- #1 BackStreet
97% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Team_BackStreet
Windows
BackStreet is a 3D action roguelite game that combines dynamic combo-based combat with deep strategic elements, all with simple controls. Stand against the tyranny of the corrupted city management AI, 3COS, in a world abandoned by humans due to environmental devastation.
Why similar: Strategy 31.8%, Action Roguelike 26.4%, Action 21.5%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Combat 7%
- #2 Neon Paddles: Revenge of the Ball
96% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: kbkbkbit
Windows
Become a thirsty for revenge pong ball, reverse the situation, and destroy paddles that used you as their plaything, shatter anything that stands in your way! Neon paddles: Revenge of the Ball is a reverse pong game with rogue-like elements.
Why similar: Destruction 36.9%, Action Roguelike 22.7%, Action 17.3%, Top-Down 16.8%, Combat 5.2%
- #3 WARZOOM
96% matchPositive81% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: LOUIE SCOTT WATKINS
Windows
Warzoom A Game Of Dynamic Strategy is a fantastic game that's easy to learn and loads of fun to play! It's a tit-for-tat with no two games ever alike. Non stop action from the beginning to the end. Prepare for battle!
Why similar: Strategy 38.7%, Action Roguelike 27.8%, Action 20.2%, Combat 11.6%, Indie 1.8%
- #4 Break the Maze
95% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Nerd Chomp
Windows
Top-down shooter with only one target: THE MAZE. Build your arsenal, upgrade abilities, and blast through walls to escape the ever-shifting maze before it can trap you forever.
Why similar: Destruction 29.5%, Action Roguelike 25.5%, Action 20.5%, Top-Down 15.5%, Combat 6.6%
- #5 Coin McGee
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: KINETOPub: Yeast Studios
Windows
A bullet hell roguelike where you dodge by flipping a coin. Each side—Heads or Tails—has its own abilities. Build dual loadouts, flip to dodge and trigger powers, then survive waves of relentless enemies. Every flip matters.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 33.2%, Action 22.5%, Top-Down 19.7%, Strategy 11.9%, Combat 9.7%
- #6 ShaQu
93% matchMixed67% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Winj
Windows
This is a vampire survivor game, players get experience points by killing monsters, and then upgrade spells or props, there are a variety of spells and props for players to upgrade, players can choose spells or Props, how to clear the level, survive for 10 minutes and then defeat the final boss.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 42.7%, Top-Down 23.8%, Action 21.7%, Combat 8.5%, Indie 2%
- #7 Demolition Inc.
94% matchMostly Positive78% of 293 reviews2011
Dev: Zeroscale
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 50%
Assume the role of the daring demolition worker Mike and start a devastating chain reaction on earth!
Why similar: Destruction 46.9%, Strategy 33.3%, Action 15.5%, Indie 4.3%
- #8 SlimeBattle
92% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: JunWuYou
Windows
In the game, players will play as a slime and, by defeating swarms of small monsters, continuously upgrade and unlock up to 6 spells and items. By allocating basic attribute points, spell points, they can create their own combat style and eventually defeat the boss and achieve their own legend.
Why similar: Strategy 33.9%, Action 22.8%, Action Roguelike 22.7%, Top-Down 12.5%, Combat 5.6%
- #9 Greatsword Arena
91% matchNo user reviews
Dev: mxwbq
Windows
Greatswords, all greatswords. Hold your greatsword tightly and kill the enemy!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 50.9%, Top-Down 29.7%, Action 17.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%
- #10 Void Survivors
90% matchVery Positive88% of 74 reviews2023
Dev: SoulBlade Studio LLC
Windows
Void Survivors is a fast-paced action roguelike game where you have to survive relentless hordes of monsters for 20 minutes!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 43.7%, Top-Down 25%, Action 20.2%, Combat 7.8%, Indie 2.1%
- #11 Armoured Alliance
91% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2019
Dev: WobblyTrout
Windows · Mac · Linux
Control a tank in this realtime action strategy battle to capture all the bases. Use overpowered turrets to destroy your enemies by yourself or as a team.
