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Games Like EXE: Mainframe

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Indie, Action, Casual, Pixel Graphics.

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Trapped inside a maniacal mainframe you'll fight your way through endless waves of enemy programs in a twin stick arcade shootem-up until your bitter end. A perfect game to play while queuing for another game!

Reviews: 7 user reviews — 100% — of 7 reviews
Released: 2018-11-19
Developer: Panic Bot Games
Genres: Action, Indie
Platforms: Windows, Linux

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    97% matchMostly Negative41% of 212 reviews2016
    Dev: Tero LunkkaPub: HaDe Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    Why similar: Indie 83.1%, Action 16.9%

  2. #2 Neon Hardcorps
    96% matchMixed47% of 315 reviews2016
    Dev: Sergey DovganovskiyPub: Back To Basics Gaming
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    Neon Hardcorps is a fast paced top down action shooter, inspired by games such as Contra, Metal Slug, Super Turrican, Cybernator, Realm and Doom Troopers.

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    96% matchMixed44% of 178 reviews2015
    Dev: Pixel Theory GamesPub: SA Industry
    Windows
    Median: 4.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 97%

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    Why similar: Indie 79.7%, Action 20.3%

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    95% matchMixed44% of 532 reviews2015
    Dev: PiGravityPub: Back To Basics Gaming
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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    Why similar: Indie 84.6%, Action 15.4%

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    94% matchMixed50% of 261 reviews2016
    Dev: Astronomic GamesPub: New Reality Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    You are Joseph Walker. After waking up in a strangely deserted science facility with no recollection of how you got there, you hear the voice of an A.I. The A.I. promises to be your guide and to help you out of the facility. However, it is clear right away that it’s not telling you everything.

    Why similar: Indie 89.6%, Action 10.4%

  6. #6 Lup
    94% matchMixed45% of 390 reviews2016
    Dev: Leo BPub: Back To Basics Gaming
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Lup is a 2D platformer with heart, throughout the game you'll have to overcome enemies and challenges using weapons and items.

    Why similar: Indie 92.1%, Action 7.9%

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    93% matchMixed59% of 363 reviews2015
    Dev: Wulo GamesPub: Back To Basics Gaming
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Master the magic of Elements. Defend your tower against sneaky goblins using magic attacks. Upgrade the Tower to earn more mana points and Gems! Compare with your friends in versus mode or fight together in coop mode. Try to become the best on the Steam leaderboards and collect all the Achievements!

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  8. #8 Spirit of Maya
    92% matchMixed63% of 56 reviews2017
    Dev: Blind Recluse
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 99%

    As a white mouse-controlled spirit you are about to begin a journey in fairytale world. Your goal is to find your mask, which leaves you because of your boring lazy life.

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    91% matchVery Positive83% of 80 reviews2017
    Dev: The Hyper Carries!
    Windows

    Just a Dream is a fast paced top down action game. You enter a world filled with your worst nightmares and must escape. As you fight across your dream from level to level, you encounter the very things that you dread every night.

    Why similar: Indie 73.5%, Action 26.5%

  10. #10 Project Starship
    90% matchVery Positive81% of 470 reviews2016
    Dev: Panda Indie Studio
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?

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  11. #11 AI: Rampage
    91% matchMostly Negative40% of 545 reviews2016
    Dev: Sekerin ProductionsPub: New Reality Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Fight against the robots and reclaim the land! Attempt to survive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, where it seems like everything wants you dead! Tactical stealth action in a post-apocalyptic settings!

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  12. #12 A2Be - A Science-Fiction Narrative
    83% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Vagabond Dog
    Windows

    In the far future, the invention of instantaneous and waste-free transportation has brought a new age of utopia for humanity. Explore this brave vision of our destiny, and see its many wonders.

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  13. #13 Hexile
    82% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Dystrophic LLC
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    Hexile is a first-person, narrative puzzle platformer game tin which players confront the consequences of manipulating their environments.. It takes place in a beautiful, surreal landscape where the player progresses by manipulating the environment to solve puzzles.

