Games Like Gun Rocket

SPINGUN is a "manic two-button arcade shooter". Two buttons. One spaceship. Zero chance to survive.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 46%, Difficult 27.9%, Indie 13.8%, Casual 12.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features the same blend of arcade-style shooting and intentionally difficult, physics-based controls found in Gun Rocket.

A physics-powered action roguelike. Grab asteroids, catch missiles, and hurl them back at swarming enemies. Build wild loadouts, defeat colossal bosses, and push deeper into a collapsing galaxy.

Why similar: Difficult 100%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based roguelite that emphasizes movement and spatial awareness during intense space combat.

A space game about swinging trash into things and dying.

Why similar: Indie 38.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 31%, Adventure 22.8%, Casual 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines 2D physics-based movement with intense, skill-heavy combat in a confined space.

Test your reflexes in POLYGONEER, defend yourself from prolygonal shapes taht comes from everywhere, just hitting is not enough you need to match the right color shot to the polygon too! Are you ready for the challenge?

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 36.4%, Indie 20.9%, Casual 20.7%, Difficult 17.1%, Adventure 4.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, minimalist arcade shooter that demands the same level of precision and quick reflexes.

The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 62.1%, Indie 22.9%, Difficult 12%, Casual 3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-octane, physics-driven aerial combat that requires mastery of momentum and precise maneuvering.

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: Difficult 39.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.7%, Indie 22.3%, Adventure 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, arcade-style descent game that relies on precise shooting and movement to survive.

VVVVVV is a platform game all about exploring one simple mechanical idea - what if you reversed gravity instead of jumping?

Why similar: Difficult 56.9%, Indie 32.1%, Adventure 7.1%, Puzzle 4%

Why You'll Like It: A precision-focused 2D game that uses gravity-flipping mechanics to create challenging, puzzle-like platforming segments.

Challenge yourself to a new kind of bullet-hell fusion shooter. Change your aircraft to get new skills just when you need them against advancing foes. Aim for the top spot!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 43.1%, Difficult 25.5%, Casual 15.9%, Indie 15.4%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic shoot-em-up that shares the arcade intensity and space-themed action of the seed game.

A Meat-Like/Hedge-Like Mashup! Dr. Proventriculus is snatching up the Chickabirbs! Help Panic blast through over 50 stages of topsy-turvy, spike-laced, slime-drenched, buzzsaw-filled deathtraps to rescue them! And remember, there are no rings...

Why similar: Difficult 56.1%, Indie 23.5%, Adventure 20.4%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, difficult precision platformer that rewards players who can master tight controls.

Devilishly difficult but insanely rewarding physics puzzler. Play through 85 levels of diverse and ingenious physics-based challenges.

Why similar: Casual 29.4%, Difficult 28.1%, Indie 24.5%, Puzzle 18%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-based puzzle game that emphasizes careful movement and avoiding environmental hazards.

A twin stick shooter without the twin stick, Gunlocked is a sci-fi action roguelike about careful positioning and upgrade selection. Manage unique targeting systems across multiple weapons and upgrades, as you battle legions of alien ships, and then do it all over again!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 100%

Why You'll Like It: A challenging shoot-em-up that requires strategic positioning and careful movement to survive waves of enemies.

Super Hexagon is a minimal action game by Terry Cavanagh, with music by Chipzel.

Why similar: Difficult 72.8%, Indie 22.9%, Casual 3.3%, Puzzle 1%

Why You'll Like It: A minimalist, high-difficulty arcade game that tests your ability to react to patterns under extreme pressure.

Gun Crazy is a fast paced and hectic arcade style action shoot em’ up sporting old school pixel art and a retro sound track.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 34.7%, Difficult 23.4%, Indie 16%, Adventure 15.1%, Casual 10.8%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced, arcade-style shooter that captures the retro, challenging feel of the seed game.

Sine Mora EX is a side-scrolling shoot'em up that provides a unique challenge, where time is the ultimate factor. Mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation, Sine Mora EX is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an excessive tale and an Arcade Mode.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 64.3%, Difficult 35.7%

Why You'll Like It: A side-scrolling shoot-em-up that incorporates time-manipulation mechanics, adding a puzzle-like layer to the action.

