Games Like Hell is Others

EMPTY SHELL will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a Japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.

Why similar: Roguelike 18.1%, Shooter 17.1%, Top-Down 16.5%, Horror 15.2%, Roguelite 15.1%

Why You'll Like It: Offers a similar dark, claustrophobic top-down shooter atmosphere mixed with roguelike elements and horror.

Now with over 600,000 copies sold, ZERO Sievert is a tense top-down extraction shooter that challenges you to scavenge a procedurally-generated wasteland, loot gear, and explore what’s left of a devastated world. When the odds are stacked against you, you’ll need to do more than just survive...

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 53.8% ★, Survival 14.3%, Top-Down 9.2%, Shooter 8.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%

Why You'll Like It: Captures the same methodical extraction-shooter loop and survival tension from a top-down perspective.

Descend into the grim and gritty world of Purgatory in this cover-based shooter which combines the fluidity of twin-stick controls and tactical cover usage. Dodge behind cover as you try to outgun your enemies in the unknown procedurally generated hunting grounds.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 22.1%, Top-Down Shooter 14.5%, Roguelike 13.2%, Horror 10.2%, Shooter 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Combines a dark, supernatural western aesthetic with twin-stick shooter and roguelike mechanics.

HellSign is an investigative action RPG that pits you against the horrors of the afterlife, let loose on a small town. As a hunter, you’ll plan, hunt, and kill to pay the bills and piece together the fragments to your past. Just remember - a smart hunter is always prepared.

Why similar: Roguelike 19.4%, Top-Down Shooter 18.3%, Horror 17.5%, Shooter 14.4%, Top-Down 11%

Why You'll Like It: Emphasizes a similar dark, occult horror investigation theme with top-down action RPG gameplay.

Hunt: Showdown 1896 is the brutally rewarding extraction shooter. Track twisted monsters and overcome ruthless PvP. Take bounties in corrupted backwaters lost to history. With a team, you might survive. Die with nothing or get out with everything.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 51.5% ★, PvP 11.6%, Shooter 10.6%, Horror 9.9%, Multiplayer 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers the same high-stakes PvPvE extraction tension and gritty, dark atmospheric horror.

Tactical extraction shooter meets immersive survival horror. Play as rival mercenaries fighting for loot, or as alien monsters hunting humans from the shadows. Solo or with friends, experience this unique dark take on asymmetrical PvPvE multiplayer.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 44.1% ★, PvP 9.6%, Survival 9.3%, Shooter 8.8%, PvE 8.3%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on multiplayer extraction survival horror with terrifying atmospheric encounters.

2045. Life's never been cheaper. Shells mean you can come back if you have money. You used to. Now you're on the bottom in a cyberpunk sprawl. Claw your way back up through wet work as a Shell Runner, in a PvE extraction looter shooter, where a gig can make you rich - or broke.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 43.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 13.6%, Survival 11.9%, Shooter 9.9%, Roguelite 6.6%

Why You'll Like It: Features a tactical top-down extraction shooter experience centered around looting and survival.

Unravel a thrilling sci-fi mystery in this action-packed twin-stick roguelite shooter. Select your load-out, stack up temporary and persistent upgrades, and delve into the depths of a subterranean base, either alone or in a group of up to 3 players.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 20.4%, Top-Down Shooter 14.2%, Survival 10.7%, Roguelike 10.5%, Shooter 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: Provides intense top-down twin-stick shooter and roguelike action against monstrous foes.

Step into a world of shadow and obscurity as a lone survivor fighting to keep the darkness and the horrors that lurk within at bay. Seek out precious supplies, reinforce your arsenal, and uncover forbidden knowledge to unleash the terrifying powers of the ‘Old Ones’.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 22.8%, Top-Down Shooter 15.7%, Survival 12.3%, Roguelike 11.7%, Horror 10.1%

Why You'll Like It: Merges top-down survival with a bleak, lovecraftian horror atmosphere and roguelite progression.