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  14. #14 Monster Puzzle
    89% matchMixed57% of 183 reviews2016
    Dev: Flynn's Arcade
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%

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  15. #15 Green Game: TimeSwapper
    88% matchVery Positive89% of 97 reviews2016
    Dev: iFun4all S.A.
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 99%

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  16. #16 The Janitor
    89% matchMostly Negative23% of 132 reviews2016
    Dev: VOS Gaming
    Windows
    Median: 6 minMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 21%

    Max Taylor, a janitor, who is send to an abandoned asylum once guarded by the army. When he enters he gets in contact with a went-wrong experiment of the government and has to worry about his live! On the way to exit he has to struggle with the horrific manlike creature!

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    86% matchPositive98% of 50 reviews2018
    Dev: girl software
    Windows · Mac

    A surreal 3D platformer about a marble girl named Jessica. Roll around, explore the multiverse, hack computers, dodge lasers, and eat cake!

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    87% matchVery Positive84% of 287 reviews2016
    Dev: Timushev Vladimir
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 93%

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    84% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
    Dev: Beastudio Ltd
    Windows

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    86% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2015
    Dev: All Civilized Planets
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    Dev: Tyler Paulley
    Windows

    Trundle is a simplistic 3-D platformer where you must navigate a ball through a world of floating platforms.

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    82% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2018
    Dev: Soft Loft Studios
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

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    81% matchVery Positive94% of 258 reviews2017
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    Windows
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    81% matchMixed55% of 192 reviews2018
    Dev: Pudding
    Windows
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  25. #25 In The Bag
    79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
    Dev: Lukas Kolesar
    Windows

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    71% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Tushuo
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

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    80% matchMixed67% of 33 reviews2017
    Dev: Ludo Land
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

  28. #28 PipeWorks
    79% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
    Dev: Vedak the Dev
    Windows

    A short and semi-sweet 2D platformer to recover precious coffee and fix the leaks in Coffee Co factory! Endure the crazed coffee-highs of the critters infesting throughout and the nagging feeling that all of your work is disregarded by your corporate overlords!

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  29. #29 Knossos
    78% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
    Dev: Knossos Software
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

  30. #30 The Under
    77% matchMixed56% of 25 reviews2017
    Dev: Iconic Games
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

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    77% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
    Dev: MatchBox Studio
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

  32. #32 Vampires: Guide Them to Safety!
    78% matchMostly Positive76% of 49 reviews2014
    Dev: CBE software
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

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    76% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2017
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    Windows

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    75% matchMixed58% of 12 reviews2018
    Dev: Your Friends Upstairs
    Windows

    Oregon Industries has tasked with leading the colonization of the last frontier: Space. Fill spaceships with resources then blast them off into the great unknown, seeking fortune while battling calamites that try to defeat you at every turn.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  35. #35 Gunk
    72% matchMostly Positive75% of 28 reviews2019
    Dev: Electric Boogaloo Productions
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

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    76% match6 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2017
    Dev: Broken Code Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 96%

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

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    Windows · Linux

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    75% matchNo user reviews2019
    Dev: SHB soft
    Windows

    A brief game description A. Flying Slime! is a 2D Platform that moves Slime to the target point in the stage. B. It consists of 4 stages in spring, summer, fall, winter. Each stage is made up of a total of 20 sectors. C. It only works with Window( XP and Up) and only supports Single play. D. It only supports mouse control.

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    62% matchNo user reviews
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    Windows

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    73% matchMostly Negative20% of 40 reviews2018
    Dev: PotatoIndustries
    Windows
    Median: 6 minMean: 425.9 hrs≥1hr: 27%

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  41. #41 inSynch
    74% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2015
    Dev: Them Games
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    69% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2019
    Dev: tinybugbot
    Windows

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  43. #43 Ataque Marino
    74% matchNo user reviews2019
    Dev: Play Indie México
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

  44. #44 Herman 2
    70% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
    Dev: Dirge Game Studio
    Windows

    "Herman 2" is a fast-paced, occasionally brutal, humorous and challenging platformer with cool music. The game has 50 levels, some very tricky digging and resource management puzzles, interesting & tough enemies, and many game mechanics. Climb, dig, throw, jump, kick, jetpack, duck, slide, and fall your way to salvation!

