Games Like Evolve or Die

Claw your way across exotic islands combining fluid movement with fast paced combat to become a Crab Champion in this third person roguelike shooter.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 33.1% ★, Action Roguelike 16.5%, Bullet Hell 14.7%, Roguelike 10.8%, Shooter 8.6%

Why You'll Like It: This fast-paced looter-shooter roguelike captures the same high-energy, arcade-style combat found in Evolve or Die.

Scream through your mic at opponents to send them flying into the void in this PvP horror game.

Why similar: Shooter 38.7%, Action 16.8%, Multiplayer 13.2%, Casual 12.6%, 3D 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Like the seed game, this title utilizes microphone input to create a unique and chaotic gameplay experience.

Survivors-like with ONLINE CO-OP for 1-4 players. Team up with your wizard friends to slay hordes of dark creatures. Complete team-based objectives, unlock new upgrades and create overpowered spell synergies. Friend nor foe is safe in this friendly fire bullet hell!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.9%, Bullet Hell 24.2%, Top-Down Shooter 12.5%, Roguelike 11.5%, Online Co-Op 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: This co-op bullet-hell roguelike focuses on team coordination and overwhelming enemy swarms, much like the combat in Evolve or Die.

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: Twin Stick Shooter 26.5%, Action Roguelike 19%, Bullet Hell 17.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Roguelike 12.1%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic and colorful twin-stick shooter that matches the frenetic energy and roguelike structure of the seed game.

Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 34.9% ★, Action Roguelike 22.7%, Roguelike 12.4%, Shooter 6.3%, Co-op 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title offers a similar loop of scaling difficulty and chaotic, loot-driven combat that is best experienced with friends.

Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 37.1% ★, Roguelike 19.8%, Action Roguelike 11.1%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Co-op 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A premier co-op looter-shooter that blends roguelike progression with intense, skill-based gunplay.

Entropy Survivors is a bullet hell roguelike where you simultaneously control a powerful mech and a sharpshooting space frog, featuring outrageously creative abilities and powerful weapon customization. Save the universe in single player or 2-4 player online co-op!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.6%, Bullet Hell 22.2%, Roguelike 15.5%, Twin Stick Shooter 12.3%, Online Co-Op 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: A co-op action-roguelike that pits players against massive bullet-hell patterns, requiring constant communication to survive.

Move or Die is an absurdly fast-paced 4-player local and online party game where the mechanics change every 20 seconds! It's THE friendship-ruining game.

Why similar: Multiplayer 29.2%, Action 21.5%, Online Co-Op 20.2%, Co-op 11.9%, Indie 8.1%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, hilarious multiplayer game that captures the same sense of frantic, high-stakes movement and panic.

Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 24.4%, Action Roguelike 23.6%, Roguelike 18.9%, Top-Down Shooter 15.4%, Co-op 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: An addictive bullet-hell roguelike that focuses on building absurd, high-damage loadouts to survive waves of enemies.

Genetic Disaster is a coop action game based around absurd guns, crazy characters and instant fun with procedurally generated levels for endless hours of accidental friendly fire in multiplayer!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 64.9%, Action 14%, Co-op 11.2%, Indie 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic, co-op focused shooter that features randomized levels and intense combat encounters.

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: Bullet Hell 37.7%, Action Roguelike 20.7%, Roguelike 14.2%, Twin Stick Shooter 14%, Shooter 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A definitive twin-stick roguelike that emphasizes precise movement and bullet-hell dodging in a chaotic environment.

MustScream is an online co-op horror game for 1-4 players that uses mic input. Scream into your mic to run! Push your voice to the limit and make it to the end!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 29.7%, Action 21.8%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Casual 12.9%, 3D 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A horror-themed title that also relies on voice-input mechanics to heighten the tension and immersion.

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: Action Roguelike 28.2%, Bullet Hell 18.9%, Roguelike 18.4%, Top-Down Shooter 11.7%, Twin Stick Shooter 10.5%

Why You'll Like It: This high-speed, challenging twin-stick shooter rewards quick reflexes and aggressive playstyles.

Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 28.5%, Action Roguelike 18.9%, Bullet Hell 18.5%, Top-Down Shooter 15.3%, Shooter 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A twin-stick shooter with strong co-op elements and roguelike progression that emphasizes team synergy.

Survive overwhelming hordes of zombie-like mutants in this chaotic co-op twin-stick shooter. Play solo or team up with up to 16 players as hundreds of enemies flood the screen in a relentless fight to hold the line.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 30.3%, Action Roguelike 19.5%, Top-Down Shooter 18.7%, Shooter 11.1%, Online Co-Op 7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival shooter that focuses on co-op play and managing massive hordes of enemies.

Third-person bullet heaven meets explosive co-op action! Swing, dash, and blast through monster swarms while combining upgrades and discovering rare evolutions to create game-breaking builds of destruction.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 20.7% ★, Action Roguelike 18.5%, Bullet Hell 17%, Roguelike 13.3%, Shooter 9.8%

Why You'll Like It: A third-person looter-shooter roguelike that emphasizes fast movement and massive enemy counts.

Combining Roguelite, Action RPG, and Tower Defense gameplay into a crazy free-for-all, where it’s you and up to three friends versus hordes of enemies. Select your hero, survive the waves of foes, unlock new weapons and runes, and take on the bosses that await you!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 48.9%, Co-op 13.7%, Online Co-Op 13.7%, Action 11.7%, Multiplayer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title blends tower defense with action-roguelike mechanics, offering a deep, loot-focused co-op experience.

A bullet heaven where you cooperate with Kill-BOI 9000 (your friend and toaster). Forge a beautiful bond and bring destruction - together. Give him saws! Give him drones! Then give all the drones saws! AND THEN SET THE SAWS ON FIRE.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.6%, Bullet Hell 27.5%, Top-Down Shooter 24.7%, Co-op 6.8%, Action 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: An arena-based shooter that provides a similar casual, high-action loop to the seed game.

Select from a diverse roster of unique characters to assemble a trinity force and strategize to find the best skill combinations. Witness the astounding synergy that emerges. Engage in 2 player online cooperative multiplayer, team up with a friend to challenge orc hordes, and strive for high scores!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.2%, Bullet Hell 27.9%, Roguelike 20%, Action 6.1%, 3D 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This action-roguelike focuses on team-based survival against overwhelming bullet-hell odds.

Grab a gun and take down hostile robots corrupted by synthetic emotions! Combine weapon modifications and wreak havoc in this roguelite shooter. Let your emotions shape combat and alter boss fights! Fight alone or join up with up to 4 players!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23%, Bullet Hell 15.9%, Action Roguelike 15.9%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Roguelike 10.4%

Why You'll Like It: A twin-stick shooter that leans into bullet-hell mechanics and roguelite progression for a fast-paced experience.

Embark on an epic adventure full of whimsy, wonder, and high-powered weaponry! Roll your own multiclass hero then shoot, loot, slash, and cast on a quest to stop the Dragon Lord.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 54.2% ★, Shooter 15.2%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Co-op 6.4%, Action 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: This looter-shooter leans heavily into humor and over-the-top action, mirroring the absurd tone of Evolve or Die.

Heave Ho is a riotous multiplayer party game for up to four players in couch co-op and versus play, or online with Steam Remote Play. Reach out, get a grip, and swing to victory — or meet your messy end!

Why similar: Co-op 50.4%, Multiplayer 30%, Indie 19.6%

Why You'll Like It: While mechanically different, it captures the same hilarious, physics-based chaos that makes co-op games so memorable.

Unleash chaos in an electrifying 1-4 player co-op where survival and action-roguelite collide! Battle through relentless enemy hordes with a powerful mix of melee and ranged combat, navigating varied and dynamic environments.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 26.6%, Action Roguelike 26.1%, Roguelike 17%, Co-op 7.1%, Action 6.5%

Why You'll Like It: A bullet-hell action-roguelike that features large-scale combat and multiplayer support.

