Games like I Hate Running Backwards
Looking for games like I Hate Running Backwards? Here are top arcade shooter recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Assault Android Cactus, Nuclear Throne or Nex Machina.
1 92%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, monetization95% User Score 1,542 reviewsCritic Score 84%2 reviews"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 to discover it under siege by its malfunctioning robot workers. Cut off from the outside and in over her head, Cactus and the androids she re…
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96%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, stability96% User Score 12,923 reviewsCritic Score 95%1 reviewsNuclear Throne is an action roguelike-like by Vlambeer about mutants fighting their way through a post-apocalyptic world. The radioactive waste in the world allows mutants to get ahead by mutating new limbs on the fly, the abundant availability of powerful weaponry make the quest to become ruler of the Wasteland one fraught with peril.
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89%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, grinding87% User Score 1,241 reviewsCritic Score 100%1 reviewsFrom 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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80%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, stability85% User Score 347 reviewsCritic Score 71%4 reviewsShoot the FRUITS up!
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81%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding84% User Score 279 reviewsCritic Score 77%5 reviewsSerious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell. Battle through beautiful Mediterranean locales, dangerous biological weapons labs and even high-tech moon bases as a one-man wrecking crew or in four-player online cooperative for maximum chaos! Dominate the chaotic Survival and Versus modes or make your own mods, mode…
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89%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsstory, grinding89% User Score 727 reviewsSTEREDENN: BINARY STARS is an award-winning mashup of a classic shmup and a rogue-like, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Fly solo or co-op with a friend, fighting off the worst scourges of space in a never-ending struggle for survival. STEREDENN: BINARY STARS is the hugely expanded version of the acclaimed Steredenn. Enjoy infinite replayability and unforgiving gamep…
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80%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, stability95% User Score 390 reviewsCritic Score 67%17 reviewsInfinitely replayable twin stick shooter with RPG elements!
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85%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding88% User Score 845 reviewsCritic Score 80%6 reviewsColt Canyon is a pixel art rogue-lite shooter where you have to save your kidnapped partner from the ruthless bandits. Shoot your way through a hostile canyon full of hidden treasures, weapons, obstacles and all kinds of bloodthirsty scum.
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86%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability87% User Score 2,918 reviewsCritic Score 84%1 reviewsCaveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way to aid your adventure, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
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80%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, grinding79% User Score 610 reviewsCritic Score 80%10 reviewsNeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider to end this eternal war. Play it coop with up to 4 friends, or go alone in an adventure of hack'n'slash rampage, w…
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