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  45. #45 Doodle Jamboree
    70% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2017
    Dev: Mike Laraman
    Windows

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

  46. #46 DEUS EX MACHINA 2
    73% matchMixed57% of 112 reviews2015
    Dev: Automata Source
    Windows · Mac

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    Why similar: Indie 100%

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    71% matchPositive84% of 19 reviews2016
    Dev: Polygrammatic Limited
    Windows
    Median: 6.8 hrsMean: 7.2 hrs≥1hr: 99%

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  48. #48 ByLo
    68% matchMixed55% of 40 reviews2019
    Dev: Mia Osterholm Sarceno
    Windows

    You wake up once again, but something has changed this time… Something is different… But everyone else is doing the same thing over and over again, just like they always do… You drift further and further into insanity with every action but you must escape… Don't go insane...

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  49. #49 Hidden
    68% matchMixed64% of 58 reviews2019
    Dev: Soaring Games
    Windows

    Two orphans twin sisters, Yuna and Luna, were caught and placed separately in an unknown facility. The elder sister, Yuna tries to find Luna in the facility and rescue her. They aim to escape from the facility which is surrounded by a strange and mysterious atmosphere.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  50. #50 Escape: VR
    69% matchVery Positive80% of 175 reviews2017
    Dev: JapanCoPub: Bitlock Studio
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 99%

    The main objective in this game is to find your way out.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  51. #51 Super Switch
    70% matchVery Positive81% of 169 reviews2016
    Dev: David MulderPub: SA Industry
    Windows
    Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 98%

    Super Switch is a difficult platformer in which you have to actively switch between 2 dimensions. It's tougher than iron and extremely rewarding.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  52. #52 Oika
    58% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Omniscopic
    Windows

    Oika tells the story of the living cosmos as a personal story through a series of first-person scientific experiences.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  53. #53 this was for you.
    66% matchVery Positive88% of 128 reviews2019
    Dev: Watercress
    Windows · Mac · Linux

    After the crash, I wasn’t sure what to do with myself. Even now, I haven’t found my way forward. I keep going back to that place. These memories are all that's left. this was for you. is an interactive visual novel, originally created for NaNoRenO2019.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  54. #54 UFO Combat 2000
    72% matchNo user reviews2018
    Dev: Kleberson Toro
    Windows

    An arcade twin stick shooter

    Why similar: Indie 100%

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    57% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Pablo Mendizábal
    Windows

    The same day that Marco was fired, he found out that he'll be a father. The only job he can get for the time being is as a bus driver. Manage his passengers, money and relationships to ensure his family's future.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  56. #56 Ecio
    66% matchMixed68% of 43 reviews2019
    Dev: TeamDABPub: TNI Multimedia
    Windows

    Heartbroken man tries to change himself in order to reconcile with the girl he loves. He wants to be a better person, wants to be good enough for her. But changing has never been easy and who knows what he has to sacrifice.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  57. #57 Pound of Flesh
    56% matchNo user reviews
    Dev: Ryan Andrew
    Windows

    There are others in the house. It's been a long time since they have eaten, and they each have their favorite "foods". To survive, you may have to offer them parts of yourself. Your teeth, your hair. I hope you weren't too "attached" to them. You won't be for long.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  58. #58 Buffy Stole Your Sandwich
    69% match5 user reviews60% of 5 reviews2017
    Dev: Xivek's Toybox
    Windows

    Buffy Stole your Sandwich is an arcade rage game with non-physics based barrels. If you die, you are sent all the way back to level one.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

  59. #59 Arevoatl Seven Coins
    67% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2018
    Dev: Arevoatl Games
    Windows

    Arevoatl Seven Coins is a first-person puzzle/hidden object game that takes place in an old estate. You receive a cryptic letter from your grandfather, when you come to him, you do not find him at home. Carefully study the letter and follow its clues. You need to collect objects and solve quests, passing room by room.

    Why similar: Indie 100%

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