12 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Vampire Survivors. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Vampire Survivors.
Release Date: 30/04/2021, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC and PS5
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Returnal is a sci-fi shooting game played in repeating rounds that slowly change the world and your character. You are a pilot stranded on a mysterious planet and must investigate and fight through the world to both survive and solve the repeating...
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: 28/09/2011, updated in 2021
Out Now: 3DS and 2DS, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
The Binding of Isaac is a series of adventure games where you progress through randomly generated rooms, collecting items and fighting off monsters. It's a twist on the simple Zelda dungeon, with hundreds of enemies, room variations and upgrades. The...
Release Date: 16/06/2020
Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
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: 05/09/2020, updated in 2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Survivor.io is a shooting game where you survive hoards of zombies. You play by controlling the direction of your character and nothing else. Unlike the web game of a similar name, Surviv.io Battle Royale, this is a single-player game that stands out...
Release Date: Coming soon
Coming Soon: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Pixels
Lake of Creatures is an action fishing game where you boat around lakes to defeat enormous aquatic monsters with guns, laser beams, and a fishing rod. While it's a wacky concept, the marine setting is more than just scenery, as you need to use the money...
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: 27/02/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Day and Night
Voltaire: The Vegan Vampire is a strategic action game where you play a vegan vampire defending his way of life against a bloodthirsty family. By day you plant and nurture crops on your ever-expanding farm. By night you then use them, alongside magical...
Release Date: 13/09/2019, updated in 2023
Out Now: Apple TV, PC, Switch, iOS and iPhone, iPad
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bleak Sword DX is a stripped-down retro fighting game where you take on vicious monsters in precise combat. Each small stage challenges you to use your sword to kill and loot monsters in a mission to end the king's 200-year reign of terror. It looks...
Release Date: 23/06/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: Android, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Brotato is a shooting game where you play a potato crashlanded on an alien planet. Play involves picking the right auto-firing weapons to disperse the onslaught of enemies. It takes the Vampire Survivor survival challenge in a fun silly direction, while...
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...
30 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Vampire Survivors. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Vampire Survivors.
Release Date: 26/05/2020
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person and Blocks
Minecraft Dungeons is an action-adventure game that takes place in the Minecraft universe. You explore various dungeons to complete missions and collect new gear by exploring and finding treasure chests, or by defeating enemies....
Release Date: 11/04/2017, updated in 2017
Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Crawl is a dungeon fighting game where your friends control the monsters and traps. The hero player moves around, break boxes and attack enemies while the ghost players try and stop him. Once the hero dies they become another ghost and the next player...
Release Date: 29/10/2020
Out Now: Android, Switch and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon
Barbearian is a hectic action game where you fight through three-level missions by hacking and slashing hundreds of tiny enemies, collecting cash and rescuing minions to add to your army. It's a role play game you can take on in bite sized portions each...
Release Date: 15/11/2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Bravery and Greed is an action-fighting game where you team up to battle monsters in frantic combat. As you progress, you collect coins and upgrade your gear until you die, then start again with some of the items you found. While it's a familiar...
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: 29/01/2023, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Annalynn is a running, jumping, and collecting game that recreates a classic arcade challenge with more expansive levels. You work to collect every coin on the stage while avoiding enemies. While it appears easy, getting a perfect score requires...
Release Date: 14/09/2016, updated in 2019
Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Conga Master is an action dancing game about getting the most people to join your conga line. It's like the classic Nokia game Snake with an unusual dancing twist. Play involves using two buttons to steer left or right. You dance your way around a club,...
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: 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
Rock Boshers is a retro action adventure inspired by Spectrum and NES games, where you help young Queen Victoria fight her way to escape from Mars. You play by moving around the blocky Martian world, shooting enemies to clear a path for the Queen.
Release Date: 27/10/2022, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Signalis is a puzzle, shooting and survival game with horror elements where you search a desolate alien planet for your missing partner. You gather resources and weapons and use them to defeat robotic enemies and solve puzzles to advance through the...
Release Date: 28/10/2022
Out Now: Android and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Skies of Chaos is a frantic shooting game about a pilot on a mission to shoot down enemy planes. It's not a hugely inventive story and doesn't need to be, this is all about the bright frenetic action. To play you quickly move your plane around to shoot...
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: 17/10/2022, updated in 2022
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Terror of Hemasaurus is a retro fighting game where you smash up a destructible city as a giant monster. Play is like the classic Rampage arcade game, here though you can use the game's physics to inflict greater damage, chain reactions and combos. It's...
Release Date: 05/06/2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Diablo IV, the latest game in the Diablo series, is an action role-playing game where you fight against an ancient evil. You explore dungeons and ruins, fight off enemies, grow in strength, and collect different items...
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: 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...
Release Date: 01/08/2018, updated in 2023
Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gunman Tales is a retro light-gun shooting game where 4 players target enemies to hit them before they get shot. You control your moving and aiming with a single stick, so the fun is about working within these limits to survive each level. It stands out...
Release Date: 20/04/2021
Out Now: PS4 and PS5
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Space Marauder is a shooting game where you play a spaceship on the frontier of the galaxy, mining precious resources from asteroids and defeating enemies. While its unique controls are extremely simple and paired-back, they take time to master. Unusual...
Release Date: 22/05/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead
Inkbound is an online adventure set in the pages of books where your magical ink brings things to life and deals with enemies in battle. You play the game in runs, where you pick a book and hunt down enemies in turn-based combat. It stands out for how...
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: 20/04/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Otxo (pronounced oh-cho) is a violent shooting game where battle your way through a mansion in search of your lost love. Play is brutal, fast and tactical as you plough your way through each room managing your foes by getting your shots off first. It...
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: 30/01/2023
Out Now: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Checkmate Kings is a frantic shooting game where you play a king who can summon chess pieces by shooting the opponent king. Play is a mix of arcade-style shooting to build an army of pieces and then triggering their specific movement to hit the enemy...
Release Date: 03/11/2022
Out Now: PC, Stadia and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon
From Space is a shooting game where squads of four players liberate the earth from an alien infestation. Play is in B-Movie style with over-the-top weaponry and a cartoony post-apocalyptic world. It stands out for combing the classic dungeon action of...
Release Date: 13/09/2023
Out Now: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Gunbrella is a retro running, jumping and shooting game set in a world dependent on a rapidly diminishing natural resource. You play a gruff woodsman on a quest for revenge, armed with the mysterious Gunbrella that shoots, glides and lets you interact...
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....
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