- #1 Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
97% matchVery Positive95% of 23,766 reviews2017
Dev: Reactive Drop Team
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 10.0 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Co-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.
Why You'll Like It: A quintessential top-down, sci-fi cooperative shooter that perfectly mirrors the squad-based alien combat of the seed game.
- #2 Red Solstice 2: Survivors
96% matchMixed70% of 3,316 reviews2021
Dev: IronwardPub: 505 Games
Windows
Median: 7.7 hrsMean: 13.8 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Sequel to the best-seller The Red Solstice. Plan your strategy and infiltrate a real-time tactical battlefield - alone or with up to 7 squad members. Can you demonstrate the combat prowess to survive and secure a future for humanity?
Why similar: Multiplayer 100%
Why You'll Like It: This tactical top-down shooter features intense sci-fi horror elements and deep squad-based combat against alien threats.
- #3 Alien Breed: Impact
96% matchMostly Positive74% of 1,902 reviews2010
Dev: Team17 Software Ltd.Pub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 49%
Experience the explosive science fiction arcade-shooter that resurrects a much revered franchise in an epic single player and co-op multiplayer campaign.
Why similar: Action 87.2%, Horror 12.8%
Why You'll Like It: A classic top-down shooter that focuses heavily on atmospheric sci-fi horror and surviving waves of alien creatures.
- #4 Gore Storm
94% matchVery Positive94% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: Gundorado
Windows
Battle massive hordes of alien monsters to secure humanity's presence on planet Gore. Upgrade your base, hire troops, and install turrets to fight back the ever growing waves of aliens.
Why similar: Gore 62.1%, Action 37.9%
Why You'll Like It: Directly matches the top-down perspective and heavy emphasis on gore and action-packed combat.
- #5 Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey
95% matchMixed66% of 261 reviews2014
Dev: Ultravision InteractivePub: Conglomerate 5
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Deep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey is the ultimate space thriller in the best tradition of the genre. You're the pilot of a space fighter, accidentally catapulted into a parallel universe populated by hostile alien creatures; and they're not happy to see you! To get out of this hell, do your best, to destroy hordes of enemies.
Why similar: Action 61.2%, Indie 38.8%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down space shooter that captures the specific indie aesthetic and arcade-style action of the seed game.
- #6 Hidden Deep
94% matchMostly Positive76% of 5,071 reviews2022
Dev: Cogwheel SoftwarePub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Hidden Deep is an atmospheric sci-fi action game heavily inspired by Aliens, The Thing, and Half-Life. Explore, climb, swim, scan, blast and shoot your way through dangerous missions in a huge sub oceanic mining and research facility. Fear the horrors that lurk below…
Why similar: Multiplayer 50.7%, Action 28.2%, Horror 21%
Why You'll Like It: Features 2D physics-based exploration and horror elements that mirror the dark, claustrophobic feel of the seed game.
- #7 SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising
93% matchVery Positive94% of 13,091 reviews2018
Dev: Flow Fire Games
Windows
Median: 5.6 hrsMean: 15.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
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: Action 39.7%, Multiplayer 30.8%, Indie 29.5%
Why You'll Like It: Offers high-octane top-down action with a focus on tactical shooting and sci-fi weaponry that feels very similar to the seed game's core loop.
- #8 Unfortunate Spacemen
92% matchVery Positive86% of 7,559 reviews2020
Dev: Geoff 'Zag' KeenePub: Deep Field Games
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
An online multiplayer game about shapeshifting deception and betrayal! As a hapless, brave spaceman employed by The Company you'll work diligently to defend and be rescued from failing outposts, but not everyone around you is who they claim to be...
Why similar: Multiplayer 59.7%, Action 21.3%, Horror 19.1%
Why You'll Like It: Combines sci-fi horror with multiplayer social deduction, capturing the paranoia of being hunted in space.
- #9 HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition
91% matchVery Positive90% of 33,359 reviews2015
Dev: Arrowhead Game StudiosPub: PlayStation Publishing LLC
Windows
Median: 4.7 hrsMean: 20.7 hrs≥1hr: 80%
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: Multiplayer 66.9%, Action 33.1%
Why You'll Like It: A premier top-down action game that emphasizes chaotic multiplayer cooperation against overwhelming alien forces.