Broventure = Vampire Survivors + Base building + Co-op. Band together with friends and obliterate hordes of grueling enemies, gather crucial resources, and transform your camp into a sanctuary of liberation.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 28.1%, Bullet Hell 26.8%, Roguelike 18.1%, Co-op 8%, Online Co-Op 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: A stylized arena-shooter that prioritizes co-op synergy and roguelike replayability.

Guntouchables is an online co-op doomsday roguelite for 1-4 players. You play as a gun-toting group of 'preppers' trying to reclaim the world from an ever-evolving horde of mutants, constantly working to develop new unique ways to kill you.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.4%, Bullet Hell 29%, Online Co-Op 10.3%, Co-op 9%, Action 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused roguelite that emphasizes teamwork and post-apocalyptic combat scenarios.

Experience all the Onion Kingdom has to offer, Overcooked! 1 & 2 infused with 4k goodness running at a smooth 60 FPS. Fully remastered and cooked up from scratch. Enjoy 200+ levels (22 new) and 80+ chefs (3 new), this is the ultimate Overcooked! experience.

Why similar: Online Co-Op 28.6%, Co-op 20%, Multiplayer 15.5%, Casual 12.4%, Strategy 10%

Why You'll Like It: This game is the gold standard for chaotic, communication-heavy co-op gameplay that forces players to panic together.

Defeat hordes of enemies, alone or with up to 4 friends! Work together or mess with them on this online multiplayer survivors style roguelike, where you create unique builds that can change the fate of your team.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 27.7%, Action Roguelike 26.5%, Roguelike 18.4%, Online Co-Op 8.1%, Action 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced roguelite that focuses on bullet-hell combat and character customization.

Embark on an online co-op Survival Roguelite adventure. Team up with friends, slash through endless waves of foes, conquer formidable bosses, fulfill quests, craft potent weapons, and unlock unique characters!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.6%, Bullet Hell 17.8%, Top-Down Shooter 16.9%, Roguelike 14.8%, Online Co-Op 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style action-roguelike that offers quick, intense sessions perfect for co-op groups.

LORT is a 1–8 player co-op action roguelite. Team up with your friends to battle, loot, and stack ridiculous power-ups across a cursed fantasy world. Fight toward escape, revive your homies, and get absolutely chadded as you evolve from goblin tickler to god slapper.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 38% ★, Action Roguelike 27.9%, Online Co-Op 9%, Co-op 7.3%, Action 6.2%

2D top-down multi co-op action game. Survive the zombies together with a stranger.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 38.8%, Shooter 16.8%, Online Co-Op 12.9%, Co-op 8.2%, Action 7%

Why You'll Like It: A hack-and-slash action-roguelike that supports online co-op and emphasizes survival against hordes.

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: Twin Stick Shooter 24.2%, Action Roguelike 22%, Bullet Hell 21.4%, Top-Down Shooter 16.1%, Roguelike 13.2%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging top-down shooter that focuses on rapid-fire combat and roguelite upgrades.

If we say the wrong words... WE DIE! This game kills you with your own voices! Online co-op where everyone gets a forbidden word, say it and you kill your friends. Explore spooky dungeons, cast spells and defeat monsters with your voices.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 45.9%, Online Co-Op 20.8%, Action 11.7%, 3D 11.4%, Multiplayer 10.3%

A chaotic Roguelite Twin-Stick Shooter with a Base Defense Twist. With up to 4 players, explore, become stronger to defend your spaceship and leave this Frk*n planet!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 31.3%, Action Roguelike 21.5%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, Online Co-Op 6.7%, Co-op 6.6%

Survive against hordes of enemies getting ever stronger, alone or with friends. Level up, unlock upgrades and new guns in this multiplayer bullet-heaven roguelite.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25.9%, Action Roguelike 22.5%, Bullet Hell 20.1%, Roguelike 14.2%, Online Co-Op 7.6%