Why similar: Strategy 47.6%, Action 30.6%, Top-Down 17.6%, Indie 2.4%, Singleplayer 1.7%
- #12 Polygon War
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: 4R
Windows · Mac
A 2D comic-style squad survival game. Command triangle, square, and pentagon characters through waves of increasing difficulty. Mount weapons on every edge — blades, guns, flamethrowers, and more. Stack same weapons for gear combo bonuses. Burn, freeze, or shatter foes using material weaknesses.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 40.4%, Action 27.7%, Top-Down 21.9%, Combat 8.5%, Singleplayer 1.4%
- #13 Iron Tracer
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Iron Tracer Studio
Windows
Iron Tracer is a tactical shooter where you play as a spec-ops soldier sent across the globe to stop threats before they happen. Every mission demands stealth, precision, and quick decision-making, one wrong move can end the the mission.
Why similar: Strategy 37%, Action Roguelike 29.3%, Action 25%, Combat 7.7%, Singleplayer 1%
- #14 Destination Unknown
88% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Fingers Crossed Games
Windows · Mac
Destination Unknown is a fast-paced single-player spaceship shooter with exploration in space galaxies, RPG elements, mini-games, mining, and crafting. Experience an adventure through a randomly generated universe filled with an exciting sci-fi story full of secrets, quests, and more.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 32.4%, Strategy 27.5%, Top-Down 11.5%, Action 11.4%, Sci-fi 10.4%
- #15 Demolition
87% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2019
Dev: khos85
Windows
Have enough of the day? Need some escapism? Go blow up some stuff to relieve the stress but don't break anything or real.
Why similar: Destruction 36.4%, Strategy 35.8%, Action 22.9%, Indie 4.9%
- #16 Sugar Rush
86% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Ahmi Games
Windows · Mac
Enter the sweet world of Sugar Rush, an action packed top-down roguelike filled with sweets and treats to empower your journey. Test your skills by facing various fruit snacks, defeating them with color instead of damage. Find the best set of treats to survive as long as possible!
Why similar: Strategy 33.3%, Action Roguelike 30%, Action 22.2%, Top-Down 10.9%, Indie 2.7%
- #17 Seven Squad
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Baxter Games Studio
Windows · Mac
Roguelike... but this time, with a squad of heroes. In 7 Squad, you’re not the lone hero anymore. You begin with one cheerful champion and gradually assemble a squad of up to seven charming, weird, and wildly different heroes—each with unique powers and personality.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 34.1%, Strategy 25.4%, Action 17.1%, Combat 10.6%, Top-Down 9.2%
- #18 Consortium's Fall: Echoes of Xo'lara
85% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Code Flow
Windows
Consortium’s Fall is a sci-fi roguelite twin-stick shooter about a people’s budding rebellion against a ruthless oppressor. Infiltrate enemy territory, defeat those who stand in your way and uncover secrets necessary to free your people once and for all.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 48.7%, Action 18.1%, Sci-fi 13.1%, Top-Down 10.5%, Combat 7.3%
- #19 Day of Destruction
84% match8 user reviews50% of 8 reviews2018
Dev: SynaptixGames, LLC
Windows
Embrace Your Inner Alien! Rise as the destroyer of cities and conqueror of galaxies. Empower yourself with alien technology as you unlock new weapons and UFOs. Follow your destiny on the Day of Destruction.
Why similar: Strategy 60.9%, Action 39.1%
- #20 Hostage: Rescue Mission
84% matchMostly Negative29% of 24 reviews2018
Dev: InfogramesPub: Atari
Windows
Special Alert: Terrorists have invaded our embassy and seized an undetermined number of hostages...Lives hang in the balance as high ranking diplomats are held at gunpoint...Their safety requires immediate action... prepare to infiltrate the embassy, neutralize the terrorists, and rescue the hostages, or die trying.
Why similar: Strategy 60.9%, Action 39.1%
- #21 Traffic Cop
82% match4 user reviews25% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Waden Kane Game StudiosPub: Yes Productions
Windows
It's the 1950s in a city like no other. You're on duty as the local Traffic Cop smack dab in the middle of a busy intersection. Direct traffic, dodge flying food, & unlock bonus rounds to disintegrate aliens, and hunt birds!