- #10 Barotrauma
89% matchVery Positive94% of 89,315 reviews2023
Dev: FakeFishPub: Daedalic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 9.0 hrsMean: 56.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Barotrauma is a 2D co-op submarine simulator – in space, with survival horror and RPG elements. Steer your submarine, complete missions, fight monsters, fix leaks, operate machinery, man the guns and craft items, and stay alert: danger in Barotrauma doesn’t announce itself!
Why similar: Multiplayer 37.5%, Gore 25.1%, Violent 18.9%, Horror 10.6%, Action 8%
Why You'll Like It: A deep, multiplayer-focused sci-fi horror game that emphasizes teamwork and survival in a hostile, alien environment.
- #11 Enemy On Board
91% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,537 reviews2020
Dev: Windwalk Games
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Online (6v2) social deduction game that will ruin your friendships. 6 crew members, 2 murderous shape-shifting aliens. Trust No One.
Why similar: Multiplayer 46.9%, Action 22%, Horror 16.1%, Indie 15%
Why You'll Like It: A social deduction game set in space that focuses on identifying hidden threats among your crew.
- #12 RIPOUT
90% matchMixed60% of 1,209 reviews2024
Dev: Pet Project GamesPub: 3D Realms
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 63%
Ripout is an online Co-Op horror FPS that will have players fight their way through procedurally generated derelict ships filled with mutants capable of reconfiguring their alien bodies. Survive with your trusty Pet Gun companion, collect loot, and customize your character to fit your playstyle.
Why similar: Horror 50.3%, Action 49.7%
Why You'll Like It: A cooperative sci-fi horror shooter that focuses on fighting grotesque, mutated enemies in abandoned space stations.
- #13 Killer Klowns From Outer Space: The Game
89% matchMostly Positive74% of 3,854 reviews2024
Dev: IllFonicPub: IllFonic Publishing
Windows
Median: 6.5 hrsMean: 15.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Plan your own alien invasion and harvest humans as the iconic Killer Klowns, or gather a team of survivors to fight the extraterrestrial threat, in a game based on the ‘80s cult classic movie. Welcome to a new, craazzy take on the asymmetrical multiplayer horror experience!
Why similar: Violent 41.1%, Multiplayer 33.8%, Action 12.7%, Horror 12.5%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror experience that captures the chaotic, sci-fi-themed survival gameplay.
- #14 Dead Effect
88% matchMostly Positive73% of 3,774 reviews2014
Dev: BadFly Interactive, a.s.
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 11.4 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!
Why similar: Gore 35.3%, Multiplayer 24.9%, Action 20.4%, Horror 11.6%, Indie 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi horror shooter that focuses on fighting zombies and mutants in a space setting.
- #15 Mimicry
87% matchMostly Positive77% of 262 reviews2022
Dev: Euphoria Games
Windows
A terrifying online horror game where one player becomes an impostor monster. Disguise, hunt, and destroy your friends — or work together to survive. Mimicry is a fast-paced, multiplayer fun game full of deception, fear, and chaos.
Why similar: Multiplayer 40.9%, Action 26.5%, Horror 22.7%, Indie 9.9%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror game where players must survive against a shapeshifting alien, echoing the themes of the seed game.
- #16 The Ascent
85% matchMostly Positive74% of 24,823 reviews2021
Dev: Neon GiantPub: KRAFTON, Inc.
Windows
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 9.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
The Ascent is a solo and co-op Action-shooter RPG set in a cyberpunk world. The mega corporation that owns you and everyone, The Ascent Group, has just collapsed. Can you survive without it?
Why similar: Gore 36.7%, Violent 31.9%, Action 21.4%, Indie 10%
Why You'll Like It: A high-fidelity top-down action RPG set in a gritty, futuristic world that shares the seed game's sci-fi aesthetic.
- #17 SCP: EVENT CLASSIFIED
86% matchMixed47% of 285 reviews2024
Dev: Archotech
Windows
SCP: EVENT CLASSIFIED is a multiplayer horror shooter that allows players to take on a role of a soldier, prisoner, scientist and even a monster. Fight other players or unite with them to survive in this secret facility with game sessions up to 120 players.
