stick Shooter 21.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Action 14.3%, Indie 11%
- #4 Blacksea Odyssey
95% matchVery Positive80% of 205 reviews2016
Dev: Blacksea OdysseyPub: Spiral Summit Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 30 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 18.4%, Top-Down Shooter 12.4%, Perma Death 12.1%, Action 9.3%, Procedural Generation 8.5%
- #5 Kite
94% matchPositive93% of 27 reviews2018
Dev: Lab Cat gamesPub: Lab Cat Games
Windows
Fight to regain control of secret weapons base Arch City and rescue the scientists trapped inside. Overcome rogue defense systems and discover the corruption's source. Equip your Human Operated Remote Droid - H.O.R.D. - with technology reclaimed from battle and build the ultimate soldier.
Why similar: RPG 28%, Twin Stick Shooter 24.7%, Action 17.4%, Indie 12.8%, Retro 9.3%
- #6 Battle Planet - Judgement Day
94% matchVery Positive88% of 78 reviews2019
Dev: Threaks
Windows
Battle Planet - Judgement Day is a planetary rogue-lite top-down shooter. You are one of the universe's 3 most wanted criminals on the run, fighting your way through hordes of aliens, military and police units. There is only one way to reclaim your freedom - destroy them all...
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 16.8%, Top-Down Shooter 12.3%, Perma Death 12%, Roguelite 9.5%, RPG 9%
- #7 Cyber Cult City
93% matchPositive95% of 21 reviews2023
Dev: Ouch Giver Games
Windows
As the Mayor of Cyber City, it is up to you to take the city back from the Cyber Cult. Hoverboard/Hack/Loot/upgrade and Fight your way through the ever changing Cyber City in this action roguelike!
Why similar: RPG 23%, Action 13.4%, Perma Death 11%, Indie 10.3%, Procedural Generation 7.7%
- #8 Lost Potato
92% matchVery Positive94% of 230 reviews2020
Dev: Blobfish
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Lost Potato is a minimalistic top-down roguelite where you can't damage enemies directly. Push them into spikes, reflect bullets and help a young potato find its way out of a jungle filled with man-eating tribes!
Why similar: Action 15.4%, Twin Stick Shooter 15.1%, Top-Down Shooter 12.4%, Perma Death 12.2%, Indie 11.5%
- #9 Zombie Lane Survival
91% matchNegative17% of 12 reviews2018
Dev: KILLZONE
Windows · Mac · Linux
Zombie threat overtaken America. Destroy as many zombies as you can. Play for Trump and make America great again! To do this you need to develop your own tactics combining weapons, ammo types, character abilities and barricades location.
Why similar: RPG 48.8%, Action 28.9%, Indie 22.2%
- #10 Moss Destruction
90% matchMostly Positive72% of 113 reviews2019
Dev: Shotgun with Glitters
Windows · Mac · Linux
A fast-paced rogue-lite with procedurally generated, action packed levels. Rank up and install Mech Tech upgrades from an overstock! Snap on ability cartridges to your battle-mech, slay huge bosses through 3 distinctive worlds and guide your tiny green heroes towards victory!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.5%, Action 20.2%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Indie 14.6%, Procedural Generation 10.9%
- #11 Don't Die, Minerva!
89% matchMostly Positive80% of 69 reviews2019
Dev: XaviantPub: Xaviant Games
Windows
Help Minerva survive her adventure in a haunted house full of sinister ghosts! This spooky rogue-lite features heaps of procedural dungeons, ghosts, and loot.
Why similar: RPG 29.1%, Twin Stick Shooter 20.6%, Action 18.1%, Indie 13.9%, Roguelite 10%
- #12 Overkill Squad
88% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Chillfox Games
Windows
Overkill Squad is a ultra high-speed top-down shooter roguelike built around intense 1-minute combat arenas. Choose your fighter, unleash overwhelming firepower, defeat brutal bosses, and collect relics to dominate every run.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.6%, Top-Down Shooter 11.7%, Perma Death 8.3%, Difficult 7.7%, Roguelike 7.6%
- #13 Cubed and Dangerous
86% matchPositive98% of 42 reviews2024
Dev: Ace High Arcade
Windows
Blast your way through infinite hordes while completing objectives in this chaotic twin-stick looter shooter with frantic juicy combat. Upgrade gear, recruit heroes, tackle cumulative escalating challenges in your quest for the build of ultimate destruction.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 17.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.2%, RPG 11.1%, Perma Death 9.8%, Roguelite 8.9%
- #14 Dungeons Are Random
89% matchMostly Negative38% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: PIXELBUG
Windows · Mac · Linux
Dungeons are Random is a fast-paced roguelike game, where everything is meant to be generated as randomly as possible, while still being enjoyable as a game. It's a mix of a roguelike and an action-rpg game: you improve your hero by running around and fighting monsters, while venturing endless, randomly generated dungeons
Why similar: RPG 53.1%, Action 26.5%, Indie 20.4%
- #15 Shapeshooter
87% matchMixed59% of 27 reviews2020
Dev: NukGames
Windows
SHAPESHOOTER is literally an on-rail shooter, you'll have to clear colonies across 4 planets from a little creatures infestation called polygoneers. But that's not important, you'll not get a story here. You'll get frenetic action, insane music and a super hard challenge!
