- #1 R-COIL
97% matchMixed67% of 46 reviews2018
Dev: Vector HatPub: Thalamus Digital
Windows · Mac · Linux
R-COIL is a multi-directional shooter with a unique single button control scheme. Use the stick to aim and a single button to fire and thrust. Tap to fire. Hold to thrust. Yeah, it's hard.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #2 Grid Masters
96% matchMixed55% of 11 reviews2016
Dev: Angry Hangar Games, LLC
Windows
Fight for victory in a 1v1 or 2v2 grid-based deathmatch in Grid Masters. Represent your favorite faction as one of five characters (with more to come), each with their own unique abilities. Toss massive bombs, rocket punch, or send explosive robot minions to take your enemies down!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #3 Breaking Bones
95% matchMixed43% of 14 reviews2016
Dev: Duplicator Studio
Windows
Breaking Bones is a survival game using the technology of photogrammetry. It's a First Person Melee game with some shooting component. Travel the world through quarries, islands, forests, mountains, deserts and more. Fight skeletons, dragons and dinosaurs. At your disposal a large number of deadly weapons, catapults and bows.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #4 Alien Invasion 3d
93% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Jim Dex
Windows
In this game you have to be fast . Enemy planes are everywhere .
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #5 Quantum Flux
94% matchMostly Negative28% of 18 reviews2015
Dev: Dharker Studios
Windows · Mac
Quantum Flux is an old school style rogue-like following the Artemis. A prototype vessel aiming to save humanity from destruction, to do so it must find a way through a difficult and hostile universe to create a new home for the human race.
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #6 Knight Terrors
91% matchPositive86% of 37 reviews2017
Dev: FreakZone GamesPub: Nicalis, Inc.
Windows · Mac
A blood-curdling, demon-slashing dash of death! Knight Terrors goes straight for the jugular: it’s a lurid mash-up of side-scrolling gameplay styles in endless procedurally generated levels. Once you’re hooked, the game keeps pulling you back in to increase your high score and unlock more features!
Why similar: Action 57.8%, Indie 42.2%
- #7 Singularity 5
91% matchMostly Positive77% of 79 reviews2018
Dev: Monochrome Paris
Windows
Play a pure WAVE SHOOTER arcade game in a globalized world led by moore, a global AI program. Your mission is to liberate Paris from the machines’ rebellion. The intense and immediate pleasure of playing with a rigorous and original art direction.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #8 Red Barton and The Sky Pirates
92% matchNegative17% of 12 reviews2017
Dev: Schism WorldwidePub: 11000AD
Windows
Red Barton and the Sky Pirates is an exciting 3rd person arcade combat flight shooter reminiscent of games like Star Fox back on the classic N64 and the legendary “After Burner” arcade.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #9 Snakes on an Extradimensional Plane
89% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2016
Dev: Team Neon SnakesPub: Fox Buchele
Windows
Abstract HTC Vive game where you help adventurous space mice with tiny little jetpack escape the glowing snakes! Collect powerups for points and compete on the leaderboards!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #10 Break The Food Chain
89% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2017
Dev: TEHO GamesPub: Caffeine Overdose
Windows
Break The Food Chain is an arcade game about cute little animals shooting at each other in the face like there is no tomorrow.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #11 Mercfighter
90% matchNo user reviews2017
Dev: One Dave Software
Windows
Make your assault against hundreds of waves of deadly spacecraft. Advance your equipment, skill trees, and ship to overcome the growing enemy threat.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #12 Run Jump Die Repeat
88% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2017
Dev: LongArm Interactive
Windows
Run Jump Die Repeat is a single button platformer game. Press SPACE to run, bounce, jump, climb, and kill as you attempt to save the Cracker Princess and escape the evil Cron Rebels home planet.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #13 The Nothing
86% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: DDD Wares
Windows
The Nothing is a surreal and atmospheric action game with a new aesthetic, procedurally generated elements and perma-death - Designed for multiple short "runs", with endings based on the route you've chosen and the actions you've taken.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #14 Space Slam
87% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: ;)Pub: Quickdraw Studios
Windows
In SPACE SLAM there is only one way to mine: ramming planets at full speed with your spacecraft. View the action in VR with your HTC Vive or in flat mode!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #15 MC Lars 2: Brotherhood
86% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Synersteel Studio, LLC
Windows · Mac
MC Lars, MC Frontalot, Mega Ran, YTCracker and Schaffer the Darklord save music! Join them in over a dozen songs as you fight, jump, and fly your way through the beat.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #16 BEAT.R.
