Games Like DESERT KILL

Burning Skies is a frantic roguelite bullet hell. Join the resistance and assemble the ultimate warjet, shoot take down giant bosses and avoid many dangers to destroy the tyrants who are ruling the world.

Why similar: Voxel 20% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Action Roguelike 15.6%, Roguelite 12%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.8%

A roguelite arena shooter starring you, a gutsy bread slice, and your butter buddy battling side by side. Survive waves of evil veggies, stack wild weapon combos, and unleash absurd builds in relentless top-down chaos.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.7%, Action Roguelike 22%, Roguelite 14.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.3%, Roguelike 12.6%

A fast top-down roguelike maze-runner. You're a PSI-class Runner, the one unit they can't capture. Slip into a Tracer-held sector, bring its cores online, and take it back before they close in.

Why similar: Voxel 34.8% ★, Action Roguelike 21.9%, Roguelite 17.3%, Roguelike 14%, Arcade 7.2%

Fast Food Wars is a bullet-hell shoot'em up rogue-lite game in a procedural generated restaurant with random power ups, weapons. You play as a burger fighting to claim back all the invaded burger restaurant from other fast foods

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 19.3%, Action Roguelike 17.7%, Roguelike 15.8%, Shooter 14.2%, Roguelite 13.6%

Laser Survivor is a top-down rogue-lite shooter where you play as an astronaut stranded on a space station, you can choose one primary weapon, one jetpack which has slots for weapons and modifiers, and indeed your laser turrets which will help you during the run. Build your way to survive.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23%, Action Roguelike 21.9%, Voxel 15% ★, Roguelite 14.5%, Roguelike 12.4%

Space Slinger is an arcade roguelike about a traveler and his recoil-packed gun where you shoot to move. Unlock unique weapons and broken builds as you conquer space one enemy at a time.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.2%, Action Roguelike 21%, Roguelite 13.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.8%, Shooter 9.7%

Command a robot armed with a physics-based rammer weapon. Slam enemies into walls and hazards, ram hazards into enemies, and use obstacles as weapons!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 22%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Roguelike 14%, Roguelite 13.9%, Physics 13.4%

"Nightmare Diver" is a roguelite shooting game where a rubber duck dives into the world of nightmares to save a young girl from her bad dreams, defeating enemies along the way.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.2%, Roguelite 25.8%, Shooter 19.5%, Action Roguelike 15.6%, Action 7.5%

Relax, Hop & Pop! and battle bugs in this froggy survivor game!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.7%, Top-Down Shooter 15.5%, Roguelike 15.2%, Shooter 13.3%, Roguelite 11.9%

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 23.6%, Action Roguelike 18.8%, Roguelike 14.5%, Roguelite 13.6%, Shooter 12.7%

A fast-paced top-down roguelike shooter where you stabilize failing reactors, fight through chaotic waves of enemies, collect powerful weapons and upgrades, and face colossal reactor bosses.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.7%, Top-Down Shooter 22.3%, Roguelike 17.9%, Roguelite 17.8%, Shooter 11%

Delusional is a chaotic top-down roguelike shooter where you battle absurd enemies with hundreds of ridiculous weapons, all in a desperate bid to defeat the eccentric artiste who created you.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.4%, Top-Down Shooter 17.3%, Roguelike 15.6%, Shooter 13.6%, Roguelite 12.6%

Fight through hordes of burnt CDs, flying TVs, and faceless suits in this frantic, run-based, twin-stick shooter. Forget firing bullets, though - you'll be flinging vinyl records, throwing drumsticks and swinging guitars to fend off the enemies of music and maybe, just maybe, survive the night.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.3%, Action Roguelike 20.9%, Roguelite 16.7%, Shooter 14%, Roguelike 13.2%

Microbes and Machines is a roguelite action game where you control a little bubble robot that fights against the forces of evil.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 18.6%, Action Roguelike 18.4%, Roguelite 15.3%, Roguelike 14.2%, Shooter 11.8%

Celebrate 10 years of Paranautical Activity with ALL of Code Avarice's FPS innovations packed into a single wacky package! Navigate through procedural levels and collect iconic Paranautical Activity items to power yourself up as you murder your friends in an Arkshot-like PVP multiplayer frenzy!

