- #1 Extinction Zone
97% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 171Dev
Windows · Linux
EXTINCTION ZONE is a zombie themed combat action survival game with 2D pixel art environments, puzzles to solve and a conspiracy to unravel.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 31.2% ★, Top-Down Shooter 19.7%, Shooter 8.4%, Top-Down 7.3%, Horror 6.9%
- #2 Half Left
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Planck Constant Games
Windows
Trapped inside a quarantined research complex, a wheelchair-bound nurse must survive a curse beyond human comprehension.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.3%, Survival Horror 17.4%, Top-Down Shooter 14.9%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Sci-fi 6.3%
- #3 Doomed Stars
96% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Mischief & Mayhem Studios
Windows
Consume the civilization of the fools who unleashed you upon the universe. Become the Empire Ender.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30%, Top-Down Shooter 21.5%, Sci-fi 10.5%, Roguelite 9.1%, Shooter 7.1%
- #4 Heavy in the Hand
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: randyheart
Windows
Cock the hammer, pull the trigger, count to six. Release the cylinder, eject the shells, count to six again. You hold death in your hand, and death is heavy. Descend to the abyss, shoot the horrors you can comprehend, and survive the horrors you cannot.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 22.5%, Top-Down Shooter 17.6%, Survival Horror 13.1%, Dark 8.9%, Shooter 8.7%
- #5 Infernal Antlers
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MrRhoads
Windows
Fight through relentless waves of zombies in this action-packed top-down shooter! Collect weapon parts, craft insane custom guns, and unleash devastating synergies to survive as long as you can.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 36% ★, Top-Down Shooter 22.7%, Top-Down 8.5%, Roguelite 8.4%, Shooter 7.8%
- #6 Endoparasitic 2
93% matchVery Positive87% of 660 reviews2024
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must survive. Drag yourself through the hallways of an infested arcship, fight off twisted eldritch creatures, craft vaccines and ammunition, and escape to civilization.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.8%, Survival Horror 18.9%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Horror 9.4%, Top-Down 8.9%
- #7 EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP
92% matchNo user reviews
Dev: CC ARTS
Windows
EMPTY SHELL: THE LOOP will take you into The Loop, a secret facility built on a Japanese island in the middle of nowhere. Volunteers are forced to enter the eerie rooms of the complex, seemingly without an exit. But what is that massive door in one of the rooms? Is there perhaps a way to escape?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 19.9%, Roguelite 12.9%, Shooter 10.2%, Dark 8.7%, Top-Down 8.4%
- #8 Flesh Reactor
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Spoodywhack
Windows
A sci-fi survival horror top-down shooter. Explore a decaying research facility, scavenge scarce resources, and survive against grotesque abominations.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 29.1%, Survival Horror 22.4%, Immersive Sim 15%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Shooter 7.3%
- #9 Core Break
91% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: MythByte
Windows
Explore an abandoned space station in this top-down action-adventure. Customize your weapons, face hostile threats, and extract AI cores to uncover hidden secrets. Survival is key as you navigate the station's unpredictable dangers, guided remotely by your operator, Pryce.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.1%, Shooter 13.1%, Dark 11.6%, Top-Down 11.3%, Sci-fi 9.3%
- #10 Bite Size Terrors: Speechless
90% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: anOVERTHINKER
Windows
Find what was taken from you at any cost in this Minimalistic Survival Horror.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22%, Survival Horror 21.9%, Horror 11.6%, Dark 9.5%, Top-Down 9.5%
- #11 Power of Ten - Demo
89% matchVery Positive98% of 59 reviews2020
Dev: Pew Times Three
Windows
Demo for Power of Ten, a single star fighter trying to save as many civilians as possible before they are overrun by a marauder armada. You'll need to gather new weapons, upgrade your ship, find resources, trade with other ships and more to overcome the challenge before you.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 26% ★, Top-Down Shooter 20.5%, Roguelite 13.1%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Shooter 6.9%
- #12 12 nights
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Pigeon People Studio
Windows
A survival-horror game about a detective searching for his sister in a mysterious victorian mansion that shifts its shape. The mansion is their family home - and their family curse. Fight monsters, solve puzzles, explore the mysterious estate!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.1%, Lovecraftian 21.3%, Shooter 11.1%, Survival Horror 9.6%, Top-Down 8.7%
- #13 HYPERVIOLENT
87% 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: Lovecraftian 30.8%, Survival Horror 13%, Immersive Sim 10.5%, Dark 8%, Sci-fi 7.7%
- #14 Outer Darkness
88% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Espy Lacopa
Windows
Lay waste to hordes of evil in the Outer Darkness. Learn and augment spells and upgrade your character's abilities. Unlock and harness 8 different elements with unique gameplay to escape the forsaken dominion.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.3%, Top-Down Shooter 15.1%, Survival Horror 14%, Roguelite 11%, Dark 8.5%
- #15 Victoria Kopernik: Monastery
86% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: cosmonomicon
Windows
