- #1 Valiant Gears
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gaze Interactive
Windows
Valiant Gears is a 3D old school shoot 'em up game. Hop on your Valiant Gear, a ferocious battle machine and defend the planet by fighting the alien robots!
Why similar: Action 51.8%, Indie 39.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.1%
- #2 Call of Tomsk-7
97% matchVery Positive81% of 444 reviews2015
Dev: Daniel MercierPub: Mercier Games
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 28%
Fight for your life in Call of Tomsk-7, a simple side-scrolling shooter. Horrifying monsters are pouring out of the forgotten and abandoned Soviet-era Tomsk-7 biological weapons facility. You must fight the creatures in a seemingly endless battle of attrition.
Why similar: Action 49.7%, Indie 34.2%, Side Scroller 16.1%
- #3 Iridescence
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Polarity Bear
Windows
Iridescence is a Shoot 'Em Up with a color-changing mechanic, where you dodge and absorb many different colored bullets. It features a painted watercolor theme & features an inventive chaining system. Play through 5 main levels and 30 varied challenge levels!
Why similar: Action 45.7%, Indie 34.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.9%
- #4 cloudphobia
95% matchMostly Positive76% of 29 reviews2016
Dev: MarsboundPub: Rockin' Android
Windows
In this pulse-pounding arcade style shoot 'em up, players control giant armored robots, loaded with hi-tech weaponry. Chose from two types of mechs: the PLG-90, armed with a high-tech laser rifle or the NúllPunktur with the Vibroblade!
Why similar: Action 46.3%, Indie 32.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.5%
- #5 Radial
94% match7 user reviews57% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: DreamseekerPub: Creajeux
Windows
Radial is a 2D speedrun oriented platformer in which you will be able to use teleportation portals. Be ready to acrobatic moves, fights againts creatures, hidden challenges and race against the clock! Will you master the portals powers and take up the challenge?
Why similar: Action 53.6%, Indie 40.9%, 2D Platformer 5.4%
- #6 Project Océara
93% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2020
Dev: Indépendant
Windows
Projet océara is a hardcore platform game, all stage are timed and the difficulty is croissant .
Why similar: Action 53.3%, Indie 40.2%, 2D Platformer 6.5%
- #7 A Shooty Bit
94% matchMixed69% of 35 reviews2017
Dev: FROGPub: Gameland Studios
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Postsoviet shoot 'em up borne from and reflective of the listlessness that modern, hyperconnected society injects into our selves
Why similar: Action 44.6%, Indie 33.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.7%
- #8 SHOOTING CHICKEN BRUTAL SUCKERS
92% match7 user reviews71% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: KoheiGallery
Windows
Makoto Yonekura, a new waitress, is a bright girl in Noh weather.Contrary to its appearance, it is a survival game girl who uses powerful weapons!She will do her best to crush the rampaging chickens for the beloved chief!
Why similar: Action 46.4%, Indie 35%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.6%
- #9 The United SPACE of America
89% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Fractured Earth
Windows
The United SPACE of America is a high action, arcade style, run-n-gun bullet hell, twin stick shooter that allows you to absorb enemy bullets with your Proton Sabre while you blast through countless enemies with your shoulder cannon. It takes a bit of hectic coordination. Can you master it?
Why similar: Action 50.4%, Indie 38%, Side Scroller 6.9%, 2D Platformer 4.7%
- #10 Karma Knight
90% matchVery Positive88% of 67 reviews2020
Dev: UltramarineSoft
Windows
Karma Knight is a fast paced 2D side-scrolling platform action game with stylish combat. Find hidden items in the stages, collect different spells, defeat the enemies as you gain more experience and enjoy the overall platform action game style.
Why similar: Action 48.5%, Indie 36%, Side Scroller 8.6%, 2D Platformer 6.8%
- #11 The Real Laser Ball
91% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: Holmsario Games
Windows
A physics based, arcade, high score chaser with a progression system and a fetish for the 80’s. In The Real Laser Ball you’re a ball… with a laser.
Why similar: Action 51%, Indie 38.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.6%
- #12 Crush
91% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: VIS-GamesPub: SilentFuture
Windows
Crush is an old-school-styled shoot´em up. The game leads you through 7 challenging levels filled with action and great soundtracks. A must for all old-school shoot´em up fans!