Why similar: Voxel 28.7% ★, Action Roguelike 18.1%, Roguelite 14.9%, Shooter 12.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.7%

You are a drone operator helping stranded soldiers make it home from behind enemy lines. Fight your way through hostile territory, upgrade your drone and squad, and increase your chances of survival. War is not for the faint of heart.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.6%, Action Roguelike 22.1%, Roguelite 17.2%, Roguelike 13%, Violent 7.3%

TETRAGUN is quadrant-based shooter where you're surrounded on all sides. You'll gain powerful upgrades as you progress, but so will your enemies.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.4%, Action Roguelike 20.1%, Roguelite 17.1%, Roguelike 13.8%, Shooter 13.7%

A 3D Sci-Fi space shooter game where you fight against big flagships and bases to unlock the secrets of the world.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.7%, Action Roguelike 19.3%, Roguelite 15.7%, Roguelike 12.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.6%

Paranautical Activity combines the classic FPS action of games like Doom and Quake, with the randomness and difficulty of modern roguelikes like Binding of Isaac and Spelunky.

Why similar: Voxel 27.3% ★, Action Roguelike 27.1%, Roguelike 21.1%, Roguelite 11%, Shooter 6.3%

Project Romboid is a hard, arcade shooter roguelite in which you will have to pick and combine items so that you can survive waves of enemies that will chase you and shoot at you. New items will appear every level. Combine them to create powerful builds that will help you survive.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.8%, Action Roguelike 21.4%, Roguelite 18.3%, Roguelike 14.4%, Shooter 11.4%

One bathroom break doomed you to work forever. Recruit employee clones, merge them into stronger coworkers, build your ever-growing office train, collect powerful ID badges, and escape the endless corporate death loop.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21%, Roguelite 20.6%, Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Roguelike 16.3%, Shooter 13.3%

After a traumatic battle, you've been cursed to walk the earth unable to truly die, you're thrust into battle after battle, dying over and over unable to rest. Until you find the last Nazi bunker, Bunker 666.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.1%, Action Roguelike 21.3%, Roguelite 16.8%, Shooter 14.2%, Roguelike 14.1%

Prepare for bullet hell action and crazy driving! Your town is on fire, anarchy reigns the streets, aliens rampage in the sky! Grab your gun and join the fun!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 36.5%, Parody 11.8% ★, Shooter 8.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 8%, Violent 7.5%

The alien hordes have attacked us for no reason. We must throw all our forces to repel our planet from the alien invaders!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 19.3%, Action Roguelike 19%, Roguelite 15.3%, Roguelike 13.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.6%

Exosoul is an adrenaline-fueled top-down shooter that will test your skills and reflexes. Fight for your life against relentless enemies while trying to synchronize your body and soul. You have a powerful arsenal of weapons at your disposal, but you'll need to use them wisely if you want to survive.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.6%, Action Roguelike 25.1%, Roguelike 15.9%, Roguelite 12.3%, Shooter 10%

Harness the power of Greek Gods in this intense vertical rogue-like shooter. Command divine Mechas, brew sacred potions, and unlock permanent upgrades at Hephaestos’ Forge. Battle mythical hordes and challenge the Titans in a fast-paced quest for eternal glory!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.8%, Roguelike 19.2%, Shooter 17.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.6%, Action Roguelike 7.8%

You just have to kill the bugs and critters before they kill you, so you can kill the bugs EVEN BETTER. Defeat the 3 floors and their bosses to win the game! Fight through procedurally maps made of handcrafted rooms, in this action RPG shooter with heavy roguelike and bullet-hell elements.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.6%, Action Roguelike 19.5%, Roguelite 15.6%, Roguelike 12.9%, Shooter 12.6%

100% Clean Inc. is a top-down Roguelite shooting game. Follow the new intern as he explores the cleaning company building, where things seem to be going wrong.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.3%, Action Roguelike 20.2%, Roguelite 18.3%, Roguelike 17.8%, Shooter 10.1%

Wage a war...with witches! Take control of islands one battlefield at a time in this team-based action roguelite. Play alone or with friends and become the last witch army standing!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.8%, Action Roguelike 19.7%, Roguelite 15.2%, Roguelike 12%, Shooter 11.8%

Roguelike Shooter Where Your Bullets Hurt You!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 19.1%, Roguelike 17.6%, Action Roguelike 16.8%, Shooter 15.3%, Roguelite 13.9%

Rob o Bot is a survivors-like action game where you fight hordes of robots that began acting on their own after a mysterious virus infected a new generation of machines. Survive waves of enemies, upgrade your gear, and take back control before the machines take over.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.9%, Action Roguelike 22.1%, Roguelite 16.3%, Shooter 12.9%, Roguelike 12.4%

A roguelite bullet-hell shooter where table tennis meets ancient mythology. Wield your paddle to strike enemies with bouncing balls, retrieve them to attack again, and craft powerful builds through strategic upgrades.