Why similar: Violent 32.2%, Multiplayer 32%, Action 17.4%, Horror 10.6%, Indie 7.8%
Why You'll Like It: A horror-action game that features intense combat and exploration in a mysterious, sci-fi facility.
- #18 Primal Fears
86% matchMixed58% of 309 reviews2013
Dev: DnS Development
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Due to a chemical known as pharGONe, the world has been turned upside down. Battle your way through multiple levels, earning upgrades, competing against your friends and more, and find the truth about what has happened to the world.Use a variety of weapons to stop the mutated population, and save yourself from being another victim.
Why similar: Gore 37%, Violent 27.7%, Action 19.2%, Indie 11.7%, Horror 4.4%
Why You'll Like It: An action-heavy co-op game that leans into the gore and violent combat elements found in the seed game.
- #19 Nemesis: Distress
84% matchMixed53% of 354 reviews2022
Dev: Awaken Realms
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.6 hrs≥1hr: 47%
NEMESIS DISTRESS is a unique multiplayer Sci-Fi horror experience that aims at creating unforgettable, cinematic moments. Remember – this is NOT a shooter, in Nemesis you are not the hunter. You are the PREY.
Why similar: Action 34.5%, Horror 27.7%, Gore 19.4%, Multiplayer 18.5%
Why You'll Like It: A survival-horror game that emphasizes strategy and tension while dealing with alien infestations in space.
- #20 Face The Abyss
83% matchMostly Negative38% of 374 reviews2024
Dev: Team KGD
Windows
The experiment has failed. The facility that was supposed to control the monster has stopped working, and now your only hope is to escape the facility before the monster hunts you down.
Why similar: Multiplayer 39.1%, Violent 22.9%, Action 17.2%, Horror 15.9%, Indie 4.9%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer horror game that combines survival elements with strategic team-based combat.
- #21 GTFO
81% matchVery Positive84% of 66,632 reviews2021
Dev: 10 Chambers
Windows
Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 27.2 hrs≥1hr: 92%
GTFO is a hardcore cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.
Why similar: Multiplayer 29.8%, Gore 28.8%, Violent 18.7%, Horror 12.3%, Action 10.4%
Why You'll Like It: An extremely intense cooperative horror game that requires tactical coordination to survive terrifying alien encounters.
- #22 Dead Space
78% matchVery Positive91% of 70,332 reviews2023
Dev: MotivePub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 16.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
The sci-fi survival-horror classic returns, completely rebuilt to offer an even more immersive experience — including visual, audio, and gameplay improvements — while staying faithful to the original game’s thrilling vision.
Why similar: Gore 43.6%, Violent 26.4%, Horror 18.6%, Action 11.4%
Why You'll Like It: The definitive sci-fi horror experience that sets the standard for the atmosphere and gore found in the seed game.
- #23 Stellar Survivor
82% matchMixed66% of 175 reviews2019
Dev: Sticks & Stones
Windows
Stranded on an alien planet, you must defend your Powercore! Use your weapons to fight hordes of alien enemies and strategically use traps in this new FPS tower-defense survival game!
Why similar: Multiplayer 37.7%, Violent 36.6%, Action 19.1%, Indie 6.6%
Why You'll Like It: An action-oriented survival game that focuses on co-op gameplay in a space setting.
- #24 Necro Mutex
81% matchVery Positive88% of 58 reviews2019
Dev: Denormalizer
Windows
10,000 levels of chaotic sci-fi horror. Choose which maps you play, from super easy to practically impossible. Find the escape pods or just see how far you can get. Playable as a desktop first person shooter, or in VR on the HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and WMR.
Why similar: Gore 37.9%, Violent 31.1%, Action 15.7%, Indie 10.2%, Horror 5.1%
Why You'll Like It: An action-adventure title that features gore and intense combat against mutated threats.
- #25 CDF Ghostship
82% matchMixed41% of 106 reviews2015
Dev: MadAboutGamesStudios
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%
CDF Ghostship is a science-fiction Old-style shooter featuring an open-world spaceship, space station and colony. Each new game will offer a challenge with random story-lines and narrative, random enemies and multiple endings. Can you escape the Ghostship?
Why similar: Gore 49.2%, Action 24.7%, Indie 14.5%, Horror 11.6%
Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi horror game that focuses on exploration and combat within a derelict space vessel.
