60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Indie, Shoot 'Em Up, Difficult.
Deceptively whimsical, Dandy is a perma-death side-scrolling shoot 'em up with stacking power-ups. Different on every playthrough, with reactive enemies that force you to use strategy.
Straimium Immortaly
Straimium Immortaly is a shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler. Explore the butts-hard procedurally generated Cubicus battling beasties, looting endless item and weapon upgrades and defeating huge boss meanies in your vengeful quest to eradicate the Queeni Emperess.
Dandy Ace
Dandy Ace is an over the top action game that follows this fabulous magician seeking to combine and use his magical cards, fighting and looting his way to defeat the Green-Eyed Illusionist and free himself from a cursed mirror.
Straimium Immortaly is a shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler. Explore the butts-hard procedurally generated Cubicus battling beasties, looting endless item and weapon upgrades and defeating huge boss meanies in your vengeful quest to eradicate the Queeni Emperess.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.7%, Difficult 22.3%, Perma Death 20.7%, Action 16.2%, Indie 12.2%
Dandy Ace is an over the top action game that follows this fabulous magician seeking to combine and use his magical cards, fighting and looting his way to defeat the Green-Eyed Illusionist and free himself from a cursed mirror.
Why similar: Action 35.3%, Indie 24.8%, Perma Death 23.3%, Difficult 16.6%
Fancy Skulls is a challenging first person shooter with procedural generation, permadeath and distinct art style. Intense and tactical combat, unique weapon mods and items that change the way you play.
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: Perma Death 47.3%, Difficult 25.2%, Action 15.5%, Indie 12%
Bullet Candy is a fast paced, action packed arena shooter. There are a variety of combo systems and many secret techniques that you can employ to get the best score and weapon upgrades possible. Viewed from a top-down perspective, Bullet Candy allows for a true 360° shoot-em-up experience.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 59%, Indie 41%
Prophour23 is a fast-paced, replayable real-time strategy. It's designed for short, quick plays. A single playthrough will take you about 15 minutes, if you're good. But the next one will be different. And another one as well.
Why similar: Perma Death 42.3%, Action 20.5%, Difficult 20.4%, Indie 16.8%
Zenodyne R is a new 90s-style shoot-'em-up game filled with YM2612 music and real Blast Processing action, where your reflexes and patience will be tested in their entirety! Packed with 6 crazy stages filled wtih bosses, 5 unique ships, unlockables, branching paths and more!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.4%, Action 34.6%, Indie 23%
Death by Game Show is a frenetic strategy game where your reactions and decisions matter. There is no hand of god, instead you're dropped into the action against a 26th century chaos droidgasm. Prove your smarts, win your freedom, and survive Death by Game Show.
Endless arcade action with just ONE button - Switch directions whenever you shoot!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 38.8%, Perma Death 31.7%, Difficult 18.3%, Indie 5.8%, Action 5.5%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 52.5%, Difficult 25%, Action 15%, Indie 7.5%
Slay waves of spooky enemies for 20 nights to survive 'The Demonic Conveyor Belt'. Talented is an arcade roguelite with randomly generated skill trees. Choose your upgrades and abilities wisely and you might just make it out alive. Are you truly Talented?
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 62%, Action 21.4%, Indie 16.6%
Incandescent is a fast paced action arcade game that scales the difficulty to your skill level. The goal is simple, pilot your ship and defend yourself against waves of unique enemies and bosses. Different powerups will drop to help you with upgrades to your weapons and health.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 44.9%, Action 32.4%, Indie 22.8%
Sine Mora is a horizontal shoot'em up that provides a unique take on challenge, where time is the ultimate factor.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 71.8%, Action 15.8%, Indie 12.4%
Operation STEEL is a roguelike shoot-em-up rendered in hand-drawn art. Blow up loads of enemies, destroy huge bosses, find weapons, and upgrade your load-out between levels. Combat the electronic legion across 20+ procedurally generated levels!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.8%, Perma Death 33.8%, Difficult 17.5%, Action 5.9%
A classic style vertical scrolling-shooter. Includes 10 levels and 10 boss enemies. You will have several power-ups for weapon modification. Within each level, you will face different enemies, among which will vary from low to extreme levels of threat!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 40.5%, Indie 36.6%, Action 22.8%
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 36.8%, Difficult 30.6%, Action 18.5%, Indie 14.2%
Planetary Dustoff is a space-themed roguelite shooter. Go on a death riddled journey to sprawling alien environments and fight your way through hordes of enemies and epic boss battles. Take part in the revived Planetary Survey Program and help the Space Faction find a new home for humanity.
