Games Like Footgun: Underground

Whackerball is a twin-stick shooter roguelite with Breakout inspired mechanics. Master the unique combat system as you venture through a multitude of diverse areas while collecting powerful and game changing upgrades.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.3%, Roguelike 19.8%, Arcade 15.1%, Perma Death 11%, Action 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core concept of using ball-based physics as the primary weapon in an action-roguelike setting.

BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite. Batter hordes of enemies with ricocheting balls and gather the riches of the pit to expand your homestead, generate resources and recruit unique heroes.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.3%, Roguelite 23.4%, Roguelike 17.3%, Arcade 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the arcade, ball-centric gameplay loop and roguelite progression found in Footgun.

Bounce to the top in this skill based, roguelite action-platformer! Collect powerful items, pick unique weapons, and fight off a variety of enemies while navigating around with a fun, difficult, and unique movement system. Are you up for the challenge?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.8%, Roguelike 19.5%, Roguelite 16.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Platformer 7.8%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on physics-based movement and momentum-driven traversal makes it a very similar mechanical experience.

🏆🏀💀 TACTICS, TERROR & TOUCHDOWNS. Turn-based roguelike meets arcade death-sport, where every dungeon is a unique gauntlet of brutal challenges. Can you survive the trials of Dungeon Deathball and win back your freedom?

Why similar: Roguelite 27.2%, Perma Death 26.9%, Roguelike 17.7%, Arcade 16.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.3%

Why You'll Like It: It blends sports-themed tactical combat with roguelite elements in a dungeon-crawling setting.

An action roguelike digger. Dig to discover treasure, adventure and bones! Jump, dash, stomp and dig your way through a strange world inhabited by stranger creatures.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.3%, Roguelite 19.7%, Roguelike 19.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.6%, Platformer 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: This title features similar physics-based arcade action and a challenging, roguelike structure.

An action-adventure roguelike with a bit of RPG tossed in. Adventure deep into the UnderMine and discover powerful relics, deadly enemies, hidden secrets, and a few friends to help along the way.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.9%, Roguelite 22.5%, Dungeon Crawler 13.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Roguelike 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: A polished action-roguelike that shares the dungeon-crawling exploration and pixel-art style.

Tape to Tape is a roguelite hockey game where every choice matters on your journey to build the best hockey team. Choose your path, hire unique players, discover synergies between them, pick unique abilities, bribe the referees or visit the Blademaster on your way to restore hockey's former glory.

Why similar: Roguelite 36.7%, Roguelike 29.4%, Arcade 22.3%, Action 6.7%, Singleplayer 5%

Why You'll Like It: This roguelite incorporates sports mechanics into a procedurally generated progression system.

Skelly Selest is a score-attack hack slash dash run 'n' gun-athon. Venture into the procedurally generated perdition depths of Hell to purge the evil taint of the Deamonica Netherlords and their fiendly followers.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.6%, Roguelite 19.2%, Roguelike 13.5%, Perma Death 12.1%, Dungeon Crawler 10%

Why You'll Like It: The arcade-focused, fast-paced combat loop feels very similar to the frantic energy of Footgun.

Create and manage your team in a violent, dystopic world of no-rules, fast-paced, arcade-style, ice hockey action. Adjust training regimens, control diets, administer black market pharmaceuticals, and provide healthcare (or not) to a ragtag team of convicts at the mercy of your underhanded tactics.

Why similar: Arcade 42.8%, Pixel Graphics 26.8%, 2D 19.4%, Action 11%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similarly gritty, arcade-style take on sports with a focus on fast-paced, violent action.

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: Action Roguelike 29.7%, Arcade 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 12%, Fast-Paced 10.3%, Platformer 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: It provides the same high-speed, vertical, arcade-focused gameplay that rewards precision and quick reflexes.

Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.7%, Perma Death 17.7%, Roguelite 16.9%, Roguelike 14.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%

Why You'll Like It: It features high-mobility action-roguelike gameplay with a similar pixel-art aesthetic.

Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.9%, Roguelite 19.3%, Underground 14.4% ★, Roguelike 14%, Arcade 12.8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a fast-paced, arcade-style experience with a focus on mining and exploration.

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

Why similar: Fast-Paced 35.4%, Arcade 27%, 2D 12.2%, Action 11.4%, Indie 7.2%

Why You'll Like It: The game emphasizes physics-based, chaotic movement and arcade-style momentum in a 2D environment.

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 32.8%, Roguelike 20.9%, Roguelite 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Post-apocalyptic 8%

Why You'll Like It: This is a quintessential fast-paced, post-apocalyptic action-roguelike that matches the intensity of the seed game.

Dungreed is a 2D side-scrolling action game with 2D Rogue-LITE elements. You become an adventurer exploring a continuously evolving dungeon to prevent the town from being destroyed. Eliminate enemies, use a variety of weapons and magic, eat food, and defeat evil in the dungeon!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 29.1%, Roguelite 19.2%, Roguelike 16.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Dungeon Crawler 9.4%

Why You'll Like It: A classic pixel-art action-roguelike that focuses on dungeon exploration and loot progression.

Happy hour has arrived! Become the NecroBouncer and toss out rowdy guests in a roguelike adventure through the nightclub dungeon. Raise the dead, discover hundreds of relics, ban enemies and gobble up their powers. It’s one hell of a good time!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.4%, Roguelite 18.1%, Roguelike 16.3%, Dungeon Crawler 13.8%, Perma Death 12.4%

Why You'll Like It: A dungeon-crawling action-roguelike that shares the pixel-art aesthetic and fast-paced combat.

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: Pixel Graphics 31.6%, Fast-Paced 23.5%, Platformer 14.7%, Action 11.4%, 2D 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: The game focuses on high-speed, one-hit-kill arcade action that demands mastery of movement.

Dungeon-Crawling First Person Shooting at its finest! Fast-paced combat! Dozens of perks, spells and enemies! Level ups! Random Dungeons! Traps! Badass bosses! Carrots!

Why similar: Roguelite 24.2%, Action Roguelike 20.8%, Perma Death 14%, Roguelike 10.4%, Dungeon Crawler 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-roguelike that prioritizes arcade-style shooting and movement within a dungeon environment.

Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

Why similar: Perma Death 18%, Action Roguelike 16%, Arcade 12.3%, Roguelite 11.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11%

Why You'll Like It: This twin-stick shooter features a post-apocalyptic setting and difficult, roguelike gameplay.

Bunker Punks is a fast paced rogue-light FPS set in a dystopian future. Run a group of revolutionaries and raid corporate strongholds for supplies, weapons and armor. Customize your bunker, train your gang and tear down the corporate government.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 41.6%, Roguelite 17.8%, Roguelike 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Fast-Paced 8.2%

Why You'll Like It: It captures the post-apocalyptic, dungeon-crawling roguelike feel with a distinct retro aesthetic.

Ants Took My Eyeball is a 2D action platformer roguelite. Descend into an ever-changing ant hill, fight your way through hordes of insects with a variety of weapons, face formidable bosses and ultimately find your stolen eyeball.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 19%, Perma Death 15.1%, Roguelite 14.5%, Underground 12.2% ★, Roguelike 11.2%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging action-roguelike that emphasizes loot and fast-paced combat in a pixel-art world.

Get wasted or get wasted trying in WASTED, a roguelike post-apocalyptic pub crawler. Fight tooth and nail, bullets and baseball bats in search of Booze, gain strange mutational Hangovers, and explore the Coolers in search of powerful weapons, armor, and a nice stiff drink to top it all off.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.8%, Post-apocalyptic 17.3%, Roguelite 17.2%, Roguelike 10.2%, Dungeon Crawler 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game leans heavily into the post-apocalyptic, roguelike exploration theme.

Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.6%, Roguelite 20%, Roguelike 17.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, 2D 6.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers the gold standard for high-mobility, 2D action-roguelike combat and exploration.

Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!