Why similar: GameMaker 24.8% ★, Twin Stick Shooter 20.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.5%, 1980s 11.6%, Action 6.9%
- #16 Roguely
86% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: SQRL Studios
Windows
Roguely is a fantasy themed top-down shooter pixel art action roguelite with some bullet hell thrown in. Fight and dodge your way through the randomly generated maps to rescue your friends. Find upgrades along the way and save up arcane fragments for permanent blessings from the gods.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 15.6%, Perma Death 13.6%, RPG 9.9%, Difficult 9.8%, Roguelite 8.4%
- #17 AshenForest
84% matchVery Positive95% of 196 reviews2020
Dev: GentleRaven GamesPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
AshenForest is a roguelite action RPG focused on boss-rush. To purify the ashen forest that is causing the plague, you must fight against all the monsters lurking in the forest.
Why similar: RPG 27.7%, GameMaker 22.9% ★, Action 17.2%, Indie 13.3%, Roguelite 5.4%
- #18 Frantic Dimension
85% matchVery Positive91% of 66 reviews2018
Dev: Hijong ParkPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Frantic Dimension is a retro twin-stick shooter inspired by the earliest twin-sticks, 'Space Dungeon' and 'Robotron 2084'. Never stop moving and shooting... or you'll die.
Why similar: GameMaker 24.9% ★, Twin Stick Shooter 16.1%, Action 13.9%, Indie 10.4%, Difficult 6.6%
- #19 Cyberhunt
82% matchVery Positive85% of 2,639 reviews2017
Dev: NukGames
Windows
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 7.0 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Cyberhunt is a retro procedurally generated twin stick shooter, that takes you back to the sweet to the sweet arcade machines era!
Why similar: GameMaker 27.1% ★, Twin Stick Shooter 18.4%, Top-Down Shooter 11.6%, 1980s 11.2%, Retro 6.6%
- #20 After Gloom
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hunchback Studio
Windows
A man enters the enigmatic Common Dream in search of a woman he once loved.
Why similar: RPG 18.9%, Action 16.1%, Indie 12.4%, Perma Death 12.3%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #21 Chaos Town
83% matchMostly Positive73% of 83 reviews2017
Dev: QuickSavePub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Chaos Town is a top-down chaotic shooter game where everything is destructible!
Why similar: RPG 23.6%, Action 18.9%, Twin Stick Shooter 14.4%, Top-Down Shooter 12%, Indie 11.3%
- #22 HyperParasite
81% matchVery Positive82% of 147 reviews2020
Dev: Troglobytes GamesPub: Nicalis, Inc.
Windows
Median: 7.1 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 18.5%, Perma Death 13.1%, 1980s 10.3%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Difficult 8.4%
- #23 Former Future
82% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Quinn MorrisonPub: FuturoVision
Windows
Vaporize evil robots and reclaim Saturn’s cities in this strategic shooter. The path you choose shapes the enemy's strength, the tools at your disposal, and the final stand you'll face. Overcome adaptive AI in solo or co-op play where distinct characters and synergistic abilities reward teamwork.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 19.2%, Action 18.4%, Indie 14.2%, Top-Down Shooter 13.4%, Difficult 9.3%
- #24 CONTINGENCY
81% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Matthew Prater
Windows · Mac
Surviving is the least of your worries. After your cargo ship crashes on a foreign planet, not only will you have to find a way to eat, you'll have to survive the terrors of your fear and stress. Roguelite platforming gameplay will keep you frequently choosing weapon and suit upgrades to best defeat your many demons.
