Games Like Guns and Bots

Defend the earth from an invasion of cosmic cattle alone or with a friend in a roguelike romp with old school attitude. Find weapons, meet new friends, and make a grocery run through an extra terrestrial invasion that's never the same!

Why similar: Arena Shooter 18.6%, Gun Customization 13.9% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 13.6%, 2D Platformer 9.3%, Post-apocalyptic 8.9%

Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 16.9%, Gun Customization 15.1% ★, Side Scroller 14.7%, Post-apocalyptic 11.4%, 2D Platformer 10.7%

You are a little fried tater trying to survive as earth turns apocalyptic in this action packed side-scroller shooter

Why similar: Gun Customization 20% ★, Side Scroller 15%, 2D Platformer 10.9%, Post-apocalyptic 10.5%, Platformer 9.1%

Corebreaker is a fast-paced action-platformer game with rogue-like elements. Play as Nova, a robot designed to awaken when humanity is extinct by the machines. Unlock abilities, upgrades and powerful weapons as you fight your way through supreme robots to find out your purpose!

Why similar: Arena Shooter 23.3%, Perma Death 19.9%, 2D Platformer 12.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.8%, Platformer 10.4%

Explore haunted woods, craft weapons, brew potions and battle ambiguous beasts and nightmares.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 27.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.2%, Shooter 12.9%, Post-apocalyptic 9.3%, Perma Death 8.7%

Square Off is a fast-paced, platforming arena. Control physics-based battle squares in a series of speedy combat challenges whilst shooting your friends into oblivion!

Why similar: Arena Shooter 23.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.1%, Side Scroller 12.3%, 2D Platformer 12%, Character Customization 10.3%

GROUND-UNBOUND is a procedurally generated, high-intensity movement shooter with a retro wave art style. It features roguelike mechanics with a number of skills, guns and abilities to play with, including a variety of enemy types. Created during the 7-Day BigFry Game Jam, updated for steam release.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 23.2%, Perma Death 19.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.1%, PvE 10.1%, Platformer 8.6%

DEADSWITCH COMBAT is a fast-paced 2D multiplayer shooter. Experience action-packed combat with hundreds of weapons, vehicle combat, and plenty of team-based game modes.

Why similar: Gun Customization 23.6% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 18.4%, Side Scroller 17.6%, Character Customization 11.8%, Shooter 11.3%

Slayer Cat is a classic action shooter game that combines hand-drawn drawings with classic gameplay. Inspired by games like Contra, Doom, and Cuphead. Play as The Slayer Cat as you traverse strange places on an enemy planet, and discover and discover the mysteries of this place!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.8%, Side Scroller 17.5%, 2D Platformer 14.8%, Cats 13.9%, Platformer 13.4%

Big guns have begun an attack on YOUR communities, and trust, bredren, YOU DI ONLY BLACK MAN DAT CYAN STOP DEM ...and di only way to stop dem, is to run-right and shoot everything that moves!!!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.7%, Side Scroller 20.8%, Shooter 12.8%, 2D Platformer 12.2%, Platformer 9.6%

A fast-paced run-and-gun shooter in the spirit of the classics — shoot, jump, and shred monsters to energetic music.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.1%, 2D Platformer 21%, Side Scroller 19.5%, Shooter 14.4%, Platformer 10.1%

Grab your weapons and delve into this action side-scroller intense adventure. Jump around and explore the insane levels. Shoot and dodge your way through enemies. Fight to find your friend and solve the disappearance!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.5%, Side Scroller 23%, 2D Platformer 16.4%, Platformer 13%, Cartoony 6.9%

A flying saucer chases you all over the galaxy. Run away, defeat enemies, and evolve to avoid getting abducted

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.8%, Side Scroller 22.4%, 2D Platformer 16%, Platformer 12.9%, Shooter 11.4%

A side-scrolling 2.5D run-and-gun platformer featuring mechanically inclined sea creatures. Help Pancake on his quest to stop the megalomaniacal Dr. Squid from spreading his ruthless influence!

Why similar: Side Scroller 28.5%, 2D Platformer 18.7%, Platformer 14.6%, Shooter 12.5%, Cute 7.4%

Dinosaurs have invaded MewMew’s home and now it's time for him to pick up his trusty old meteor gun and send them right back to extinction. Keep your combo as high as possible and get stronger with items and powerups as you try to gain highscores in this chaotic 2D horde shooter.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 28%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.3%, Shooter 12.3%, Perma Death 11.2%, Cats 10.2%

A fast paced singleplayer arena shooter. Choose one of three goals to win each stage, try different maidens and defeat 10 bosses on the way to meet the devil on stage 66. What's the highest score you can reach?