RIFTSTORM is a co-op PvE looter-shooter where squads of Weavers deploy to take on missions, fight escalating hordes, collect powerful weapons and resources, and extract.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 35.7% ★, Twin Stick Shooter 17%, Top-Down Shooter 11.4%, Roguelite 7.3%, Shooter 6.9%

Why You'll Like It: Blends top-down action shooter mechanics with modern extraction and looter-shooter progression.

Slay hordes of terrifying monsters in this horde survival roguelite. Descend into the Halls of Torment where the Lords of the underworld await you. Treasures, magical trinkets, and a growing cast of heroes will grant you the power to vanquish these horrors from beyond. How long can you survive?

Why similar: Roguelike 24.1%, Roguelite 21.1%, Top-Down 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, RPG 9%

Why You'll Like It: Shares a similar dark fantasy, grim art style and relentless top-down survival combat.

Blood Running is a stylish extraction shooter where you'll enter the cyber-wasteland, fight off creatures and bandits, loot valuable gear, and venture into the remnants of a world in ruins. Are you willing to bleed to survive, Blood Runner?

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 53.5% ★, Survival 13.8%, Shooter 10.5%, Top-Down 9.8%, Pixel Graphics 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: Combines a cyberpunk, post-apocalyptic setting with looter-shooter extraction mechanics.

Atomic Exile is a top down post-apocalyptic extraction shooter set in the desert wastelands of near future America. You will visit enclaves, explore devastated ruins and encounter NPCs such as other survivors, raiders, mutated beasts and rogue machines.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 51.4% ★, Survival 14.6%, Shooter 10.6%, Top-Down 10.1%, Pixel Graphics 4.7%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses heavily on post-apocalyptic survival and high-risk extraction gameplay.

Disfigure is a grim-dark action rogue-like where you battle relentless hordes of monsters lurking in the shadows. Unlock powerful weapons, craft god-like builds with hundreds of upgrades, slay colossal bosses, and push your limits in intense 20–30 minute survival runs!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25.8%, Top-Down Shooter 18.3%, Roguelike 13.5%, Roguelite 9.2%, Top-Down 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: A dark, minimalist top-down shooter with horror elements and intense roguelike combat.

1923. You owe a gangster money. The answer is buried beneath Devil Reef — if the horrors lurking in the dark don’t claim your mind first. A Lovecraftian co-op roguelite for 1–4 players where your sanity is the real final boss.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 19%, Top-Down Shooter 15.2%, Noir 13.8%, Horror 10.1%, Shooter 7.9%

Why You'll Like It: Presents a top-down shooter wrapped in dark lovecraftian horror and roguelike mechanics.

Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.

Why similar: Roguelike 30.4%, Roguelite 21.8%, Shooter 20.9%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, 2D 6.8%

Why You'll Like It: Shares the distinctive hellish neon aesthetic and fast-paced arcade shooter action.

Night Raider is a thrilling adventure exploration shooter game. Players need to carry weapons into the city occupied by zombies, as far as possible in various buildings to collect necessary supplies, evacuate alive to bring supplies back to the camp. But you have to face are not just zombies...

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.1%, Extraction Shooter 20.8% ★, Shooter 13.3%, Top-Down 11%, Horror 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Incorporates tactical top-down shooting with deep inventory management and extraction elements.

Inspired by the iconic Call of Duty Zombies experience, Raining Blood Hellfire 1.0 is an intense survival bullet hell where chaos reigns and every round is a brutal battle for life — and absolute power. Kill, upgrade, explore, die, repeat.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25.2%, Top-Down Shooter 16.9%, Survival 11.8%, Roguelike 11.1%, Shooter 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A punishing top-down twin-stick shooter that matches the intense combat intensity of the seed game.

Doomed to Hell is a roguelike-like top-down shooter where you play as Rose, a human in hell who will need to fight all of its monsters in waves of enemies, defeat bosses, and get new weapons to earn back his life on earth.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 23%, Roguelike 16.4%, Shooter 13.4%, Top-Down Shooter 12.9%, Roguelite 10.3%

Why You'll Like It: Features frantic top-down shooter action set in a hostile underworld environment.