77% matchNo user reviews
Dev: ae.studio
Windows
3D blocks exploding everywhere while colors and sounds delight you in every way. This infinite runner is sure to grab your attention for at least 30 seconds.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #17 Booty Diver
85% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Xavier Orion Games
Windows
Take a dive into the perilous depths of the ocean as you seek sunken treasure while battling creatures who guard their treasure as you manage your precious air supply.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #18 Ales Dash
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Mikage Productions
Windows
Ales Dash is a Side-Scrolling 3D Action Game. You control Ales running forward and Clear the Level while over obstacles.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #19 Sphera Turris
84% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2018
Dev: Mark WiedmannPub: Bugslayer Games
Windows
Sphera Turris is a timed rotating platformer where you guide a ball past an array of increasingly difficult obstacles to the top of a tower.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #20 The Kaiju Offensive
81% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2019
Dev: Suspicious Ducks
Windows
The Kaiju Offensive is a 2D top-down brawler where you fight as a giant monster. In this arcade-inspired romp, your objective is plain and simple. You, the kaiju, need to destroy all the buildings in the city.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #21 HVRGUN
71% matchMixed59% of 17 reviews2024
Dev: Jonathan Bartram
Windows
Welcome to HVRGUN, the worlds best Assault Pilot Training program. Where you'll be placed directly into a virtual battlefield and test your ability to dodge, shoot, and destroy an endless onslaught of enemies!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #22 Zig
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Scumways
Windows · Mac · Linux
50 levels of fast-paced, old school, arcade blasting.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #23 Oval
79% matchPositive90% of 40 reviews2019
Dev: Reactor HeartPub: Reactor Heart
Windows
Oval takes your skills to a whole new level with thrilling and competitive multiplayer battles. Break your speed limit and go faster than ever without motion-sickness thanks to Oval's unique technology. Create, share or play awesome community maps using the multiplayer level editor.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #24 Dawn of the Robot Empire
82% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2016
Dev: oeFun, Inc.
Windows
Witness first hand the Dawn of the Robot Empire. Can you stop the invading robotic forces from another galaxy? Blast your way to victory in this retro sci-fi shooter. You'll need fast reflexes and an accurate aim to win.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #25 CANDLE UNDER WATER
79% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: polytanQ
Windows
Light a yellow candle by controlling the water level! Easy action puzzle.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #26 Pixel Gear
81% match8 user reviews75% of 8 reviews2017
Dev: Geronimo Interactive
Windows
Pixel Gear is a pixel style VR shoot-em-up game with a variety of humorous cartoon monsters and ghosts as enemies.The multiplayer mode is great fun to play with your friends.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #27 Random Access Murder
83% matchMostly Negative23% of 161 reviews2016
Dev: Team Murder
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 6 minMean: 2.4 hrs≥1hr: 12%
You're a robot. Shoot other robots with your data-destroying weapons and create a stack of dismantled enemies. Be the last heap standing and DO NOT RUN OUT OF MEMORY!
Why similar: Action 56.3%, Indie 43.7%
- #28 Blind Blades
80% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2016
Dev: Heavy Key Studios
Windows · Mac
The art of the sword is death by one stroke. The art of stealth is proximity with the unaware. In Blind Blades, players must master both. No special button combinations. No life bars. Just player against player. Skill against skill. Winner take all.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #29 Glassteroids
78% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2018
Dev: Rotech Digital Ltd
Windows
Glassteroids is a beautiful 3D arcade space blaster. Take classic 80s arcade gameplay, add an extra dimension, retro minimalist wireframe graphics and an epic soundtrack, and you will start to have an idea of what's ahead.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #30 ALIEN FIELD
76% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2018
Dev: Mindware
Windows
Totally new, attack! Rogue Like Dot Eat! Psychedelic full throttle! Explode your concentration in 3 minutes and knock out the high score!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #31 ARIS
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TBM StudiosPub: Lit Network
Windows
Strategically clear your way of enemies to gather points, salvage killed enemies for extra points, all while avoiding and engaging in combat with other different types of enemies. Added effects and game mechanics make for challenging gameplay in a fast paced environment.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #32 STARCATCHER
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: John PlewePub: Nevercenter
Windows · Mac
STARCATCHER is an experimental wave-based arcade game, currently in development. It's simple, unique, and intensely hard. Protect the heart!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #33 Reckpunk
77% matchMostly Positive79% of 33 reviews2017
Dev: dlan
Windows · Mac · Linux
Reckpunk is a platformer/endless runner where you control level elements rather than the main characters.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #34 SHNIPERS
74% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Brenden CameronPub: Brenden Cameron Games
Windows · Mac
SHNIPERS is a combat platformer where up to 4 players fire bullets that bounce off of everything! A game of "bullet-hell pong" where your shots are as much a danger to you as they are to your enemies.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #35 Midnight Grub Session
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Crumb Goblin Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Get down with the thiccness
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #36 Access
75% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: Secret Overground Lab
Windows
A world wide competition between hackers. Fast paced competitive puzzling. Keep your grid clear by using your deleters to destroy blocks. Crash your opponent's system by throwing blocks to them in the 2 player battle mode or take on the world, and the leader board, in marathon mode!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #37 TopShot: Darkness
78% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Berkem Agach
Windows
1v1 Multiplayer Top-down shooter game
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #38 XENOCAVE
64% matchNo user reviews
Dev: BLUE LED
Windows
XENOCAVE is a retro-styled, scrolling platformer that elevates the genre with a unique fusion of ability and fine-tuned mechanics inspired by the classics. Specifically, imagine an amalgam of Mario's fluid controls, the double-jump and rapid-fire of Ghosts 'n Goblins, and the themes of Crystal Caves.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #39 Pleasure in Dream
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2017
Dev: Upineleed
Windows
Today, will you listen to this small story?