Why similar: Arena Shooter 27.7%, Perma Death 23.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.1%, PvE 12.1%, Shooter 9.4%

Collect souls, level your weapons, and unleash devastation in one of the most mechanically complex 2D shooters ever made.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.3%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Side Scroller 16%, Shooter 14.9%, PvE 12.2%

The legendary Contra series returns! This reimagining of the classic run-'n'-gun action game from the ‘80s features new stages, new enemies, new play mechanics, and co-op combat for up to 4 players!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 19.5%, Side Scroller 16.6%, 2D Platformer 13%, Platformer 11.3%, Shooter 10.6%

Lost Lives is a multiplayer 2D shooter with RPG elements, in which you will find yourself in the conditions of post-Soviet devastation. As you play, you will have to fight other players and local factions, as well as find and sell loot. Choose your equipment wisely and defeat your enemies!

Why similar: Arena Shooter 23.6%, Side Scroller 16.1%, 2D Platformer 12.9%, Shooter 11.8%, Post-apocalyptic 10.9%

Get ready for adventures, gather allies, and uncover the secrets of Forest Fury! Your forest is waiting for you to cleanse it of dark forces and restore its former beauty.

Why similar: Side Scroller 30.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 30%, 2D Platformer 18.6%, Shooter 13.2%, 2D 4.8%

Xeno Shooter is a action shooter arena game! You play as a space cadet who travels to Andromeda with the mission of defeating the Primordials and thus, achieving a new home for humanity.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 29.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.9%, 2D Platformer 14.9%, Platformer 12.4%, Shooter 11.2%

Infiltrate. Survive. Battle. Explore. The New Resistance is a colourful, dystopian third person shooter with fast-paced multiplayer game modes.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 26.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.5%, Gun Customization 17.6% ★, Character Customization 12.1%, Shooter 9.7%

Shoot, dodge, survive, and upgrade as endless waves of zombies and orcs burst from the ground and rush you. Hold the line, collect power-ups, and fight to stay alive as long as you can!

Why similar: Arena Shooter 32.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.5%, Post-apocalyptic 14%, PvE 13.6%, Shooter 10.7%

Tame kittens, develop your workshop, and experiment in the lab! Build a laser on your battle cat and destroy your enemies!

Why similar: Gun Customization 27.7% ★, Side Scroller 19.6%, Cats 18.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.9%, Shooter 9.3%

Soda Crisis is a fast-paced side-scrolling shooter game. You play a mysterious character of unknown origin, equipped with advanced high-tech gears and fierce combating skills - definitely the chosen one for this rescue mission!

Why similar: Side Scroller 25.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.5%, Gun Customization 18.6% ★, Shooter 10.4%, Platformer 9.2%

The peaceful island of Yukrea has been invaded by the evil Dread Corps! It's time to blast your way through over 6 stages of mayhem to rescue civilians and push those robots out. Use their own powers against them and help reclaim peace to the island.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.3%, Side Scroller 18.2%, 2D Platformer 13.9%, Platformer 12.6%, Shooter 11.4%

Fast & fluid arcade-style shooter with roguelike elements! Take flight on a lethal rocket-powered jetboard, blasting alien invaders with an explosive arsenal of ridiculous weaponry. Face off against massive, multi-stage bosses. Jetboard Joust resurrects the spirit of the arcade for the 21st century!

Why similar: Perma Death 21%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.4%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Gun Customization 15% ★, Platformer 10%

Geometry Skies is an abstract shooter where there's no downtime between the action and you, have focus, achieve the high score.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 30.7%, Perma Death 24.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.5%, Shooter 10%, Stylized 4%

Raimodula is a fast-paced arcade platformer with customizable characters and a fluid, ever-shifting stage order. Unlock abilities, battle modular enemies, and explore surreal environments in intense, polished gameplay!

Why similar: Perma Death 22%, Gun Customization 20.3% ★, Side Scroller 14.6%, Character Customization 12.6%, 2D Platformer 11.9%

2 Many Pixels is an endless & fast-paced 2D minimal shooter. Blast enemies & unlock upgrades to help you survive for as long as possible!

