- #1 Yar's Revenge
96% matchMixed66% of 88 reviews2011
Dev: Killspace EntertainmentPub: Atari
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 36%
Take flight as you explore exotic alien worlds and seek to avenge your fallen race
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 65.4% ★, Action 34.6%
- #2 Carnage in Space: Ignition
95% matchMixed64% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: John Brink
Windows · Mac · Linux
Use your fighting skill and superior agility to outmaneuver and dismantle foes in a fast-paced, vicious action-platformer! Fight your way through fierce battles and frantic platforming challenges! Earn your place as one of the galaxy's legends - if you can survive to the end!
Why similar: Action 35.1%, On-Rails Shooter 30.2% ★, Indie 25%, Space 5.5%, Futuristic 4.2%
- #3 Hyper Fighters
96% matchMostly Negative23% of 426 reviews2014
Dev: Team 6 StudiosPub: Funbox Media Ltd
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 15%
Hyper Fighters brings back the rail shooter as you know it from the arcade: fast, explosive, addictive, and easy to learn: but so hard to beat the number one highscore! Fourteen trigger-happy arcade-fun stages are now available for one or two players: Shoot dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of enemies out of the sky and water with...
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 69.1% ★, Action 30.9%
- #4 Major Mayhem
94% matchVery Positive84% of 308 reviews2014
Dev: Rocket Jump
Windows
Median: 1.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Arcade cover shooter inspired by Time Crisis, Metal Slug and 80's action heros! He's got an itchy trigger finger, some scratchy stubble, and a fondness for shooting dudes in the face. Run and gun your way through gorgeous 3D environments as you embark on a mission to rescue your kidnapped girlfriend from the Forces of Evil.
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 65.7% ★, Action 21.2%, Indie 13.2%
- #5 Cytoclash
94% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Setrino Software LLC
Windows
Cytoclash is an action-packed lightgun-style shooter that calls upon you as Earth's best hope against a monstrous alien invasion! Suit-up and blast your way through hordes of enemies and massive bosses in the debut release from Setrino Software!
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 50.1% ★, Action 28.9%, Indie 21%
- #6 Geo Fighters
91% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: BoucyGamesPub: Alphanu Game Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Geo Fighters is an on rails, single player arcade style space shooter influenced by Geometry Wars. Single level infinite play mode getting progressively harder. Fight to put you name on the leaderboard and become the All time leader.
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 61.9% ★, Action 25.3%, Space 6.8%, Indie 6%
- #7 Heavy Fire: Afghanistan
92% matchMixed57% of 415 reviews2014
Dev: TeyonPub: Mastiff
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Heavy Fire: Afghanistan is a super fast playing on-rails shooter set in modern-day Afghanistan featuring tanks, assault vehicles and helicopters. The game offers 60 awards, one machine co-op for up to four, Steam Cloud, Leaderboards and Trading Cards.
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 80.7% ★, Action 19.3%
- #8 RAYGUN COMMANDO VR 2
91% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: Chun Y.
Windows
a short on-rail reaction shooter in VR
Why similar: Action 37.2%, On-Rails Shooter 35.7% ★, Indie 27.1%
- #9 Tex-Mechs
89% matchVery Positive90% of 216 reviews2020
Dev: SMU Guildhall
Windows
Pilot a mech through the barrens of Texas and fight off the threat of an insect horde. Tex-Mechs was made by students at SMU Guildhall.
Why similar: Action 47.6%, Indie 33.8%, Mechs 18.7% ★
- #10 Chaos Control
90% matchMixed54% of 35 reviews2018
Dev: InfogramesPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 102.2 hrs≥1hr: 40%
Chaos Control, a super-production designed entirely on Silicon Graphics, takes you to the heart of a fantastic epic that blends cyberculture, virtual travel and manga graphics. At the controls of a space fighter, your dangerous missions will lead you into a unique spectacle with multiple, fantastic sets in full screen 3D vision.