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #40 BeeBeeQ
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Popup Asylum
Windows
BeeBeeQ is an asymmetric local multiplayer game where one VR player controls a Chef while up to four xbox controller players control Bees. Armed with a spatula and a fly swat the VR chef player has to try cook while the bees steal food, sting and generally harass him.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #41 Space Cruise
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2019
Dev: Ben RobinsonPub: So and So Games
Windows
Space Cruise is a hybrid of both metroidvania style platforming and traditional bullet-hell gameplay, allowing the player to choose which play style resonates with them most for each run. With power-ups for both methods of gameplay, randomised levels on the branching paths, and leaving the final decision to the player, each run should...
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #42 Drop Out 0
73% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2016
Dev: Ward Dehairs
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 98%
Drop Out 0 is an online first person shooter with a twist: there are no hitpoints! Beat your opponents by knocking them out of the map with various crazy weapons. The game features very straightforward, cross-platform multiplayer. Just download, set up and play online within 2 minutes.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #43 Tech Clash
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Interstellar PunksPub: ESAT
Windows
In the far future huge companies compete for the control of the technological market, in this mayhem the CEOs of the biggest companies reunite and decide to fight it off in a tournament! Each company will provide a champion in what would be the fight of the century!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #44 Onslaught VR
61% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MindWalker Games
Windows
Jump into the fray with Onslaught VR! Armed with multiple gun types, devastating AOE attacks, and aerial capabilities, you'll face off against multiple enemies and powerful commanders. Good luck, soldier... you'll need it.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #45 Champions of Aerial
71% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2017
Dev: Quick Save Studios
Windows
Champions of Aerial is a battle arena fighting game with up to four players where the goal is to under a series of rounds, push the other players off the platform and be the only one remaining, to be the Champion.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #46 Swap! Swap! Swap!
75% matchNo user reviews2018
Dev: Kryper
Windows · Linux
Swap! Swap! Swap! is a fast paced top down shooter with a twist, you can only fire once so keep swapping those weapons!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #47 Mischief On Main Street
60% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Quantum Games
Windows
Lie and bluff your way to victory in this online multiplayer VR game inspired by the likes of Mafia and Trouble in Terrorist Town!
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #48 Slayer Of Traitors
72% matchMostly Negative23% of 47 reviews2018
Dev: Tero Lunkka
Windows
Player is wounded female, who only mission is to kill all zombies in different missions
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #49 Tiger Tank 59 A-Gun
69% matchMixed50% of 16 reviews2018
Dev: TigerQiuQiu
Windows
This is a tank war game, players need to control their tanks, through the enemy lines, break the enemy base, or defeat the enemy tanks
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #50 Robot King Part 2: Boss Battles
68% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: Steven Taylor
Windows
The second in a 3 part series, Robot King Part 2 continues the journey of a robot on a quest to find his place in a kingdom where everyone seems bent on his destruction. "Robot King 2: Boss Battles" is as the name indicates: a series of boss battles.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #51 Unnamed Fiasco
72% match9 user reviews44% of 9 reviews2016
Dev: Unnamed Fiasco Team
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Unnamed Fiasco is a local multiplayer game where your mistakes can help you. Every time your character dies, a new clone is created to help you by repeating your past lives actions. Face your friends on intense couch multiplayer matches or go solo on tons of action-puzzle challenges.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #52 Battlemage Training
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: Mikael Mattsson
Windows
In Battlemage Training you are an aspiring Battlemage. Practice swinging your war wand with speed and precision.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #53 GRAY GROFA
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: TPM.CO SOFT WORKS
Windows
GRAY GROFA is an unparalleled side-scrolling shooter puzzle game developed for the 8-bit MSX computer. 2 years have been spent hand-tuning the game's visuals, movements and puzzles in a tireless pursuit for aesthetic perfection.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #54 BATTER BURST
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2018
Dev: TEAM_ETS
Windows
This game is a scroll action of continuous explosion drawn with pixel art. Let's blow it all away.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #55 Rubicon Approach
58% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Carbon Fiber Games
Windows
Rubicon Approach is a fast paced zero gravity shooter with a unique free movement system. Engage an enemy team in high speed, adrenaline fueled action across multiple maps.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%
- #56 Binary Trigger
69% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: Iain KingPub: onelivesleft
Windows
Binary Trigger is a virtual reality precision wave shooter, with an emphasis on accuracy and speed. Competing for the highest score is the focus of the game, and you'll have to be quick and sharp if you want to keep your score multipliers high.
Why similar: Action 57%, Indie 43%