Why similar: Roguelite 19.9%, Top-Down Shooter 18%, Action Roguelike 15.4%, Roguelike 15.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 10%

Waspkeeper is an action roguelite game where your main goal is to survive as long as possible in a field full of venomous wasps with one out of four playable characters.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.7%, Action Roguelike 20.4%, Roguelite 16.3%, Shooter 12.7%, Roguelike 12.1%

Neon Blitz is a survivors-like where you aim your own way out. Read the swarm, blitz the openings, and stack explosive synergies into a devastating loadout. The horde never stops pouring out of the dark. How long can you hold the line?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 22.3%, Roguelite 18.7%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Roguelike 14.6%, Shooter 9.3%

Battle through waves of enemies, taking their power for your own in this retro-styled arcade shoot'em up.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.5%, Action Roguelike 20.6%, Roguelike 15.2%, Shooter 15.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 15%

A roguelite space shooter based around the classic arcade game. Shoot asteroids, ships, and take down the mothership in a multi-stage boss fight, avoiding lasers and explosions. Upgrade your ship during and after your run in this casual simple roguelite.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.1%, Action Roguelike 24.1%, Roguelite 16.7%, Shooter 11.6%, Roguelike 11%

Irradiant Skies is an arcade roguelite blending brick-breaking and bullet-parrying combat. Reflect enemy attacks, chain powerful upgrades, and master unique ships as you ascend through waves of enemies.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 22.5%, Top-Down Shooter 17.9%, Roguelike 16.1%, Roguelite 13%, Shooter 12.9%

Crimsonwood is a roguelike top-down shooter in a cursed national park. Collect various weapons, gain perks and battle hordes of enemies to survive.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.9%, Action Roguelike 25.4%, Roguelite 17.1%, Shooter 13.8%, Roguelike 12.3%

A roguelite top‑down twin‑stick shooter. Rain, shine, or zombie outbreak—nothing stops a Courier on a deadline. Shoot, loot, and scoot through hordes of undead with ridiculous item synergies. Earn cash, unlock weapons, and grow from broke gig worker to a walking apocalypse.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.4%, Action Roguelike 19.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.3%, Roguelite 11.3%, Shooter 9.3%

Tank Arena is a chaotic top-down multiplayer tank shooter built for fast, explosive battles with friends. Jump into the arena, blast each other with shells, and see who survives the longest.

Why similar: Voxel 25.8% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.2%, Shooter 11.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.3%, Military 9.4%

FRACTURE is a fast-paced roguelike bullet-hell shooter. Battle enemies and bosses across ever-changing maps, collect items, unlock new ships, and upgrade your ship and weapons!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.9%, Action Roguelike 20.6%, Roguelite 14.8%, Roguelike 11.3%, Shooter 11.3%

Reality is collapsing into the Null, a digital void that consumes entire sectors of existence. As the last surviving pilot, you dive into corrupted space to fight through hostile anomalies, recover lost data, and uncover the force behind the collapse before everything is erased.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.9%, Roguelite 17.6%, Action Roguelike 17.5%, Roguelike 15.7%, Shooter 15%

Apple man Sam versus moustached vegetables. A top-down survivors-like roguelite where you pick a loadout, level up, upgrade your weapons, and loot items to blast through escalating hordes and bosses. Multiple loadouts, endless mode, and leaderboards. Complete quests to unlock items and cosmetics!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.9%, Action Roguelike 16.2%, Roguelite 15.2%, Roguelike 13.7%, Shooter 11.1%

Play an immune cell that never stops evolving. Shoot foes into weakness, devour them for Gene—and Burden. Fill a four-track gene library, morph your cell and bullets, then ascend into an Ultimate form. Top-down bio-horror roguelike: what is your cell becoming?

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.7%, Action Roguelike 23.9%, Roguelite 12.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.6%, Roguelike 10.6%

Fight, die, repeat! VOXEL Hunters is a top-down roguelite arena shooter. Enter small, fast-paced arenas where you must eliminate all enemies. Engage in quick, action-packed missions, experiment with powerful abilities and augments, and unlock unique cosmetics to customize your appearance.

