- #1 Feral Fury
96% matchVery Positive81% of 130 reviews2017
Dev: Skandivania GamesPub: Skandivania Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 29.9 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Fast-paced twin stick shooter rogue-lite action
Why similar: Gore 40.3%, Violent 37.4%, Action 13.5%, Indie 8.8%
- #2 UBERMOSH Vol.5
96% matchVery Positive94% of 1,722 reviews2017
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The fifth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.
Why similar: Gore 57.8%, Action 25.1%, Indie 17.1%
- #3 Gore Storm
95% matchVery Positive94% of 70 reviews2023
Dev: Gundorado
Windows
Battle massive hordes of alien monsters to secure humanity's presence on planet Gore. Upgrade your base, hire troops, and install turrets to fight back the ever growing waves of aliens.
Why similar: Gore 58.1%, Action 41.9%
- #4 UBERMOSH Vol.7
94% matchVery Positive82% of 533 reviews2019
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows
Median: 12 minMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 39%
You play as a Saint fighting in a gun-filled pit, defeating as many opponents as you can in a 90 seconds match, the UBERMOSH, an enlightenment ritual of combat.
Why similar: Gore 38.5%, Violent 31.3%, Action 18%, Indie 12.2%
- #5 Straimium Immortaly
94% matchVery Positive90% of 174 reviews2016
Dev: caiysPub: caiysware
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Straimium Immortaly is a shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler. Explore the butts-hard procedurally generated Cubicus battling beasties, looting endless item and weapon upgrades and defeating huge boss meanies in your vengeful quest to eradicate the Queeni Emperess.
Why similar: Action 59.6%, Indie 40.4%
- #6 UBERMOSH
93% matchVery Positive93% of 9,001 reviews2015
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.9 hrs≥1hr: 75%
UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.
Why similar: Action 62.7%, Indie 37.3%
- #7 In Extremis
92% matchPositive84% of 50 reviews2016
Dev: LNDFRR
Windows
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 10.6 hrs≥1hr: 74%
In Extremis is a challenging and provocative shoot'em up about finding yourself in the chaos of the universe.
Why similar: Action 46%, Indie 30%, Sexual Content 24%
- #8 X-Mutation
90% matchVery Positive85% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: ProjectX
Windows
Survive thousands of monsters in X-Mutation, a hardcore 3D top-down rogue-lite action game. Mutate your body into diverse weapons, choose from hundreds of mutations, and uniquely upgrade to craft your personal combat style!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #9 STRAFE: Gold Edition
91% matchMostly Positive72% of 2,455 reviews2017
Dev: Pixel TitansPub: Devolver Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.3 hrsMean: 8.0 hrs≥1hr: 81%
STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.
Why similar: Gore 41.2%, Violent 33.9%, Action 17.8%, Indie 7.1%
- #10 Battle Bruise
89% matchVery Positive91% of 498 reviews2017
Dev: Zanardi and Liza
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Stay atop a mountain of corpses! Fight numerous swarms of enemies, while dealing with the changing terrain.This game isn't messy. It's MESS ITSELF!
Why similar: Indie 30%, Gore 29.6%, Violent 25.3%, Action 15.1%
- #11 Ground Zero Hero
86% matchVery Positive88% of 57 reviews2026
Dev: Rowan EdmondsonPub: Acclaim, Inc.
Windows · Mac
Kill mutants. Absorb their remains. Mutate into something stronger every run. Stack insane power combos and survive overwhelming hordes in this fast, chaotic, highly replayable action roguelite bullet hell.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #12 WAIFU HELL
88% matchMostly Positive74% of 912 reviews2020
Dev: Konnichiwa Games
Windows
Median: 2.8 hrsMean: 15.0 hrs≥1hr: 68%
Old school classics with the new twist.
Why similar: Gore 20.9%, Action 19.1%, Violent 18.9%, Nudity 14.5%, Sexual Content 14.3%
- #13 Bloody Streets
89% matchMostly Positive79% of 126 reviews2015
Dev: Headless Wizard
Windows
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Bloody Streets is a brutal top-down shooter which will challenge you with areas swarmed by undead in a beautifully stylized and hand painted 2D world complemented by high energy rock music. How long can you survive the sea of monsters while pumping round after round of bullets?