Occult influencer Victoria Kopernik explores a cursed monastery in this short survival horror experience.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.2%, Survival Horror 22.8%, Top-Down Shooter 11.2%, Horror 11.2%, Immersive Sim 10.9%
- #16 Against All Odds
86% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2022
Dev: 25 Crimson
Windows
Against All Odds is an immersive story based top-down shooter, where you follow the tragic story of Maxwell Philben. Fight your way out, tearing anything that comes in your way and find out the madness behind your abduction.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 36.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 20.5%, Shooter 11.5%, Dark 8%, Top-Down 7.3%
- #17 Tarvos Desolation
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Solverto Games
Windows
Survive on a hostile moon full of nightmares! Face hordes of monsters, explore mysterious locations, and uncover secrets that may save your life. Will you find a way to escape, or will you be consumed by the darkness of Tarvos?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.5%, Survival Horror 13.3%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Horror 11.5%, Shooter 10.7%
- #18 Praedatum
84% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gold Sheep Games
Windows
Praedatum is a fast-paced top-down Extraction Shooter set in the dystopian world of tomorrow. Our future has been stolen by evil robotic overlords. As a legendary Warrior from the distant past, your job is to steal it right back!
Why similar: Looter Shooter 41.5% ★, Top-Down Shooter 24.2%, Shooter 9%, Top-Down 7%, Sci-fi 5.9%
- #19 Exogenesis: The Erebus Cycle
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nostalgic Brains
Windows
A sci-fi survival horror with cosmic dread. A civilization on the verge of synthesizing human life is drawn to a planet that responds… and traps them like prey. Exploration, environmental puzzles, and heavy, clunky combat where every bullet counts.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.4%, Survival Horror 24%, Retro 10.5%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Horror 7.9%
- #20 The Last Man
84% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2022
Dev: PitigamedevPub: CGevo
Windows
A topdown survival space horror where a single enemy hit can end your life
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.1%, Survival Horror 24.4%, Shooter 10%, Dark 7.5%, Top-Down 7.5%
- #21 An Agonized Mind
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Mars On Fire
Windows · Linux
An Agonized Mind is a minimalist, survival horror, 2D top down shooter. Explore corridors filled with mutilated human experiments as you run and shoot your way to freedom. Gather resources and upgrade yourself, choosing to be robotic or human as you fight horrors of the compound.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 20.8%, Survival Horror 20.6%, Dark 12.2%, Horror 11.5%, Top-Down 10.6%
- #22 Warp Train
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Xishun Studio
Windows
Board a time-bending train and raid dangerous top-down extraction zones. Scavenge loot, smash buildings, reshape terrain, fight monster swarms, and escape before time runs out. Mix weapon affixes with magic stones to create your own explosive farming build.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 39% ★, Top-Down Shooter 27.7%, Shooter 13.6%, Combat 9.3%, Top-Down 7.1%
- #23 Hundred Acre Wood
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gregg RahubaPub: Jared R. Bair
Windows
Explore and survive a twisted Hundred Acre Wood while being hunted by an old childhood friend, Winnie-the-Pooh. Rescue Christopher Robin with the help of Eldritch Beasts that were once familiar faces. Discover what took place and has changed a once beautiful land into something dark and dangerous.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.7%, Survival Horror 20.5%, Dark 13.1%, Horror 11.7%, Lore-Rich 7.3%
- #24 INANIMA
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Obscure Tales
Windows · Linux
A survival horror game set in the isolated facilities of a strange corporation. Search for limited supplies, and fight terrifying creatures to reveal the truth behind the Lazarus project. Be part of something that will change the future of humanity.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 29.4%, Survival Horror 20%, Sci-fi 11%, Horror 8.6%, Combat 7.9%
- #25 The Consuming Shadow
81% matchVery Positive95% of 428 reviews2015
Dev: Ben 'Yahtzee' Croshaw
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 88%
The Consuming Shadow is a procedural survival horror adventure in which you must explore the land, fight your way through randomly-generated dungeons and try to stay sane in your quest to save the world from the invading Ancients.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 49.9%, Survival Horror 20.8%, Roguelite 10.8%, Horror 8.3%, Dark 6%
- #26 Walk in PENUMBRA
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: YOK GAMES
Windows
Penumbra is a shadow-manipulating rogue-lite shooter. Step into the shadows for double damage. Navigate procedurally generated maps, create your own dark zones, and exploit the shadows of your enemies. A strategic "shadow-shooter" where positioning changes everything!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.6%, Looter Shooter 23% ★, Shooter 13.9%, Sci-fi 12.4%, Top-Down 12.1%
- #27 Y2Kill
79% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Wink Wink Studios
Windows · Mac
A top-down arcade zombie roguelite set in 99's New York City. Build broken combos, unlock a million-dollar arsenal, slay four monster bosses, and survive the party at the end of the world.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 25.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17.7%, Survival Horror 15.3%, Roguelite 8.3%, Dark 7.5%
- #28 Eldread: Horrors of a Dark Moon
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Peter Lin Jr.