Why similar: Arena Shooter 29.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.5%, Perma Death 20.9%, PvE 10.7%, Shooter 8.2%

💥 Waddle into war in Beak Force – a chaotic FPS where you play as a heavily armed penguin! Slide through snowy maps, blast foes with ridiculous weapons, and dominate in wild multiplayer modes like Team Fight and Capture the Flag. It’s fast, it’s funny, it’s frosty – and it’s FREE.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 25.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.4%, PvE 12%, Character Customization 11.4%, Shooter 9.2%

MDT is a fast-paced side-scroller shooter filled with violence and dread. You don't really know why, but you keep going through hordes of humanoid, and not so much, enemies that inhabit this world. A world that seems both dead and alive at the same time. What for? - It's up to you to decide.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 29.2%, Side Scroller 19.4%, 2D Platformer 16.2%, Gun Customization 12.9% ★, Character Customization 8.7%

Super Slinger is a cute and funny pixelated arcade-like shooter where you fight against the alien invasion in an attempt to send them back home. Cute art, juicy gameplay, difficult stages, and SLINGSHOTS!

Why similar: Arena Shooter 29.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.6%, Platformer 12.7%, Cartoony 10.8%, 2D Platformer 9.3%

A brave little cat. Big jumps. Endless curiosity. That Cat Game is a cozy 2D platformer from a passionate solo developer. Choose from twelve unique cats and explore hand-crafted levels filled with curious critters, tricky obstacles, and whimsical surprises.

Why similar: Cats 23.5%, Side Scroller 22.2%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Character Customization 11%, Platformer 9.7%

Shoot Your Shot will test your limits as you climb, fall, and climb again in this brutal 2D platformer. Tackle the madness alone or with friends in an epic ascent to the top, where every shot counts.

Why similar: Side Scroller 25.5%, Character Customization 18.2%, 2D Platformer 18.1%, Platformer 12.2%, Cartoony 7.7%

Time to Strike is busted build bullet hell roguelike. Create overpowered builds and break the game by collecting powerful weapons, modifying them with whacky mods and discovering crazy synergies!

Why similar: Arena Shooter 25.7%, Gun Customization 24.7% ★, Perma Death 17%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.5%, Character Customization 10.6%

A modern space shooter where you guard the galaxy from collapsing into astropolitical war. Traverse the stars, hold the line between empires, and prevent cosmic conflict — one swarm at a time.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.2%, Gun Customization 26.3% ★, PvE 15.5%, Shooter 11.8%, Stylized 6.1%

Sakura Miko and 35P are ready for battle! Miko Sniper is a chaotic shooting game where you get to shoot, burn and explode your enemies!

Why similar: Gun Customization 23.9% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 23%, 2D Platformer 15.7%, Character Customization 13.7%, Shooter 11.4%

Something mysterious is happening in the pumpkin patch this Halloween! You control Pumpkin Man, a humanoid pumpkin thing animated by occult forces on a quest to discover why things are so creepy. And you vomit candy corn.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.4%, Side Scroller 19.4%, 2D Platformer 13.7%, Platformer 11.2%, Shooter 9.9%

Bone Mayhem is a first person shooter versus waves of enemies, where player can apply modifications to weapon and active abilities.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 31.4%, Gun Customization 29.6% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 20%, Shooter 9.4%, PvE 5.7%

A fast-paced, side-scrolling, bullet hell with an inventory system where a player can upgrade their weapons and player stats to survive as long as possible.

Why similar: Side Scroller 20.8%, Gun Customization 18.2% ★, 2D Platformer 15%, PvE 12.6%, Platformer 10.6%

Don't hold forward, don't press fire, but focus on the vertical in this autorunning reverse bullet hell roguelike. Master the level layout by lapping the same short section several times while you gather steam for your hot air balloon companion. Make the balloon & yourself happy.

Why similar: Perma Death 20.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 19%, Side Scroller 16.9%, PvE 10.8%, Post-apocalyptic 9.1%

Jump and shoot your way through challenging levels, battle formidable bosses, and unlock all the UwUs ♥ to win the heart of your Catgirl. Explore the Gallery to enjoy all the UwUs you've collected.

Why similar: Perma Death 20.8%, Side Scroller 19.6%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, PvE 10.7%, Cats 10.2%

Follow Patchy and Tulip in an exciting adventure through the depths of an abandoned laboratory. In this vibrant platformer you'll get through tons of hand-crafted levels, face giant threats and unravel a fantastic world bit by bit.

Why similar: Side Scroller 30%, 2D Platformer 19.5%, Character Customization 17.4%, Platformer 15.5%, Cute 6.5%

Pepo is a 2D platformer shooting game that fights boss by firing three colors. Join Pepo's adventure of meeting mutant bosses on the extinct planet and leaving to find Pepo's home!