Why similar: Gore 51.9%, Action 28.3%, Indie 19.8%
- #14 BUTCHER
87% matchVery Positive86% of 1,408 reviews2016
Dev: Phobia Game StudioPub: Crunching Koalas
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.
Why similar: Gore 47.1%, Violent 27.2%, Action 16.9%, Indie 8.8%
- #15 Disfigure
83% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,120 reviews2023
Dev: Cold Brew Entertainment
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 8.8 hrs≥1hr: 68%
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: Action 100%
- #16 Super Mutant Alien Assault
86% matchVery Positive86% of 177 reviews2016
Dev: CybernatePub: Surprise Attack
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 87%
The Citizen Kane of Super Crate Box clones - dance with death through randomised rooms to clear your space freighter of irradiated aliens in a brutal arcade platformer shooter stuffed to the brim with unlockable weapons, explosives, special abilities and defense moves.
Why similar: Action 64.5%, Indie 35.5%
- #17 UBERMOSH:BLACK
84% matchVery Positive90% of 1,837 reviews2016
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 71%
UBERMOSH:BLACK is the second volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH. Cut bullets with your sword, shoot with heavy guns and splatter enemies with a rage fueled psionic wave.
Why similar: Action 61.8%, Indie 38.2%
- #18 Skautfold: Into the Fray
85% matchVery Positive87% of 89 reviews2018
Dev: Steve GalPub: Pugware
Windows
Into the Fray is a fast action-shooter in the vein of Doom and Dark Messiah; using fast combat, reactive environments, and traps. Blast, kick, and dash your way through Rebels and Eldritch creatures to liberate the Isle of Portland; as it becomes consumed by Fog and the horrors therein.
Why similar: Gore 34.7%, Violent 31.3%, Nudity 15.1%, Action 12.2%, Indie 6.7%
- #19 Redie
84% matchVery Positive80% of 281 reviews2016
Dev: Rückert Broductions
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Redie is a challenging singleplayer 3D top-down shooter. Fight an army of well-trained terrorists and soldiers in action-packed close quarters combat. Prepare to (re)die.
Why similar: Gore 66.3%, Action 21.5%, Indie 12.2%
- #20 Kick Ass Commandos
82% matchVery Positive93% of 426 reviews2016
Dev: Anarchy Enterprises
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Lock and Load! It's time to Kick-Ass. Grab your machine gun, flamethrower, rocket launcher, and grenades. Assault the enemy base and free commandos to join your team while you destroy everything in sight. Make your way through enemy bunkers to rescue your comrades, and kill everyone you encounter!
Why similar: Gore 32.6%, Violent 26.3%, Action 25.7%, Indie 15.5%
- #21 UBERMOSH Vol.3
81% matchVery Positive92% of 1,657 reviews2016
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows · Linux
Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 72%
The third volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.
Why similar: Gore 48.4%, Action 31.7%, Indie 19.9%
- #22 Super Cyborg
82% matchVery Positive86% of 837 reviews2015
Dev: Artur Games
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 91%
Super Cyborg is an old school non-stop hardcore run'n'gun action game! You are an elite battle cyborg who is sent in to investigate a series of anomalies on a mysterious island. The merciless alien known as the 'Xirxul life form' has been awakened by unwitting scientists and now: all humanity is in danger!
Why similar: Gore 48.2%, Action 33.1%, Indie 18.7%
- #23 Undercroft Warriors
79% matchMostly Positive78% of 573 reviews2024
Dev: Fuzzy
Windows
Crush the forces of hell and get a high score in this addictive, action-packed, arcade-inspired twin-stick shooter!
Why similar: Action 76.4%, Indie 23.6%
- #24 AngerForce: Reloaded
81% matchVery Positive91% of 384 reviews2017
Dev: Screambox Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%
AngerForce: Reloaded is an action-packed vertically scrolling shoot'em up game that pays homage to the classics of 90’s arcades. This high octane experience is set against the backdrop of a 19th century human world that has seen the outbreak of a robot rebellion.
