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Games Like Mutant Gate

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Singleplayer, Sci-fi, Shooter.

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After years in cryoprison, Dr. Green awakens on a mutant-infested Earth colony. Seeking redemption and his estranged daughter Anna, he battles through a ravaged planet in a 4-hour campaign of intense combat, encounters, and adventure. Mutant Gate has ASCII visuals & Steam Deck support.

Reviews: Very Positive — 90% — of 52 reviews
Released: 2015-12-14
Developer: Second Variety Games
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, Free To Play
Platforms: Windows

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  2. #2 EMPTY SHELL: PROLOGUE
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    Dev: CC ARTSPub: Hyperstrange
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    95% matchVery Positive80% of 56 reviews2023
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    Windows

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    93% matchVery Positive95% of 99 reviews2022
    Dev: David Schmidthoffer
    Windows · Mac · Linux

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    Windows

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    92% matchVery Positive92% of 64 reviews2021
    Dev: Squishy Games
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    1-Bit Roguelite Action Shooter.

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    91% matchVery Positive88% of 789 reviews2023
    Dev: CC ARTSPub: Hyperstrange
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    90% matchVery Positive90% of 115 reviews2020
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    Windows

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    Dev: tomo2515x
    Windows

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    89% matchVery Positive89% of 81 reviews2022
    Dev: Manpukuken Ramen
    Windows

    Abort, Retry, Fail is a top-down roguelike action adventure in which you play as a lazy programmer that has to generate his own weapon and shoot his way through hordes of enemies. Are you brave enough to help him escape from computer hell of Windows 98?

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    Windows
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    Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 29%, Difficult 22.2%, Roguelike 21.2%, Shooter 11.6%, Action 4.3%

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    Windows

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    87% matchMixed62% of 101 reviews2018
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    Windows

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    Windows
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
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    Windows · Linux
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    Windows
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    Windows

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    Dev: Talismanic Entertainment
    Windows

    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: Roguelike 50.3%, Sci-fi 21%, Action 14.1%, 2D 13.5%, Singleplayer 0.6%

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    Windows
    Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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    Dev: FromLefcourt
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%

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    80% matchMixed64% of 375 reviews2021
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    Windows
    Median: 1.1 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 53%

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    77% matchMostly Positive74% of 81 reviews2025
    Dev: Yummy Games
    Windows

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    Dev: Sleepy SentryPub: GrabTheGames
    Windows
    Median: 48 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%

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    78% matchVery Positive84% of 51 reviews2019
    Dev: Rymdfall AB
    Windows · Mac

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    Windows · Mac

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    77% matchVery Positive86% of 175 reviews2016
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    Windows
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%

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    76% matchVery Positive88% of 78 reviews2019
    Dev: Threaks
    Windows

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    76% matchMostly Positive78% of 223 reviews2016
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    Windows · Mac
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    74% matchVery Positive94% of 50 reviews2022
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    Windows

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    Windows

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    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 3,094 reviews2025
    Dev: Tinerasoft
    Windows
    Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 2.1 hrs≥1hr: 75%

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    73% matchMostly Positive78% of 60 reviews2024
    Dev: Cybernetic Studios LLC
    Windows

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    71% matchVery Positive89% of 97 reviews2025
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    72% matchVery Positive95% of 61 reviews2022
    Dev: neozoid.games
    Windows

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  39. #39 Biodrone Battle
    75% matchMixed52% of 282 reviews2015
    Dev: Bit Juggler
    Windows
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 95%

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    70% matchVery Positive83% of 423 reviews2024
    Dev: Arakuma Studio
    Windows

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    72% matchVery Positive85% of 2,891 reviews2013
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    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 1.3 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 62%

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    Windows

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    71% matchMostly Positive71% of 205 reviews2017
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    67% matchVery Positive97% of 181 reviews2023
    Dev: Crunchy Leaf Games
    Windows

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    68% matchVery Positive96% of 171 reviews2022
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    69% matchVery Positive94% of 362 reviews2017
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    Windows
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

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    65% matchVery Positive90% of 1,581 reviews2024
    Dev: ShortCake_CafePub: Engi_ee
    Windows

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    67% matchVery Positive94% of 145 reviews2024
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    Windows

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    68% matchVery Positive87% of 70 reviews2022
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    Windows

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  50. #50 Uragun
    68% matchMostly Positive74% of 243 reviews2023
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  51. #51 Cube Gothic
    69% matchMixed61% of 51 reviews2020
    Dev: Arkhouse TelegraphPub: Arkhouse Telegnosis
    Windows

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    66% matchVery Positive84% of 112 reviews2023
    Dev: Carson Kompon
    Windows

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    70% matchMostly Negative55% of 128 reviews2015
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    Windows · Linux
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 90%

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