Windows
Manage your oxygen levels and navigate a cosmic horror roguelite in a lunar colony. Confront nightmarish anomalies, survive unpredictable text-driven events, and endure the horrors waiting beneath the dark moon.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 34.5%, Survival Horror 19%, Roguelite 15.8%, Horror 10.7%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #29 Recurrence
78% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Equinox Interactive
Windows
"Something is broken... and it keeps repeating."A classic survival horror set in a cyberpunk world corrupted by a strange signal. Solve puzzles, face terrifying creatures, and try to escape a nightmare that seems endless
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27.4%, Survival Horror 20.1%, Horror 8.7%, Retro 7.8%, Sci-fi 7.5%
- #30 TRYPAN
77% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Gunschlinger
Windows
TRYPAN - A exploration based survival horror FPS. Return to Stagmon, the city where your father disappeared. Fight intelligent enemies. Improvise and use limited resources to defeat them.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.8%, Survival Horror 20.4%, Horror 11.9%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Shooter 8.5%
- #31 Kill Through
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Holy Terra team
Windows
Blast through endless zombie hordes in KillThrough, a 2D isometric pixel shooter! Manage limited ammo, use diverse weapons, and master strategic movement to survive. Experience fast-paced, retro combat filled with satisfying pixel gore. Your only goal: Kill Through!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.1%, Looter Shooter 19.4% ★, Shooter 12.6%, Top-Down 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%
- #32 Operation Blackwaste
76% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 冷漠乌鸦
Windows
Scavenge, fight, and survive in a zombie-ravaged wasteland. Build your safe house, take quests, manage hunger and thirst, craft your build with gear and ability trees, clear wave-based Purge stages — or let auto-combat grind for you. Every sortie and extraction makes you stronger.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 45.6% ★, Top-Down Shooter 26.1%, Top-Down 10.3%, Shooter 7%, Exploration 7%
- #33 The Lurking Fear
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
A minimalistic survival horror game where you fight or run from monsters using stealth to hunt you.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.7%, Top-Down Shooter 17%, Survival Horror 15.8%, Combat 8.7%, Dark 8.4%
- #34 Souls Alive: Origins
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Souls Alive Development
Windows
Souls Alive: Origins is a Lovecraftian survival horror game set in a dark sci-fi future. Explore a world where reality bends, ancient cults return, and Cthulhu stirs once more. With a strong focus on story, atmosphere, and visual detail.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 45.1%, Survival Horror 24.2%, Horror 12.2%, Sci-fi 9.4%, Atmospheric 5.7%
- #35 The Coma 3: Bloodlines
72% matchVery Positive87% of 406 reviews2026
Dev: Dvora Studio Co., Ltd.Pub: Headup
Windows
Welcome to the world of The Coma 3: Bloodlines. In this realm of shadows rumors and urban legends become reality, and danger lurks around every corner. If a living intruder dies here, their body will be severed from their spirit and never wake again ...