Horde Hunters is an objective-driven bullet heaven roguelite where you build powerful synergies, hire allies, use tactical items, and survive the hordes of hell.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 21.9%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Roguelike 13.6%, Roguelite 10.2%, Survival 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Features roguelike survival combat against overwhelming odds from a top-down view.

Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 49.6%, Horror 20%, Atmospheric 10.7%, RPG 10.5%, Action 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: Dives into dark alternate-history dungeon-crawling with roguelike action elements.

33 Days till Extraction is a top-down sci-fi action RPG shooter with roguelike progression. Harness brutal firepower and necromantic skills to survive.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 37.5% ★, Top-Down Shooter 18.6%, Roguelite 9.9%, Top-Down 7.9%, PvE 7.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on high-tension extraction and top-down shooter mechanics.

No Escape from Madness is a thrilling shooting adventure game that blends Lovecraftian elements with extraction gameplay. You will guide the self-sacrificing infantry operators into the Sector where The Elder One is poised to descend.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 56.7% ★, Top-Down Shooter 9.2%, Survival 8.5%, Shooter 6.6%, Top-Down 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends extraction shooter mechanics with survival and base-building in a dark setting.

ECHOES OF RED is a fast-paced roguelite shooter where you can carry unlimited weapons at once, face endless enemies ever stronger and build your perfect custom loadout. OBLITERATE tens of thousands of enemies who dared to challenge you and MAKE THEM REGRET STANDING AGAINST YOU.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 17.1%, Survival 13.6%, Shooter 10.5%, Roguelike 10.4%, Roguelite 9.9%

Why You'll Like It: Combines top-down survival mechanics with intense shooter action and dark themes.

Bullet Bunny is a twin-stick shooter with rogue-like elements. Fend off an onslaught of enemies, level up, and create unique builds every run while trying to survive 500 seconds!

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25.5%, Roguelike 15.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.6%, Top-Down 10.6%, Shooter 10.2%

Why You'll Like It: Delivers fast-paced twin-stick shooter action with roguelike progression.

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: Roguelike 17.1%, Survival 14.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.3%, Roguelite 10.9%, Top-Down 10%

Why You'll Like It: Offers survival-focused roguelike action from a top-down perspective.

If war is the closest we get to hell on earth, it's because Earth harbours the worst of demons: humankind. In an isolated country ravaged by infighting, discover the secrets of your past and deal with the repercussions of a mysterious calamity.

Why similar: Atmospheric 27.7%, RPG 27%, Action 19.1%, Adventure 16.5%, Singleplayer 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: Explores a similar bleak, hostile world centered around survival and grim combat themes.

EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE will throw you in a dark industrial environment, a secret facility on a japanese island. Each volunteer has signed a contract for a "recovery operation" without being privy to too many details. A tense roguelite survival horror with a top down perspective.

Why similar: Roguelike 22.6%, Top-Down 19%, Roguelite 18%, Horror 17.5%, Survival 14.5%

Why You'll Like It: Serves as a atmospheric teaser for the industrial horror top-down shooter experience.

Dark Light: Survivor is a dark sci-fi action roguelike with ARPG loot and third-person shooter combat. Switch anytime between top-down view and TPS aiming as you build weapons, skills, and classes across brutal multiverse runs.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 34.3%, Roguelike 28.3%, Atmospheric 9.7%, Horror 8.8%, Action 8%

A roguelite horde-survival bullet heaven with QUINTILLIONS of bullets over QUINTILLIONS of hordes. Mix weapons with items, modify, control chaos at terminals and break through tightening waves.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 21.3%, Top-Down Shooter 15.2%, Survival 11.2%, Roguelike 10.8%, Shooter 10%

"Gun Brothers" is a frantic top down shooter for 1-4 players.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 21.8%, Top-Down Shooter 15.3%, Shooter 11.2%, Top-Down 9.2%, Roguelite 8.8%

Why You'll Like It: Provides cooperative top-down shooter gameplay in gritty environments.

