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Games like Fringes of the Empire

Looking for games like Fringes of the Empire? Here are top casual role playing recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Grim Earth, Almost Alive or RailGods of Hysterra.

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    64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    95% User Score Based on 19 reviews

    The Earth's looking a bit Grim, but so would you after 5000 years and countless alien invasions! Grab your spacesuit (the air's not so great any more) and go for an adventure in what is still a beautiful world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Grim Earth.

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    71%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, music
    71% User Score Based on 163 reviews

    Almost Alive is redefining the role playing tactical games with an awesome real time combat system in a mad hand drawn post apocalyptic world that features character mental sanity as one of the core elements of a game with a non linear story. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Almost Alive.

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  3. 67%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    67% User Score Based on 121 reviews

    Embark on a co-op survival journey for 1-5 players through a post-apocalyptic Lovecraftian world! Command and evolve a living, monstrous train, craft weapons, build a mobile base, gain powers, and face the Great Old Ones. Explore an ever-changing world, hold on to your sanity, and ascend to godhood! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to RailGods of Hysterra.

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  4. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, story
    83% User Score Based on 590 reviews
    Critic Score 40%Based on 1 reviews

    Over 9000 Zombies! is top-down arcade action blown out of all reasonable proportions. An endless horde of zombies is coming your way, how long can you survive? If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Over 9000 Zombies!.

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  5. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability
    78% User Score Based on 136 reviews

    Blending strategy, survival, and roguelike elements with RPG style character development, FreeHolder is the story of three escaped slaves in the time of the Roman Republic. Farm, hunt, craft, and cook your way through the years as you live on the edge of the beginning of the Empire. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to FreeHolder.

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  6. 56%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, graphics
    62% User Score Based on 40 reviews

    Push For Emor is an open world(s) SciFi FPS RPG with light RTS building elements thrown in for good measure. Fight your way across 11 planets, engage in space combat, disable enemy craft and board enemy wrecks, explore abandoned space stations and defeat evil planet governors. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Push For Emor.

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  7. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, optimization
    66% User Score Based on 99 reviews
    Critic Score 81%Based on 1 reviews

    ROM: Extraction puts you into the role of an Extractor where you must Throw, Slow, & Shoot your way to decimate as many extraterrestrial-bots as possible. ROM: Extraction begins as an homage to the classic arcade shooter with more game modes and maps to come! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to ROM: Extraction.

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  8. 35%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    35% User Score Based on 371 reviews

    Escape Machines is an addictive Science Fiction single/multi-player/co-op adventure shooter in the near future! Artificial intellect and robots fight against their creators. You must take control of the robots and save people. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Escape Machines.

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  9. 74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    74% User Score Based on 328 reviews

    Gaia Beyond is a handcrafted 2D Action-RPG, an exploration mix built around the core features fighting, mining and trading. Your decisions are footprints within a vast non-linear solar system. Forge alliances among numerous factions and develop relations with hundreds of NPCs. Focus on trading and personal interaction or embark on science missions – hunt down pirates and collect their bounty. Inf… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gaia Beyond.

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  10. 88%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, monetization
    91% User Score Based on 478 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 1 reviews

    A tiny, naked cosmonaut with a jetpack & laser blaster must revive a dying galaxy by planting one seed at a time. An innovative and addictive arcade adventure experience with mystery and intrigue in all the right places. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Cosmochoria.

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  11. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    93% User Score Based on 2,760 reviews

    Death Trash features a post-apocalyptic world where cosmic horrors long for humanity but meet punks with shotguns. It combines old-school role-playing, modern action gameplay and player freedom. Create your own character and explore a handcrafted world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Death Trash.

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  12. 81%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    81% User Score Based on 231 reviews

    Holomento is an indie permadeath RPG focusing on the dangerous quest of passing through the mysterious Eventide Hollow – and rebuilding it step by step. Explore a hand-crafted open world featuring procedurally generated dungeons! Fight your way through Eventide Hollow – again and again! Rebuild the Hollow and release it from its ruinous curse! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Holomento.

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  13. 79%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    79% User Score Based on 1,295 reviews

    A classic Sci-Fi RPG set in the harsh environment of deep space. Gather your team, equip your ship and explore the far reaches of deep space. Bringing back the nostalgia, excitement and wonder of classic RPG's, Stellar Tactics will thrill you with a compelling narrative, deep strategic turn based ground combat system and rewarding open world space exploration. Build your team, equip your ship, ex… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Stellar Tactics.

