6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed BPM: Bullets Per Minute. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed BPM: Bullets Per Minute.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Robobeat is a shooting game where you maximise your damage by shooting on the beat. More surreal than other rhythm shooter games, the focus here is on musical flow as you wall run, grapple hook, slide, and bunny hop your way through the crazy world.
Release Date: 11/05/2022
Out Now: PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D Third-Person
Soundfall is a dungeon exploration, collection and brawling game where you use rhythm and timing with the music to land the perfect attacks. You are a Guardian of Harmony and must battle the forces of discord with up to four friends to restore harmony...
Release Date: 15/09/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5 and Xbox X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Metal: Hellsinger is a shooting game, set in hell, where you need to shoot in time with the music to do the most damage. The more in sync you are with the rhythm, the more intense the music will become and the more destruction you will cause.
Release Date: 21/07/2017, updated in 2022
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Splatoon on the Wii U, Splatoon 2 and Splatoon 3 on the Switch are games where you shoot ink rather than bullets in this deeply skilled combat game. As well as taking out opponents, teams work together to cover the arena with their colour of ink. This...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Sulfur is an adventure game where you take on cartoon enemies to progress through dungeons and forests. You take on the challenge in short runs where you inevitably die and then try again. Action is thick and fast, and the fun here is in the mechanics...
Release Date: 23/01/2016
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Screencheat pits four players against each other in a shooting battle on one system but keeps the violence low by making the players invisible. You win by peeking at other players’ portion of the screen to figure out where they are as you hunt them...
19 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed BPM: Bullets Per Minute. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed BPM: Bullets Per Minute.
Release Date: 16/09/2007, updated in 2021
Out Now: Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Osu! is a rhythm action game where you tap the screen in time to the music similar to the Elite Beat Agents games. This starts as a simple challenge but develops in speed and complexity. At higher levels, the games is an esport with people competing to...
Release Date: 08/07/2021
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made
Boomerang X is a shooting platform game where you explore worlds and fight enemies with a boomerang-like shuriken weapon. Unusually, you can warp to your boomerang once thrown meaning you can slice, fly, and blast through arenas swarming with evil...
Release Date: 30/05/2019
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Get To The Orange Door (GTTOD) is a platform game where you run, jump and shoot your way through minimalist levels. Movement is parkour in nature, meaning that you use architecture, street furniture and other objects to get an advantage when getting...
Release Date: 14/02/2008
Out Now: PC, PS Vita and PS3
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Everyday Shooter is a collection of shooting games presented as a music album. The shooting action is familiar but here the dissolute sounds of destruction are replaced with guitar riffs harmonizing over the soundtrack. The visuals join in the...
Release Date: 29/05/2019
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Grid
Vectronom is a moving and jumping game where you control a block moving through a level that's changing in time with the music. The primary colours and hypnotic beats can distract at first, but as you find the flow of moving in time with the beat a...
Release Date: 31/08/2015
Out Now: Mac, PC, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Phantom Forces Roblox is a popular shooting game on Roblox. Phantom Forces isn’t available on iOS or Android. It's a shooting game played in an online arena in teams. Although it looks simple, it offers a high-skill challenge similar to [link to...
Release Date: 04/09/2019
Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Plants Vs. Zombies Garden Warfare is a series of third-person shooting games about the battle for supremacy between weaponised plants and attacking zombies. It's good for families because the comedic zombies and funny plant powers keep things away from...
Release Date: 25/02/2016, updated in 2019
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Stadia, Switch, Web and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Superhot is a shooting game with a twist. Time only moves forward (bullets, enemies, damage) when you move your character. This is still a violent game, in fact, in slow motion, it feels more violent.
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Karlson is a platform game where you take on shooting, running and jumping challenges to complete the level by getting to the tongue-in-cheek Milk prize. The focus is on skilled movement and precision shooting. As you fight your way out of the facility,...
Release Date: 02/07/2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
The Otterman Empire is a fun shooting game where you battle anthropomorphic characters in Splatoon-like arena encounters.
Release Date: 21/06/2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Just Shapes & Beats is a two player rhythm game where you dodge bullets in time with the music. As well as this unusual premise, play extends the novelty as you have to both avoid the various shapes and move to the Beats. It’s a new spin on the shoot...
Release Date: 31/01/2020
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Hypercharge: Unboxed is a shooting game where you play a small toy from the 1990s in human-sized arenas like a toy shop, back garden and a garage. It combines base defence play with exploration and collection running and jumping in a wide range of...
Release Date: 13/06/2019
Out Now: Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Cadence of Hyrule is a Zelda-infused version of a popular rhythm-action indie game called Crypt of the NecroDancer. Like the original, you go on an adventure viewed from above and progress by moving, attacking and dodging in time with the music.
Release Date: 31/07/2008, updated in 2016
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, DS, GBA, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
Rhythm Paradise (also known as Rhythm Heaven, Rhythm World and Rhythm Tengoku) is a Japanese rhythm game where you perform everyday action in time with a musical beat.
Release Date: 25/11/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made
Retimed is a multiplayer shooting game where players can create a bubble that slows down time. This makes the usual frantic shooting and dodging more achievable as when you are in danger you have more time to get out of the way.
Release Date: 09/06/2014, updated in 2014
Out Now: PS Vita, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Entwined is a rhythm-action game where you play a bird and a fish dancing to the music on a quest to unite their souls. Unusually, you control each character with a different joystick on the gamepad and must move them around the screen simultaneously to...
Release Date: 23/08/2021
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Heartbeat: Regret is a horror rhythm-typing game. It's a tough game where you are hunted in a mansion by a dark monster. Unusually, you need to press buttons in time with the audible heart beat to move around and then type directions to take specific...
Release Date: 18/02/2016
Out Now: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Devil Daggers is an intense and fast shooting game where you try and survive an abyssal arena with waves of demons. You survive by moving around and using your versatile magic daggers to deal with the latest monstrous creature.
Release Date: 19/09/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person
Hyper Demon is a fast, frantic and psychedelic shooting game set in a dream-like disembodied future. You play by moving and shooting to survive the many incoming threats.