Why similar: Arcade 23.9%, Action Roguelike 21.2%, Action 15.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Platformer 10.7%

Why You'll Like It: This title is purely focused on arcade-style boss encounters and fast, responsive platforming action.

Set in the Dark Ages, Devious Dungeon is a medieval focused action platformer with RPG styled upgrades.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 27.7%, Roguelike 16%, Dungeon Crawler 15.3%, Arcade 13.7%, Pixel Graphics 8%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward, arcade-style dungeon-crawling experience with platforming elements.

Embark on a daring journey with Beatrice as you kick, shoot, and loot through a secret underground lab. In this rogue-lite RPG/ADV, engage in strategic combat and face intense encounters and unspeakable dangers!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.8%, Roguelite 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 19.1%, Roguelike 18.8%, 2D 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: The focus on escaping a dangerous, procedurally generated environment fits the theme of the seed game.

Cavity Busters is a roguelite toothpunk bullet hell where you use your one and only tooth to chomp the cavity infested enemies. Run on the walls, dodge through bullet filled rooms and stomp baddies. Collect power ups, contract powerful diseases, and dig your way through the body.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.8%, Roguelite 23.2%, Roguelike 15.4%, Dungeon Crawler 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 8.5%

Dungeon Core is a roguelite top-down shooter where you get to explore the sewers and beyond to ultimately reach an old underground research facility. Old nuclear waste has caused dangerous mutations in creatures due to a failed experiment. You set out to destroy the abandoned nuclear core.

Why similar: Roguelite 18.5%, Roguelike 17.6%, Dungeon Crawler 14.2%, Perma Death 13.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.7%

Mount and upgrade your weapons into special combos in this randomly generated action RPG shooter. Mow down thousands of dungeon dwelling creatures and survive as you descend deeper into the dungeon! Unlock items, complete quests, and find all the secrets to help you reach the boss of bosses!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.6%, Roguelite 17.5%, Dungeon Crawler 14.2%, Roguelike 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 9.5%

Escape a concealed, mutated monster that's disrupting your scavenging. Master running, jumping, swinging, shooting and combining upgrades to end up as the powerful beast you once feared, turning the cave system from a nightmarish hollow into a playground.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.2%, Post-apocalyptic 15.7%, Roguelike 14.5%, Perma Death 14.4%, Arcade 11.4%

Pixel Descent is an action rogue-lite in which you navigate a series of complex dungeons packed to the brim with monsters that want you dead. Sign the contract and descend into the deepest depths of the abyss knowing full well that you will definitely die there, it's just a matter of when.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.6%, Perma Death 15.7%, Dungeon Crawler 12.8%, Arcade 12.1%, Roguelike 12%

99 Levels to Hell is a platform shooter with lots of guns, upgrades, magic, traps and monsters to kill. 99 Levels to Hell is a rogue-like, which means surviving is key and every time you play you get a new set of levels to play. When you complete 10 levels, the 10th being a boss-fight you unlock a door to the next dungeon.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 18.2%, Roguelite 15.6%, Arcade 11.8%, Perma Death 11.1%, Dungeon Crawler 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style shooter roguelite that emphasizes rapid, challenging combat encounters.

Nether Dungeons is an action-packed dungeon crawler. Battle through procedurally generated dungeons, face relentless enemies, and defeat epic bosses. Customize your hero, wield diverse weapons, and survive intense challenges as you descend into ever-changing, dangerous depths.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 28.8%, Roguelite 21.4%, Dungeon Crawler 16.3%, Roguelike 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%

Platformines is a unique 2D platformer packed with exploration, RPG and shooter elements, set in a vast 16-bit underground world! Customise your character, master all difficulty levels and literally jump to the top of the leaderboards to prove your skills!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 66.5%, Platformer 11%, Action 8.4%, 2D 5.4%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: It combines 2D platforming with action-roguelike exploration in a subterranean setting.

Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive hordes of enemies in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from a wide variety of build-defining modules and wacky base bots for a new experience every run.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.2%, Roguelike 18.8%, Roguelite 18.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, Arcade 12.1%

Lead the rebellion in an epic rogue-like adventure. Guide your jet-pack equipped post-apocalyptic volunteers through a labyrinthine underground complex by jumping, dodging, and battling against robot minions (and masters) to get to the surface — and bring life back to the scorched Earth.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 27.9%, Perma Death 25.3%, Roguelite 20.2%, Roguelike 15%, Platformer 6.3%

Solve your way through this fast-paced rogue-lite puzzle game and outwit unforgiving creatures as you venture into the mysterious Power Plant!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 29%, Roguelite 21.6%, Roguelike 15.9%, Dungeon Crawler 15.2%, 2D 6.2%

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: Action Roguelike 29.6%, Roguelite 21%, Roguelike 17.3%, Perma Death 14.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%

Combining its own unique take on the real-time roguelike genre, with a nostalgic 16-bit look and feel, Diehard Dungeon is a game that feels both familiar and quite different at the same time. Followed by a trusty, treasure collecting companion chest, you must make your way through the dungeons many randomly-generated rooms and levels.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.4%, Roguelike 24.6%, Roguelite 14%, Action 6.4%, Dungeon Crawler 6%

Delve into the shifting dungeons on your hunt for the Yithidian orb, but getting it might just be the easy part. Delver is a single player first-person action roguelike dungeon crawler, just like you wished they used to make.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 23.5%, Dungeon Crawler 16%, Roguelite 15.5%, Perma Death 13.6%, Roguelike 13.1%

Delve into the dangerous, ever-shifting labyrinth that is the Undermine. Discover, craft, and combine hundreds of unique items. Pair them with an ever-expanding roster of distinct playable characters for a new run every time! Grab a partner and uncover UnderMine 2's secrets together in local co-op.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.8%, Roguelite 19.6%, Roguelike 15.8%, Dungeon Crawler 12.9%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%

Sublevel Zero Redux is a roguelite six-degree-of-freedom shooter in a universe where reality is falling apart. Use your zero-g gunship to fight through a vast underground facility, looting advanced weapons to destroy hordes of deadly enemies.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.3%, Perma Death 19.9%, Futuristic 13.8%, Roguelite 13.7%, Roguelike 10.3%

Congratulations! You've been selected to participate in the ultimate TV show! Survive hordes of ruthless mutants, upgrade your arsenal, improve your skills and win fabulous prizes in this live-broadcast action roguelike! Do you have what it takes to survive?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 34.5%, Roguelite 24.6%, Arcade 14%, Pixel Graphics 13.2%, 2D 6.7%

A 2d action-packed roguelite about a monkey hero protecting the jungle from the rise of a corruptive power. Explore ever-changing dungeons, fight weird enemies and gear up with lots of weapons and relics you can combine for a new experience every run. Explore, fight, die, and repeat!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24.5%, Perma Death 17.5%, Roguelite 13.5%, Roguelike 12.9%, Dungeon Crawler 9.6%

Catacomb Kids is a brutal platformer roguelike that pits you against the deadly Catacombs aided only by magic, steel, and your quick reflexes. Traverse procedurally generated dungeons and hack, slash, burn, and blast your way through hordes of things that want to kill you.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 44.1%, Roguelite 28%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Platformer 6.1%, Action 5.4%

No Parachute is a fast-paced arcade game with a pixel art style, in which you will dodge various obstacles in free fall. Try to find out what is on the other side of the tunnel, and save your arms and legs along the way!

Why similar: Perma Death 31.6%, Arcade 23.4%, Underground 20.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 13%, Action 6.8%

It Lurks Below is an action-oriented, survival RPG in a randomly generated world. Fight through the massive underground dungeon, customize your character with random items and find out what evil lurks below.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 25.6%, Dungeon Crawler 22.1%, 2D 14.8%, Action 14.5%, Indie 9.2%

Heavy Bullets is a randomized FPS dungeon crawler where players make their way through a colorful maze, while protecting themselves from aggressive creatures and malfunctioning security devices. The goal lies at the end of the 8th level, where they must reset the security mainframe to restore order and reap the rewards.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.9%, Roguelite 18.6%, Roguelike 16.3%, Perma Death 8.2%, Action 7.1%