You think you are a die-hard? Here you will die quick! A proper hardcore RPG-action where you will die a million times across a myriad of procedurally-generated levels. Extremely difficult, but highly addictive Indie Gem in your Steam game collection!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 49.7%, Difficult 34.5%, Adventure 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, 2D space-themed action game that requires quick reflexes and careful navigation.

Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved is a old school style shooter, but remixed for the 21st century with next generation graphics and deep, modern gameplay. Playing is simple: you are a geometric "ship" trapped in a grid world, facing off against waves of deadly wanderers, snakes, and repulsars.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 57.7%, Casual 26.5%, Indie 15.8%

Why You'll Like It: A classic arcade shooter that focuses on high-difficulty survival and precise movement in a 2D plane.

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: Shoot 'Em Up 69.3%, Indie 30.7%

Why You'll Like It: An action-packed shooter that emphasizes dodging and precise movement, similar to the demands of Gun Rocket.

Stellar 2D is a retro style space arcade game, it's a 2D game in a 3D world. With an addictive, fast paced, casual game-play style.

Why similar: Indie 54.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 25.8%, Casual 19.9%

Why You'll Like It: A space-themed arcade shooter that focuses on simple, challenging 2D combat mechanics.

Blast-off is a hardcore jumper/runner/shmup, where your alter ego will be a ball of anti-matter seeking to leave our Universe. Anti-matter is extremely difficult to exist in our universe, because when it contact with matter it annihilates.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 69.8%, Indie 30.2%

Why You'll Like It: An arcade-style shooter that focuses on momentum and precision in a futuristic, space-themed environment.

The infamous, tough-as-nails platformer comes to Steam with a playable Head Crab character (Steam-exclusive)!

Why similar: Difficult 70.1%, Indie 29.9%

Why You'll Like It: A quintessential difficult platformer that demands the same level of trial-and-error mastery as Gun Rocket.

The great arcade challenge in physics based platform world. Join the hardcore journey of 200 levels with puzzle elements and claim the title of Ultimate Solid!

Why similar: Adventure 30.3%, Indie 30.3%, Difficult 27.7%, Puzzle 11.7%

Why You'll Like It: A physics-heavy puzzle game that requires careful planning and execution to navigate through 2D environments.

Distant Space are present the arcade game of cosmic fights in arcade style of the 80's, this is a game where you can control the spaceship and forced to destroy extraterrestrials, which are moving in the certain order.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 50.5%, Difficult 16.6%, Indie 13.3%, Casual 11.3%, Adventure 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic-style shoot-em-up that emphasizes arcade action and space exploration.

Endless arcade action takes a modern twist, creating a uniquely challenging open space shoot-em-up experience. From brutal bosses to black holes and beyond, countless hazards await discovery. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Indie 100%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D arcade shooter that provides a straightforward, difficult experience in a space setting.

Grocket is a minimalist, precision-based adventure and puzzle game. To survive in space, you not only have to escape numerous dangers, but also prove your skills at playing with and against other players.

Why similar: Puzzle 32.9%, Casual 28.8%, Adventure 20.6%, Indie 17.6%

Think you can make it out? Many have tried… All have failed. Traverse the unforgiving cave and do impossible jumps with your rocket launcher and shotgun.

Why similar: Difficult 54.9%, Adventure 25.9%, Indie 19.2%

Shoot! Dodge! and... Get Hit!? "Ikaruga" is a vertical shoot 'em up that features an unique polarity-switching gameplay. Switch the ship's polarity and "get hit and absorb" enemy bullets! Achieve High Score with the chain bonus!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 87.7%, Difficult 8.9%, Indie 2.9%, Puzzle 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A legendary shoot-em-up that functions almost like a puzzle game due to its color-switching polarity mechanics.

1982 is a FREE retro inspired blasta-thon that will test your gaming skills to the max.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 34.7%, Casual 32.8%, Indie 32.4%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-inspired arcade shooter that offers a high-difficulty experience similar to classic arcade titles.