Why similar: Voxel 24.9% ★, Top-Down Shooter 22.3%, Action Roguelike 17.7%, Roguelike 13.9%, Shooter 11.4%

Mini Gears: Mayhem is a single player Rogue-like where you do the aiming. Take control of a little tank on a blueprint, fighting waves of supposedly evil slimes. Gain experience, level up, and upgrade your tank in each run.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.8%, Action Roguelike 27.2%, Roguelite 19.5%, Arcade 8.1%, Physics 7.6%

Bullet Hell or Heaven? A rogue-like where you upgrade yourself and your enemies. Strategize around your build choices and dominate the battlefields of Novi Blaster.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.4%, Action Roguelike 18.5%, Roguelite 15.6%, Roguelike 13.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.2%

Survive relentless machine swarms in the collapsing Voidline. Loot upgrades, evolve your ship, and stack game-breaking builds as each run grows faster, harder, and more chaotic. Unlock new ships and become unstoppable.

Why similar: Voxel 46.9% ★, Roguelite 25.5%, Roguelike 18.8%, Action 7.2%, Indie 1.5%

Play as a robot vacuum in this Rogue-lite action shooter. Mow down through hordes of goons and enemies as you traverse through 12 stages, and 3 boss fights. Loot among many guns, spears, throwing stars and different powerups to choose your build.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.6%, Action Roguelike 20.6%, Roguelike 16%, Roguelite 12.5%, Shooter 11.7%

A snake roguelite where your body is your arsenal. Collect weapon segments, fuse matching neighbors into higher tiers, and reorder them until they react with each other. Then close a loop with your own tail: everything trapped inside dies.

Why similar: Roguelite 21.4%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Action Roguelike 16.4%, Roguelike 16.2%, Arcade 9%

Blast, melee, scavenge, and survive an undead city in this action roguelite shooter. Grow stronger each run, craft deadly weapons and equipment, pushing deeper into the heart of the zombie infestation.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.9%, Action Roguelike 24.4%, Shooter 17.4%, Military 12.2%, Violent 10.4%

BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.

Why similar: Roguelite 20.5%, Top-Down Shooter 19.4%, Action Roguelike 18.7%, Roguelike 16.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.8%

Cleanup Crew is a fast-paced survival action roguelite. Complete emergent objectives, customize your build and put your skills to the test to survive nerve-wracking hordes of creatures across bizarre worlds. Will you be able to survive until extraction?

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.2%, Action Roguelike 20%, Roguelite 14.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.5%, Roguelike 11.3%

Defeat the enemies. Upgrade the spacecraft. Defend the mothership. Regular Spacecraft - Defending the Mothership is a shoot em'up game with roguelite elements.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.9%, Action Roguelike 20.4%, Roguelite 15.2%, Roguelike 12.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.5%

Exterminate the bugs that are hidden on the dark side of the moon. A game based on space exploration, with a variety of items and monsters and a evil to be defeated. Adventure in this space experience and destroy them.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.8%, Action Roguelike 20.7%, Roguelite 16%, Roguelike 14.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.3%

Explore an ever-changing galaxy, upgrade your ship, and face cosmic challenges in this thrilling 2D roguelike adventure. Become a legend of the galaxy in Hyperspace Nebula.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.2%, Action Roguelike 27.7%, Roguelike 18.5%, Roguelite 18.2%, Action 3.1%

X Invader is an action roguelite where you hack into big corporations' servers. Use add-ons from fellow hackers to defeat monsters. Powerful, cute bosses guard these servers!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 18.5%, Action Roguelike 15%, Parody 14.2% ★, Roguelite 12%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.4%

Snapshot Survivor is an action-focused take on Snapshot, inspired by games like Vampire Survivors with an extra dose of naughty story telling. Roam around in an outskirt of Tokyo trying to survive taking upskirt pictures for profit to unlock new weapons and cutscenes!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.9%, Top-Down Shooter 20.7%, Roguelite 20.6%, Roguelike 16.9%, Action 5.4%

Outrun relentless digital swarms, overclock your weaponry at high risk code shrines, and deploy autonomous companions to clear massive arenas in this full 3D cyberpunk bullet heaven. Pure, fast paced action roguelite survival.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.2%, Top-Down Shooter 17.1%, Roguelike 16.4%, Shooter 14.3%, Roguelite 13.2%

You are the zombie horde. Infect, evolve, and overrun humanity in fast-paced top-down roguelike arena runs.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.3%, Action Roguelike 22.6%, Roguelike 17.4%, Roguelite 17.2%, Violent 8.8%