Why similar: Action 30.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.9%, Indie 22.5%, Difficult 19.3%
Shoot, blast and slash through hordes of enemies in Rocking Pilot - a twin-stick shooter extravaganza inspired by arcade classics.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.1%, Perma Death 20.5%, Action 18.9%, Difficult 15.7%, Indie 14.8%
Cavity Busters is a roguelite toothpunk bullet hell where you use your one and only tooth to chomp the cavity infested enemies. Run on the walls, dodge through bullet filled rooms and stomp baddies. Collect power ups, contract powerful diseases, and dig your way through the body.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 55.4%, Difficult 29.9%, Action 14.7%
Contract Rush DX is a hand-animated 2D Shoot 'Em Up, with multiple playable characters. Explore the world, collect powerful upgrades throughout levels, and unleash them to defeat difficult boss battles!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 55.6%, Difficult 26.6%, Action 17.8%
Reign of Bullets is a shoot ‘em up with epic loot and lots of guns. Upgrade your ship and customize your weapons to build the ultimate fighter plane.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 54.6%, Action 26.1%, Indie 19.3%
A fast-paced retro shoot-'em-up featuring evolving weapons, intense arcade combat and massive bosses — from one-man studio Psychotic Psoftware.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 55.7%, Action 24.3%, Indie 19.9%
Cube Destroyer is a top-down shooter with a dynamic gameplay.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 39.8%, Indie 32.1%, Action 28.1%
Shütshimi is a randomized shoot'em up about a muscle-bound fish with memory problems defending the seven seas. Defeat or navigate through waves of enemies, collecting new upgrades every 10 seconds that change up the gameplay as you battle your way through each of the game's bosses.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 52.2%, Action 27.2%, Indie 20.6%
A self-inflicted bullet hell that combines retro sci-fi with the sounds and sights of the disco era
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 54.5%, Action 27.2%, Indie 18.4%
Dizzy Rogues is an auto-runner roguelike with "turn" based combat. Bounce your weapon off enemies and objects, rack up your combo, and purchase unique items.
Why similar: Perma Death 39%, Difficult 28.2%, Action 28.1%, Indie 4.6%
Super Glitter Rush is a boss-rush style bullet hell shoot-em-up!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 66.2%, Action 22.8%, Indie 11%
Ether Loop is a hardcore fast-paced bullet hell with roguelike elements. Descend the unforgiving depths of a mysterious world, encounter challenges, discover dynamic environments and fight ruthless creatures while unveiling the secrets of Ether Loop.
Why similar: Action 29.8%, Indie 21.6%, Perma Death 20.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.2%, Difficult 10.2%
Nowhere Patrol is a boss rush game with bullet hell and platforming elements. Inspired by classic action arcade games with it's steep difficulty curve and non-stop action.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.6%, Action 27.8%, Difficult 21%, Indie 19.6%
Command a starship in Void Resurgence, a retro-futuristic space roguelite. Battle through colorful cosmic fields, collect upgrades, and build your ultimate ship. Dodge intense bullet-hell patterns and fight for survival. Every run offers new challenges and permanent progress.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 40.9%, Perma Death 31.5%, Difficult 18.1%, Action 9.4%
Repetendium is a top-down roguelike-lite shooter. Select from a rowdy group of characters to play as and wield an ever expanding variety of gear and items to conquer the underworld. Death awaits...
Why similar: Perma Death 68.1%, Action 31.9%
Hyper Bounce Blast is a stomach-churning retro shooter blended with classic platforming action. Bounce, shoot and dodge to survive the ever-increasing enemy attack. Bring it on!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 41%, Action 35.1%, Indie 24%
Challenge yourself to a new kind of bullet-hell fusion shooter. Change your aircraft to get new skills just when you need them against advancing foes. Aim for the top spot!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 41.2%, Action 23.6%, Difficult 20.9%, Indie 14.3%
Schism is a challenging action roguelike RPG with deep synergies and high broken build potential. The combination of robust stat systems, fully moddable guns, deity worship, intense frequency-switching bullet hell combat, and difficult bosses make for a unique and highly replayable experience.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 37%, Perma Death 27%, Difficult 21.9%, Action 14.1%
Strategic tower defense where you play a witch, place class-based towers, equip them with items that grant powerful abilities, combine them, create unique builds & deal ridiculous amounts of damage! Customize your builds with a deep stat system and giant skill tree!
A fast-paced arcade shooter breakfast-hell.
The world really does revolve around you in this mind-bending shooter where changing your perspective could save your life.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 56%, Action 16.9%, Difficult 14.9%, Indie 12.3%
Elsie is a technicolour, hyperkinetic, rogue-like action-platformer filled with procedurally generated levels, an army of robots to blast through, and a wide scope of items & weaponry to make each run unique. Master countless magitek weapons and abilities in order to embrace the chaos.
Why similar: Perma Death 50.3%, Difficult 27.7%, Action 22%
Pixel Descent is an action rogue-lite in which you navigate a series of complex dungeons packed to the brim with monsters that want you dead. Sign the contract and descend into the deepest depths of the abyss knowing full well that you will definitely die there, it's just a matter of when.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.5%, Perma Death 29.1%, Action 16.1%, Indie 12.3%
Salvo Shuffle is a bullet-hell roguelike that mixes turn-based and action-based combat.
