- #1 StarMech
97% matchMixed69% of 16 reviews2022
Dev: Blue Wizard Labs
Windows
Transform your mech to fight, upgrade, and survive long enough to jump to safety in this bullet hell roguelite.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 26.6%, Bullet Hell 23.9%, Mechs 23.6% ★, Roguelike 14.2%, 2D 3.7%
- #2 Swarm Grinder
96% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,171 reviews2024
Dev: Last Bite GamesPub: Null State Protocol
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 6.4 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Mechs 25.4% ★, Bullet Hell 18.3%, Action Roguelike 18%, Roguelike 13.9%, Procedural Generation 10.5%
- #3 I'm Not Sleepy
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: I Nod
Windows
In this fast-paced arena roguelike, you're a clown, a baker, a robot, a ballerina... or maybe you're just asleep! Battle hordes of bizarre baddies, collect curious items, and select powerful upgrades to enhance the unique abilities of your growing roster of playable characters.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 31.2%, Bullet Hell 28.8%, Roguelike 18.4%, Top-Down 12.5%, 2D 4.8%
- #4 Steel Swarm: SURVIVOR
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Clay Token Game Studio, Inc.
Windows
Steel Swarm: SURVIVOR is a fast-paced roguelite survivors game where you obliterate swarms with your drones. Set up formations, upgrade your drones, and overwhelm hordes of metal in each run. Take on enemy waves solo or in multiplayer co-op!
Why similar: Mechs 21.5% ★, Bullet Hell 20.2%, Action Roguelike 20.1%, Roguelike 13.8%, Procedural Generation 9.6%
- #5 Stay in the rhythm
76% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Game Virgo
Windows
Fight, dodge, and strike to the phonk beat in a dark cyberpunk city where rhythm is your only weapon. Stay sharp. Stay alive. Stay in the rhythm.
Why similar: Audio Production 49.9% ★, Action Roguelike 14%, Bullet Hell 13.5%, Roguelike 11.5%, Top-Down 6.3%
- #6 人形作战兵器 Automata
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AliveGameStudio
Windows
Massive mutant creatures are coming at you, control your automata to beat them!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 39.8%, Action Roguelike 29.8%, Roguelike 24.1%, Action 5.3%, Singleplayer 1%
- #7 WASarD
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Heartbeast
Windows · Linux
WASarD is a rogue-lite single stick shooter. Maneuver your auto-casting wizard between dangerous enemies and hundreds of projectiles. Purchase passive charms, unlock permanent wards, and use powerful relics to give yourself an edge in each new randomly generated dungeon.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 36.2%, Action Roguelike 31.8%, Roguelike 22.4%, 2D 5.9%, Action 3.4%
- #8 Echoes of Essence
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BrakenPub: NA
Windows
A fast-paced top down survivor-like with rpg elements. Battle relentless enemy waves, collect magic essence, and unlock powerful upgrades. Use essence to repair machines and revive forgotten technology as you grow stronger with each run. Fight, upgrade, and restore life to a broken world.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 31.1%, Bullet Hell 28.7%, Roguelike 17.7%, Top-Down 8.8%, Futuristic 4.1%
- #9 Steel Chaos
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Inmersionbit
Windows
STEEL CHAOS is a fast-paced survival roguelite. Control a deadly flying mech, stack devastating upgrades, create insane synergies, and wipe entire enemy fleets from the sky.