- #26 Species: Unknown
75% matchVery Positive95% of 10,790 reviews2025
Dev: WanadevStudio
Windows
Median: 5.0 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.
Why similar: Multiplayer 47.4%, Horror 25.2%, Action 16.5%, Indie 10.8%
- #27 Nation Red
79% matchVery Positive88% of 2,786 reviews2009
Dev: DiezelPower
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.
Why similar: Gore 37.3%, Action 21.8%, Violent 13.5%, Multiplayer 13.1%, Indie 10.7%
Why You'll Like It: A top-down shooter that focuses on mindless, gory action against hordes of enemies.
- #28 Strike of Horror
80% matchMixed67% of 121 reviews2018
Dev: TheAmanStudios
Windows
Scary game PLAY AT YOUR OWN RISK
Why similar: Gore 34.9%, Violent 29.9%, Multiplayer 21.2%, Horror 7.6%, Indie 6.4%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer indie horror game that emphasizes violent combat and survival.
- #29 SCP: ReEnter
76% matchMixed70% of 135 reviews2026
Dev: Dawid Pawełek
Windows
SCP: ReEnter is a free, asymmetrical multiplayer FPS set during a massive containment breach. Players are randomly assigned to Humans or SCPs. Fight to secure the facility, escape, or slaughter everyone with seven playable anomalies.
Why similar: Multiplayer 46.6%, Violent 24.3%, Horror 15.8%, Action 13.4%
- #30 Foglight Online
79% matchMixed52% of 81 reviews2021
Dev: DangerousBob Studio LLC
Windows
Foglight Online is a multiplayer horror survival game. One player plays as the Legendary Farberto, a monster with a bloodhounds nose, that can smell the other players. The other players have to hide or fight back in this intense nail-biting multiplayer experience!
Why similar: Multiplayer 54%, Action 26.2%, Horror 10.1%, Indie 9.7%
Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer action game that features horror elements and third-person combat mechanics.
- #31 It's Dark
78% matchMixed66% of 70 reviews2022
Dev: Connor Redwine
Windows
There has been a containment breach in a secret facility located deep underground. Experiment E.C.H.O has escaped and is running loose. The lab has gone into shutdown mode, and it's dark...
Why similar: Multiplayer 32.1%, Gore 23.6%, Violent 19.4%, Horror 12.5%, Action 12.4%
Why You'll Like It: A team-based horror game that focuses on surviving in dark, atmospheric environments.
- #32 SCP: Containment Breach 2
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 3,914 reviews2025
Dev: Euclid LabsPub: Mixarar
Windows
Survive the chaos of SCP Foundation! Step into a thrilling SCP horror experience with story-driven co-op, intense PvP Breach mode, and randomized maps. Play as Class-D, scientist, SCPs, and more, each role bringing unique challenges in an unpredictable, immersive facility.
Why similar: Multiplayer 55.2%, Action 23.2%, Horror 21.6%
- #33 Mist of the Dark
77% matchMixed46% of 138 reviews2018
Dev: Visualistic Studios, LLC.Pub: Visualistic Studios, LLC.
Windows
Mist of the Dark challenges your ability to survive. Can you face your fears? Play as a monster and scare your friends. Play as the soldier and use tactics to hunt the monster(s) down. Scare the players. Stick with your team and discover objects and level advantages to take down the monster.
Why similar: Gore 30.9%, Multiplayer 23.3%, Violent 22.3%, Horror 10.2%, Action 8.5%
- #34 Walkover
77% matchMixed64% of 138 reviews2015
Dev: Millenium Project Enterprises
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 42.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
It is WAR!Team up with your comrades to stand against the pesky aliens.
Why similar: Gore 49.5%, Action 20.7%, Multiplayer 15.8%, Indie 14%
- #35 J.A.W.S
76% matchMixed49% of 171 reviews2018
Dev: Corn Fed Games, LLC.
Windows
An RNG, dynamic and strategic FPS. Test your mettle against endless waves of super soldiers. How long can you last?
Why similar: Gore 30.2%, Violent 23.1%, Multiplayer 21.3%, Action 10.8%, Horror 8.1%
- #36 System Shock
71% matchVery Positive90% of 12,905 reviews2023
Dev: Nightdive StudiosPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 16.3 hrs≥1hr: 74%
A first-person fight to the death in the depths of space!