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  14. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    90% User Score Based on 272 reviews

    Gloomgrave is a roguelike dungeon crawler with a retro pixel aesthetic. Upgrade your Gloomcrawler with unique perks and experiment with different builds as you try to survive each depth in search of the ultimate ancient relic. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gloomgrave.

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    31%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics
    50% User Score Based on 12 reviews

    The world was plunged into darkness as the apocalypse began. The Earth's atmosphere was destroyed; its air was polluted beyond repair. Civilization crumbled, leaving cities in ruins. And amid the chaos, you awoke. It was up to you to find a way to survive in this world of destruction. But be warned, the dangers lurking in its shadows are far greater than anything you have ever faced. The player st… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to After Dark.

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    52%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, story
    78% User Score Based on 18 reviews

    An honest letter from developers. Dear players. As a newly formed Indie game company, this was our first game. So we feel obligated to be 100% honest with you. Here, you can read what was our roadmap and what you can expect from this game. Our roadmap was simple and clear. When we first started developing Mage Rage, Action RPG was really popular so we wanted to be a part of it. We designed a Hac… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mage Rage.

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    86%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    86% User Score Based on 69 reviews

    Explore gorgeous raytraced voxel lands, meet the local mutated wild-life, find out what went wrong, and quest, craft, loot, build, destroy and shoot your way to the top of the foodchain! Play alone, or with friends! Assuming you know how to share.. EXPLOREEmbark on a dangerous journey through meticulously crafted, raytraced voxel landscapes, featuring captivating hand-designed locations at every t… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Voxile.

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  18. 78%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability
    81% User Score Based on 54 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Experience shoot'em up like you have never before. 'Beekyr Reloaded' is a 2D Arcade Shmup that alternates vertical and horizontal gameplay through enjoyable 28 stages. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Beekyr Reloaded.

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  19. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, optimization
    76% User Score Based on 333 reviews

    Exoplanet: First Contact is a single-player, story driven action-RPG set in a space western universe, where real and fictional technologies meet the cruel and unforgiving, yet romantic reality of the Wild West exploration and development. You are playing as Jack Sharp, a daring adventurer, stranded against his will on a dangerous, wild planet known as K'Tharsis. The former mining outpost where he’… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Exoplanet: First Contact.

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  20. 50%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, gameplay
    50% User Score Based on 100 reviews

    How long could you survive in a parallel universe where the Mist dictates its rules? Would you be able to find the way to your homeworld, or will you adapt to live under the Mist domain? Fight for resources, get together with other survivors and discover the secrets of this world. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Lost Scavenger.

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  21. 80%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    80% User Score Based on 169 reviews

    Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Blacksea Odyssey.

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  22. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, gameplay
    82% User Score Based on 34 reviews

    Resurgence is a action RPG, where you dawn humanity's "armor" of the future. Teams of 4 can enter Earth's new Colosseum and Pilot the R.A.V MK II and fight endless waves slowly becoming the wall that stands between humanity and our would be destroyers from the stars. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Resurgence: Earth United.

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  23. View Game
    90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:stability, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, graphics
    90% User Score Based on 91 reviews

    SHMUP Creator allows you to create and build your own shoot 'em up. This tool is easy to use and powerful enough for more experienced users. Thanks to the included assets you can start right away to have fun! Test your game anytime with the simple press of a button Create 2D and 3D games Vertical, horizontal, or multi-directional levels Free assets included: 3D models, sprites, sounds, m… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SHMUP Creator.

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  24. 91%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, replayability
    91% User Score Based on 1,860 reviews

    Suddenly thrown into an unknown galaxy, you must explore, fight or befriend aliens and transform your ship from a small survey vessel into a powerful battlecruiser to unravel the mystery of the forces that brought you here and find your way home. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starcom: Nexus.

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  25. 57%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, atmosphere
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, gameplay
    57% User Score Based on 101 reviews

    Resilience: Wave Survival is a physics based endless wave survival shooter. Explore to Search for Weapons and Ammo to help Defeat the Enemies, better find food and water too if you want to Survive for longer, but Beware of the Tripods stalking the lands. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Resilience Wave Survival.