🔫👽 Adrenaline shooter-roguelike with a survival and suspense atmosphere. Caution and accuracy are as important as conserved ammo and an extra explosion that raises the alarm in the lair. Stock up on oxygen, batteries, and ammo to survive another terrifying night.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 26.4%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Shooter 11.8%, Top-Down 11.4%, Roguelike 10.9%

A light horror roguelike adventure through a post apocalyptic world, with airships.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 26.2% ★, Roguelike 17.3%, Horror 16.6%, Survival 14.7%, PvE 12.5%

HYPERHELL is a breakneck top-down movement shooter featuring the talents of several prolific hyperpop musicians. Obliterate your way through a colorful city of demons to reclaim what was stolen from you: a fully stocked fridge.

Why similar: Shooter 35.6%, Top-Down 30.4%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, 2D 9.5%, Action 7.7%

20 Minutes Till Dawn is a survival roguelite where endless hordes of creatures lurk from the dark. Craft an array of overpowering builds and eradicate waves of Lovecraftian nightmares. Will you be able to survive the night?

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.2%, Survival 21.1%, Roguelite 16%, Horror 15.8%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%

Welcome to the last city on Earth. Earn your keep and die trying in Pieces Interactive’s cyberpunk action rogue-like, featuring 1-4 player co-op. Travel down the sleepless cesspool of murderous vagrants and cybernetic freaks, as you slice and dice your way to the lower levels of Geoshelter Alpha.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 32%, Roguelike 16.8%, Roguelite 13.7%, PvP 13.7%, Top-Down 12.5%

Shoot hordes of zombies in a bullet hell roguelite arena. By day, harvest resources, unlock map areas, and prepare for the upcoming night. Craft unique strategies by combining characters, weapons, and exploring a vast ability tree.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 29.3%, Top-Down Shooter 22%, Top-Down 13.6%, Roguelite 12.5%, Roguelike 10.9%

An isometric roguelike third-person shooter about a ruined Earth and the unending chaos engulfing it. Fight hordes of the infected, gather loot, make allies, traverse spacetime, and venture into the depths of what we could've prevented.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.1%, Roguelike 27.8%, Roguelite 20.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.2%, 2D 6%

Boons & Burdens is a single player action-roguelike set in the depths of hell. Battle hordes of demons through 12 levels, collect gems to purchase powerful boons, and choose from deadly burdens that alter the game's difficulty. Will you be the paragon of power or the architect of your own defeat?

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 30.3%, Roguelike 16.5%, Shooter 12.4%, Top-Down 11.7%, Horror 8.9%

Delve into Keeper’s Toll, an action-packed roguelite brimming with challenge and despair. Survive against an onslaught of relentless hordes and grueling bosses with skill-based ARPG gameplay. Embrace the darkness and cleanse these cursed lands.

Why similar: Roguelike 21.8%, Roguelite 19.3%, Top-Down 15.9%, PvE 12.8%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%

Shred zombies and bandits, collect and upgrade weapons, and explore the beauty hidden within industrial decay in a new story-driven, top-down horror shooter. Survive one more day in the post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 25%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Shooter 17%, Horror 14.2%, Survival 13.4%

HELLBREAK is a fast-paced roguelite, survivor-like FPS where you fight through escalating waves in brutal arenas in Hell. Build powerful loadouts, earn favor from demon lords to unlock new gear, and climb the leaderboards for your salvation.

Why similar: Shooter 21%, Roguelite 19.6%, Survival 18.1%, PvE 16.8%, Horror 12.3%

In this unforgiving rogue-lite twin stick shooter, death awaits you behind every corner. Fight your way through hordes of monsters, eliminate bosses and loot their valuable items and body parts. With them you can enhance your own body, unlock powerful skills and create your own unique builds.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 36.8%, Roguelike 18.2%, Shooter 15.8%, Top-Down 14.7%, Roguelite 11%

Decimate thousands of demons on All Hallows' Eve to protect your infernal home. Wanted Shadows is a bullet heaven roguelite where the difference between overpowering and being overpowered lies in your skill and wit.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 28%, Roguelike 17.4%, Roguelite 13.7%, Top-Down 12.3%, Horror 10.8%

Battle through hordes of horrific creatures as you hack and slash your way to the top of the Tower in this rogue-like dungeon crawler game. Choose from a variety of upgrades and weapons, and save the Tower.

