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281 games like The Dreadful Space

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01 Overdriven Evolution Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS5

Overdriven Evolution

100%

Destroy Huge Bosses, dodge thousand of bullets and resolve quick puzzles with your powerfull space ship ! New and remade stages with improved graphics and 3D environments. More enemies and more bullets !

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The Dreadful Space

100% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

02 Hyper Echelon Cover

2021 · Mac, Switch, PC

Hyper Echelon

95%

The Cyan galaxy is in peril! Your trusty little star fighter and rag tag squad of wingmen are the only hope against the evil EXODON! Level up from a pea shooter to an offensive powerhouse as you engage in frantic combat across many wondrous locales.

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The Dreadful Space

95% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie 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

03 Idol Hell Cover

2023 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Idol Hell

93%

Idol Hell is the beginner friendly bullet hell game! Play as Medli and fight through hoards of enemies and meet vibrant cute bosses! Play at your pace and choose from 4 difficulties!

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The Dreadful Space

93% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

04 Prismatic Solid Cover

2010 · PS4, X360

Prismatic Solid

92%

Experience the abstract yet dangerous world of Prismatic Solid through its simple shapes and geometric aesthetic. Swim through a torrent of bullets in this stylish top down vertical shooter as you dodge flashing lasers, debris from explosions, and fluttering e...

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The Dreadful Space

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

05 Feeble Light Cover

2023 · Switch, PC, PS4

Feeble Light

92%

Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

92% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

06 Angel at Dusk Cover

2024 · Switch, PC

Angel at Dusk

90%

Profusely Genuine! Explosively Orthodox! Shoot, dodge, and destroy! A die-hard style, faithful return to the origin of top down shooters!

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The Dreadful Space

90% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

07 Crisis Wing Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Crisis Wing

87%

Crisis Wing is a mid-90’s style arcade shoot’em up (shmup) game with frantic fast-paced gameplay and colorful pixel graphics.

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

87% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

08 Goinund Cover

2018 · PC

Goinund

87%

Goinund — an arena shooter with the ability to grow, full of magic and battles with demons. To survive is to destroy all.

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The Dreadful Space

87% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie 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

09 Saviors Cover

2016 · PC

Saviors

83%

Saviors brings the best bullet hell experience you can find on Steam. Play through 18 challenging stages in this ultimate test of tactics and reflexes.

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The Dreadful Space

83% Starker DNA-Match
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie 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

10 Sol Cresta Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS4

Sol Cresta

80%

DOCK, SPLIT, and FORM UP! Pilot three ships and free the solar system from the clutches of evil in this free-form shooting game! PlatinumGames’ NEO-CLASSIC ARCADE series carries on the spirit and fun of classic gaming using modern technology, and the first pr...

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The Dreadful Space

80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

11 Chicken Invaders 3: Revenge of the Yolk Cover
76%

Chickens. For centuries we have oppressed them, grilling, roasting, stewing, and stuffing them in buns. The time has come for us to pay. Intergalactic chickens are invading Earth, seeking revenge for the oppression of their earthly brethren!

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

12 Crimzon Clover: World Ignition Cover

Crimzon Clover: World Ignition is a fast-paced, top-down bullet-hell shooter where players command one of three unique ships through relentless waves of enemy fire. The game expands on the original with multiple play modes: Boost (adaptive difficulty), Origina...

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The Dreadful Space

76% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

13 Cygni: All Guns Blazing Cover

2024 · PC, PS5, Series X|S

Cygni: All Guns Blazing

75%

It's a twin-stick vertical scrolling Shooter hybrid with a cinematic flare: An unrelenting onslaught of eye-popping visuals, ear bursting soundscapes and mind-melting action makes Cygni the vanguard for the next generation of shoot-em ups.

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The Dreadful Space

75% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

14 Hotline Miami Cover

2012 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Hotline Miami

73%

A top-down slasher/shooter with unlockable gameplay-altering masks and weapons, featuring a neon-flavoured electronic aesthetic, in which a hitman receives anonymous calls ordering him to travel to certain residences and crime dens and massacre those within, a...

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

15 Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Cover

2015 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

73%

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game. Follow the paths of several distinct factions – each with their own questio...

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

16 Assault Android Cactus Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Assault Android Cactus

73%

"Assault Android Cactus is a manic twin stick arena shooter for the PC with screens full of enemies, buckets of bullets and high scoring combo chains! Take on the role of Cactus, an enthusiastic police android, who responds to a stranded space freighter only t...

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

17 Deathsmiles Cover

2007 · Android, Arcade, PC

Deathsmiles

73%

Deathsmiles is CAVE's bullet-hell shoot-'em-up where you take the role of one of five Angels to defend the magical land of Gilverado from an invasion by Hell itself! Eradicate this devilish assault!

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

73% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

18 Knightmare Cover

1986 · DOS, Mobile, MSX

Knightmare

70%

Knightmare, known in Japan as Majou Densetsu (魔城伝説 , Demon Castle Legend?), is a 1986 MSX vertical scrolling shooter computer game. The player is a knight, Popolon, who has to fight his way through several levels to defeat Hudnos and rescue Aphrodite. Kni...

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

19 BroodStar Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

BroodStar

69%

BroodStar is a classic arcade shmup with roguelike elements. Battle your way through hordes of enemy creatures, collecting upgrades and fighting terrifying bosses on a quest to destroy the living planet, the BroodStar.

Your match for

The Dreadful Space

69% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie Genre ✓ Shooter Genre ✓ Action Theme ✓ Single player Mode ✓ Bird view / Isometric Perspective ✓ Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

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

20 The Bug Butcher Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Bug Butcher

68%

The Bug Butcher is an action-packed 2D side scrolling shoot em up game where peril comes from above. The core mechanics hold old ties from the classic arcade shooter "Super Pang" where you shoot vertically, but with modern day twists. You are Harry, a brash an...

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The Dreadful Space

68% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
✓ Arcade Genre ✓ Indie 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

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