Games Like Disc Room

Devil Daggers is a fast-paced shooter that places you in an abyssal arena to face endless legions of demons. Armed with versatile magic daggers and a fluid movement system, fight to survive as long as you can.

Why similar: Difficult 39.7%, Retro 16.4%, Survival 10.6%, Gore 9%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like Disc Room, this is a pure, minimalist test of survival and reflexes against overwhelming odds.

Downwell is a curious game about a young person venturing down a well in search of untold treasures with only his Gunboots to protect him.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 34.8%, Difficult 19.4%, 2D Platformer 11.8%, Arcade 11.3%, Retro 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: It features a fast-paced, arcade-style loop that demands precision and quick thinking in a confined, dangerous space.

APE OUT is a wildly intense and colorfully stylized smash ‘em up about primal escape, rhythmic violence, and frenetic jazz.

Why similar: Gore 22.6%, Violent 21.5%, Difficult 17.9%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Arcade 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: The top-down, kinetic, and violent gameplay mirrors the chaotic energy found in Disc Room's slaughterhouse.

BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

Why similar: Gore 31.5%, Difficult 19.3%, Violent 18.5%, Action 7.8%, Retro 7.1%

Why You'll Like It: This ultra-violent, fast-paced 2D action game shares the brutal, unforgiving nature of Disc Room.

Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

Why similar: Difficult 63.7%, Arcade 16.1%, Indie 8%, Action 3.1%, Singleplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the minimalist aesthetic and extreme, rhythm-based difficulty that makes Disc Room so addictive.

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: Difficult 19.8%, Violent 19.3%, Gore 16.5%, 2D Platformer 15.4%, Retro 9.3%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar 'one-hit-kill' flow that requires perfect execution and pattern memorization to survive fast-paced encounters.

Hotline Miami is a high-octane action game overflowing with raw brutality, hard-boiled gunplay and skull crushing close combat.

Why similar: Violent 28.6%, Gore 22.5%, Difficult 15%, Retro 10.7%, Top-Down Shooter 9%

Why You'll Like It: The top-down perspective and instant-death mechanics create a similar sense of high-octane, trial-and-error intensity.

Super Meat Boy is back! This time around Meat Boy is always running, literally it's an auto-runner. You will jump, dive, slide and punch your way through brutal levels and mean boss fights. We designed 5,000+ levels so you can play the game over and over without seeing the same level twice.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 21.1%, Difficult 20%, Violent 15.4%, Gore 11%, 2D Platformer 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on the same precision-platforming and high-difficulty spikes that define the Disc Room experience.

The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

Why similar: Arcade 30.2%, Retro 17.5%, Difficult 14.2%, Action 12.8%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This arcade shooter captures the same frantic, high-intensity movement and survival-focused gameplay loop.

MO: Astray is a pixel art, side-scrolling, action-platformer. Lead MO through mind-bending puzzles using special abilities. Bizarre enemies, threatening traps and ingenious level designs await.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.3%, Gore 21.1%, Violent 14%, Difficult 10.6%, Action 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends puzzle-solving with intense action, requiring players to navigate lethal hazards with precision.

In a cold, dark future dominated by mega-corporations, a small lonely planet on the edge of habitable space is the site of a shadowy research facility specializing in necrotic tissue reactivation. You are a scientist who has suddenly awoken to the realization that you are the lone survivor.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 35.3%, Difficult 34.6%, Action 7.8%, Indie 7.5%, Survival 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A punishing top-down shooter that emphasizes survival and quick reflexes in claustrophobic, dangerous environments.

Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Why similar: Difficult 32.7%, Retro 18.6%, Adventure 13.1%, Action 11.7%, Indie 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging metroidvania that rewards players for learning enemy patterns and navigating tight spaces.

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 34.5%, Difficult 22.6%, 2D Platformer 15.4%, Retro 12%, Indie 5.1%

Why You'll Like It: It relies on minimalist mechanics and extreme precision, forcing players to master movement to survive lethal environments.

Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?

Why similar: Difficult 46.4%, Top-Down Shooter 30.4%, Action 8.9%, Indie 8.4%, 2D 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down roguelike provides the same frantic, bullet-dodging action and high difficulty as the seed game.

Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.

Why similar: Difficult 68.9%, Action 9.7%, Indie 9.2%, 2D 7.7%, Singleplayer 4.5%

Why You'll Like It: It is a quintessential bullet-hell experience that demands the same level of spatial awareness and dodging skills.

Set in a far corner of space, Valfaris is a heavy metal infused 2D action-platformer and the next game from the team behind Unity Awards finalist, Slain: Back From Hell. Brutal combat. Deadly enemies. Stunning pixel art. Savage soundtrack. Get ready to rip the galaxy a new wormhole.