Why similar: Strategy 61%, Action 39%
- #22 Uprising 2: Lead and Destroy
82% matchPositive86% of 22 reviews2016
Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
After a century of bloody galactic battle, a horde of intelligent bloodthirsty aliens, known as the Kri’iSara, threaten to exterminate all human life. New Alliance Command is counting on you to destroy the alien menace.
Why similar: Strategy 61%, Action 39%
- #23 Hovershift
83% matchNo user reviews2020
Dev: OuroborOs_
Windows
Test your reflexes with Hovershift and get the highest score on this little arcade game
Why similar: Strategy 60.8%, Action 39.2%
- #24 Army Men: Toys in Space
81% matchMixed70% of 83 reviews2017
Dev: The 3DO CompanyPub: 2K
Windows
Finally, proof that little green men exist in outer space! A horde of alien toys has invaded Earth. Now, they've enlisted the Tan Army to help them conquer the galaxy. All hope rests with one man, a green plastic soldier known as Sarge.
Why similar: Strategy 61.2%, Action 38.8%
- #25 Uprising: Join or Die
80% matchVery Positive84% of 113 reviews2016
Dev: Cyclone StudiosPub: Ziggurat
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Uprising offers more strategy than a military sim, and more action strategy than a shoot'em up. Using your hi-tech assault tank, loaded with powerful weapons, you need to establish tidal bases, mine for power, build factories and direct legions of allied units against the enemy
Why similar: Strategy 61.5%, Action 38.5%
- #26 The Defenders: The Second Wave
81% matchMixed56% of 96 reviews2015
Dev: FallenMaster
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 96%
Fight the ghosts through 50 waves of growing danger. Play as a powerful wizard, a mighty warrior, or a strategic builder to stop the ghost invasion. Evolve your character in the direction you want. Survive until dawn, or die trying.
Why similar: Strategy 61.2%, Action 38.8%
- #27 The Lost VR
79% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2019
Dev: TOMATOVR
Windows
The Lost is ultimate FPS VR game. You must defend yourself from enemies with various guns. The Lost is only available in single mode, and you can gradually clear the stages according to the difficulty. Take over best teleport spots and choose proper guns strategically to defeat enemies!
Why similar: Strategy 61.6%, Action 38.4%
- #28 Maze Madness
79% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: James SchilzPub: Syngaming Studios
Windows
First Person Shooter Through a variety of Mazes and challenges. Each level has different weapons and AI to make each entertaining and increasingly more difficult. Try your luck and Beat your Time to get past each challenge all the levels have in store for you.
Why similar: Strategy 59.7%, Action 40.3%
- #29 Lordian: Karma
77% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: oneIMMERSPub: YJM GAMES
Windows
Destroy waves of monsters with your powerful magic crossbow and alchemical traps. Freeze, blow, trample, even burn your enemies with various traps available. From extreme difficulty which can only be experienced through multiplayer to various stages of difficulties for single player.
Why similar: Strategy 62%, Action 38%
- #30 Crystal Quest Classic
77% matchPositive86% of 36 reviews2016
Dev: Game Mechanics LLC
Windows · Mac
Crystal Quest is a fast moving, adrenaline-boiling video arcade game from 1987 that won many awards. Now on the latest hardware.
Why similar: Strategy 62.4%, Action 37.6%
- #31 Jarheads
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Gareth Williams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Jarheads is a fast-paced tactical shooter with fully-destructible environments. Jarheads comprises of a 50 mission single-player (or two-player online co-op) campaign and a separate online multiplayer experience for up to 8 players with a variety of explosive game modes.
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Action 36.9%
- #32 Disintegration Technical Beta
76% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,428 reviews
Dev: V1 Interactive, Inc.Pub: Private Division
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 1.2 hrs≥1hr: 20%
Pilot a heavily armed Gravcycle and command your troops on the ground in Disintegration, a new sci-fi first-person shooter unlike any other. Disintegration features both a thrilling single-player campaign and frenetic PvP multiplayer. Join the multiplayer technical beta today and compete against other pilots and their Crews.
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Action 36.9%
- #33 Wisentree Spirit
78% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: OriorInteractifPub: Orior Interactif
Windows
In this virtual reality tower defence, you will embody a hero, push back the enemies assaults, By building a network of defensive Towers and manipulating, internal might that will grant you powers of the mystical Fire.