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  26. 61%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, optimization
    63% User Score Based on 48 reviews

    Wild Mage - Phantom Twilight is a multiplayer, open-world action RPG made for small team based adventures, featuring airships, floating islands, dungeons, and next-gen combat. Monsters can be dynamically sliced into pieces. Terrain and structures can be altered or destroyed. Abilities and spells can be acquired from monsters and lore books. A game that brings adventure back to the genre. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Isles of Etherion.

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    62%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, monetization
    62% User Score Based on 166 reviews

    A cross-platform, cooperative, multiplayer, zombie death-fest. Slaughter your way through many different maps, game modes and enemies - With tons of weapons and customization options! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Zombie Grinder.

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  28. 47%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:gameplay, story
    60% User Score Based on 30 reviews

    A Creature Collection Tower Defense Game! Defend yourself with creatures that you collect and train. Quote from a fan: ''It's Pokémon meets tower defense!'' If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Soul Locus.

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  29. 76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, humor
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, grinding
    76% User Score Based on 76 reviews

    It's Christmas Eve during the Zombie Apocalypse and Santa has to gun down hordes of the undead or Christmas is ruined! Level up your firearms with upgrades from the Christmas skill tree and find the most destructive combinations. A festive time-survival third-person shooter with roguelite elements. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Xmas Apocalypse.

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    48%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    48% User Score Based on 466 reviews

    Noct is a 2D top-down multiplayer survival horror game that blends arcade combat with RPG survival elements. You are a survivor of the apocalyptic purge that formed the desolate wasteland now know as Noct. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Noct.

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  31. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    85% User Score Based on 97 reviews

    Fabular: Once upon a Spacetime is an indie action-RPG in space with roguelike influences, set in a Medieval, folktale-inspired fantasy universe. As a young knight, go on an adventure in a surreal, storybook-like galaxy in your trusty spaceship. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fabular: Once Upon a Spacetime.

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  32. 85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, monetization
    85% User Score Based on 339 reviews

    Fast-paced rogue-lite shooter. Gatekeeper: Eclipse is a prologue ver. of the game Gatekeeper. Go on a quest to find the stolen Heart of the Universe and shoot your way through the hordes of machine enemies! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Gatekeeper: Eclipse.

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  33. View Game
    97%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story
    97% User Score Based on 208 reviews

    A difficult, 1980's inspired permadeath rogue-lite where every play through is different. Trade, gamble, and fight your way through progressively challenging levels. Increase the power of your weapon by collecting parts that merge to give new and unique properties. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Null Vector.

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    76%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, story
    80% User Score Based on 1,152 reviews
    Critic Score 72%Based on 8 reviews

    Fractured Space is team-based space combat fought in gigantic capital ships. With the intensity of a shooter and the big-picture-thinking of a strategy game, Fractured Space is at the forefront of an exciting new frontier for the genre. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Fractured Space.

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    58%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:story, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    57% User Score Based on 147 reviews
    Critic Score 60%Based on 1 reviews

    Dreadlands is a new turn-based skirmish game set in a living post-apocalyptic shared world. Explore Dreadlands by traveling across its many regions with your misfit gang of miscreants and mercenaries. The game is set in a Shared World where players frequently encounter and interact with each other. Sometimes they cooperate, other times they pick fights in bloody PvP battles. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Dreadlands.

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  36. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, stability
    73% User Score Based on 371 reviews

    DSP is side-scrolling, roguelike, shoot 'em up set in the Starr Mazer universe. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Starr Mazer: DSP.

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    85%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    89% User Score Based on 727 reviews
    Critic Score 78%Based on 4 reviews

    Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival. Steredenn is at the crossroads between a shmup and a rogue-like. Enjoy the infinite replayability of the game with its unforgiving gameplay, intense boss fights, (almost) ran… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Steredenn.

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  38. 73%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:humor, music
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, grinding
    91% User Score Based on 32 reviews

    An open-world, base-building, adventure game with quirky humor and Llamas. Explore the wasteland of Alaska smashing skeletons in your supped-up cab and trading veggies with the native rhino people. Find out what the mysterious cube from space wants you to do for it. GAMEPLAY: The game will take place in a top-down format. There will be a base the player can build and upgrade. The base will be esse… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Sand: A Superfluous Game.