Why similar: Gore 32%, Violent 17.9%, Difficult 14.3%, Action 11.9%, Retro 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: The heavy focus on gore, action, and challenging boss encounters aligns well with the aesthetic and feel of Disc Room.

Orbital Bullet is a fast paced 360° action-platformer with rogue-lite elements, where all actions take place in a circular pattern. Fight your way through a variety of procedural planets and use body modifications, crafting and heavy weaponry. Kill. Die. Modify.

Why similar: Difficult 44.9%, 2D Platformer 26.1%, Action 10.9%, Indie 7.7%, 2D 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: The unique 360-degree movement mechanic provides a similar spatial challenge to dodging discs in orbit.

Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

Why similar: Retro 29.1%, Difficult 16.6%, Action 14.5%, Indie 14%, Adventure 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: While more expansive, it shares the pixel-art aesthetic and challenging boss encounters found in the seed game.

Cut robots apart in VR. Feel your sword disintegrate their metal bodies. Now you live and die in the Crashloop, a roguelike tournament to the death. Lock swords! Shoot shurikens from your wrist! This is CLONE DRONE... in the HYPERDOME!!!

Why similar: Action 62.1%, Colorful 23.7%, Singleplayer 14.2%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on fast-paced, high-stakes combat in an arena setting mirrors the arcade feel of the seed game.

Pounce inside of your cozy armored mech and set off on a dangerous trek through an alien underworld full of irritable creatures and treacherous obstacles in a valiant effort to save your stranded captain and his crashed spaceship.

Why similar: Retro 26.9%, Difficult 15.8%, Action 15.5%, Indie 14.3%, Adventure 12.7%

Why You'll Like It: A tight, action-focused experience that rewards players for mastering movement and dodging patterns.

Take up the challenge and face true high-stakes platforming in Jump King! Struggle upwards in search of the Smoking Hot Babe of legend, but explore with care; a single missed jump could lead to a long fall back down...

Why similar: Difficult 38.9%, Precision Platformer 37.7%, Retro 5.3%, Indie 4.8%, Adventure 4.1%

Why You'll Like It: It shares the 'difficult' tag and the psychological challenge of mastering a single, high-stakes movement mechanic.

Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 31.3%, Difficult 28.5%, 2D Platformer 13.1%, Puzzle Platformer 8.2%, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: While a platformer, its focus on screen-by-screen challenges and mastery of movement is highly comparable to Disc Room's room-based design.

Never Give Up is a hardcore platformer determined to turn you into bloody chunks. Run, jump, and slide your way through ever-changing levels that get harder each time you succeed. You’ll need to try, die, and try again if you want to conquer the game without pressing the Give Up button.

Why similar: Difficult 30.6%, Precision Platformer 13.2%, Violent 11%, Gore 10.1%, Action 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: A platformer that embraces the 'die-and-retry' philosophy with a focus on increasingly difficult, trap-filled levels.

Splatter is a first-person fever dream where you blast constantly-adapting enemies into neon sprays of pulp and slime. Enter a digital mindscape constructed by four anonymous administrators. Can you survive? Can you remain sane? Can you remain yourself?

Why similar: Violent 33.9%, Gore 28.6%, Colorful 13.2%, Action 11.6%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This top-down shooter features intense, fast-paced action and a focus on surviving waves of enemies.

Help Dr. Fetus create the perfect Meat Boy clone in a unique new twist on the tile-matching puzzle genre. In classic Meat Boy fashion, an endless cavalcade of devious and deadly traps stand between you and victory in this hardcore puzzle game that will push your skills to the limit.

Why similar: Difficult 29.4%, Arcade 16%, Puzzle 13.1%, Action 11.4%, Cartoony 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: It combines puzzle mechanics with the brutal, high-difficulty action associated with the Meat Boy universe.

Fight to survive on a mysterious alien planet, outwit its vicious inhabitants, and do whatever it takes to find a way off that wretched rock.

Why similar: Difficult 34.3%, Action 15.8%, Adventure 13.4%, 2D 12%, Indie 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D action game that emphasizes physics-based combat and surviving dangerous, trap-filled environments.

Minit is a peculiar little adventure played sixty seconds at a time.

Why similar: Retro 24.2%, Puzzle 23.1%, Adventure 19.2%, Indie 15.1%, 2D 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: The minimalist design and time-based pressure create a unique, puzzle-like tension similar to the rooms in Disc Room.

Rogue-like FPS with strong RPG elements set in a 22nd century reality-show parody. Win a fortune or die, but never disappoint your audience. And audience is virtual or real with revolutionary but optional features for streamers and their fans.