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 65.1% ★, Action 34.9%
- #11 Axeson's Fury VR
89% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2020
Dev: Axeson Games
Windows
Axeson's Fury VR throws you into an intensely combative arcade style virtual reality environment that will have you fighting for your life and that of your family as society is turned by dark unknown forces. Become John Axeson and be all you can be... one mean slick fighting machine!
Why similar: Action 43.1%, Indie 31.4%, On-Rails Shooter 25.5% ★
- #12 Why Neon Lights Again?
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hero Cobra
Windows · Mac
Retro cyberpunk shooter/shooting gallery to play with a friend or on your own. Shoot bad guys and bosses with different weapons, fly on cars, check the story revealed in a comic book style.
Why similar: Action 37.2%, On-Rails Shooter 35.7% ★, Indie 27.1%
- #13 Star Boy and The Captain of Outer Space
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Not Unlike Games
Windows
Star Boy and the Captain of Outer Space is a On Rails Sci-Fi Space Shooter Adventure from Not Unlike Games! Featuring light Third Person Shooter element, Multiple Playable Characters, and a Dynamic Story!
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 61% ★, Action 24.9%, Space 8.4%, Indie 5.7%
- #14 Thirst VR
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 123 reviews2016
Dev: RLTY CHK
Windows
A battle rages over the last of the worlds water. Your transport train is the only hope for thousands. Protect the train - Humanity's survival depends on it!
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 51.3% ★, Action 28.2%, Indie 20.5%
- #15 Gunlok
86% matchMixed67% of 15 reviews2019
Dev: Rebellion
Windows
At the end of the 21st Century, robots finally enslaved mankind. Desperately, a few pockets of the human resistance fight on. You are Gunlok, a member of Earth’s Special Forces. Isolated during the robots’ uprising, you’ve now mastered your experimental battle armour and decided to return from the wilderness.
Why similar: Futuristic 100%
- #16 Outbreak: Lost Hope
85% matchMixed66% of 29 reviews2019
Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
Windows · Linux
Help a mother survive against the undead and find her her lost daughter in this hardcore survival horror nightmare.
Why similar: Difficult 100%
- #17 Al-Qadim: The Genie's Curse
83% matchPositive90% of 31 reviews2022
Dev: Cyberlore StudiosPub: SNEG
Windows
Experience the mysterious Al-Qadim game world and prepare for arcade-style combat and role-playing genre - all in the style of Arabian Nights! Diverging from the Gold Box formula, Al-Qadim allows you to experience the immersion and thrill of an AD&D adventure with a condensed role-playing system.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #18 Dungeons & Dragons - Stronghold: Kingdom Simulator
82% matchPositive90% of 48 reviews2022
Dev: Stormfront StudiosPub: SNEG
Windows
Run your own kingdom in the legendary Dungeons & Dragons game world. In this remarkable kingdom simulator, your goal is to become Emperor by building and expanding your stronghold in competition against opposing computer-controlled kingdoms.
- #19 Ray's The Dead
84% matchMixed59% of 64 reviews2020
Dev: Ragtag Studio
Windows
Experience the life, and afterlife of Ray LaMorte as you unlock the mystery behind his death in this heart-warming dark comedy action adventure!
Why similar: Action 71.2%, Indie 28.8%
- #20 Bounty Battle
84% matchMostly Negative30% of 64 reviews2020
Dev: Dark Screen Games
Windows
Bounty Battle is the ultimate indie fighting game: a new multiplayer 2D fighter, where you can pit your favourite indie heroes against one another! Indie heroes from games like Guacamelee! and Darkest Dungeon, to Dead Cells, Owlboy & more battle it out in this fighter frenzy.
Why similar: Action 63.5%, Indie 36.5%
- #21 Populous™
79% matchVery Positive85% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Bullfrog ProductionsPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Move mountains, part the seas, and lead mortal armies to victory in Populous. Take on the powers of a mighty deity and battle for supremacy against an enemy god, using thoughtful strategy to shape the isometric world and the fate of its people.