Into the Necrovale is an Action RPG in which you collect powerful items that interact with one another. You must be clever with your build if you hope to pierce the mysteries and dangers of the Necrovale, where a thousand generations of miscreants and criminals have been banished.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.3%, Roguelike 16.1%, Roguelite 15.2%, Dungeon Crawler 13.6%, Inventory Management 12.4%

In Enlightenment, you play in a roguelike action-shooter with a fast-paced challenging journey deep into a underground complex called "the Ark". Players will be tested by large varieties of enemies in a procedurally-generated dungeon, and become stronger by learning from the inevitable deaths.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.6%, Roguelite 20%, Perma Death 10.4%, Roguelike 9.1%, Action 8.1%

Katanaut is a fast-paced, Metroidvania-inspired action roguelite blending fluid combat and cosmic horror. Slash, dodge, and wield powerful abilities as you battle through a station sprawling with twisted, once-human horrors. Adapt, survive, and descend into the shadows to uncover dark secrets.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 24%, Roguelite 17.1%, Roguelike 16%, Fast-Paced 13.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%

RAD is a 3D action rogue-like set in a post-post-apocalyptic world, where humanity has faced armageddon not once, but twice.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 28.2%, Roguelite 27.7%, Post-apocalyptic 20.5%, Perma Death 13.2%, Action 8.5%

A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down. Choose your abilities, build your favorite combat style, become stronger and survive as long as you can!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 27%, Roguelike 21.6%, Roguelite 20.8%, Pixel Graphics 12.6%, 2D 6.9%

One More Dungeon 2 is a First Person Dungeon Crawler Roguelite where you play as a human being captured by Giant Sentient Snails

Why similar: Action Roguelike 28.8%, Perma Death 25%, Roguelite 21.9%, Dungeon Crawler 18.2%, Action 4.1%

Dive The Depths is an action-roguelike set beneath the ocean's surface. As a humble diver, you must navigate the world filled with bizarre sea creatures, submerged ruins, and forgotten histories. Can you conquer the depths and unravel the secrets that hidden beneath the waves?

Why similar: Action Roguelike 21.6%, Perma Death 16.7%, Roguelite 15.5%, Roguelike 13.5%, Dungeon Crawler 9.3%

DUNK FROM SPACE in the 1st basketball roguelite! Smash and blast in the replayable single player and coop campaign: buy robots, upgrade their stats and unlock tons of new skills. Choose your path among different opponents, traps and rewards.. Up to 4 players versus where every match is different!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 36.7%, Roguelite 31.4%, Arcade 23.5%, Action 5.5%, Singleplayer 2.9%

Ether Loop is a hardcore fast-paced bullet hell with roguelike elements. Descend the unforgiving depths of a mysterious world, encounter challenges, discover dynamic environments and fight ruthless creatures while unveiling the secrets of Ether Loop.

Why similar: Roguelite 18%, Perma Death 15.1%, Dungeon Crawler 12.5%, Action 9.9%, Roguelike 9.1%

Neon Abyss is a frantic, roguelite action-platformer where you run ‘n’ gun your way into the Abyss. Featuring unlimited item synergies and a unique dungeon evolution system, each run diversifies the experience and every choice alters the ruleset.

Why similar: Roguelike 20.9%, Action Roguelike 20.3%, Roguelite 16.2%, Dungeon Crawler 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%

An action roguelite game with alien swarms and mechs. Battle enemies to make your way through a mass of spreading and evolving cells hosting dormant enemies. Collect a variety of game-changing skills and upgrades to create unique builds.

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.6%, Roguelite 24.5%, Roguelike 21.5%, Pixel Graphics 10.5%, 2D 6.6%

Tiny Rogues is a challenging fantasy rogue-lite bullet-hell dungeon crawler with rpg elements. Build a new unique character each run and fight one monster-infested room after another! Discover unique weapons, collect magical items and level up to become more and more powerful!

Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.5%, Roguelite 20.3%, Roguelike 16.8%, Dungeon Crawler 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%