Why similar: Perma Death 37.3%, Difficult 23.1%, Action 20.1%, Indie 19.6%
The Madness of Little Emma is a difficult action platformer with roguelike elements. Featuring over 250 items with insane synergies, varied enemies, and numerous secrets and mysteries to discover.
Action roguelike where you build and command your own spaceships. Battle enemies, explore planets and customize your ship on the fly. Make the best use of the quirky ship modules you find, ranging from slingshots to ion cannons, to try and avoid certain death.
Why similar: Perma Death 44.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 38.9%, Action 16.9%
You think you are a die-hard? Here you will die quick! A proper hardcore RPG-action where you will die a million times across a myriad of procedurally-generated levels. Extremely difficult, but highly addictive Indie Gem in your Steam game collection!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 49%, Difficult 29.3%, Action 21.7%
Warp into action with Solar Shifter EX. Man your ship and dive into fierce combat situations in space and over beautiful and distant planet surfaces. Solar Shifter EX is a sci-fi shoot 'em up with the unique ability to 'shift'.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 52%, Action 28.3%, Indie 19.7%
Bittersweet Birthday is a boss fight-only action adventure where every encounter is a unique and emotional showdown. Explore a colorful world full of endearing characters, uncover your memories, and battle your way through challenges that push skill, timing, and determination to their limits.
TumbleSeed is a deceptively deep roguelike about balancing a seed up a dangerous and ever-changing mountain.
Neon Sundown is an extremely challenging arena-shooter that mixes fast-paced action with roguelite elements. Take on increasingly difficult arenas as you unlock new ships, upgrades, synergies, and more! Think you have what it takes to survive?
Why similar: Perma Death 72.2%, Action 27.8%
Wish Project is a vertical shoot 'em up that features unique and challenging bullet patterns, 4 difficulties ranging from casual to hardcore, 8 unique playable characters, 6 stages, local co-op, unlockable characters and game modes, and an intuitive scoring system that encourages replay and mastery.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 38.5%, Action 27.7%, Indie 19.4%, Difficult 14.4%
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.
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a fast-paced 2d shooting game with a random story. You control a group of three migrants traveling west along a wagon trail. The game consists of short scenes that are sequenced together in a semi-random way to tell a crazy adventure story.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 35.7%, Perma Death 29.7%, Difficult 17.8%, Action 10.7%, Indie 6.1%
Roguelike bullet hell shooter, where you fend off waves of attacking monsters in a constantly transforming arena. You are rewarded with upgrades to your vulnerable spaceship if you survive long enough.
Why similar: Perma Death 39%, Difficult 28.4%, Action 16.4%, Indie 16.3%
Fast & fluid arcade-style shooter with roguelike elements! Take flight on a lethal rocket-powered jetboard, blasting alien invaders with an explosive arsenal of ridiculous weaponry. Face off against massive, multi-stage bosses. Jetboard Joust resurrects the spirit of the arcade for the 21st century!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 37.4%, Perma Death 33.3%, Difficult 15.3%, Action 14%
Ellipsis is an action-packed Avoid ’Em Up with minimalistic, yet powerful neon styled visuals. Guide your ship through a mysterious universe while deftly avoiding hordes of roaming enemies, spikes, lasers and more.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 39.3%, Action 35.8%, Indie 24.9%
Tachyon Project is a dual stick shooter heavily inspired by classic shoot'em ups. We’ve combined many unique enemy types, a large variety of weapons and power-ups with innovative gameplay to ensure a long lasting challenge and discovery at every new level.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.3%, Action 33.1%, Indie 24.7%
A fast paced action shooter inspired by the arcade classic Super Pang! Use a wide selection of weapons and powerups to tear through increasingly challenging levels.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 43.7%, Action 24.1%, Indie 19.7%, Difficult 12.5%
COMBINE WEAPONS in the microscopic roguelite turret shooter with macroscopic depth. Survive 6 modes using an astounding array of turrets, perks, mutations and power-ups on this psychedelic journey to the heart of the abyss. Shmup Mode turns it into a vertical shoot 'em up!
Why similar: Action 100%
Ride or drive the turbulent waves of luck toward victory! A novel rogue-lite vertical scrolling Shmup that puts your resourcefulness to the test!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 77.2%, Action 22.8%
A malicious orb has cast Savant out of his tower and transformed his surroundings into dangerous enemies!Dodge and shoot your way back up the tower, and blast down waves of enemies as you make your way towards the top! As you progress, you unlock CDs that not only give you new tracks to play to, but also grant you powerful new abilities!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 48.8%, Action 25.9%, Indie 16.7%, Difficult 8.6%
Still Not Dead is a challenging roguelite FPS that merges the fast satisfying gunplay of Doom with open stages, insane weaponry, tactical choice and being pursued by death itself. The unique blessing and curse system, plus unlockable skill skulls set the game apart from everything else.