Why similar: Gore 35.2%, Violent 27.4%, Action 22.9%, Horror 14.5%
- #37 Cold Space
75% matchMostly Positive75% of 148 reviews2017
Dev: IdeaX
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Fast team-based one-shot-one-kill shooter. Cold War gave a start for a huge conflict in space. Grab your knife and pistol, turn on your force-field and fight in the name of your motherland. But is it possible to survive for more than ten seconds in this slaughter?
Why similar: Gore 52.9%, Action 19.4%, Multiplayer 15.1%, Indie 12.5%
- #38 Classified Stories: Color Out of Space
73% matchMixed67% of 135 reviews2022
Dev: RVL Games
Windows
A short, free, horror adventure game set in our days, inspired by Lovecraft novel: The Colour Out of Space.
Why similar: Multiplayer 42.1%, Action 34.2%, Horror 16.4%, Indie 7.2%
- #39 HELL GALAXY
70% matchMostly Positive72% of 90 reviews2026
Dev: Italian Games Factory
Windows
A thrilling singleplayer space shooter that blends weird fiction, dark gritty sci-fi, and transhumanism. Fly your spaceship and fight your way through a galaxy where your mind is at risk just as much as your "body": nothing here is human. Not even you.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #40 Dead Blue Rose
72% matchMostly Negative35% of 55 reviews2024
Dev: ColdBones
Windows
A multiplayer horror where you escape a laboratory at the cost of others.
Why similar: Multiplayer 52.1%, Horror 20.7%, Action 17.5%, Indie 9.7%
- #41 Object N
71% matchVery Positive85% of 975 reviews2021
Dev: KleskBY
Windows · Linux
A classic-style hardcore dynamic shooter which takes place in a science underground center.
Why similar: Gore 30.9%, Multiplayer 23.6%, Violent 22.8%, Action 12.6%, Horror 6.1%
- #42 SurvHive
74% matchMixed62% of 84 reviews2016
Dev: Rocking Hamster
Windows
Inspired by "The Thing", SurvHive is an asymmetric sci-fi horror multiplayer FPS in which the only one you can trust is yourself, as alien shape-shifters lie in wait. Will humans be able to eradicate the alien menace? Will the infection spread instead? Welcome to their Hive...
Why similar: Multiplayer 35%, Action 30.7%, Indie 21.3%, Horror 13%
- #43 HVOR
73% matchMixed61% of 61 reviews2020
Dev: OFFMONREALPub: OFFMONREAL GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
HVOR - a dynamic top-down shooter, which takes place in the world,affected by an unknown infection.Kill the infected - and try not to join him.
Why similar: Gore 38.1%, Violent 31.2%, Action 14.7%, Multiplayer 9.1%, Indie 6.8%
- #44 Murnatan
73% matchMixed63% of 118 reviews2018
Dev: AAAGAMES
Windows · Linux
Humans VS Aliens FPS shooter combined with RTS.
Why similar: Action 61.5%, Indie 38.5%
- #45 Cargo Duty
70% matchMixed69% of 103 reviews2024
Dev: Carrot Studios
Windows
Your crew is on a mission to collect cargo. As you are going from moon to moon, there are creatures who will try and stop you. How long will you survive ?
Why similar: Multiplayer 66.7%, Horror 30.3%, Indie 3%
- #46 Space Beast Terror Fright
69% matchVery Positive92% of 1,795 reviews2022
Dev: nornware AB
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 64%
S.B.T.F. is a very hard arcade-style / rogue-like / perma-death first person shooter. You play as Marines who must brave dark, claustrophobic and terrifyingly intense Space Beast infested spacecraft in order to extract critical data and lucrative upgrades. Can you make it out alive?
Why similar: Gore 28.9%, Violent 20.7%, Action 15.4%, Multiplayer 14.6%, Horror 11.2%
- #47 Get Stuffed!
69% matchVery Positive88% of 682 reviews2021
Dev: FAT BOMB STUDIOS, LLC
Windows
Get Stuffed! is an Asymmetrical Multiplayer Social Horror game. Up to 16 players try to kill, deceive or escape as one of three role categories (Killer, Antagonist, or Victim). Each role has a unique way of winning.
