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01 Intake Cover

2013 · Mac, PC

Intake

80%

Intake is the new retro-futuristic drugstep arcade shooter from Cipher Prime. In this polychromatic love child of Dr. Mario and Ikaruga, you battle a never-ending barrage of pills, pushing your skill and reflexes to the limit to avoid a lethal dosage. Blast an...

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The Polynomial

80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Music Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Beat Hazard Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Beat Hazard

74%

Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music. Power up your spaceship and watch as the music boosts your firepower. Unleash hell on...

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The Polynomial

74% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Music Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Everyday Shooter Cover

2006 · PC, PS3, PSP

Everyday Shooter

73%

Everyday Shooter is an album of games exploring the expressive power of abstract shooters. Dissolute sounds of destruction are replaced with guitar riffs harmonizing over an all-guitar soundtrack, while modulating shapes celebrate the flowing beauty of geometr...

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The Polynomial

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Music Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 Waves Cover

2011 · PC

Waves

66%

Waves is a twin stick shooter that can be played by anyone, but with a high enough skill threshold to keep even the most hardened shooter fan entertained. Clear the arena of enemies while racking up a big fat Combo with swift kills and well timed Bombs. If it...

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The Polynomial

66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Orbital Gear Cover

2014 · Linux, Mac, PC

Orbital Gear

65%

Orbital Gear is a sidescroller shooter where you utilize the gravitation of celestial objects to give your mech momentum through space. Arm your Mech with two of twelve different weapons and destroy your enemies. Orbital Gear features classic multiplayer gamep...

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The Polynomial

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Bit.Trip Void Cover

2009 · Mac, 3DS, Switch

Bit.Trip Void

62%

Bit.Trip Void is the third installment in the retro-arcade BIT.TRIP saga. Bit.Trip Void is a synesthetic exploration of rhythm and music as they pertain to our everyday lives and moods. In a control scheme brand new to the series, yet wholly familiar to gamer...

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The Polynomial

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Music Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 No Man's Sky Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch 2, PC

No Man's Sky

56%

No Man's Sky is an action-adventure survival game set in a procedurally generated universe containing over 18 quintillion planets. Players explore star systems, gather resources, trade with alien species, and upgrade their equipment while following an overarch...

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The Polynomial

56% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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08 Half-Life 2 Cover

2004 · Android, Linux, Mac

Half-Life 2

55%

1998. HALF-LIFE sends a shock through the game industry with its combination of pounding action and continuous, immersive storytelling. NOW. By taking the suspense, challenge and visceral charge of the original, and adding startling new realism and responsive...

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The Polynomial

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

09 Doom Cover

2016 · PC, PS4, XONE

Doom

55%

Developed by id software, the studio that pioneered the first-person shooter genre and created multiplayer Deathmatch, Doom returns as a brutally fun and challenging modern-day shooter experience. Relentless demons, impossibly destructive guns, and fast, fluid...

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The Polynomial

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

10 Call of Duty: Black Ops II Cover

2012 · PC, PS3, PS4

Call of Duty: Black Ops II

55%

Pushing the boundaries of what fans have come to expect from the record-setting entertainment franchise, Call of Duty: Black Ops II propels players into a near future, 21st Century Cold War, where technology and weapons have converged to create a new generatio...

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The Polynomial

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

11 Half-Life 2: Episode One Cover

2006 · Linux, Mac, PC

Half-Life 2: Episode One

55%

Half-Life 2: Episode One is the first of a planned trilogy of expansion packs/episodes for the 2004 first-person shooter game, Half-Life 2. The episode takes place immediately after the end of Half-Life 2, in the war-torn setting of City 17. The player is forc...

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The Polynomial

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

12 Call of Duty: Ghosts Cover

2013 · PC, PS3, PS4

Call of Duty: Ghosts

55%

Call of Duty: Ghosts is a first-person shooter set in a near-future scenario where the United States has been devastated by an orbital weapons strike. The single-player campaign follows Logan Walker, a soldier fighting alongside an elite special operations uni...

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The Polynomial

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

13 Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare Cover

2014 · PC, PS3, PS4

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare

55%

Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare is a first-person shooter with single-player and multiplayer modes. It is set in a near future where powered exoskeletons give soldiers enhanced mobility such as boosting, dashing, and jumping, alongside conventional and directed...

Your match for

The Polynomial

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

14 Doom Cover

1993 · DOS, Linux

Doom

54%

In the future, humans have left Earth and settled throughout the galaxy. On Mars, the Union Aerospace Corporation has established a radioactive waste facility and allowed the military to conduct teleportation experiments on the nearby moons of Deimos and Phobo...

Your match for

The Polynomial

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Halo: Combat Evolved Cover

2001 · Mac, PC, XBOX

Halo: Combat Evolved

54%

Bent on Humankind's extermination, a powerful fellowship of alien races known as the Covenant is wiping out Earth's fledgling interstellar empire. Climb into the boots of Master Chief, a biologically altered super-soldier, as you and the other surviving defend...

Your match for

The Polynomial

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

16 Halo 3 Cover

2007 · PC, X360, XONE

Halo 3

54%

Halo 3 is a shooter game where players primarily experience gameplay from a first-person perspective. Much of the gameplay takes place on foot, but also includes segments focused on vehicular combat. The balance of weapons and objects in the game was adjusted...

Your match for

The Polynomial

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

17 Doom Eternal Cover

2020 · Stadia, Switch, PC

Doom Eternal

54%

Doom Eternal is a first-person shooter developed by id Software and the sequel to Doom (2016). Players control the Doom Slayer as he fights to end a demonic invasion of Earth. Combat is built around aggressive resource management, where health, armor, and ammo...

Your match for

The Polynomial

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Star Wars: Battlefront II Cover

2005 · PC, PS2, PSP

Star Wars: Battlefront II

54%

Star Wars: Battlefront II is the sequel to Star Wars: Battlefront. It is a high-selling Star Wars video game following the many adventures of several characters. The two games are very similar, as both revolve around troopers from various factions fighting in...

Your match for

The Polynomial

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Halo 2 Cover

2004 · PC, XBOX, XONE

Halo 2

54%

Halo 2 is a first-person shooter developed by Bungie and the sequel to Halo: Combat Evolved. The campaign alternates between two playable characters: the human supersoldier Master Chief and the Covenant warrior known as the Arbiter. The game introduced online...

Your match for

The Polynomial

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

No description available from IGDB

20 Halo: Reach Cover

2010 · PC, X360, XONE

Halo: Reach

54%

Halo: Reach is a first-person shooter set in 2552, serving as a prequel to Halo: Combat Evolved. Players control Noble Six, a member of Noble Team, an elite squad of Spartan supersoldiers defending the human colony world of Reach from a Covenant invasion. The...

Your match for

The Polynomial

54% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Science fiction Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ First person Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
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No description available from IGDB

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