- #22 Black Widow: Recharged
81% matchMostly Positive75% of 53 reviews2021
Dev: Adamvision StudiosPub: Atari
Windows · Mac · Linux
Defend your spider web from an onslaught of bugs in this frenetic revival of the cult classic twin-stick shooter, all while jamming to an infectious original score by Megan McDuffee. Play solo or tag in a friend for local co-op across 30 unique challenges or the endless arcade mode.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #23 RESEARCH and DESTROY
80% matchVery Positive93% of 54 reviews2022
Dev: Implausible IndustriesPub: Spike Chunsoft Co., Ltd.
Windows
RESEARCH and DESTROY is a TURN-BASED ACTION GAME with local and online co-op. Take control of three brilliant scientists as you RESEARCH and develop strange new weapons and gadgets to DESTROY the Supernatural hordes that have all but crushed humanity!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #24 GRIDD: Retroenhanced
81% matchVery Positive86% of 78 reviews2017
Dev: Antab StudioPub: Kongregate
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 88%
GRIDD: Retroenhanced is an intense arcade-style cyberpunk hacking shoot 'em up with an incredible soundtrack, procedurally generated elements, and electric visuals.
Why similar: On-Rails Shooter 53.7% ★, Action 26.8%, Indie 19.5%
- #25 Gravitar: Recharged
78% matchVery Positive84% of 57 reviews2022
Dev: Adamvision StudiosPub: Atari
Windows · Mac · Linux
The cult classic Gravitar has been Recharged. Complete missions in each solar system, navigating a variety of challenging environments, each with varying levels of gravity that will test your skills as a pilot before unlocking new solar systems to explore.
Why similar: Action 79.7%, Space 20.3%
- #26 Imperium Galactica
79% matchVery Positive93% of 157 reviews2017
Dev: Digital RealityPub: THQ Nordic
Windows
Imperium Galactica. The Universe is yours... if you can handle it. The fourth millennium. Mankind has colonised the galaxy. Created an Empire. Now, it is crumbling. The aliens are restless. The oppressed are building armies. And a strange invader is headed for the heart of the Empire.
- #27 Rise Eterna 2
74% matchMixed65% of 23 reviews2025
Dev: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows
Strategize, fight tactical battles and shape the destiny of a war-torn kingdom.
- #28 The Handler of Dragons
77% matchMixed67% of 27 reviews2021
Dev: Hi-Quality Jerzy CalinskiPub: Spirit Games Studio
Windows
In the RPG game The Handler of Dragons you play as a warrior who can speak to the dragons. How did it happen? What will be the consequences? Are you going to protect dragons at all costs? How far will you go to obtain their power? The adventure begins...
Why similar: Action 100%
- #29 FatCat with Hat - Reload the Powergun
78% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2020
Dev: Mathias Neubert
Windows
FatCat's life is relaxed. But one day his great love Mrs.Cat is kidnapped by the nasty FatDog. FatCat immediately sets out to save his beloved, but the cunning FatDog is prepared. He sends his henchmen to take out the unloved adversary.
Why similar: Action 55.6%, Indie 39.9%, Difficult 4.5%
- #30 Mob Control
74% matchMixed68% of 115 reviews2024
Dev: VOODOOPub: QubicGames
Windows
Are you ready to become the ultimate champion in the world of tower defense battles? Create, grow and lead!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #31 Last Kids on Earth and the Staff of Doom
77% matchMixed56% of 27 reviews2021
Dev: Stage Clear StudiosPub: Outright Games Ltd.
Windows
Join Jack and his friends in an epic, post-apocalyptic quest to save our world from the Queen of the Slime Monsters!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #32 Lornsword Winter Chronicle
76% matchMixed67% of 43 reviews2019
Dev: Tower Five
Windows
Lornsword Winter Chronicle is a story-driven action strategy game. Be the general on the battlefield and take direct action to command your soldiers and set up your economy. The Lorn Empire counts on you, keep your mind pure and your Lornsword sharp!