- #25 Glad Valakas: Cyberban
80% matchVery Positive97% of 118 reviews2019
Dev: Nozhin games studio
Windows
Glad Valakas: a game in a shooter genre with RPG elements and nonlinear plot.
Why similar: Gore 43%, Nudity 24.5%, Action 19.6%, Indie 12.8%
- #26 Palpus X Annihilation
76% matchVery Positive96% of 75 reviews2026
Dev: Sebastian Vargek (Meister Palpus)
Windows
Isometric action shooter with light RPG elements. Brutally kill tons of alien monsters, find over a dozen powerful weapons, skill up your hero & stop the blood thirsty invaders in a classic handcrafted campaign. Never ending waves await you in horde-mode!
Why similar: Violent 42.5%, Action 23.3%, Gore 22.9%, Indie 11.2%
- #27 Nation Red
78% matchVery Positive88% of 2,786 reviews2009
Dev: DiezelPower
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.
Why similar: Gore 41.2%, Action 28.4%, Violent 16.9%, Indie 13.5%
- #28 Angel at Dusk
73% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 1,729 reviews2024
Dev: AkiragoyaPub: Henteko Doujin
Windows
Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Overwhelmingly bizarre beauty. Shoot, dodge, and destroy! A shmup where an apocalyptic world awakens to primal desires!
Why similar: Action 100%
- #29 Steel Storm: Burning Retribution
79% matchMixed60% of 373 reviews2011
Dev: Kot in Action Creative Artel
Windows · Linux
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Control an advanced hovertank, packed with the most advanced and sophisticated weapons as you fight against extraterrestrial invaders.
Why similar: Action 56.8%, Indie 43.2%
- #30 Rocking Pilot
77% matchVery Positive93% of 71 reviews2017
Dev: GungroundsPub: Mad Head Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Shoot, blast and slash through hordes of enemies in Rocking Pilot - a twin-stick shooter extravaganza inspired by arcade classics.
Why similar: Violent 44.8%, Action 32.4%, Indie 22.9%
- #31 Hatred
74% matchVery Positive84% of 29,608 reviews2015
Dev: Destructive Creations
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 17.8 hrs≥1hr: 80%
Hatred is a violent twin-stick shooter, in which you take the role of The Antagonist fighting against all of humanity.
Why similar: Gore 45.8%, Violent 40%, Action 9.5%, Indie 3.4%, Nudity 1.4%
- #32 Putrefaction
77% matchMixed69% of 494 reviews2015
Dev: Kazakov Oleg
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Putrefaction is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, lots of enemies and weapons, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.
Why similar: Gore 44.4%, Action 25%, Violent 18.7%, Indie 11.9%
- #33 BULLETHELL
73% matchVery Positive90% of 95 reviews2024
Dev: Walter Machado
Windows
BULLETHELL is an experimental, retro-hardcore, barely playable, ultra-fast-paced arena top-down shooter.
Why similar: Action 69%, Indie 31%
- #34 Obludia
78% matchMixed49% of 75 reviews2014
Dev: FobTi interactive
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 71%
Fight your way through 50 levels full of thrilling action with hordes of challenging enemies and tough bosses! Obludia is an old-school arcade arena action inspired by classics such as Robotron or Smash-TV with RPG elements.
Why similar: Action 62%, Indie 38%
- #35 Offendron Warrior
76% matchVery Positive87% of 51 reviews2018
Dev: Hijong ParkPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Offendron Warrior is a retro arcade that combines shooting and defense. Your objective is saving Offendron civilians in the planets from the group of enemies, who are trying to spread a virus that turns Offendrons into mindless killing machines and eventually destroy the whole planet.
Why similar: Action 66.2%, Indie 33.8%
- #36 MYRIAD DEATH
72% matchVery Positive86% of 282 reviews2025
Dev: IGNITION MPub: holo Indie
Windows
This is an exhilarating action and shooting game where you fight using weapons with different abilities.
