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ShooterIndieArcadeShoot 'em upAction

There are many scrolling shooters but none of them is like "Sky Force". This stunning shoot ‘em up game combines the classic arcade elements with the new possibilities offered by current technology. The new installment in the series just ca

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ActionArcadeShoot 'em upShooterBird view / Isometric

In the near future, scientists working for the powerful Asian conglomerate known as Igem have discovered a new energy source. Refusing to share their technique with the rest of the world, Igem eventually developed a weather control machine

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ShooterIndieArcadeActionBird view / Isometric

Sadistic robots have enslaved orcas at SeaLand Marine Park. The evil Sheep Puncher robot has kidnapped sheep for the twisted wool industry. Only the Kitten Squad is up to the task of saving these gentle animals. Players must guide the Kitte

52 rating1 list4.5 h main storyOften paired

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ActionArcadeIndiePartyBird view / Isometric

Unrailed! is all about getting an unstoppable train safely to the station through a variety of procedurally generated maps, both weird and wonderful in online multiplayer, local multiplayer or versus mode.

71 rating4 lists6.5 h main storyOften paired

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ActionArcadeIndiePartyBird view / Isometric

Boomerang Fu is a frantic physics fighting game. Choose from an adorable cast of food characters and slice up your friends with boomerangs and a ridiculous range of stackable powerups.

73 rating4 lists1 h main storyOften paired

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ArcadeIndieActionBird view / IsometricFighting

Relive the golden age of arcade sports gaming with Super Blood Hockey — A violent homage to classic 8-bit and 16-bit ice hockey games. Customize your line up and take to the ice, using fast-paced skills and bone-crunching brutality to domi

80 rating2 lists4.5 h main storyOften paired

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ArcadeIndieShooterRogueliteAction

Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens.

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ArcadeIndieShoot 'em upShooterAction

From the collaboration between Housemarque (Resogun, Alienation, Matterfall), and Robotron and Smash TV legendary creator Eugene Jarvis comes Nex Machina, an explosive arcade experience created with competition in mind.

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ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionBird view / Isometric

Truxton Extreme, which inherits the DNA from legendary arcade masterpiece Truxton, is a collaboration with manga artist and Toaplan alumni Junya Inoue.

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ArcadeIndieActionPartyBird view / Isometric

BlazeRush is a dynamic arcade racing survival game with no health, no levelling and no brakes! You can assemble a team of friends to play in local or online multiplayer, choose a car to your taste and chase, blow up and cut off! Adapt your

66 rating5 lists6 h main storyOften paired

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionBird view / Isometric

Pocky & Rocky Reshrined follows the adventures of a young Shinto shrine maiden named Pocky and her companion, Rocky the raccoon, as they take on the Nopino Goblins! A third sequel in the series, Pocky & Rocky Reshrined is currently being d

77 rating4 lists2.5 h main story

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ActionArcadeRoguelitePartyBird view / Isometric

Pro Jank Footy is an over-the-top arcade comedy-sports game. Score goals to unleash game-changing power-ups, build a deck of absurd abilities, and tackle a season where no two matches are ever the same—solo or with your mates.

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ArcadeIndieShooterActionBird view / Isometric

Select your favorite adorably murderous fox, panda, or sloth and parachute into a furocious 64-player battle arena. Explore a top-down 2D world, full of exotic biomes, psychotic animals, hamster balls, emus and much more. Wield pistols, sni

66 rating7 lists2 h main storyOften paired

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ArcadeActionBird view / IsometricStrategyRobots

Transformers: Battlegrounds is a tactical warfare adventure. As evil Megatron closes in on the all spark, Bumblebee and the Autobacs need a new commander to help save Earth. Assemble your squad and roll out for a battle that will Rage from

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ArcadeIndieActionBird view / IsometricFighting

Windjammers 2 will combine everything fans love about the classic title with entirely hand-drawn 2D animations to create the ultimate windjamming experience. The coming sequel will bring new stages and players, surprising and amazing new po