Why similar: Action 67.6%, Indie 32.4%
- #33 Virtual Reality Girls
76% matchMixed47% of 36 reviews2017
Dev: ErosVR
Windows
Virtual Reality Girls is experience for people which admire beauty. Sit comfortably in your armchair, put on VR googles and transfer yourself to terrace located in the middle of big metropolis. Play around as choreographer, pick outfit, dance type and surrounding for the beautiful female dancer.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #34 Ghostly Matter
75% matchMixed67% of 49 reviews2018
Dev: Small BrosPub: Milestone S.r.l.
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Ghostly Matter is a metroidvania with elements borrowed from graphic adventures. The year is 1986. A professor obsessed with the paranormal, an old friend who disappeared mysteriously. Time to arm yourself with the best anti-ghost technology and set off in search of the truth.
Why similar: Action 60%, Indie 40%
- #35 DEADCRAFT
73% matchMostly Positive71% of 153 reviews2022
Dev: Marvelous Inc.Pub: XSEED Games
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 7.3 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Farm the dead to stay alive in DEADCRAFT, a new twist on the zombie survival-action genre! As a half-zombie, grow an army of loyal undead followers and build an arsenal to equip them to take revenge on the rulers of humanity's last city.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #36 Armada 2526
75% matchMixed54% of 35 reviews2011
Dev: Ntronium GamesPub: Iceberg Interactive
Windows
Guide one of 12 races on their first interstellar journey from a single planet, until it becomes a mighty pan-galactic empire.
- #37 Valkyrius Prime
73% match9 user reviews100% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: Iridescent Games
Windows
Fight through countless enemies and hulking bosses in this indie shoot-'em-up! Teleport to dodge enemy fire, then counter with an assortment of powerful weapons. Valkyrius Prime features all new character art and story, plus many more improvements over the original.
Why similar: Action 59%, Indie 41%
- #38 StarSmashers
73% matchMostly Negative33% of 21 reviews2017
Dev: Wayne JacksonPub: War Hungry Games
Windows
You are Captain Carter, of the Space Beagle. Ahead lies an army lead by the scumbag Kaldor Seth, he will obliterate all who oppose him in his pursuit of power. Carefully manage your ships weapons and defenses to bring your enemies to their knees!
Why similar: Action 61.2%, Indie 38.8%
- #39 Graveball
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2018
Dev: Goin' Yumbo GamesPub: 3D Realms
Windows
Graveball is a multiplayer game where teams of goblins play a game of graveyard rugby while smashing each other with clubs. Death is not the end! Respawn as a ghost to move swiftly into position and summon a new goblin from the earth!
Why similar: Action 59%, Indie 41%
- #40 Rise Eterna War
67% matchMixed50% of 21 reviews2024
Dev: MakeePub: Forever Entertainment S. A.
Windows
Rise Eterna War tells the bloody tale of Arthbane, a great general who led the last stand to reclaim his homeland Ars Rare from foreign invaders. Play as Arthbane, 10 years before the events of Rise Eterna, rallying loyalists in a desperate bid to seize the capital Gaiacus.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #41 Beyond the Wall
72% matchMostly Negative38% of 16 reviews2017
Dev: Leprechaun Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
The world is in chaos. Avalon V is the last paradise on Earth. Here, behind huge walls, people live a quiet and happy life. But what lies beyond the wall? You have to find the answers to this question. The player's main task is to survive, to interact with the NPC and surrounding world.