Why similar: RPG 24.9%, Action 15%, Perma Death 11.9%, Indie 11.5%, Procedural Generation 8.3%
- #25 Super Polished
78% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Steven Peregrine
Windows
Clean, Quota, Upgrade, Repeat. Super Polished is a Top-down cleaning roguelite where you clean up while the mess is still being made.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 17.6%, Difficult 11.4%, Top-Down Shooter 11.4%, Roguelike 9.7%, Roguelite 8%
- #26 Inferno 2
80% matchVery Positive86% of 58 reviews2015
Dev: Radiangames
Windows
Inferno 2 is an intense, atmospheric twin-stick adventure-shooter. Blast through 80+ levels full of enemies and secrets while upgrading your ship the way you want.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 36.5%, RPG 17.4%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Action 12.9%, Indie 9.9%
- #27 Nom Nom Apocalypse
79% matchMixed68% of 37 reviews2020
Dev: Deadleaf Games
Windows
Nom Nom Apocalypse is a twinstick shooter set in a post-apocalyptic city plagued by mutant food monstrosities.Shoot! dodge and OUTLAST the plague of greasy beasts and candy creatures that lurk around every unknown corner.
Why similar: Action 24.8%, Indie 19.1%, Twin Stick Shooter 16.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.3%, Perma Death 11%
- #28 Chronicle: Unit Eight
79% matchPositive80% of 41 reviews2020
Dev: Static City Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Experience intense arcade-style shooter with bullet hell mechanics and rogue-like elements. Use destructible bullets to defeat waves of enemies and bosses. Can you emerge victorious in this thrilling challenge and take down the Space Pirate?
Why similar: RPG 34.8%, Action 20%, Indie 15.4%, Top-Down Shooter 9.2%, Shooter 5.2%
- #29 Shapes & Shots - Prologue
77% match9 user reviews90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Visio Game Studio
Windows
Shapes & Shots is a Roguelite Shooter Bullet-hell, where you can control time as you make your way through a twisted and delusional universe. Your enemies will merge, creating infinite combinations to try to overwhelm you: only your skills, combined with upgrades you choose, can lead you to victory.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 15.3%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Difficult 11.3%, Roguelike 9.4%, Roguelite 7.8%
- #30 Pizza Death
77% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2022
Dev: Slicemouth Studios
Windows
Grab a slice of this fast-paced, pixel art, top-down shooter.. Pizza Death! Made by members of the Australian thrash band Pizza Death, the main soundtrack is a NES chiptune cover version of their entire debut album, Slice of Death!!!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.7%, Top-Down Shooter 17.8%, Perma Death 17.8%, Shooter 9.1%, 1980s 8.4%
- #31 A Contusion
76% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: gakovniza
Windows
A Contusion is a leisurely hardcore top-down roguelite shooter where the hero gets lost in the labyrinths of memory. A variety of weapons, armor and shields, grenades and first aid kits, powerful artifacts and perks will become faithful companions on the path of memories.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 17.7%, Perma Death 17.2%, Difficult 11%, Procedural Generation 10.1%, Roguelite 9.4%
- #32 Reviser
76% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: HyperNovaSoft
Windows
'Reviser' is a top-down twin stick shooter with RPG / Treasure Hunter-like elements. Your mission is to explore with the team members, get various weapons with random parameters and conquer all areas.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 28.4%, Action 23.5%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Indie 18.1%, Shooter 10.2%
- #33 Level Tank
73% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2024
Dev: Hyper Bit Games
Windows
Blast your way through the endless swarm of enemies and live for as long as possible in this fast-paced, top-down shooter. Upgrade your tank, collect power-ups, and activate abilities to help you survive on a variety of maps in various game modes. How long will you last before meeting your demise?
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 18.2%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Perma Death 14.3%, Difficult 10.6%, Roguelite 9%
- #34 Deathopolis
75% 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: Twin Stick Shooter 15.6%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, 1980s 14.5%, Difficult 8.1%, Shooter 7.7%
- #35 Beast Agenda 2030
74% matchPositive89% of 19 reviews2019
Dev: Ouch Giver Games
Windows
Inspired by Escape From New York, Shadowrun SNES and Genesis, Deus Ex and H.P. Lovecraft, Beast Agenda 2030 is a Stealth, Gadgets and Hacking focused Action RPG with optional permadeath that encourages you to use your brain to complete missions in procedurally generated city districts.
