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289 games like Zero Sum

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01 What's the Matter? Cover

2022 · PC

What's the Matter?

64%

What's the Matter? is a fun and challenging twin stick shooter that introduces you to the periodic table of elements. Play as Matty Matter, a bit of matter, as he sets off on rescue missions throughout the universe to save other bits of matter in need. Crashed...

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Zero Sum

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Educational Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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02 BlazBlue: Entropy Effect Cover

2024 · Android, Mac, PC

BlazBlue: Entropy Effect

62%

Embrace the enthralling explorations and challenges with your characters, each uniquely customized through roguelite gameplay. Discover the truth of the world during the adventure, and alter the course of human destiny through your choices.

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Zero Sum

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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03 Megabonk Cover

2025 · Linux, PC

Megabonk

60%

Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!

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Zero Sum

60% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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04 Earth Overclocked Cover

2015 · Mac, PC

Earth Overclocked

59%

Earth Overclocked is a frantic rogue-lite adventure starring a scientist who is terrible at making time machines, but great at blasting bad guys. Use a diverse selection of weapons to fight off monsters while searching for pieces of your time machine in random...

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Zero Sum

59% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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05 Beacon Cover

2018 · PC

Beacon

58%

Beacon is a sci-fi themed Action Roguelike. Played as a top-down shooter, you must fight your way through a randomly generated hostile world, all the while trying to locate your emergency distress beacon and escape the planet into which your ship has crashed....

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Zero Sum

58% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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06 Rift Loopers Cover

2023 · PC

Rift Loopers

55%

Survive the horrors of the multiverse, alone or with your comrades, as you battle against an onslaught of insectoid like creatures. Combine abilities in different ways each loop to overcome and return safely to your universe.

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Zero Sum

55% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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07 Doomsday Hunters Cover

2023 · Switch, PC

Doomsday Hunters

53%

Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone!

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Zero Sum

53% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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08 Baraja Sistema Coral Cover

2017 · Android

Baraja Sistema Coral

53%

This game is a fun way to help kids, and those not so little, learn math. We are three people behind this project, one of which is a teacher and child psychologist, which has developed the learning method this game is based on. The game offers thre...

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Zero Sum

53% Spannender Match
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Indie Genre Educational Theme Single player Mode
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09 Spelunky Cover

2012 · Switch, PC, PS3

Spelunky

49%

Spelunky (also known as Spelunky HD) is a remake of Spelunky (now known as Spelunky Classic), an open source indie platformer video game created by Derek Yu and originally released as freeware for Microsoft Windows. The player controls a spelunker who explores...

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Zero Sum

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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10 Spelunky 2 Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Spelunky 2

49%

Spelunky 2 builds upon the unique, randomized challenges that made the original a roguelike classic, offering a huge adventure designed to satisfy players old and new. Meet the next generation of explorers as they find themselves on the Moon, searching for tre...

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Zero Sum

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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11 Realm of Ink Cover

2026 · Switch, PC, PS5

Realm of Ink

49%

Realm of Ink is an Ink-style action Roguelite game. You, the heroine, unexpectedly discover that you are just a fictional character within the short story collection Realm of Ink when hunting the Fox. Only by defeating the mysterious Book Spirit can you be lib...

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Zero Sum

49% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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12 Dead Cells Cover

2018 · Android, Linux, Mac

Dead Cells

48%

Dead Cells is a 2D side-scrolling action platformer combining roguelike and Metroidvania design. Players control the Prisoner, an immortal creature that possesses corpses and fights through procedurally generated levels filled with mutated enemies. Combat cent...

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Zero Sum

48% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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13 OTXO Cover

2023 · Switch, PC, PS4

OTXO

48%

OTXO is a fast, brutal, violent roguelite, filled with precise but savage gunplay and time-bending slow motion.

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Zero Sum

48% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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14 R.E.P.O. Cover

2025 · PC

R.E.P.O.

47%

R.E.P.O. (Retrieve, Extract and Profit Operation) is an online cooperative survival horror game for up to six players, developed by Swedish studio Semiwork using the Unity engine. Players are tasked with locating valuable physics-based objects within procedura...

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Zero Sum

47% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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15 The Flame in the Flood Cover

2016 · Mac, Switch, PC

The Flame in the Flood

47%

A rogue-lite river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators. Travel by foot and by raft down a procedurally-generated river as you scrounge for resources, craft tools, remedy afflictions, evade the vi...

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Zero Sum

47% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Roguelike Game feel
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16 Rogue Legacy 2 Cover

2022 · Switch, PC, PS4

Rogue Legacy 2

47%

Rogue Legacy is back! But now it's got a 2 on the end of it! Rogue Legacy 2 is a genealogical rogue-lite. That means it has all the trappings of a typical rogue-like (randomized runs, changing characters, and more), but with persistent upgrades, and persisten...

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Zero Sum

47% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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17 Noita Cover

2020 · PC

Noita

45%

Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself. Explore a variety of environm...

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Zero Sum

45% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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18 Monster Train Cover

2020 · Android, Switch, PC

Monster Train

45%

Hell has frozen over. Only you can protect the final burning pyre from the forces of heaven and restore the inferno. Monster Train brings a new strategic layer to roguelike deckbuilding, with three vertical playing fields to defend. Includes the released updat...

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Zero Sum

45% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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19 Rogue Legacy Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Rogue Legacy

44%

You control a family of characters one at a time, and when your character dies, you choose who his or her successor is, whether it is a barbarian son of yours who has OCD, your daughter who became a ninja even though she can't see well, an assassin who is figh...

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Zero Sum

44% Mutiger Treffer
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Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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20 Risk of Rain Cover

2013 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Risk of Rain

44%

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or wit...

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Zero Sum

44% Mutiger Treffer
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Side view Perspective Roguelike Game feel
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