Why similar: Gore 30.2%, Difficult 23.6%, Survival 15.8%, Action 14.9%, Indie 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: The game's premise of surviving a deadly, televised gauntlet is thematically similar to the slaughterhouse of Disc Room.

A physics-powered action roguelike. Grab asteroids, catch missiles, and hurl them back at swarming enemies. Build wild loadouts, defeat colossal bosses, and push deeper into a collapsing galaxy.

Why similar: Difficult 37.2%, Top-Down Shooter 36.4%, Action 8.3%, Colorful 7.6%, Adventure 6.1%

Welcome to the laboratory! Here tests are taken upon highly durable human clones using newest weapon technologies. Your goal is to head these tests.

Why similar: Gore 43%, Violent 38.4%, Action 8.1%, Indie 5.2%, 2D 2.3%

Distant future… Brutal gladiatorial battles is a top-rated show, extremely popular all over the Universe. You’ve been sent to the abandoned planet as one of the participants of the show. Your goal is to survive as long as possible, fighting back deadly creatures in the focus of billions of viewers.

Why similar: Difficult 27.9%, Gore 24.4%, Survival 18.2%, Action 11.8%, Indie 8.5%

Why You'll Like It: The arena-based survival gameplay provides a similar arcade-like challenge to the rooms of the seed game.

A puzzle-platformer set in a dystopian world where the invention of a cloning device has messed things up, big time. Armed with a clone gun and a mighty fine mustache, the chore of saving THE WHOLE OF CIVILIZATION rests on your shoulders. Don’t blow it.

Why similar: Puzzle Platformer 23.9%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Puzzle 14.3%, Gore 13.8%, Action 7.8%

A self-inflicted bullet hell that combines retro sci-fi with the sounds and sights of the disco era

Why similar: Cartoony 26.5%, Top-Down Shooter 23.7%, Arcade 14.7%, Action 12%, Indie 8.4%

Why You'll Like It: A twin-stick shooter that focuses on dodging projectiles in a confined, rhythmic environment.

Kill to heal, and never stop moving in this retro-styled ADHD-fueled frantic fast-paced rogue-lite movement shooter. A short, yet intense multi-dimensional speedrun FPS experience for people with tiny attention spans. Do you have what it takes to subvert your infinite demise?

Why similar: Gore 43.5%, Retro 20.3%, Arcade 14.2%, Action 9.4%, Indie 6.4%

Ultraviolent, fast-paced, merciless retro FPS action. Slaughter your way through nightmarish industrial mazes, transformed cityscapes, and surreal alien structures to cut down the Growth.

Why similar: Gore 49.9%, Retro 40.5%, Action 9.5%

Marrow is a 2D, Cosmic-Horror themed, action-adventure game emphasizing challenge, puzzles, platforming, combat and navigation. Leap, crawl, slash and blast your way through the cavernous bowels of a menacing mountain in a quest to find your lost friends.

Why similar: Gore 38.7%, Violent 36.5%, Action 9%, Adventure 8%, Indie 7.8%

Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.

Why similar: Gore 21.9%, Violent 19.6%, Precision Platformer 17%, Difficult 12.9%, Retro 8.6%

Search for new life forms as you try to survive on a mysterious hostile world in the surreal 2D action-platformer Orange Moon.

Why similar: Gore 46%, Action 15.1%, Puzzle Platformer 14.4%, Adventure 13.2%, Indie 11.3%

BEAM is a challenging precision platformer with puzzle elements in which you need to manipulate various light beams and tightly maneuver MARBLE in order to save both your lives.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 26.4%, Difficult 21.2%, Puzzle Platformer 19.5%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Puzzle 8.9%

Challenge lawn monsters!

Why similar: Difficult 21%, Gore 20.2%, Precision Platformer 19.3%, Arcade 9.7%, Puzzle 7.3%

UnderParty is an Action Platformer game. This game is made up of a very high level of difficulty. It's very violent, so be careful.

Why similar: Gore 28.5%, Violent 23.1%, Cartoony 13.8%, 2D Platformer 11.6%, Difficult 9%

A thrilling combination of violence, extreme gore, amazing graphics, simple controls, fun and humor. When you find yourself trapped in a mysterious house being overrun by the dead you do what anyone would. Slaughter them, collect their organs, build some guns and kill some bosses.

Why similar: Action 26.2%, Arcade 22.2%, Indie 20%, Casual 19.1%, 2D 8%

A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.4%, Difficult 30%, Cartoony 18.1%, Colorful 7.2%, Action 5.6%

Wrangle the hands and arms of a 1970s space cosmonaut and push, pull and twist your way through an increasingly precarious range of physically simulated stellar scenarios, where without gravity, nothing is still, nothing is secure, and nothing is simple.