Why similar: Mechs 29.3% ★, Action Roguelike 26.6%, Bullet Hell 24.3%, Top-Down 11.8%, Futuristic 3.2%
- #10 Tales of Meow: Survivors
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The Lying Cat Studio
Windows
Play as adorable cats and fight against endless waves of enemies in this roguelike game! Empower yourself with ever-growing abilities, create powerful builds, and use a wide variety of active items to handle any situation. It’s time to defeat your enemies!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.4%, Bullet Hell 30.6%, Roguelike 23.7%, 2D 5.4%, Action 2.2%
- #11 Egg-flation
72% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: LexicaWorks
Windows
Fight back against economic chaos in this fast-paced action roguelike. Survive relentless waves of enemies using procedural upgrades to craft unique Tank, Speedster, or Glass Cannon builds. Experience intense 2D survival as a chicken reclaiming the market.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 27.3%, Bullet Hell 24.1%, Roguelike 18.7%, Top-Down 9.5%, Procedural Generation 8%
- #12 Satsuman
71% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: al2g
Windows
Slice zombie veggies, stack insane weapons, and survive the chaos! Play as a furious mandarin warrior in this fast-paced roguelite arena shooter with endless upgrades and global leaderboards.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 31.8%, Action Roguelike 28.5%, Roguelike 19.5%, Top-Down 7%, 2D 4.9%
- #13 少女与机甲/Girls And Robots
72% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: 1ming益铭
Windows
Girls and Robots is a rougelike game.Player can pick three diferent girls and robots, to make a special team to fight with monsters and bugs .They will face thounds monsters and bugs, fight, live, evolution and find the trueth of the lost world.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24.4%, Action Roguelike 22.7%, Roguelike 19.1%, Procedural Generation 16.3%, Top-Down 10.5%
- #14 Arcane Overdrive
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nords
Windows
Arcane Overdrive, is a survivor-like game where you combine different vehicle parts to create your own gameplay and movement style.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 25.8%, Bullet Hell 23.9%, Vehicular Combat 23.8% ★, Roguelike 14.8%, Top-Down 6%
- #15 Tribe of Werewolves
71% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Gokmen Bolat
Windows
Tribe of Werewolves is a rogue-lite survival game where you fight against hordes of creatures using various weapons and spells. Survive as a bloodthirsty werewolf and save all the tribe members!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 29.3%, Bullet Hell 27%, Roguelike 15.4%, Procedural Generation 10.2%, Top-Down 9.6%
- #16 Fantasynth One
73% matchVery Positive95% of 479 reviews2017
Dev: HelloEnjoy
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Fantasynth One is an audio-reactive experience designed for Virtual Reality. Glide through a procedurally populated environment that comes alight with electronic music by French producer N'to.
Why similar: Audio Production 100% ★
- #17 Final Orbit
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Dan Epic studios
Windows
Final Orbit is a roguelike space adventure where you travel from planet to planet, upgrade your ship, and battle through relentless enemies in your quest to defeat the boss on Planet 10.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 28.8%, Action Roguelike 22.6%, Roguelike 18%, Top-Down 10%, Vehicular Combat 7.1% ★
- #18 Neon City Survivor
70% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2023
Dev: Scarlet Whale
Windows
Neon City Survivor is a top-down arena shooter that offers multiple ways to create builds around skills that can be specialized around automatic or manual casting. Explore the city through missions, unlock new characters, skills, upgrades to combine and save the city!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 32.7%, Mechs 22.2% ★, Bullet Hell 19.5%, Roguelike 17.3%, Action 5.3%
- #19 Spoils of a Starfighter
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: R J L Jones
Windows
A space survival roguelike where you upgrade your ship over the course of the game, and unlock new ships and weapon mods as you progress over multiple games.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 29.9%, Bullet Hell 25.1%, Roguelike 18.9%, Top-Down 9.9%, Action 6.1%
- #20 Splash Carnival
69% matchPositive83% of 24 reviews2024
Dev: PandoraCubePub: Sejong Univ. PandoraCube
Windows
Splash Carnival is roguelike shooting game featuring paintball weapons. Arm yourself with diverse low-durability weapons, splash the enemies and move forward! Welcome to the Splash Carnival~!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 32.5%, Bullet Hell 28.1%, Roguelike 21.4%, Top-Down 8.3%, 2D 4%
- #21 Orbital Arena
69% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: UnsoughtSpoon
Windows
An Incremental Rogue-Lite Game that is exactly the PERFECT difficulty. You have the ability to adjust your stats, your enemies stats, and even your enemy count. All of which reflect back to how many resources you acquire during the game.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.7%, Bullet Hell 30.8%, Roguelike 17.3%, Top-Down 10.5%, 2D 3.9%
- #22 Ignifugo
68% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Real Crab Games
Windows
Ignifugo is a top-down action roguelike where you control a combat shell and modify it with auto-triggering units. Take advantage of class bonuses, items and abilities to create unique builds as you fight blazing battles in different biomes. Can you manage the heat or be reduced to ash?