For those of you who cannot live without old-style hardcore platformer challenges, Yury brings the ultimate spikes-lava-monsters experience.

Why similar: Indie 38.4%, Difficult 36.5%, Adventure 25.1%

Why You'll Like It: A difficult, 2D action-platformer that tests your patience and precision in a hostile environment.

Systems are down and require time to repair, leaving you with a basic gunship with no hopes of escaping an aggressive asteroid event. Will you be able to survive the increasingly difficult 8 minutes to repair the ship's functions and escape? Also discover a variety of genres, all in one game!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 56.3%, Casual 22.4%, Indie 21.3%

You play an explorer stranded on a dangerous alien planet. Low on fuel, your only hope for escape is to find the planet’s core in this incredibly clever action-puzzle-platformer.

Why similar: Indie 24.6%, Adventure 21.4%, Difficult 19%, Puzzle 18.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.8%

Airscape is a fast-paced, ultra-challenging 60 level action platformer. You play a deep-sea octopus, kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. Jump, dodge, and swim through a skybound environment full of floating islands, water formations, and robotic terrors.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 39.8%, Difficult 25%, Casual 11.5%, Adventure 8.2%, Puzzle 8.1%

Squirbs is a challenging puzzle-platformer in which you control two cute blue Squirbs simultaneously with one set of controls. Looking for an awesomely difficult game? That's Squirbs.

Why similar: Indie 31.1%, Difficult 29.7%, Adventure 27.5%, Puzzle 11.7%

Star Drifter is a super hard and hectic space shooter, inspired by classics such as R Type, Xenon, Galaxian, Moon Cresta and Gradius.

Why similar: Indie 48.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 33.1%, Casual 18.5%

Grab and Guts - Shooter about JuraPis' journey through the human body, microscopic world, and unimaginable liquids and corners of light. Use your grappling hook to navigate, gather weapons, and eliminate parasitic enemies.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 55.3%, Casual 18.3%, Adventure 16.1%, Difficult 10.4%

Navigate the beauty and hazards of the solar system while riding a wave of light through 100+ levels in this innovative action-puzzle game!

Why similar: Indie 35.7%, Difficult 17.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.5%, Puzzle 13.5%, Casual 11.6%

Hardcore pixel indie platformer with puzzle elements and history. Can you get to the end?

Why similar: Adventure 29.6%, Indie 29.5%, Difficult 21.2%, Puzzle 9.9%, Casual 9.9%

Blast your way through space in this innovative 3D bubble puzzler! Bounce, bobble, swing, and explode bubbles across the universe. Intergalactic Bubbles advances the classic match-3 genre into the 21st century with stellar graphics, 3D action, and upgrades.

Why similar: Casual 31.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 28.6%, Indie 22.1%, Puzzle 17.8%

This mind-bending game will challenge you to create complex structures to get your woodland creatures over vast chasms. In a bridge-builder first, you'll guide your creatures and construct your bridges in real time. Use the weight of various creatures to balance your structures as you build them.

Why similar: Indie 26.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.8%, Puzzle 19.7%, Casual 17%, Adventure 15.7%

Rabbit Hole is a fast paced, tough-as-nails 2D RogueLike-Shooter, made with love for the genre. You are Disc, someone who was suddenly brought to the Rabbit Hole. Collect guns, fight foes and meet strange new characters on your descent to the bottom, all in an attempt to find your heart again.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 73.7%, Adventure 26.3%

Set off to conquer space with Space Rocket, an ultra addictive rocket game!

Why similar: Casual 44.1%, Indie 42.7%, Puzzle 13.3%

An indie story-driven space shooter with intense battles, escalating enemy waves, and massive boss fights. Choose and upgrade ships, unlock powerful weapons, and protect your allies. Upgrade your base and construct a battleship to take on even stronger enemies. All set to a rock & synth soundtrack.

Why similar: Difficult 55%, Adventure 24.5%, Casual 20.5%

Sun Blast is the best 3d space shooter on Steam. Earn upgrades as you fight your way through a huge seleciton of levels. Full gamepad support!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 67.2%, Indie 18.3%, Adventure 14.5%

Perilous Warp is a fast-paced indie retro-shooter inspired by the classic 3D-actions. Communication with a distant space colony has been lost, and you bravely step into the teleporter with the desire for glorious adventures. But do not expect to win in a heartbeat!