Why similar: 2D Platformer 24.2%, PvE 19.5%, Post-apocalyptic 15.8%, Platformer 15.3%, Shooter 15.2%

Hop from platform to platform and blast the bugs in your way in this new arcade classic!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.8%, 2D Platformer 18.3%, Platformer 18.1%, Shooter 15.6%, Action 7.4%

Get your Bounce On! Roll and bounce your way through 75 challenging platform levels on your adventure home. Each world offers multiple paths for completion, but you can also explore each level to find all the secrets!

Why similar: Side Scroller 32.8%, 2D Platformer 21.2%, Platformer 16.8%, Cute 8.4%, Cartoony 7.2%

Containment Breach is a wave-based zombie survival game where you can blow the limbs off of enemies. Earn points to unlock doors, buy and upgrade weapons, perks, and equipment. See how fast you can escape the facility or choose to stay and go for the highest round possible.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.3%, Perma Death 27.8%, PvE 13.3%, Shooter 10.6%, Post-apocalyptic 9.9%

A cute homebrew platformer made for the Game Boy Color

Why similar: Side Scroller 27.7%, 2D Platformer 18.2%, Cats 17.8%, Platformer 14.6%, Shooter 9.9%

A desert, an abandoned city, cramped underground corridors of MAGMAs research centers, and for hundreds of kilometers around there is only darkness and thousands of monsters coming from all sides. You have only two options - to achieve your goal or die.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 28.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.6%, PvE 12.9%, Character Customization 12.6%, Post-apocalyptic 11.8%

《World of Chaos》 is a 2D cartoon shooting game where you will control a mercenary group to explore the world, engage in trade, and fight battles.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 30.9%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Post-apocalyptic 12.7%, Shooter 11.8%, Character Customization 11%

Tasty Arena is a high-energy FPS where you face off against delicious creatures! Choose your arsenal from a wide array of unique weapons and battle through diverse worlds to become the ultimate arena champion.

Why similar: Arena Shooter 22.6%, Gun Customization 20.6% ★, Perma Death 16%, Shooter 10.1%, PvE 6.8%

A 2D platform shooter where you DESTROY!! Get Elemental Powers from the Prysms and help Amor defeat the Primordial Threats agains Humanity! Get cute costumes and be stylish!

Why similar: Side Scroller 23.9%, 2D Platformer 17.1%, PvE 15.9%, Platformer 13.8%, Shooter 12.2%

Way In The Stars is a real adventure! Find the reasons for the disaster, save the ecosystem of the planet and colonists, and start your own way amongst the stars!

Why similar: Side Scroller 29.7%, 2D Platformer 19.9%, Platformer 15.5%, Shooter 13.3%, Stylized 5.8%

Chaotic Loop is a little game, where your objective is to complete the level you choose, also everytime you play something in the game will change and this makes the loop of finishing the level chaotic.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 22.1%, Side Scroller 20.9%, 2D Platformer 14.8%, PvE 13.1%, Platformer 11%

Panic in Puzzle World is an action-packed 2D platformer in the spirit of console classics. Play as Tide and breathe fire, slash with your claws, bounce on bad guys and glide with your wings to put a stop to the robot menace taking over the land, block by block!

Why similar: Side Scroller 23.1%, 2D Platformer 19.6%, Shooter 13.9%, Platformer 13.3%, Character Customization 12.4%

Twinkle Hunter is a 2D action game focused on boss battles. Become a hunter whose teddy bear was stolen by the great villain 'Twinkle Thieves', and experience journey to retrieve the teddy bear. Can you hunt the thieves who attack you in various ways and rescue the teddy bear 'Mari'?

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28%, Side Scroller 27.3%, Platformer 15%, Shooter 13.3%, Cute 7.5%

TOXIC PULSE is a relentless bullet hell survival FPS. No cover, no regeneration — just you and an escalating nightmare. Dodge diving aerial threats and crushing monoliths in a constantly evolving arena. Every wave demands perfect aim and lightning reflexes. Can you survive until Wave 10?

Why similar: Arena Shooter 38.2%, Perma Death 29.3%, PvE 9.6%, Shooter 8.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 7.1%

This is a horizontal shooter game. The story takes place in a city infected by "coal", where most people have become coal zombies. When the government learned of the great changes in the city, it sent two elite soldiers to investigate the situation.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 22.6%, Side Scroller 21.3%, 2D Platformer 16%, Platformer 15.9%, Shooter 15.3%