Why similar: Action 39.6%, Gore 28.6%, Violent 25.3%, Indie 6.5%
- #37 BloodDome99
71% matchVery Positive96% of 98 reviews2024
Dev: Halftone Gaming
Windows · Mac
BloodDome99 is a game about nostalgia, capitalism, violence, and over-the-top absurdist fun. 80s arcade meets modern horde-survival roguelike. Create unique builds, master more than 40 weapons, and kill ever-growing hordes of contestants in the retro-futuristic gladiator gameshow BLOODDOME99
Why similar: Action 100%
- #38 Larva Mortus
75% matchMostly Positive76% of 751 reviews2009
Pub: Meridian4
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 38%
Larva Mortus is a fast-paced hack and slash top-down shooter. As an agent specializing in exorcism, you are tasked to hunt monsters of the supernatural in a dark, ominous, and randomly generated atmosphere full of undead, terrifying and demonic nightmares.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #39 Void Raiders
75% matchMostly Positive71% of 82 reviews2016
Dev: Tryzna83
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 93%
Void Raiders is "radical" top down rogue-lite shmup, with permanent character progression, character centric gameplay and never ending carnage in randomly generated environments.
Why similar: Action 59.5%, Indie 40.5%
- #40 Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess
70% matchVery Positive91% of 228 reviews2024
Dev: Pizza Bear Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 2.2 hrs≥1hr: 37%
Pilot the Megacopter, a sentient weapon that gains power by feeding on the blood of its enemies. Play through the campaign featuring seek and destroy, boss, rescue, and defense missions against the evil reptoid army. Upgrade Megacopter with the fabled AZ-TECH: ancient weaponry and armor.
Why similar: Gore 68%, Action 32%
- #41 Tormentor❌Punisher
73% matchVery Positive88% of 599 reviews2017
Dev: E-StudioPub: Raw Fury
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.5 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Everything in Tormentor❌Punisher can be killed in one hit, from bosses to yourself. Bosses conjure traps to make the arena hellish. Demons adjust to your play style and punish you. Perform combos on enemies and gain cool upgrades. Reload your machine gun by firing your shotgun. Let's do this!
Why similar: Gore 34.1%, Violent 32.5%, Action 21.3%, Indie 12%
- #42 Kontrakt
74% matchMixed57% of 60 reviews2018
Dev: DIG Games
Windows · Linux
Kontrakt is a hyper-violent action-adventure game about schizophrenia with a dark and twisted story. You will assume the role of a hitman involved in mysterious contract killing, while uncovering the dirty truth and secrets behind the City of Light.
Why similar: Gore 27.6%, Violent 26.4%, Nudity 16%, Sexual Content 14.9%, Action 9%
- #43 KILL KNIGHT
67% matchVery Positive94% of 2,018 reviews2024
Dev: PlaySide
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 60%
KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.
Why similar: Gore 59.3%, Action 24.5%, Indie 16.2%
- #44 Uragun
70% matchMostly Positive73% of 254 reviews2023
Dev: Kool2Play
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 49%
You are a friendly-but-deadly Mech on a journey searching for your missing pilot in this action-packed roguelite shooter. Choose your missions and rewards, research skills, equip expansions, mod your weapons, install plugins, customize your looks and stylishly cut your way through hordes of evil AI.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #45 Chaos Town
72% matchMostly Positive73% of 84 reviews2017
Dev: QuickSavePub: SA Industry
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Chaos Town is a top-down shooter focused on fast-paced combat, character progression, and fully destructible environments.
Why similar: Action 33.5%, Gore 26.8%, Violent 22.6%, Indie 17.1%
- #46 Clawface
70% matchVery Positive86% of 186 reviews2018
Dev: Hathos Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 251.4 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Clawface is an intense, arcade-styled twin stick shooter where you play as an adorable robot equipped with crazy weapons and a giant claw to fight an endless wave of alien monsters!