Why similar: Action 44.9%, Indie 32.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.7%
- #13 Dantes Bullet Inferno
87% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: Red Pentagram Studios
Windows
Dantes Bullet Inferno is a shoot-em-up where the player fights against hell as Dante. This top down shooter includes a speedrun mode called time-dilation.
Why similar: Action 51.9%, Indie 39.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 8.9%
- #14 Mecha Ritz: Steel Rondo
86% matchVery Positive99% of 137 reviews2016
Dev: HEYPub: Hanaji Games
Windows · Linux
Mecha Ritz: Steel Rondo is a vertical scrolling arcade shoot 'em up following the journey of a lone Mecha through the desolate retro stylized world and the onslaught of enemy waves to reach Veloce, the young genius responsible for the extinction of humankind.
Why similar: Action 42.4%, Indie 33%, Shoot 'Em Up 24.6%
- #15 Astro Tripper
88% matchMixed58% of 69 reviews2011
Dev: PomPomPub: Pom Pom Games
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 2.6 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Astro Tripper is a furious shoot-em-up experience inspired by the painful, knuckle busting video games of years gone by.
Why similar: Action 43.6%, Indie 32.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.6%
- #16 Zenodyne R
85% matchVery Positive83% of 71 reviews2016
Dev: Team Grybanser Fox
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 6.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Zenodyne R is a new 90s-style shoot-'em-up game filled with YM2612 music and real Blast Processing action, where your reflexes and patience will be tested in their entirety! Packed with 6 crazy stages filled wtih bosses, 5 unique ships, unlockables, branching paths and more!
Why similar: Action 44.4%, Indie 30.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 24.8%
- #17 Rise High
84% matchMostly Positive75% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: eiloware
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 65%
Rise High is an arcade action game in which you have to defend your workers from an alien invasion while they try to build skyscrapers!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #18 The Blue Flamingo
86% matchMixed45% of 636 reviews2014
Dev: Might and Delight
Windows
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 77%
You are ready to challenge pilots from all around the world. Shoot your way through intense levels with swiftly increasing difficulty in a game world completely built with handcrafted models. Invest your score in upgrades or save it to gain interest with the risk of losing it all.
Why similar: Action 43.4%, Indie 31.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 24.6%
- #19 JumpStream
82% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2018
Dev: Digital Continue
Windows
JumpStream is a competitive platformer built in real-time by an audience, using Mixer Interactive! The goal is to work with your audience to construct an emergent path to complete challenges in the fastest possible time.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #20 Pop Pop Boom Boom VR
83% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: Thorne Media, LLC
Windows
You brought a bow to a bomb fight. Challenge: Survive.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #21 SincereMen
81% match5 user reviews0% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Utopia EntertainmentPub: Rhyton Solutions GmbH
Windows
This game is a First Person Shooter video game based on VR technology with realistic graphic and hardcore action shooter gameplay. The main character is a trained ranger that come to help his partner from the edge of the chopper using a heavy machinegun and try to save him.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #22 Prototype-CUBE
81% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Enzian Game Development Team
Windows
Using Sword and Bullet, while evading the barrage and swords, running stylishly through the buggy chess world, High difficulty level exhilarating action 3D shooting game!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #23 Spellcastia
84% matchNo user reviews2019
Dev: Node Viar
Windows
Spellcastia is a magical shooter designed specifically for VR. Its main feature is the use of active gesticulation to invoke a spell, so you get a deeper dive into the virtual reality and the world where magic rules.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #24 Demon Grade VR
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Richard Stenson, Solus GamesPub: Solus Games, Inc.