The Horde Wants You Dead is a casual, top-down shooter with up to 4-player online co-op. Ambushed by an angry horde, you and your friends face a fight for survival against thousands of relentless enemies!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 33.6%, Top-Down Shooter 20.5%, Shooter 13.4%, Online Co-Op 7.6%, Co-op 6.2%

NoReload Heroes is a chaotic co-op party shooter for up to four people. Work as a team to beat the accidental evil you created, and be sure to pick up the best magitech guns on the way, or it's back to the bottom floor with you!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 32.5%, Top-Down Shooter 22%, Roguelike 10.3%, Action 10.3%, Online Co-Op 7.3%

Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 29.7% ★, Action Roguelike 21.3%, Bullet Hell 13.4%, Shooter 10.9%, Roguelike 7.1%

Melon Simulator™ is a chaotic, co-op (1 - 4 players), first person melee combat game. Almost anything that isn't nailed down can be used to whack, slice, and throw at the oncoming melon hoard...

Why similar: Roguelike 37.4%, Online Co-Op 16.5%, Action 15.4%, Co-op 15%, Multiplayer 9.6%

Play solo or with friends in this 4 player local couch co-op roguelite auto-shooter where enemies aren’t your biggest problem; your friends are! Smash foes, dodge bullets, and enjoy chaotic trolling as you punch, throw, and ‘accidentally’ sacrifice each other to survive relentless waves of enemies.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 35.6%, Bullet Hell 28.9%, Roguelike 13.9%, Co-op 8.7%, Action 8.1%

A frantic, online PvP shooter that combines combat and deck building. Choose a character, customize your card-based loadout, and get ready for the fights of your life!

Why similar: Shooter 29.4%, Online Co-Op 22.4%, Action 18.1%, Co-op 16.6%, Multiplayer 8%

Pair A Dice is a Co-Op Dice Roller where you harness the power of magic dice to create enemies, craft items, and defeat bosses!

Why similar: Online Co-Op 19.5%, Bullet Hell 19.5%, Co-op 14.9%, Action 12%, Roguelike 11.3%

Monsters and Monocles is a frantic top-down shooter for 1-4 players. Use teamwork and your arsenal of weapons to defeat the overwhelming hordes of evil, either locally or online. All the levels are procedurally generated with new layouts, objectives, and secrets each time you play.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.6%, Bullet Hell 25.7%, Shooter 10.7%, Action 8.8%, Roguelike 5.8%

Phantom Squad is a 1-4 player co-op tactical top-down shooter blending fast-paced combat with real-time strategy. Play solo or team up through online co-op and matchmaking, coordinating movement, positioning, and split-second decisions to survive intense, high-risk missions.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 57.9%, Co-op 29.9%, Action 7.6%, Multiplayer 1.8%, Online Co-Op 1.8%

Mobmania is a four (4) player co-op real-time bullet-hell action rogue-like where you kill enemies, buy items after leveling up, and survive long enough against thousands of monsters and bosses until the final fight against the Witch.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 25.4%, Action Roguelike 24.9%, Roguelike 16.6%, Online Co-Op 8%, Co-op 7.1%

#KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 28.9%, Bullet Hell 16.5%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Action Roguelike 13.7%, Shooter 10.7%

Team up, gear up, and make it out alive in this 2D co-op extraction shooter.

Why similar: Looter Shooter 61.1% ★, Shooter 19.3%, Action 9.2%, Online Co-Op 4.8%, Multiplayer 2.4%

Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 32.1%, Bullet Hell 25.3%, Action Roguelike 24.8%, Action 6.4%, Co-op 4.8%

What the Fog?! You’ve been sucked into a cursed boardgame! Now you and a friend will need to work together to survive. Run, jump, dash, and shoot to escape swarms of angry monsters in this chaotic co-op roguelite from the world of Dead by Daylight.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 39.6%, Roguelike 25.2%, Co-op 12.2%, Online Co-Op 10.6%, Multiplayer 4.8%

Survive the horrors of the multiverse, alone or with your comrades, as you battle against an onslaught of insectoid like creatures. Combine abilities in different ways each loop to overcome and return safely to your universe.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 31.4%, Action Roguelike 20.6%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Roguelike 11.4%, Online Co-Op 6.6%

Babble Royale is an intense multiplayer free-for-all that combines word-making skill with fast-paced tactical and strategic action. Earn money and collect loot to upgrade your abilities, outrun the deadly hot zone, and outwit or outlast all your opponents to have the Last Word!