Why similar: RPG 22.2%, Action 12.9%, Indie 10%, 1980s 9.8%, Perma Death 9.6%
- #36 Shape Shooter
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: TorksGame
Windows
Shape Shooter is an action-packed, colorful, and hectic roguelike game. Survive increasingly harder random generated stages and collect relics, weapons, and active items to help you on your way. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 16.7%, Top-Down Shooter 15.9%, Perma Death 11.9%, Procedural Generation 11.4%, Roguelike 9%
- #37 Animal Rogues
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: manProduction
Windows
Animal Rogues is a dark rogue-lite dungeon crawler bullet-hell with rpg elements. You play as an animal who fights against one possessed beast after another! Discover unique interactable objects such as slot machines, dices.. Collect magical items and level up to become more and more powerful!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 20.1%, Top-Down Shooter 14.5%, Perma Death 12.8%, RPG 8.4%, Difficult 8.2%
- #38 Mystic Labyrinth
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Roc Studios
Windows
Mystic Labyrinth is a top-down 2D twin stick shooter rogue-lite game. Choose from multiple starting classes and use swords, spears, axes and magic to conquer the many themed floors of the labyrinth.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 16.6%, Action 13.9%, Perma Death 13.3%, Roguelite 12.9%, Procedural Generation 10.1%
- #39 Hyper Bullet
73% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Tony Wang
Windows · Mac · Linux
Hyper Bullet is a top-down action game replenished with agreeable vaporwave aesthetics, pure joy of combat and gunplay rhythm.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 24.6%, 1980s 19.4%, Top-Down Shooter 19%, Retro 9.6%, Action 7.3%
- #40 Bit Bullet
71% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2017
Dev: Growfall Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Bit Bullet – Is a single player top-down shooter with an escalating difficulty level and complicated enemies, in which you will have to blow up and crush hordes of enemies using various weapons and skills.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33%, Action 32.7%, Indie 24.6%, Top-Down 9.8%
- #41 Moon Caves
71% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2021
Dev: RPROGaming
Windows
This is a rogue-like top-down shooter where you control a spaceship that is sent out to explore the caves on the Moon. Once you enter the caves, you find out that there are enemies. It is up to you to survive against them while also trying to find the path down to the next level of the caves.
Why similar: RPG 24.4%, Action 14.2%, Top-Down Shooter 12%, Perma Death 11.6%, Indie 10.9%
- #42 Horde Hunters
67% matchVery Positive87% of 103 reviews2025
Dev: Antti Vaihia
Windows
Slay hordes of enemies on thrilling missions to save the humanity from a looming demon onslaught.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 22.3%, Top-Down Shooter 13.7%, Procedural Generation 11.9%, RPG 11.1%, Roguelite 9.9%
- #43 Chuck Meowrris
71% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: WhyNot?
Windows
Play as the special agent Chuck Meowrris, as you attempt to complete Dr. Kibblesworth's Gauntlet of Randomness. With nine lives and five different classes, can you complete the entirety of the Gauntlet of Randomness and defeat Dr. Kibblesworth?
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 26.3%, Action 23.6%, Top-Down Shooter 19.9%, Indie 18.2%, Roguelite 12%
- #44 Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition
69% matchVery Positive82% of 1,900 reviews2017
Dev: NukGames
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 7.4 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Blackout Z' is a super fast top-down view shooter where you face ZOMBIES, SAWS and the DARK. Do you have what it takes to have what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse with only your gun and an old flashlight?
Why similar: GameMaker 25.8% ★, Twin Stick Shooter 15.6%, Top-Down Shooter 14.4%, Action 13%, Indie 8.7%
- #45 Doomed to Hell
69% matchVery Positive83% of 233 reviews2022
Dev: Gagonfe
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 2.0 hrs≥1hr: 30%
Doomed to Hell is a roguelike-like top-down shooter where you play as Rose, a human in hell who will need to fight all of its monsters in waves of enemies, defeat bosses, and get new weapons to earn back his life on earth.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 19.1%, Perma Death 12.6%, Top-Down Shooter 10.9%, Difficult 10.2%, Roguelike 9.1%
- #46 Skycliffs
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Radiant Sloth
Windows · Mac · Linux
Skycliffs is an action shooter roguelike dungeon crawler with fast-paced top-down platforming. Jump and dash across sky islands, fight loads of monsters, and get upgrades to survive the many dangers of your journey. Will you be strong enough to reach and defeat the keeper of this floating world?
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 20.1%, Top-Down Shooter 14.3%, Perma Death 13.5%, Difficult 8.7%, Roguelite 7.2%
- #47 OS Omega: Retro Shooter
70% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Artur MandasPub: RockGame S.A.