Windows
Demon Grade is a VR FPS featuring free 360 degree movement, with no jogging in place, no teleporting, and no rails. In Demon Grade, you will explore dynamically generated levels in first person perspective while fighting relentless demonic enemies and collecting demon shards to unlock various weapons.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #25 GRAY GROFA
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TPM.CO SOFT WORKS
Windows
GRAY GROFA is an unparalleled side-scrolling shooter puzzle game developed for the 8-bit MSX computer. 2 years have been spent hand-tuning the game's visuals, movements and puzzles in a tireless pursuit for aesthetic perfection.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #26 CANDLE UNDER WATER
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: polytanQ
Windows
Light a yellow candle by controlling the water level! Easy action puzzle.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #27 XENOCAVE
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BLUE LED
Windows
XENOCAVE is a retro-styled, scrolling platformer that elevates the genre with a unique fusion of ability and fine-tuned mechanics inspired by the classics. Specifically, imagine an amalgam of Mario's fluid controls, the double-jump and rapid-fire of Ghosts 'n Goblins, and the themes of Crystal Caves.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #28 One minute of death
78% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Krzysztof Konopka
Windows
O.M.O.D. is pretty difficult platform game.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #29 Across
80% matchMixed54% of 13 reviews2016
Dev: Jonathan Sprauel Games
Windows
ACROSS is a roomscale VR game, where you are tasked with a simple objective : cross the room.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #30 Scuffle Scoundrels
79% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Moped Games
Windows
Scuffle Scoundrels is an oldschool arcade brawler for 2-to-4 rivals of all ages. With explosive powerups, deadly hazards, and imposing animal captains, it's sink or be sunk in this fast paced pirate romp!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #31 BEAT.R.
69% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ae.studio
Windows
3D blocks exploding everywhere while colors and sounds delight you in every way. This infinite runner is sure to grab your attention for at least 30 seconds.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #32 Defection
76% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Sergey Saratov
Windows
Defection is a third-person multiplayer shooter with hand-drawn styling.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #33 Tech Clash
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Interstellar PunksPub: ESAT
Windows
In the far future huge companies compete for the control of the technological market, in this mayhem the CEOs of the biggest companies reunite and decide to fight it off in a tournament! Each company will provide a champion in what would be the fight of the century!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #34 Weird creatures
78% match3 user reviews33% of 3 reviews2016
Dev: mchernykh
Windows
Blow-up your mind with the easy fantasy shooting simulator. You will travel across forests, deserts and snowy mountains, accompanied by a powerful ally vehicle to care of. Various weird inhabitants resist you to collect art pieces. Ever struggle to be rewarded.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #35 Onslaught VR
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MindWalker Games
Windows
Jump into the fray with Onslaught VR! Armed with multiple gun types, devastating AOE attacks, and aerial capabilities, you'll face off against multiple enemies and powerful commanders. Good luck, soldier... you'll need it.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #36 Refraction
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2019
Dev: Zilby
Windows · Mac · Linux
Refraction is a top-down, arena action game where you use quick reflexes to take down hordes of enemies. You must rely on your skill and your wit as you fight to survive, in the hope that you can live long enough to take down the core of all corruption.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #37 Mischief On Main Street
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Games
Windows
Lie and bluff your way to victory in this online multiplayer VR game inspired by the likes of Mafia and Trouble in Terrorist Town!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #38 Nebula
77% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2016
Dev: Szekretar
Windows
Nebula is an action platformer with a high emphasis on using everything at your disposal to succeed, such as the gravity gun. The game takes place on an abandoned space station where you need to survive the deadly traps, defeat your enemies and solve physics based puzzles.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #39 Double Stretch
76% matchMostly Negative24% of 17 reviews2018
Dev: ARGamesPub: Metal Fox
Windows
Double Stretch - an unusual top down flight shooter.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #40 Space Slam
77% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: ;)Pub: Quickdraw Studios
Windows
In SPACE SLAM there is only one way to mine: ramming planets at full speed with your spacecraft. View the action in VR with your HTC Vive or in flat mode!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #41 Midnight Grub Session
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Crumb Goblin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get down with the thiccness
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #42 BeeBeeQ
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popup Asylum
Windows
BeeBeeQ is an asymmetric local multiplayer game where one VR player controls a Chef while up to four xbox controller players control Bees. Armed with a spatula and a fly swat the VR chef player has to try cook while the bees steal food, sting and generally harass him.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #43 Encounter of Galaxies
75% match4 user reviews0% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Obi-Wanya
Windows
Encounter of Galaxies is a vertical scrolling shooter with an open world and elements of trade.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #44 Beyond the Wizard
71% matchMixed61% of 23 reviews2019
Dev: EJB StudioPub: Team ShockdriveR
Windows
This is a 2D action hardcore flatformer game. Get into the simple but difficult world of Beyond the Wizard! If you have enough patience, this game will not be difficult!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #45 Escape Lizards
73% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2017
Dev: Egodystonic StudiosPub: Independent
Windows
Escape Lizards is simple: Tilt the platforms to roll your lizard egg from the start point to the finishing bell at the end of the level. However, things are never as simple as they seem...