Why similar: Looter Shooter 82.5% ★, Action 10.7%, Casual 6.8%

Can you Survive the Swarm? Unlock mighty abilities and upgrades, find and collect Tems to evolve and become stronger, discover overpowered strategies, and battle massive bosses in this survivor-like bullet heaven! Play solo or online co-op with up to 3 players, building the wildest synergies.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 27.8%, Bullet Hell 20.1%, Action Roguelike 19.4%, Roguelike 12.5%, Online Co-Op 6.2%

Dish out carnage of hellish proportions in Gunnheim, a top-down co-op shooter where the equation is simple: Vikings + Guns = Mayhem!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 42.3%, Top-Down Shooter 16.6%, Action 12%, Shooter 10.2%, Co-op 8.6%

Apocalypse Party is a 3D top-down action Roguelike game. In this game, you will embark on a new mission to traverse through the Middle Ages and gradually master abilities, and arm yourself to become the strongest survivor through numerous choices.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.4%, Bullet Hell 19.4%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Roguelike 12.3%, Online Co-Op 6.6%

Run, Gun and Eat your way through this roguelite RPG shooter. In a world where every enemy is edible, what you eat and how much you eat drives everything from your waistline to branching skill trees to weapon crafting. Shoot fast. Eat big. Satisfy your appetite for destruction.

Why similar: Action 38%, Co-op 32.8%, Indie 16.5%, Singleplayer 12.7%

DON’T DIE as you assemble a ridiculous arsenal of weapons and desperately hold out against massive hordes of creatures pulled from a variety of classic horror genres reminiscent of 80s and 90s Golden Age comics and B-movies in this stylish action-packed arcade roguelite.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 38.2%, Bullet Hell 36.4%, Action 9.8%, Online Co-Op 6.3%, Co-op 6%

Rip through hostile alien worlds, harvest mutant body parts mid-combat, and adapt faster than your enemies. Every alien you harvest gives you new body parts with unique powers, like triple-jump legs, turret-dropping torsos, grenade-launching turkey heads. Steal, swap, survive.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 28.4%, Action Roguelike 28%, Shooter 16.4%, Online Co-Op 8.7%, Co-op 8%

YOU ARE THE FINAL BOSS. Brutal synergy arena roguelike. Pick your Final Boss character, equip boss patterns and combine tons of attacks to create unique builds. Play solo or in co-op!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.9%, Bullet Hell 26.1%, Top-Down Shooter 19.3%, Roguelike 16.7%, Action 5.6%

Tanks, flying cars, giant bugs, lots of guns, bullet rain - it's INSANE! PS: don't forget to take your friends with you.

Why similar: Action 53.3%, Indie 24.1%, Co-op 22.6%

Take the challenge of surviving waves of increasingly difficult evil MuTecs! Grab a friend to hunt and slay them. Crush each wave with randomly dropped weapons & gadgets. Earn Achievements, new maps and top ranks in this Community-driven, solo-dev project. Help shape the future of this game!

Why similar: Shooter 36.2%, Roguelike 33.1%, Co-op 15.8%, Multiplayer 8.5%, Indie 6.5%

Outnumbered is a mass-enemy top-down shooter with rogue-lite elements. You may be greatly outnumbered, but not outpowered. Evolve into the ultimate weapon of destruction!

Why similar: Bullet Hell 24%, Action Roguelike 23.3%, Top-Down Shooter 16.2%, Shooter 10.6%, Deckbuilding 7.8%