Why similar: Lovecraftian 35.2%, Survival Horror 24.3%, Horror 16.6%, Dark 7.7%, Lore-Rich 7.2%
- #36 JUST DEFENSE
76% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: BlueFogs
Windows
"Just Defense" is a simple Topdown view defense game.Upgrade your weapons, build turrets and kill enemies.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 35.2%, Shooter 16.8%, Sci-fi 15.1%, Top-Down 14.4%, Combat 9%
- #37 Endoparasitic
73% matchVery Positive94% of 3,073 reviews2022
Dev: MizizizizPub: Deep Root Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.2 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Three limbs ripped off, infected with a deadly parasite, you must save your research. Drag yourself through the corridors of a secret research lab on a remote asteroid, fight off horribly mutated monsters, inject countless syringes of vaccines, and survive at all costs.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.9%, Survival Horror 20.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.5%, Horror 10.8%, Top-Down 9.4%
- #38 Space Force Bargain Bin
73% matchPositive100% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: Sled Dog Games
Windows · Linux
Repel the humans! Safeguard the future of all alienkind! Fueled by a large selection of quirky upgrades and power-ups, strengthen the alien alliance to destroy Humanity's Last Hope in this fast-paced retro action-arcade shooter with roguelite and tower defense elements.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.3%, Roguelite 16.8%, Shooter 13.1%, Arcade 9%, Retro 7.7%
- #39 Slime Corp
74% matchMixed64% of 28 reviews2022
Dev: Fifth Edge Studios
Windows
A minimalist top down shooter with slimes.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 29.1% ★, Top-Down Shooter 17.6%, Roguelite 11.4%, Shooter 9.3%, Dark 7.7%
- #40 DIAPAUSE
72% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2025
Dev: StarStreak
Windows
DIAPAUSE is a haunting sit-and-survive style indie horror game. Stuck within a cabin with only your wits and a spotty flashlight, defend your life against vicious monsters during the night, and solve mysterious puzzles while wandering the halls of your deteriorating mind during the day.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 28.2%, Survival Horror 20.2%, Lore-Rich 14.1%, Dark 11.5%, Horror 10.5%
- #41 Godless grove
74% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2022
Dev: Panzershark
Windows
Godless grove - survival horror with elements of a hunting simulator in an open world filled with horrors. Uncover the terrible secrets of the locals and overcome the disgusting creatures of evil that have gathered over this grove.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.9%, Survival Horror 30.9%, Top-Down 12.1%, Horror 12%, Exploration 8.5%
- #42 SIGKILL: Look Away
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hexecution Games
Windows
It only moves when you look away - and your job is looking away. Ration one flashlight between the work and the thing hunting you. A director-warden studies your habits and times its cruelty. Migraine-safe horror: all dread, no strobes. Free demo: first shift.
Why similar: Survival Horror 30.9%, Roguelite 20.4%, Horror 19.2%, Dark 10.5%, Top-Down 9.8%
- #43 TAURONOS
73% matchVery Positive89% of 63 reviews2017
Dev: cavalie_roPub: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
Windows
Trapped inside an ancient labyrinth, chased by the mythical Minotaur. Will you reach the center? And if so, what will you discover about yourself there, in the dark?
Why similar: Lovecraftian 26.8%, Survival Horror 20.9%, Horror 12.3%, Dark 11.4%, Top-Down 10.6%
- #44 RIP Party
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: RewdanSprites
Windows
Throw a party at a maniac's mansion. RIP Party is a single player slasher horror game inspired by 80s & 90s horror movies where you and the NPCs are being hunted. Try and survive the micro sandbox experience.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 24.7%, Survival Horror 17.8%, Dark 13%, Horror 12.1%, Top-Down 10.6%
- #45 Delusion Out of Space
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Have a DreamPub: Two Cakes Studio
Windows
Delusion Out of Space is a Lovecraftian sci-fi horror adventure where you find yourself trapped after audacious experiments conducted by an alien race. As you explore a spaceship, you make choices at critical moments, decisions that will determine your fate and the lives of those around you.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 27%, Survival Horror 16%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Dark 10.8%, Horror 10.6%
- #46 Haru: The Armada of the Astral Void
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Studio Boreli
Windows
Help Haru defeat the armada of the astral void in a fast-paced roguelite retro space shooter.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.5%, Roguelite 18.2%, Shooter 13%, Top-Down 11%, Sci-fi 8.9%
- #47 Galaxy Kingdoms
70% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Pretoriano_devPub: Coliseum Studio
Windows
Galaxy Kingdoms is an action/adventure shooter. Feel the journey of a bounty hunter as he explores the galaxy in search of quests and treasure. Strengthen yourself by buying new weapons and armor and then take on more powerful enemies.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 35% ★, Top-Down Shooter 14.3%, Shooter 11.1%, Sci-fi 10.4%, Combat 7.2%
- #48 EMPTY SHELL
68% matchVery Positive88% of 847 reviews2023
Dev: CC ARTSPub: Hyperstrange
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%
EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.