Why similar: Strategy 59.7%, Action 40.3%
- #34 Salvaged
75% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Opposable Games
Windows
The human race explores the stars, but a keen focus on the future has left a trail of desolation in the past. You are Alex Pieterson, commander of the salvage ship Thaddeus and its team of hardened agents. You are a remnant of that past, fighting for survival in a huge new galaxy.
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Action 36.9%
- #35 Keep Health!
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: Billiontail Gaming
Windows
Keep Health! Is a regional arena type rogue-like game, players will become a defender in the game, control several weapons against a variety of germs. Get a variety of weapons and items in the game to strengthen the guards, so as to overcome difficulties and complete the breakthrough.
Why similar: Destruction 34%, Action Roguelike 33.2%, Action 21.9%, Combat 7.9%, Indie 1.8%
- #36 DwarVRs
75% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Beard Wizard
Windows
Experience a unique combination of the strategic elements of a tower defense game mixed with action-packed, first person perspective gameplay, built specifically for VR. Use multiple different towers, and your own skills to defeat hordes of greedy dwarves, before they run away with all your wealth.
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Action 36.9%
- #37 Snails
74% matchMostly Positive79% of 19 reviews2015
Dev: Jorge LimaPub: 2Brains Games
Windows
They are slow and dumb, and they sure need you! Snails is a 2D platformer/puzzle game where the main objective is to help the snails reach the level exit.
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Action 36.9%
- #38 NDE Rescue
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2016
Dev: 6L6 InteractivePub: KSCM Consulting
Windows · Mac
Become a NDE rescuer & join the international teams that can pull you back from death!
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Action 36.9%
- #39 Tank Tread
73% match5 user reviews40% of 5 reviews2016
Dev: INT2000
Windows · Mac
Tank Tread is a multiplayer real-time strategy game with modern military units.
Why similar: Strategy 63.1%, Action 36.9%
- #40 Minskies
72% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2019
Dev: Binary EmotionsPub: Piko Interactive LLC
Windows
Minskies Furballs is not a port, but a spiritual clone of Puyo Puyo. In a tournament against a cast of crazy characters, you must guide and rotating falling pairs of cats of different colours to make up colour combinations.
Why similar: Strategy 57.3%, Action 42.7%
- #41 GuZhenRen
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: LIHAONAN
Windows
This game is inspired by "Gu Zhen Ren" and is a 2D roguelike. It features the raising, utilization and refinement of Gu, the combination of killing moves and Gu arrays, level-up, the search for longevity Gu, and the defeat of more bosses.
Why similar: Strategy 46.6%, Action Roguelike 38.8%, Combat 11.1%, Indie 2.1%, Singleplayer 1.5%
- #42 the Glass Line
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: aTreeThenMePub: soadinc
Windows
Top down 2D snes-core zone control roguelike twin stick space shooter
Why similar: Action Roguelike 34.9%, Strategy 29.1%, Top-Down 16.5%, Action 13%, Sci-fi 6.5%
- #43 Army Men II
71% matchMixed66% of 149 reviews2017
Dev: The 3DO CompanyPub: 2K
Windows
Army Men II, the sequel to the best-selling title Army Men, takes plastic toy soldier warfare into the kitchen, bedroom, front yard, and garage. Once again Sarge will lead his heroic Green forces into head-melting, plastic-body-part-exploding, combat mayhem; only this time the battle is for control of the kitchen sink!
Why similar: Strategy 65%, Action 35%
- #44 Near Impact
72% match9 user reviews33% of 9 reviews2014
Dev: Sonalysts Combat SimulationsPub: Strategy First
Windows
Thousands of incoming asteroids...One robot...An untested defense force...The odds are about even!
Why similar: Strategy 64.2%, Action 35.8%
- #45 UWD - You Will Die!
69% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Rocket Games
Windows
You Will Die is a indie game survival shooter top-down with waves of zombies to kill.
Why similar: Strategy 30.1%, Destruction 29%, Action 19.2%, Top-Down 15%, Combat 4.7%
- #46 Grand Elder Teaches You Immortal Cultivation
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: lzj
Windows
A cultivation style rougelike game that automatically releases skills, controls characters using WASD, refines qi(Chinese magic energy) to gain experience (body touches monsters), and annihilates qi to obtain spiristone, a type of coin(sword touches monsters).