Why similar: Multiplayer 28.7%, Gore 24.6%, Violent 18.6%, Horror 15%, Action 8.6%
- #48 The Emulator
72% matchMixed60% of 100 reviews2018
Dev: concluse_dev
Windows · Mac
It's the night before Halloween and a new terror is about to be unleashed from the deep web.. The Emulator!
Why similar: Gore 41.2%, Violent 36.9%, Indie 7.6%, Action 7.4%, Horror 6.8%
- #49 SCP: Retrieval
68% matchMixed63% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Arcsteel Games
Windows
SCP: Retrieval is an indie multiplayer action horror game set in the SCP universe. You will play as a Mobile Task Force unit sent to retrieve dangerous anomalous creatures after a massive series of major breaches.
Why similar: Multiplayer 59.6%, Action 22.7%, Horror 17.7%
- #50 Space Beret
71% matchMixed52% of 692 reviews2016
Dev: Amaterasu Software
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Space Beret is a top down sci-fi shooter set in a "Starship Troopers" and "Crimsonland" inspired setting. In it, mankind is forced to fight hordes of horrible monstrosities in a desperate struggle for survival.
Why similar: Action 59.1%, Indie 40.9%
- #51 Gangs of Space
70% matchMostly Positive76% of 431 reviews2017
Dev: Little Big MMO
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 290.2 hrs≥1hr: 53%
Gangs of Space is a massively-multiplayer Rogue Shmup where Gangs of players compete for the conquest of the galaxy.
Why similar: Action 63.3%, Indie 36.7%
- #52 Roswell Ranch
68% matchMixed61% of 64 reviews2024
Dev: HELIX Games
Windows
Howdy, stranger! Hide from a vigilant UFO, find weapon components, and protect the farm from malevolent extraterrestrial threats.
Why similar: Horror 53.4%, Action 40.6%, Indie 5.9%
- #53 SCP: Ground Zero
67% matchMostly Positive70% of 732 reviews2022
Dev: Nikk F.
Windows
Infiltrate a secret facility to recover an anomalous object.
Why similar: Action 34.1%, Violent 27%, Indie 22.7%, Horror 16.3%
- #54 HYPERVIOLENT
66% matchMixed59% of 528 reviews2025
Dev: nfoPRINCEPub: Fulqrum Publishing
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 82%
An ancient evil has awoken in the depths of a remote mining asteroid, stirred from its slumber by man's lust for power. Unaware, you answer a distress call and become stranded, surrounded by monstrous foes. Unravel the mystery of this madness and stop its spread in this horror retro shooter!
Why similar: Violent 60.8%, Action 21.5%, Horror 17.7%
- #55 Sketchy's Contract
63% matchVery Positive85% of 1,338 reviews2026
Dev: Dimensionless Games
Windows
Median: 5.4 hrsMean: 11.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
A 1-8 player co-op sci-fi looter horror game that takes place on a mysterious asteroid belt where players must complete contracts by traveling to exotic planets to kill creatures, find loot, and/or farm planetary materials that they must return to an ominous figure named Sketchy.
Why similar: Horror 65.4%, Action 34.6%
- #56 SQUIDS FROM SPACE
68% matchVery Positive86% of 238 reviews2017
Dev: Fun Bits
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 44%
SQUIDS FROM SPACE is an 8v8, team-based PvP top-down shooter where humans and the sinister Squid aliens wage war for the future of the Earth!
Why similar: Multiplayer 41.9%, Action 40%, Indie 18.1%
- #57 GLOWCOMA: chapter 1
67% matchVery Positive84% of 230 reviews2019
Dev: Tsvetomir Georgiev
Windows
GLOWCOMA: chapter 1 is a Sci-Fi FPS survivor horror game.
Why similar: Gore 40.4%, Violent 33.1%, Action 16.2%, Indie 10.3%
- #58 SCP: Containment Breach Multiplayer
64% matchVery Positive83% of 28,485 reviews2021
Dev: Fusion Creators Studio
Windows
Multiplayer survival horror game based on stories from the SCP Foundation. The game is about a facility containing anomalous entities known as SCPs. When a catastrophic containment breach occurs at one of the facilities, it is your main goal to escape the facility. Try to escape with your friends!
Why similar: Multiplayer 43.3%, Violent 27.6%, Horror 19.5%, Action 9.6%