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #46 Kyber Knights
62% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Portaalin Pojat Oy
Windows
A multiplayer VR game by an Arcade for Arcades. Kyber Knights is a fun and easy multiplayer game developed exclusively for VR Arcades. Simple controls and an easy to control Operator View make this fast paced shooter a great choice for Arcades. CURRENTLY ONLY IN LAN.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #47 Garrison Gauntlet
72% match6 user reviews33% of 6 reviews2018
Dev: Ryan Silberman
Windows
Garrison Gauntlet is an oldschool-style action-platformer where you play through over four stages of intense challenges! A little robot that is to serve as nothing more than as one of the many robotic minions owned by the evil tyrant, Garrison, you must stop his forces from the inside!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #48 SHNIPERS
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Brenden CameronPub: Brenden Cameron Games
Windows · Mac
SHNIPERS is a combat platformer where up to 4 players fire bullets that bounce off of everything! A game of "bullet-hell pong" where your shots are as much a danger to you as they are to your enemies.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #49 The War of the Worlds: Andromeda
72% matchMostly Negative30% of 20 reviews2018
Pub: Mediamas Europa
Windows · Linux
The world is over, get up and start the battle of revenge! With the first-person shooter of The War of the Worlds: Andromeda, load your weapons and lead your team to fight through swarms of fierce aliens. Turn the battle around through 14 epic levels of brutal combat, based on the world of H.G. Wells.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #50 APEX Tournament
71% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: Douglas LiangPub: Fantom Fathom LLC
Windows
Apex Tournament is the most fast-paced Team Death Match in VR. The primary method of movement is the Hyper Dash system, which turns your body into the controller - allowing movements at blazing speeds.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #51 The Pit
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Zero KnowledgePub: Zero Knwoledge
Windows
The Pit is a platform game with touches of action and puzzles, which will force you to understand and know how to use all the skills you have.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #52 ALIEN FIELD
69% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Mindware
Windows
Totally new, attack! Rogue Like Dot Eat! Psychedelic full throttle! Explode your concentration in 3 minutes and knock out the high score!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #53 Shoot'n'Scroll 3D
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: PlayMobileFreePub: Dikobraz Games
Windows
Helicopter arcade game. Shoot'em-up action with plenty of adventures and adrenaline.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #54 Robot King Part I: Rebooted and Ready
71% matchMixed47% of 59 reviews2017
Dev: Steven Taylor
Windows
The first in a 3 part series, Robot King follows the journey of a robot on a quest to find his place in a kingdom where everyone seems bent on his destruction. Navigate through 4 unique areas, collecting gold as you go. Customize your robot with 40 possible equipments.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #55 The Kaiju Offensive
67% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Suspicious Ducks
Windows
The Kaiju Offensive is a 2D top-down brawler where you fight as a giant monster. In this arcade-inspired romp, your objective is plain and simple. You, the kaiju, need to destroy all the buildings in the city.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #56 Core Rescue
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Hot Zombies Games
Windows
Following in the footsteps of the bullet hell games of the classic consoles and arcade systems comes Core Rescue. A Fast Paced Bullet Hell with beautiful pixel graphics and intuitive movement options, Core Rescue is a competitive experience that'll be pushing you to be #1 on the leaderboards.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #57 Access
70% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Secret Overground Lab
Windows
A world wide competition between hackers. Fast paced competitive puzzling. Keep your grid clear by using your deleters to destroy blocks. Crash your opponent's system by throwing blocks to them in the 2 player battle mode or take on the world, and the leader board, in marathon mode!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #58 Red Hot Ricochet
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2018
Dev: Wyatt YeongPub: Everook
Windows · Mac
It's high noon in this barren wasteland, and only one of you is making it out alive. Sure, you could try and shoot them right between the eyes - but where's the fun in that? Red Hot Ricochet is an intense game of ricochet duels, and you'll need wise shooting, lucky bounces, and a bit of triggernometry to win.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%