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Release Date: 11/02/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
StarCrossed is a breakout-style game where you shoot a projectile between two players to hit and destroy enemies. You play one of a cast of 5 space-faring heroes, each with unique abilities. Each level pits you against enemies that shoot at you with...
Release Date: 06/12/2018, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Hades is a fighting game where you battle your way through dungeons to escape hell and the clutches of Hades. You play as Zagreus, the son of Hades and through the game, you'll meet many recognisable Greek gods like Zeus, Athena and Poseidon who will...
Release Date: 30/08/2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon
Risk of Rain 2 is a multiplayer adventure game where you have to fight to survive and escape a planet you've crash-landed on. It's formatted like a 'Roguelike' game: an iterative game that requires multiple goes to complete a level and where your...
Release Date: 12/05/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Jet Lancer is a high-speed air combat game, similar to Luftrausers (and much older inertia shooting games like Virus/Zarch), where you pilot giant robots to deal with Sky Pirates. The novelty here is the nuanced and instinctive control of the craft. The...
Release Date: 07/08/2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Swimsanity! is a multiplayer underwater shooting game. It's fast-paced cartoon action with lots of modes to play with other people. You have a variety of unique power-ups and weapons to survive in this aquatic world. But the real novelty is how...
Release Date: 05/04/2016, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Enter the Gungeon is a shooting game where you use one stick for running around and the other to aim. These twin-stick controls combine with loads of enemy bullets to dodge to create a tough challenge. You play four adventurers descending into the...
30 Similar Games Long List
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Release Date: 22/10/2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Disc Room is an action survival game set in a sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse. You are a scientist from the future exploring the facility and must get through each room that is filled with sharp discs by running and dodging. You have special...
Release Date: 10/11/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Stadia and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Weather
The Falconeer is an action game where you play a pilot who flies a weaponised falcon through dramatic locations. You battle the rivalling factions to uncover the secrets of long-forgotten gods and ancestors. Although the gameplay is all flying and...
Release Date: 14/10/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
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Trifox is a shooting game where one stick controls your movement and the other controls the aiming. You traverse through the levels, defeating hordes of enemies with a variety of different skills and weapons. While the controls are simple, mastering...
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Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
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Release Date: 06/11/2018
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
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Release Date: 16/06/2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
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Colt Canyon is a pixel-styled shooting game where you play a cowboy, whose mission is to save his kidnapped partner from the bandits and get back home. Players shoot their way through a hostile canyon using their guns and TNT. Hidden treasures and...
Release Date: 22/12/2018
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Mana Spark is a fantasy adventure where you explore a Tolkein-esque dungeon to fight smart enemies that will plan and collaborate between themselves to defeat you. It's a game you play over and over, improving not only your skill but equipment and...
Release Date: 07/10/2016, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Thoth is a shooting game with a twist: you shoot the colour out of objects as they move in ways that make it hard to avoid them. It's quite challenging as the levels are fast-paced and often introduce new mechanics that you need to learn to cope with,...
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Out Now: PC
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Zelter is a zombie survival game. But you aren't only defending yourself from the oncoming hordes of zombies but developing a safe haven for a new life like Stardew Valley.
Release Date: 04/06/2021, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Astro Aqua Kitty is a space adventure where an intrepid crew of cats launch into space to harvest milk from far off planets. You play by moving and shooting your way through levels to meet inhabitants and upgrade your abilities. It stands out for this...
Release Date: 16/03/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Flame Keeper is a strategic fighting and collecting game where you gather energy to restore the eternal flame and save the world from evil monsters. As you explore and fight enemies in fast-paced combat, you sacrifice your health to collect energy and...
Release Date: 12/07/2017, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Iron Crypticle is an action adventure game where you shoot your way through dungeons with up to four friends. You play by moving with one stick while shooting with the other and work through floors of enemies. It stands out for blending the arcade...
Release Date: 19/11/2004, updated in 2020
Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Jets'n'Guns 2 is a fast arcade-style shooting game where you defeat wave after wave of enemy ships and avoid an endless barrage of bullets. While initially the challenge seems overwhelming, building instincts of how and when to move and upgrading your...
Release Date: 08/11/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Risk of Rain is a running, jumping and fighting game where you defeat hordes of monsters and the difficulty steadily increases the longer you survive as you try to scavenge the parts to make a way back home. When you die, you start over but do keep some...
Release Date: 10/12/2014, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
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Release Date: 01/01/2004, updated in 2018
Out Now: Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS3, PS4, PSP, Switch, Wii U, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Sky Force Reloaded is a fast arcade-style shooting game where you defeat enemies, earn money and upgrade your ship. As you shoot down huge opponents and dodge barrages of attacks, you save civilians and upgrade your ship with unique upgrades that make...
Release Date: 08/02/2023
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon
Dust and Neon is a shooting game set in a futuristic wild west where you play a lone gunslinger taking on robots. It takes the twin-stick (one for movement and one for aiming) shooting play in a more considered direction, as you work to stay close to...
Release Date: 25/03/2014
Out Now: PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Mercenary Kings: Reloaded Edition is a running and shooting game. You control an army character, craft a wide arsenal of weapons and take on bosses that retreat when they are nearly beaten. It's unusual because it leans into gaining familiarity of its...
Release Date: 07/05/2020, updated in 2015
Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Relic Hunters Zero: Remix is a shooting game where you play the crew of the Spaceheart as they run, gun, and dodge their way through waves of colourful aliens to recover ancient relics from the evil Ducans. It stands out because of the frantic shooting...
Release Date: 18/07/2023
Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Roto Force is a shooting game where you battle enemies as a slug who is permanently attached to the inside wall of each box-like level. As you frantically dash through the stages the whole room twists and turns accordingly, meaning not only do you...
Release Date: 22/02/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Sol Cresta is a classic-style arcade shooting game. It follows previous Cresta games (Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta) focus on bullet dodging, ship augmenting action. Here though you have three ships that can combine their weapons in different ways.
Release Date: 29/11/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cards
The Knight Witch is a shooting game where you fly through narrow caverns and avoid obstacles as you fight enemies with guns and magic powers. Alongside the exploration and combat, you buy weapons and armour upgrades, obtain cards that let you use...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Minishoot Adventures is, as its name suggests, a shooting adventure. You play a miniature spaceship on a mission to save its friends from invaders. In the small craft, you traverse lush caves, arid deserts, and ancient dungeons and shoot down enemy...
Release Date: 19/09/2022
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Rogue: Genesia is a shooting game where you battle hundreds of enemies at the same time to defend a desperate world. Like Vampire Survivors, you use one stick to control your movement and the other for aiming and...
Release Date: 30/10/1996, updated in 2018
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Wii and Wii U
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On
Wild Guns Reloaded is a fast retro shooting game where you control the gun with one stick and your character with the other. It's set in an alternative steampunk Wild West.
Release Date: 23/06/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
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Release Date: 03/11/2022
Out Now: PC, Stadia and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
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Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Guncar Arena is a super-fast shooting game where you drive a weaponised car shooting hordes of alien invaders. Play requires expert timing and deft steering to drift through attacks while tactically and inventively using your weapons to target enemies....
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Hades II is a shooting action game that takes you beyond the Underworld of the first game to battle the dark sorcery of the Titan of Time. Play involves shooting and fighting your way through waves of enemies until you die (which you do often). It...
Release Date: 07/12/2015
Out Now: PC, PS3 and PS4
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
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