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  39. 68%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
    89% User Score Based on 27 reviews

    The full game of  Bugs Must Die will be released on Steam Store.  https://store.steampowered.com/app/816720/Bugs_Must_Die/ If it's the game that you're interested in, please add it to your wishlist on Steam. We here at DG Games Workshop are working on our first PC game titled “Bugs Must Die”. It is a fast-paced modern retro top-down shooter where you fight against alien bugs and bosses by contr… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Bugs Must Die.

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    63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, stability
    63% User Score Based on 245 reviews

    Road to Eden is a third-person multiplayer survival coop game, set within the post-apocalyptic ruins of a world destroyed by an alien invasion. You wake up at the side of the road with no memory and must team up with other survivors to make the long and dangerous journey to Eden. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Road to Eden.

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    74%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, replayability
    Most mentioned negative aspects:graphics, stability
    75% User Score Based on 448 reviews
    Critic Score 70%Based on 3 reviews

    Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets! Online and local multiplayer! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Zombie Party.

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  42. 24%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
    24% User Score Based on 187 reviews

    The vast horizons are full of pirates, vagabonds with no claim to the ground their feet tread. Amongst the bandits scattered across the oceans, four factions dominate the worlds main landmasses. Eutopia's conquest will be the force that rids the world of its calamity. Making way for a new era of prosperity, with all continents under one banner. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to All Guns On Deck.

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  43. 93%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:grinding, stability
    93% User Score Based on 326 reviews

    "Mini Ghost" is a mini metroidvania in the 80's MSX art style and gameplay. It's the mini prequel of Ghost 1.0. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Mini Ghost.

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  44. 63%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    63% User Score Based on 86 reviews

    Monsters and Monocles is a frantic top-down shooter for 1-4 players. Use teamwork and your arsenal of weapons to defeat the overwhelming hordes of evil. All the levels are procedurally generated with new layouts, objectives, and secrets each time you play. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Monsters and Monocles.

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  45. 89%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:music, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:replayability, grinding
    89% User Score Based on 208 reviews

    Defend Earth from an immeasurable alien invasion in GunSuit Guardians, an action-roguelite twin-stick horde survival.Take to the skies in an advanced aerial combat suit, wield enormous weapons, and upgrade your gear to become an unstoppable force of destruction.GunSuit Guardians condenses arcade shooter combat with roguelike elements to create a deep, action-packed experience where each run provid… If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to GunSuit Guardians.

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    98%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:graphics, gameplay
    Most mentioned negative aspects:stability, grinding
    98% User Score Based on 1,752 reviews

    COMPOUND is a randomized, rogue-lite, free-roaming shooter for Virtual Reality veterans. Duck and dodge around enemy fire in a tough-as-nails retro FPS with multiple locomotion options. Prepare to die - a lot - until you are good enough to reach the heart of The Corporation and take back what belongs to everyone... If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to COMPOUND.

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  47. 90%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:music, grinding
    90% User Score Based on 147 reviews

    Squids From Space is a team-based PvP top-down shooter where humans and the sinister Squid aliens wage war for the future of the Earth! If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to SQUIDS FROM SPACE.

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  49. 64%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, graphics
    Most mentioned negative aspects:atmosphere, story
    64% User Score Based on 50 reviews

    On a dark and stormy night, 11-year-old Minerva discovers a haunted house deep in the woods and before she knows it, she is in for the fight of her life! Don't Die, Minerva! is a rogue-lite action RPG set in a haunted house. Armed with a flashlight and a backpack full of friendly stuffed animals who are brought to life by the house's magic, Minerva must explore the mansion and defeat its ghostly … If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Don't Die, Minerva!.

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  50. 59%Game Brain Score
    Most mentioned positive aspects:gameplay, optimization
    Most mentioned negative aspects:story, music
    59% User Score Based on 150 reviews

    Crimson Dawn is a casual roguelike game about slaying hordes of monsters, upgrades and leveling different characters, weapons and spells. Recruit a mercenary, choose weapons and spells, slay thousands of monsters, return home with a reward, craft new weapons and spells. Repeat. If you enjoyed this game, see our list of games similar to Crimson Dawn.

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