Windows
OS OMEGA is an isometric twin-stick shooter / RPG game set in a retro synth wave environment. Fight gazillions of unique 3D enemies, use fully physical guns to defeat the V.I.R.U.S. and save the operating system. Novel tactics reward dancing around enemies and smart consumable management.
Why similar: RPG 18.1%, Top-Down Shooter 14.3%, Action 11.5%, Shooter 10%, Indie 8.4%
- #48 Skelly Selest
68% matchVery Positive93% of 286 reviews2018
Dev: caiysPub: caiysware
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Skelly Selest is a score-attack hack slash dash run 'n' gun-athon. Venture into the procedurally generated perdition depths of Hell to purge the evil taint of the Deamonica Netherlords and their fiendly followers.
Why similar: GameMaker 23.6% ★, Perma Death 10.9%, Roguelite 10.8%, Procedural Generation 8.9%, Roguelike 8.7%
- #49 Gunpowder on The Teeth: Arcade
69% matchPositive90% of 39 reviews2019
Dev: Gunpowder Team
Windows
Mega hardcore! In this game you will receive damage first, and only then you will locate the enemy. The implementation of military operations in the classic mechanics of platformer.
Why similar: GameMaker 41.3% ★, Action 20.1%, Indie 17.4%, Difficult 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
- #50 Spent Shells
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: HelperWesley
Windows
Spent Shells is a high score top-down shooter with roguelike-y randomized elements. Players dive in to an everchanging dungeon to harvest a crystalized power source that will get them home. Fight through the dungeon using a variety of weapons, characters, upgrades, and your own skill! Each run ea...
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23.9%, Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Difficult 10.2%, Roguelike 8.3%, Roguelite 7.2%
- #51 Void Blitzing
67% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Felix Pretorg
Windows
Get ready for the ultimate space challenge! In this top-down action roguelite you’ll pilot your ship through a low-gravity environment, dodging obstacles and fighting enemies along the way. But be careful, one wrong move could mean the end of your journey. Are you ready to take on the challenge?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 17.6%, Difficult 12.1%, Roguelike 9.2%, Shooter 9%, Roguelite 8.3%
- #52 If you’re a man, hold on for half a song
65% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: AnG
Windows
This is an action shooter with extremely simple controls.Its gameplay duration is short but concise, with no filler content at all.The levels seem simple yet hide subtle twists, and there are plenty of little surprises waiting for you to discover!Anyway, it’s free—you can’t go wrong with it.
Why similar: RPG 29.8%, Action 24.9%, Indie 19.1%, Shooter 10.8%, Roguelite 10.7%
- #53 Destruction
72% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: raccoon
Windows
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 23.3%, Action 18.7%, Difficult 14.9%, Indie 14.4%, Shooter 12%
- #54 Stillborn Slayer
66% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2023
Pub: Meridian4
Windows
Stillborn Slayer is a dark fantasy action roguelike featuring fast-paced hack-and-slash combat, procedural runs, and brutal difficulty in a grim, horror-inspired world.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 19.2%, Top-Down Shooter 13.5%, RPG 9.8%, Difficult 9.1%, Procedural Generation 8.6%
- #55 Space Redemption
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2020
Dev: SamDeePub: BekkerDev Studio
Windows
Space Redemption is a 2D shooter in which the protagonist is assigned the role of the savior of mankind!
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 17.2%, Action 15.5%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Indie 12%, Difficult 8.4%
- #56 Crimson Keep
68% matchMixed57% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: Ian AthertonPub: Merge Publishing
Windows
Crimson Keep is a first person, action RPG. Descend into an ever-changing labyrinth full of monsters, traps, and treasure. Locate the sunken remains of an ancient castle and cleanse it. The great power you find within could be your only hope of escape.
Why similar: RPG 49.2%, Action 30.4%, Indie 20.4%
- #57 Raining Blood: Hellfire
63% matchVery Positive92% of 230 reviews2025
Dev: TechBoohPub: SehLoiro
Windows
Inspired by the iconic Call of Duty Zombies experience, Raining Blood Hellfire 1.0 is an intense survival bullet hell where chaos reigns and every round is a brutal battle for life — and absolute power. Kill, upgrade, explore, die, repeat.
Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 19.5%, Top-Down Shooter 14.7%, Perma Death 13.1%, Difficult 9.9%, Roguelite 7%