Games like Defender
Looking for games like Defender? Here are top arcade shooter recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Utopia Must Fall, Point Perfect or Pentasma.
1 95%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, optimization95% User Score 834 reviewsUtopia Must Fall is a vector-flavored base-defending arcade shooter with rapid progression, procedurally generated attack waves and enough upgrade variety to suit both the defensive or aggressive player. It incorporates elements from tower defense, roguelites and beyond, all neatly packaged into a laser-sharp bullet-purgatory arcade frenzy! Easy To Learn : firing happens automatically, just st…
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64%Game Brain Scoremusic, humorgameplay, graphics64% User Score 134 reviewsPoint Perfect puts your mouse hand to the ultimate test. Navigate your mouse through a procedurally generated gauntlet. Use your reflexes to avoid aliens, saucers, meteors, and all manner of retro arcade enemies. Draw boxes around enemies to target for the mothership to shoot down.
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85%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphics100% User Score 36 reviewsPentasma is a side-scrolling arcade shooter inspired by Williams Electronics' 1981 classic 'Defender'. Protect The terraforming Humanoids from the deadly Aliens and raid the Alien planets to keep the galaxy peaceful!
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COMMUNITY About the Game Destroy all the meteorites before they destroy you! You need good peripheral vision and perfect aim to succeed in this game. It’s easy to play but hard to master. Meteoric VR is a retro low poly first-person space shooter where mission is to protect the planet from incoming meteors. Try not to run out of lives! Our signature feature is a unique movement that you hav…
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Astrodrifter combines the delicate art of drifting with fast-paced, top down, dogfighting. Fight your way through hordes of fighters, raid heavily fortified bases, take down deadly enemy capital ships, all to become The Astrodrifter. Astrodrifter features a Rouge-lite campaign where choices matter and daring victories are well rewarded. You chose where to go, when to strike and when to run (tho…
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85%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, stability87% User Score 1,550 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsProject Nimbus is a high speed mech action game set in a post apocalyptic world. Players control 'BattleFrames' - humanoid battles suits armed with an arsenal of weapons. This is a mech game that lets you fly freely in the sky, dodge and intercept incoming missiles with machine guns, fight armies of hostiles with every kind of modern weapon you can imagine, Battle against numerous powerful coloss…
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89%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgraphics, optimization89% User Score 232 reviewsIn the far future, Mankind has nearly exhausted all of earth’s natural resources. Fragile alliances between nations are tested to their limits as fierce wars ignite across land and space. MoonBase Commander puts you in charge of your own lunar territory in a quest to build the most powerful empire in space. Find, exploit and utilize valuable energy pools to eliminate rival factions. Choose the be…
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87%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, replayability92% User Score 763 reviewsCritic Score 72%2 reviewsAs the last surviving tank commander on Earth, single-handedly turn back the evil invading alien army, drive back the Titans across the Solar System, and defeat them on their homeworld... Titan Attacks has the same easy-to-learn and addictive gameplay of the classic arcade shoot 'em up
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37%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicgameplay, story37% User Score 122 reviewsA space and planet flight combat action game.
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79%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplayoptimization, grinding89% User Score 46 reviewsCritic Score 50%1 reviewsIn Rogue Invader, YOU are the invader attacking the alien horde in this genre-flipping roguelite shooter. 1-Bit black and white old-school art style, with modern touches and HD graphics.
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