Why similar: Action 57.9%, Indie 42.1%
- #42 Ravensword: Undaunted
70% matchMixed51% of 71 reviews2021
Dev: Trimatra InteractivePub: Crescent Moon Games
Windows
Ravensword: Undaunted is a FPS dungeon crawler inspired by Hexen and Heretic, set within the Ravensword Universe.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #43 Escape Game - FORT BOYARD 2022
69% matchMostly Positive70% of 10 reviews2022
Dev: Balio StudioPub: Microids
Windows · Mac
Travel back in time and try to escape the Fort!Fort Boyard awaits you with numerous challenges to take-up solo, with family or even with your friends
Why similar: Action 100%
- #44 Syndrome VR
71% matchMostly Negative36% of 14 reviews2017
Dev: Bigmoon Entertainment
Windows
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run. Hide. Fight. Survive. Includes a Survival Game mode in Full VR.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #45 Outbreak: Contagious Memories
68% matchMixed66% of 35 reviews2022
Dev: Dead Drop Studios LLC
Windows · Linux
You’re trapped in a city ravaged by the undead - can you make it out alive? Join Lydia in her desperate struggle to escape, either alone or with a friend in co-op, in this chilling love letter to classic 90s survival horror.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #46 Thick Air
71% matchMixed46% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: People Gotta Play
Windows
In the world devoid of human life our sentient machines are left to simulate the life they once knew. With no one to watch them, the swarm of flying drones built for one purpose - RACE - compete each into eternity other across various landscapes and settings.
Why similar: Indie 55.9%, Difficult 44.1%
- #47 Jaques Roque
71% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2015
Dev: Thomas SchreiterPub: Augusta Software GmbH
Windows
Solve difficult mysteries and collect tons of treasures in more than 100 challenging levels. You assist Jaques Roque in becoming a rich archeology superstar by solving simple to tricky mysteries.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #48 Giga Girl
70% matchMostly Positive79% of 24 reviews2016
Dev: Outgunned Games
Windows
Giga Girl is a retro run ‘n gun platformer heavily influenced by, and paying homage to, the original NES Mega Man games.
Why similar: Action 59%, Indie 41%
- #49 Insane Insects: The Inception
70% matchMostly Negative20% of 10 reviews2016
Dev: Bad Cast gamesPub: Strategy First
Windows
Played over five uniquely different arenas, Insane Insects - The Inception is an airborne Quake III on steroids, a classic old-school fragging game, speed, movement and skill based.
Why similar: Action 55.8%, Indie 44.2%
- #50 Tanita: A Plasticine Dream
69% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2015
Dev: Trickster GamesPub: Akella
Windows
Entertaining story to take part in using crazy machines to interesting puzzles.
- #51 Metal Soldiers 2
68% matchMixed61% of 30 reviews2017
Dev: Play365
Windows
Lock ‘n Load! Get your weapons ready for the ultimate action game.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #52 The Spirit of the Samurai
63% matchMixed60% of 469 reviews2024
Dev: Digital Mind Games
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 61%
A village in peril. A samurai reanimated. An Oni advancing. Fight an army of undead warriors and Japanese monsters as a human, a Kodama, and a cat in this 2D stop-motion action adventure.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #53 Populous™ II: Trials of the Olympian Gods
63% matchMostly Positive74% of 35 reviews2024
Dev: Bullfrog ProductionsPub: Electronic Arts
Windows
Become the god you were born to be.
- #54 Smells Like a Mushroom
62% matchPositive85% of 33 reviews2024
Dev: Red Limb StudioPub: Destructive Creations
Windows
Boomer jokes ✅ Vegetable puns ✅ Strange characters ✅ Join the Aveggers to fight through the solar system in a dynamic third-person platformer shooter and defeat the alien mushroom invasion. 99% silly, 100% vegan!
Why similar: Action 62%, Indie 38%
- #55 Another Crusade
63% matchMostly Positive80% of 59 reviews2023
Dev: Dragon Vein Studios
Windows
Discover a 3d wooden puppet style world while exploring as a platformer, and taking battles in a turn-based combat as an old school RPG where timing and strategy are the keys to victory!
- #56 Assault On Proxima
61% matchMostly Positive76% of 46 reviews2025
Dev: Delta Video GamesPub: indie.io
Windows
Lock and load with Strike Force Delta in this action-packed sci-fi FPS! Play solo or team up to blast through hordes of Gacrux alien invaders, save humanity’s colonies, and dominate intense PvP showdowns. Gear up, soldier, and get ready to lead the Assault on Proxima!
Why similar: Action 65.7%, Space 34.3%