Why similar: Roguelite 17.5%, Horror 13%, Top-Down 13%, Shooter 12.8%, Sci-fi 9%
- #49 Ad Infernum
68% matchVery Positive94% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Glass Knuckle Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Stranded at an abandoned gas station in the middle of the desert. Losing your grip on reality. Dark rituals. Demonic pursuers. No escape.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23%, Survival Horror 19.4%, Immersive Sim 15.2%, Dark 11.3%, Shooter 9.2%
- #50 Exul: Beyond the Gate
69% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Jaroslav Krninsky
Windows
Exul: Beyond the Gate is a top-down retro-sci-fi action RPG shooter where you play as an Exul on his journey to an unknown galaxy. Play with your friends in a Co-Op experience where you loot, shoot, pilot, explore, trade, and much more — all to stay alive.
Why similar: Looter Shooter 41.5% ★, Top-Down Shooter 23.1%, Shooter 9.2%, Exploration 7%, Top-Down 6.6%
- #51 Lovecraft Survivors
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: Threshold Games
Windows
A Lovecraftian survivor-like. Wield forbidden tomes and cursed sigils against endless hordes of cosmic horrors. Survive 30 minutes against a rotating pantheon — Cthulhu, the Black Goat, the Eldritch Entity — and unlock 5 weapon evolutions before the Final Awakening.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 31.4%, Roguelite 15.3%, Top-Down 8.3%, Lore-Rich 8.1%, Dark 7.3%
- #52 Arcadia
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: ImaginePub: Pixel Games UK
Windows
In this highly addictive top-down arcade shoot-em-up from 1982, originally for the ZX Spectrum, defend yourself from wave upon wave of deadly alien combatants using your Ion Thrust Drive and dual Plasma Disruptors.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 42.5%, Retro 9.3%, Shooter 8.7%, Sci-fi 8.1%, Top-Down 7.8%
- #53 The House on Grisewood
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: David GamblePub: Face Won Games
Windows
A top-down survival horror shooter set in a haunted manor. Explore room by room with a failing flashlight, scavenge ammunition and batteries, and fight or evade what stalks the dark. Reach the ballroom and end what laughs there, or hold out in an endless Zombie Survival mode.
Why similar: Survival Horror 27.3%, Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Top-Down 11.2%, Horror 8.3%, Arcade 7.6%
- #54 Dead of Darkness
66% matchVery Positive88% of 224 reviews2025
Dev: Retrofiction Games
Windows
Dead of Darkness is a 2D survival-horror action-adventure. Investigate a mysterious island and unravel its disturbing secret. You’ll have to face grotesque creatures, hurdle deadly traps, solve puzzles, and most importantly, survive.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 30.1%, Survival Horror 22%, Horror 11.6%, Top-Down 8.5%, Dark 8.3%
- #55 BulletGarden
69% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2021
Dev: StudioTwilight
Windows
BulletGarden is a 2D vertical shooting gamewhere you explore a planet where the seeds you sow blossom into weapons.You can handle about 300 different types of weapons,each with its own unique characteristics.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 29.3%, Roguelite 20.9%, Shooter 9.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Retro 8.4%
- #56 Look Outside
63% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 14,361 reviews2025
Dev: Francis CoulombePub: Devolver Digital
Windows
Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 15.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Look Outside is a survival horror RPG set in a single apartment building. A mysterious event turns anyone who looks out the window into grotesque monsters, leaving the world in absolute chaos. Scavenge the building to seek food, supplies, and weapons while encountering strange characters.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 36.7%, Survival Horror 25.9%, Horror 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%, Dark 6.4%
- #57 ZEEP
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: pigames
Windows · Linux
ZEEP is a story-based action rouge-lite. Collect items to upgrade your abilities. Easy to pick up and play, you travel across multiple different dungeon areas, and fight your way through enemies with a multitude of weapons.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Roguelite 14.6%, Shooter 10.2%, Horror 10%, Lore-Rich 9%
- #58 Kalaban
69% matchMixed56% of 97 reviews2016
Dev: Rayhouse ProductionsPub: GameRealmMadness
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Horror-themed action-adventure set in alternate history Finland.
Why similar: Lovecraftian 25.4%, Top-Down Shooter 19.9%, Survival Horror 16.8%, Horror 9.2%, Immersive Sim 8.6%
- #59 Spyrit Walker
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rexoto Games
Windows
A Weird Western world trapped in a perpetual night. You must fight to survive, rescue strange characters, unlock powerful weapons and abilities in hopes of ridding this land of EVIL. Explore the open world and complete objectives in any order you like alone or in CO-OP as a SPYRIT WALKER!
Why similar: Lovecraftian 23.1%, Survival Horror 16.1%, Immersive Sim 11.7%, Dark 9.3%, Horror 8.2%