Why similar: Roguelike 19.1%, Survival 17%, Roguelite 16.6%, Top-Down 13.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%

Eradicate hordes of monsters in this survivors style roguelite set in a rotting, destructible city that hates you. Start fires, blow stuff up, electrify water, you name it. Upgrade & craft an arsenal of oddball weapons including pigeons riding boots. Unlock & upgrade offbeat characters & SURVIVE!

Why similar: Roguelite 38.1%, Horror 30.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, 2D 10.5%, Action 7.9%

A fast run and gun horror shooter with roguelike elements

Why similar: Roguelike 36%, Shooter 24.3%, Horror 15%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%, Action 9.3%

A Souls-Like Western full of Eldritch horrors. Explore the accursed Wild West town of Tombwater and lay bare the darkness that lies beneath. Survive blood-spilling combat in this gruesome 2D action-RPG that may just drive you to madness.

Why similar: Top-Down 29.1%, Horror 27.5%, RPG 14.7%, Pixel Graphics 13.5%, 2D 8.6%

Hell Shooter is a roguelike dungeon crawler game. It features unique attack methods, exhilarating action, an oriental hellish atmosphere, and each character's storytelling.

Why similar: Roguelike 22.3%, Shooter 19.9%, Roguelite 19%, PvE 16.7%, RPG 10.6%

Explore alien planets to mine resources, kill alien insects, build defense turrets, and survive waves of insect attacks across the galactic frontier. Astro Looter combines elements of survival, roguelike, and tower defense in a top-down shooter.

Why similar: Roguelike 17.3%, Top-Down Shooter 17.1%, Survival 14.3%, Roguelite 13.9%, Shooter 12%

IT HAS YOUR FACE. Now it wants your life. Hide, seek, and try to kill your clone in this deceptively simple first-person horror roguelite.

Why similar: Roguelike 15.7%, Horror 14.8%, Roguelite 14.5%, Shooter 14.2%, PvP 12.5%

Witchfire is a first-person dark fantasy RPG shooter in which you play as a wicked sinner turned witch hunter on his final mission to reach salvation.

Why similar: Extraction Shooter 39.2% ★, Shooter 13.1%, Roguelite 11.8%, Horror 10.4%, PvE 9.6%

Face the darkness in Moros Protocol, a pixel-painted sci-fi FPS roguelite. Survive the nightmare alone or with allies as you navigate the decaying warship, stalked by horrors and guided by a voice you don’t recognize. Adapt, upgrade, and push forward. You may be outnumbered, but not outmatched.

Why similar: Shooter 25.4%, Roguelite 23.3%, Horror 22%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Multiplayer 9.7%

DON’T DIE as you assemble a ridiculous arsenal of weapons and desperately hold out against massive hordes of creatures pulled from a variety of classic horror genres reminiscent of 80s and 90s Golden Age comics and B-movies in this stylish action-packed arcade roguelite.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 26.4%, Multiplayer 21.5%, Atmospheric 20.1%, Action 16.2%, Adventure 15.8%

Bloodshed is a Roguelite Survivors FPS; an exhilarating fusion of Roguelite elements merged with retro-styled visuals and first-person “Survivors-like” frenetic combat action!

Why similar: Shooter 33%, Roguelite 31.2%, Atmospheric 14.3%, Action 9%, Adventure 8.1%

Survive the horrors of the multiverse, alone or with your comrades, as you battle against an onslaught of insectoid like creatures. Combine abilities in different ways each loop to overcome and return safely to your universe.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 33%, Top-Down Shooter 19.7%, Roguelike 14.5%, Roguelite 10%, Multiplayer 9.9%

Brutal fast-paced isometric Co-op Loot Shooter in Cyberpunk world. Equipment-based combos. Exotic Weapons and Armor. Easy to start, hard to master. Play solo or with friends.

Why similar: Twin Stick Shooter 31.1%, Top-Down Shooter 21.4%, Top-Down 14.7%, PvE 11.9%, Shooter 9.4%