Why similar: Action Roguelike 42.2%, Strategy 28.8%, Action 19%, Combat 5.9%, Singleplayer 2.3%
- #47 Anomaly Korea
70% matchMostly Positive78% of 792 reviews2013
Dev: 11 bit studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Exclusively brought to Steam for PC, Mac and Linux in Anomaly Bundle, Anomaly Korea is an expansion campaign to Anomaly Warzone Earth. The alien robots are back and this time they’ve got Korea in their sights. It’s your job to lead a squad into fierce fire-fights and fend off the alien invasion.
Why similar: Strategy 55.6%, Action 25.8%, Sci-fi 10.7%, Top-Down 5.2%, Indie 2.1%
- #48 CTU: Counter Terrorism Unit
71% matchMostly Negative31% of 110 reviews2016
Dev: Odin Game StudioPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows
Join the CTU, arrest dangerous terrorist threats, use gadgets including the snake cam and play online with up to five player co-op
Why similar: Strategy 64.8%, Action 35.2%
- #49 Capsule Fighting
69% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Capsule Game
Windows
This is a game in the rougelike genre. Where you'll control your character through challenging, dramatic battles. The game offers many character customization features such as character upgrades, weapon upgrades, equipment systems, support drone systems.
Why similar: Strategy 33.5%, Action Roguelike 27%, Action 18%, Top-Down 11%, Sci-fi 6%
- #50 RoBros
68% matchMixed54% of 85 reviews2017
Dev: Team B.R.O.S.
Windows
Robros is a robot-themed, action-strategy escort shooter where you control two robots to get them to fight their way out of a factory filled with rogue robots. The gameplay is split in two phases: planning and action. The first phase is planning your escape by plotting a vector path on a 2D map.
Why similar: Strategy 59.9%, Action 32.8%, Indie 7.3%
- #51 APOX
69% matchMostly Negative29% of 180 reviews2011
Dev: BlueGiant Interactive
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 40%
A Real-Time Strategy game with First-Person Shooter tactics.
Why similar: Strategy 62%, Action 31.2%, Indie 6.8%
- #52 Prism Collider
67% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2017
Dev: Gestmorph Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 94%
In this adventure your objective is simple: reach the end of each level. While it may be simple, it's not going to be easy. Using both the white and red layers you'll have to travel across all 30 levels as the game turns from basic puzzles to the hardest challenges you have ever faced.
Why similar: Strategy 65.4%, Action 28%, Indie 6.6%
- #53 Lords of War
67% matchMixed63% of 49 reviews2018
Dev: WeMakeApp Studio
Windows
Lords of War is a fast-paced strategic card game that supports real-time PvP battles. Although game design may resemble turn-based TCG/CCG games, game mechanics is more like a real-time 3D card-based roleplaying game – this combination provides an entirely new gaming experience.
Why similar: Strategy 57.4%, Action 35%, Indie 7.6%
- #54 Vertex Dispenser
68% matchMostly Positive75% of 36 reviews2011
Dev: Michael Brough
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 42 min≥1hr: 17%
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Why similar: Strategy 60.2%, Action 32.4%, Indie 7.4%
- #55 Aether Way
67% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Fearless Donut
Windows
Aether Way is a 2D space RTS with action/roguelike elements. You play as some abstract life form that travels across the space and evolves.
Why similar: Strategy 58.4%, Action 34.1%, Indie 7.6%
- #56 Our Little Chase
68% matchNo user reviews2023
Dev: aa11
Windows
Become the Executioner and hunt down the traitor. Build up your army, manage your inventory and engage in real-time combat to defeat your enemy.
Why similar: Action Roguelike 39.4%, Strategy 31.3%, Action 16.8%, Combat 7.8%, Indie 3.4%
- #57 The King's Follower
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Half Eaten Bread
Windows
The King was called and he needs protection to get through the grueling forest. That's where you come along! Equipped with your trusty enchanted weapon that gets stronger everytime it kills a bunch of enemies, journey through the depths of the forest to slay monsters while also protecting the King!
Why similar: Action Roguelike 36.5%, Strategy 29.6%, Action 14%, Top-Down 13.7%, Combat 4.2%