Why similar: Difficult 27.4%, Precision Platformer 26.2%, Puzzle Platformer 18.7%, Puzzle 11.3%, Adventure 5.7%

Perilous Warp is a fast-paced indie retro-shooter inspired by the classic 3D-actions. Communication with a distant space colony has been lost, and you bravely step into the teleporter with the desire for glorious adventures. But do not expect to win in a heartbeat!

Why similar: Gore 32.6%, Violent 30.8%, Action 13.4%, Retro 10.9%, Indie 10.2%

A Meat-Like/Hedge-Like Mashup! Dr. Proventriculus is snatching up the Chickabirbs! Help Panic blast through over 50 stages of topsy-turvy, spike-laced, slime-drenched, buzzsaw-filled deathtraps to rescue them! And remember, there are no rings...

Why similar: Precision Platformer 29.7%, Retro 13.7%, Difficult 10.8%, Puzzle Platformer 10%, 2D Platformer 9%

Clone Drone in the Danger Zone is a robot voxel slice-em-up where any part of your body can be sliced off. With your mind downloaded into a robot gladiator, you must survive the sinister trials of the arena.

Why similar: Difficult 41.4%, Survival 27.2%, Action 16.4%, Indie 9.1%, Singleplayer 5.9%

A crazy action-adventure platformer... In Hell.

Why similar: Gore 35.3%, Action 23.4%, 2D 14.3%, Violent 12.7%, Singleplayer 6.5%

Are you a big fan of platform games? Can your nerves tolerate a high level of difficulty? If your answer is yes, then get your jumping skills ready for a new Super Meat Boy and Defrag(Quake3Arena) inspired platformer Run Rabbit Run!

Why similar: Difficult 24.6%, Puzzle Platformer 16.9%, 2D Platformer 12.1%, Violent 10.8%, Gore 9.3%

Challenging 2D platformer with simple graphics and a great chiptune soundtrack.

Why similar: Precision Platformer 21.2%, Difficult 18.7%, Gore 16.6%, Retro 11.8%, 2D Platformer 7.5%

Get ready to massacre monsters, race your rivals, and combat corpses of your fellow guards as you race to escape Black Iron Prison in the critically acclaimed roguelike, [REDACTED].

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 37.1%, Difficult 36.9%, Survival 18.8%, Action 7.1%

Be the weapon! Swing like an axe, thrust like a spear, and soar like an arrow in this physics-based platformer. Flip, throw, and carve your path to the peak! Rage burns, revenge awaits... Are you up to the challenge?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 30.8%, Difficult 29.1%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Retro 11.4%, Adventure 5.4%

Deflector is a top down action rogue-lite set in a deadly microcosm. Dive deep into hostile worlds teeming with viruses. Strike down increasingly challenging enemies with your weapons and their own deflected projectiles. Live, die, grow stronger and become powerful enough to reach the Source!

Why similar: Difficult 66.4%, Colorful 13.8%, Action 12.4%, Singleplayer 7.3%

Thumper is rhythm violence: classic rhythm-action, blistering speed, and brutal physicality. You are a space beetle. Brave the hellish void and confront a maniacal giant head from the future.

Why similar: Difficult 55.1%, Action 14.6%, Arcade 13.5%, Indie 11.8%, Singleplayer 5.1%

Help Laserboy escape The Scientist's experimental vision facility without racking up a massive bill. 13 levels of mayhem and confusion in glorious CRT vision. Now with challenging new achievements!

Why similar: Retro 27.2%, Arcade 20.2%, Puzzle 16.4%, Action 12.1%, Colorful 9.7%

VVVVV is a colorful, dynamic platformer action with puzzle elements, made in retro style.

Why similar: Action 14.6%, Adventure 13.2%, Difficult 12.8%, Gore 11.9%, Indie 10.9%

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer – now in 3D!

Why similar: Precision Platformer 44.1%, Difficult 11.3%, Action 9.6%, Retro 9.5%, Colorful 8.4%

DeadCore Redux is a challenging FPS-platformer set in a futuristic universe. Chain precise jumps, manipulate mechanisms with your SwitchGun, hunt hidden collectibles and new shortcuts, and push your skills to the limit as you climb a colossal Tower born from the void. Will you reach the Summit?

Why similar: Precision Platformer 40.2%, Puzzle Platformer 29.5%, Puzzle 10.1%, Arcade 8.3%, Action 8.2%

Stranded after his ship is destroyed in deep space, Harrison, a lowly maintenance worker and our hero, must struggle to find his way home... Dodge, boost and die your way through space! Explore 4 solar systems with a surly robot sidekick in this deep and deadly dodge 'em up!

Why similar: Gore 33.5%, Difficult 31.5%, Action 15.9%, Indie 12.1%, Adventure 6.9%