Why similar: Action Roguelike 20.5%, Mechs 18.1% ★, Bullet Hell 18.1%, Procedural Generation 13%, Roguelike 10.6%
- #23 Vital Shell
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,426 reviews2026
Dev: MarvinWizard
Windows · Linux
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 64%
Vital Shell is a single player top-down arena shooter that puts you in control of mechs inspired by classic fantasy archetypes. Unlock powerful synergies with unique weapons, traits, and abilities as you take on increasingly challenging waves of enemies in a shattered realm.
Why similar: Mechs 34.3% ★, Action Roguelike 20.6%, Bullet Hell 20.5%, Top-Down 10.3%, Roguelike 10%
- #24 Cultivation Story: Reincarnation
67% matchVery Positive92% of 2,013 reviews2023
Dev: Chi Entertainment Corp.
Windows
Median: 7.6 hrsMean: 11.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Cultivation Story: Reincarnation is a top-down pixel art style action roguelike based on cultivation and Chinese mythology.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 30.4%, Bullet Hell 25.5%, Roguelike 16.5%, Top-Down 9.9%, Procedural Generation 9.1%
- #25 Fleshinsane® Forgotten Empire
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fleshinsane teamPub: Skullcap Studios
Windows
Fleshinsane is a top-down biopunk roguelike shooter set inside a living, decaying spaceship. Kill, die, upgrade, repeat. Will you survive long enough to escape the flesh?
Why similar: Bullet Hell 31.7%, Action Roguelike 26.9%, Roguelike 18.2%, Procedural Generation 8.7%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #26 WZRDS
66% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2025
Dev: Elmok
Windows
WZRDS is a Horde Survival Roguelite where you destroy waves of spirits with powerful spells and abilities. Mix and Match weapons and set bonuses, choose between dozens of items, create unique and powerful builds, and survive
Why similar: Action Roguelike 32.9%, Bullet Hell 28%, Roguelike 18.4%, Top-Down 13.5%, Action 3.5%
- #27 Maldhalla
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: eyejoker
Windows · Mac · Linux
Crush endless waves of creatures and become absurdly overpowered! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters, and upgrade weapons to craft insane builds that obliterate everything on screen.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 37.7%, Bullet Hell 31.1%, Roguelike 24%, 2D 5%, Action 2.2%
- #28 Run and Gun
69% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Inspiring Games
Windows
Run and Gun is an action roguelike shooting game where you mow down thousands of enemies while unlocking newer and deadlier weapons. The enemies won't stop spawning, and your guns won't stop firing. Earn gold each run to unlock permanent upgrades to make your next run deadlier.
Why similar: Mechs 29.5% ★, Action Roguelike 20.7%, Bullet Hell 17.6%, Roguelike 14.4%, Top-Down 9.5%
- #29 Endless Spaceship
68% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2023
Dev: Marafigo Games
Windows
Defend yourself from thousands of obstacles and enemies, the more points, the better placed in the world ranking!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 31.4%, Bullet Hell 27.2%, Roguelike 18.4%, Procedural Generation 14.5%, 2D 4.6%
- #30 Survivors Guild
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quickstraw
Windows
A survivors-like bullet heaven with 1-4 player ONLINE CO-OP. Battle across the realm and take on hordes of monsters! Strategically choose your weapons and items to craft powerful builds, challenge bosses, and complete quests. Unlock new characters and unleash their unique weapons and abilities.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.3%, Bullet Hell 30.4%, Roguelike 18.5%, Top-Down 13.5%, Action 3.9%