67 rating5 lists1 h main storyOften paired

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ActionArcadeIndieBird view / IsometricCasual

HyperDot is a minimal action arcade masterpiece with one rule: dodge everything. Evade enemies and test your skills in over 100 trials in the campaign mode, outlast your friends in multiplayer battles, or build custom challenges with the le

67 rating1 list3 h main storyOften paired

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ActionArcadeIndieShoot 'em upShooter

A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the Presid

70 rating3 lists23 h main story

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IndieArcadeActionPlatformerSports

Killer Queen Black is an intense multiplayer action/strategy platformer for up to eight players. Fly solo, or team up with three of your friends as you race to complete one of three possible victory conditions. Killer Queen Black, a new ta

77 rating3 lists3.5 h main story

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ActionArcadeIndieShooterParty

The Otterman Empire is an intense quick-fire party shooter for one to four players. Working as a team, you must gear up, strap on your jetpack and stop the evil Tiko in his tracks, an otter who just doesn't give a dam! Jet off across the ga

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IndieShoot 'em upShooterRogueliteAction

Wreak vengeance with your elite craft on waves of Swarm bugs, who are hellbent on killing you and everyone you love. Harvest their guts for scrap and earn a deliciously varied array of upgrades. Beat the last wave if you have the skill, the

80 rating1 list2.5 h main story

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ShooterArcadeActionBird view / IsometricZombies

Set after the events of the first movie, Zombieland: Double Tap - Road Trip is a ridiculously fun top-down twin-stick shooter featuring local co-op multiplayer for up to four players. Play as your favourite heroes from the original (Tallaha

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ActionArcadeIndieShooterBird view / Isometric

Police Stories is a novelty top-down shooter, where advanced AI of enemies, tactical elements and random occurrences create thousands of unique situations in each level. Never before the pixel game was this realistic and fun.

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ActionArcadeIndiePartyBird view / Isometric

The god Hoochooboo is hungry… for you. But as all good cannibal cooks know, serving is better than being served. Chop up vegetables, fruits and tourists and serve your divine delicacies arcade style with up to 4 chefs in Cannibal Cuisine! R

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ShooterArcadeShoot 'em upActionBird view / Isometric

Truxton is a 1988 vertically scrolling, shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Toaplan, later ported to the Mega Drive (worldwide) and the PC Engine (Japan-only). Like many other scrolling shooters, the game is set in outer space, where the

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ShooterArcadePartyBird view / IsometricScience fiction

Multiplayer competitive spaceship shooting simulator.

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IndieArcadeActionPartyBird view / Isometric

Overcooked 2 is a cooperative cooking simulation game for up to four players. Teams work together to prepare and serve food orders in increasingly chaotic kitchen environments, coordinating tasks like chopping, cooking, plating, and dishwas

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ArcadeIndieActionPartyBird view / Isometric

Crawl is the local multiplayer dungeon crawler where your friends control the monsters! It’s bullet-hell beat-em-up meets old-school RPG, in an arcadey party-game for up to 4 players. One player is the hero, exploring a randomly generated d

63 rating3 lists1 h main story

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IndieShooterRogueliteActionBird view / Isometric

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

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ArcadeIndiePartyActionBird view / Isometric

Overcooked 2 is a cooperative cooking simulation game for up to four players. Teams work together to prepare and serve food orders in increasingly chaotic kitchen environments, coordinating tasks like chopping, cooking, plating, and dishwas

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ActionArcadePartyBird view / IsometricMaze

"Since its release in 1985, Bomberman has been a familiar party-battle game for many years. Now, Bomberman is coming back as "SUPER BOMBERMAN R" to Nintendo Switch. In SUPER BOMBERMAN R, the simple rule remains the same: operate the main c

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IndieShoot 'em upAction

Astro Duel is a competitive local multiplayer party game. Rounds are quick and death is sudden. Blast your friends using asteroid-style ships. Run over their helpless bodies for good measure.