Why similar: Gore 37.2%, Violent 35.9%, Action 18.4%, Indie 8.5%
- #47 Anomalous
68% matchMostly Positive71% of 177 reviews2024
Dev: Byron Dunwoody
Windows
A SHORT and sweet pixelated low fidelity 90s throwback hyper-fast action shooter. Survive and fight through a city overrun with manufactured monstrosities, biomass horrors, and a military authority trying to purge everything living. Heavy metal / techno soundtrack featuring BOD Music
Why similar: Gore 33.7%, Violent 29.9%, Action 29%, Indie 7.4%
- #48 Rhythm Storm
66% matchVery Positive92% of 89 reviews2025
Dev: Radiangames
Windows
Rhythm Storm is a roguelike bullet heaven with stunning vector graphics, rhythmic action, and overwhelming swarms of enemies. Your vehicle aims and fires freely while everything else dances and moves to the beat in this spectacular audio-visual experience.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #49 Destropolis
68% matchVery Positive87% of 289 reviews2020
Dev: Igrek GamesPub: Games Incubator
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 46%
Destropolis is a top-down shooter game with a fully destructible environment, hundreds of enemies and nuclear explosions. Fight a countless swarm of enemies. Tear them to pieces with bullets, lasers and explosions. Destroy as many of them as you can before they overwhelm you...
Why similar: Action 64.7%, Indie 35.3%
- #50 SEX with HITLER: WW2
67% matchMostly Positive79% of 477 reviews2023
Dev: Adolf Games
Windows
Median: 1.8 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 76%
Sex with Hitler is an action-packed top-down shooter set in the midst of World War 2. You take on the role of a Hitler fighting against the enemy powers, battling through the ruins of cities and the trenches of war-torn landscapes.
Why similar: Nudity 40.7%, Sexual Content 38.7%, Action 20.6%
- #51 Clean'Em Up
69% matchVery Positive90% of 73 reviews2016
Dev: Cheesy Holes
Windows
Clean’Em Up is a fast paced, arcade-style Top Down Shooter with neon graphics. You play as an Upgradable Antivirus. You seek and destroy tremendous viruses and threats, collect and protect files and survive huge Bosses. The story is simple: Your Computer has been hacked... Dozens of viruses and other threats have penetrated your System...
Why similar: Action 59.8%, Indie 40.2%
- #52 Hot Mars 69
71% matchMixed43% of 85 reviews2018
Dev: Nikita "Ghost_RUS"Pub: Ghost_RUS Games
Windows
You play for the commander of the special forces group - Elon, and you need to kill all the devil-mutants in the colony on Mars to avenge for the dead comrades, and to escape.
Why similar: Gore 40.6%, Violent 37.6%, Action 13%, Indie 8.9%
- #53 Putrefaction 2: Void Walker
68% matchMostly Positive78% of 384 reviews2017
Dev: Kazakov Oleg
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Putrefaction 2: Void Walker is fast-paced, hardcore, arcade FPS, inspired by old-school shooters.
Why similar: Gore 48.5%, Action 36.6%, Indie 14.9%
- #54 Earl vs. the Mutants
64% matchVery Positive97% of 153 reviews2024
Dev: Falling State Inc.
Windows
Save humanity in a mutant-ridden apocalypse! Dive headfirst into Earl vs. the Mutants, a high-octane top-down survival action-roguelite set in the aftermath of a nuclear apocalypse.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #55 RussianPunk 2007
66% matchMostly Positive78% of 233 reviews2021
Dev: RedTower
Windows
A surreal first-person shooter filled with dark humor, chaotic gunfights, bizarre bosses, and a twisted version of 2007 Russia that gets stranger with every chapter.
Why similar: Gore 32%, Violent 26.4%, Nudity 12.4%, Action 12.2%, Sexual Content 9.7%
- #56 Kickback: Shoot to Move! 👾
63% matchVery Positive100% of 69 reviews2025
Dev: Dot bloodPub: Targem Games
Windows
Kickback is a top-down shooter with roguelike elements, where shooting is the only way to move. Repel waves of mutants, create combinations of weapons and upgrades to survive at all costs on your own or with a friend in a local co-op mode.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #57 Bloodshed
62% matchVery Positive84% of 1,910 reviews2025
Dev: com8com1 SoftwarePub: Headup
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 76%
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: Action 100%