Why similar: Indie 100%

Dangerous Bullets- This dynamic hardcore platforming, challenges you.

Why similar: Adventure 35.2%, Indie 32.6%, Difficult 32.2%

An ancient tower in a forgotten land. A lone photographer on a desperate search. Facing dangerous animals, crumbling architecture, and perilous pitfalls, can you reach the summit of the Tower, and perhaps, redemption?

Why similar: Indie 33.8%, Adventure 29.2%, Difficult 19.2%, Puzzle 10.8%, Casual 7%

Time Rift is a fast-paced puzzle-shooter. You’re a hacker-turned-security tester, but your skills will only get you so far - to take down global megacorp VaultCo, you’ll have to manipulate the flow of time!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.1%, Difficult 29%, Puzzle 14.6%, Indie 14.3%

Use gravity, tension, and wind currents to get your hot air balloon to its destination, dropping off cargo on your way, in this ultra-challenging physics-based game. All art used in the Howler was meticulously created by classically-trained experienced painters.

Why similar: Indie 37.2%, Casual 31%, Difficult 16%, Puzzle 15.8%

Launch into a chaotic spaceship adventure: bend the rules of physics, experiment with unusual gadgets and toss everything around. With each journey, you will have limited time to reveal the mysteries aboard your solar punk spaceship - how much will you discover before you arrive home?

Why similar: Adventure 35.3%, Puzzle 34.4%, Indie 30.3%

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?

Why similar: Indie 86.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 7.9%, Casual 5.5%

Explore space and race against the clock in this retro styled adventure game.

Why similar: Adventure 47.6%, Casual 26.4%, Indie 26%

Get ready to push your skills to the limit against an endless sea of bullets and evil robots in Astral Gunners. Choose from five different gunners to master in this horizontal shooter. With the ability to dodge, reflect, delete, and convert bullets you are more powerful than you might believe.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 66.9%, Difficult 33.1%

The self-destruction sequence has been activated. You have 5 minutes to solve your way out of a high-stakes, escape room-style disaster.

Why similar: Casual 44.9%, Puzzle 38.8%, Indie 16.3%

You've activated an old Pinball machine- but with a twist. No points to score, just a mysterious mission to reach the top. We recommend you to try the demo before buying to avoid quick refunds- FlippTechINC.

Why similar: Difficult 57.3%, Indie 23.3%, Adventure 19.4%

Deep Space Exploitation is a space mining game featuring 2D physics, fully destructible asteroids, and a story of survival under an exploitative corporation. Use your equipment wisely, upgrade your ship, and make difficult decisions to secure your future!

Peppy’s Adventure is a challenging 1-screen, tile-based, action-puzzle game controlled with directional inputs only. Help Peppy progress through unique levels and worlds to save his family from the Hooded Fox. Precise timing, fast thinking and trickery will be key to advance and unveil mysteries.

Why similar: Difficult 42.6%, Adventure 20.9%, Casual 19.5%, Puzzle 17.1%

A Surreal Puzzle Shooter Adventure Fueled By Madness!

Why similar: Difficult 39.2%, Indie 22.8%, Puzzle 19%, Adventure 18.9%

Tinboy is a puzzle-platformer, with a massive difficulty level.

Why similar: Difficult 45.9%, Casual 19%, Puzzle 18.8%, Indie 16.2%

Step into the space suit of valiant gravity badger Captain T Bayback as he ventures into the deadly depths of deep space to save his friends, family and the universe itself from the threat of the deadly Evil Honey Badgers, aka the Hellsett.

Why similar: Casual 29.5%, Indie 27.3%, Puzzle 23.2%, Adventure 19.9%

An inventive, thought-provoking puzzle platformer. Use powerups in each environment, and your own inherent gravity-bending powers, to complete each level. The more you play, the more story details you'll uncover.

Why similar: Indie 35.6%, Difficult 24.1%, Adventure 16.8%, Puzzle 15.6%, Casual 8%