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ArcadeIndieActionPartySports

A fast-paced action-sports game that pits 2-4 players against each other in a unique combination of air hockey and tennis. Players scramble to retrieve and throw a glowing disc while unleashing devastating abilities and defending variable-p

72 rating3 lists4 h main story

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IndieActionPartyBird view / IsometricRacing

San! Ni! Ichi! Hajime!!! Stretch your muscles and embark upon the ultimate marathon of Nippon in a crazy, physics-driven, four-player party racer where anything can happen!

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ArcadeIndieActionBeat 'em upFighting

Fight’N Rage is a brand new old-school side-scroller beat’em up. Inspired by the classics from the “golden age”, and with an art style that mimics the aesthetic from the 90's arcade gems, this game pays homage to all classic gameplay featur

76 rating4 lists2.5 h main story

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ArcadeIndieActionBird view / IsometricAdventure

Old School Musical is a retro rhythm game that will make you fall back in your childhood. Tib and Rob are the heroes of an epic and completely crazy adventure that will make them cross numerous worlds searching for the source of all bugs. W

73 rating1 list3 h main story

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ArcadeShoot 'em upShooterActionBird view / Isometric

Sega's take on the 1943 style of vertically scrolling shoot 'em ups was set in the future. Your fighter plane is aged and under-powered, yet you must face down large planes, tanks and ground targets to achieve victory. Each level ends with

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Shoot 'em upShooterActionScience fiction

A space shooter with vertically scrolling stages. Based on the arcade version.

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IndieRogueliteActionBeat 'em upMetroidvania

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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Dragon Blaze is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game released in 2000 by Psikyo. It was ported in 2004 to the PlayStation 2 as part of the Psikyo Shooting Collection Vol. 3:Sol Divide & Dragon Blaze compilation. The game was later

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ArcadeIndieActionStrategySide view

Octogeddon is a semi-casual action strategy game. You play as Octogeddon, a giant mutant octopus bent on world destruction. Grow more tentacles and evolve each of them into deadlier weapons until you become the ultimate eight-legged killing

75 rating1 list8.5 h main story

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IndieArcadeActionSimulationSports

Run up the score in a relaxed slugfest or push the limits of your reflexes in this refined baseball simulator. The third entry in the series features an all-new Franchise mode, major graphical enhancements, and on-field additions including

72 rating4 lists18 h main story

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ActionArcadeIndieShooterBird view / Isometric

A violent action filled top-down shooter set in Hong Kong. Inspired by classic Hong Kong action movies the game is filled with dual pistols, gun smoke and bloodshed

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ActionArcadeIndieGolfSports

Have a burning desire to change the way you play golf? Then here’s a smashing way to lower your handicap. Mixing arcade styling with humorous irreverence, Dangerous Golf’s aim isn’t for the likes of a Par or Birdie – but to cause maximum da

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ArcadeIndieActionPartyFighting

Brawlout is the competitive platform fighter, designed for couch play, online ranked matches and competitive tournaments.

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ArcadePartyBird view / IsometricFightingIce hockey

Aggressive hockey is back! Experience hockey the way it was meant to be played in this old school arcade style hockey game where blood on the ice is just another day at the rink. Big moustaches, no helmets, dirty hits, bench-clearing brawls

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ArcadeIndieBird view / IsometricCasualFighting

Metropolis Lux Obscura is a unique game with a film noir atmosphere, seductive wanton women, and dirty dangerous secrets. Gameplay is based on a motion comic with a non-linear plot mixed with MATCH3 puzzle fights. This city is rotten to the

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ArcadeIndieActionPartyBird view / Isometric

Overcooked 2 is a cooperative cooking simulation game for up to four players. Teams work together to prepare and serve food orders in increasingly chaotic kitchen environments, coordinating tasks like chopping, cooking, plating, and dishwas

80 rating2 lists5 h main story

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IndieActionBird view / IsometricAdventureBeat 'em up

TMNT Splintered Fate - Unleash the Turtles in a rogue-like quest to rescue Splinter from the Foot Clan! Master ninja skills, unite in bodacious co-op gameplay, and conquer iconic NYC locales.

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