Games like Pulstar
Looking for games like Pulstar? Here are top survival shooter recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Lazy Galaxy: Rebel Story, Syder Arcade or Capsized.
1 71%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, replayability85% User Score 40 reviewsCritic Score 50%1 reviewsAn old robot named H-34-RT wakes up in a derelict space station orbiting his home planet. His civilization was destroyed long ago by evil O'Xelg, but he has yet to figure that out. After an initial shock, he decides to follow his old defense routines: that means fighting the invaders, even if he is alone now. Lazy Galaxy: Rebel Story is a challenging, squad-based shoot-em-up/bullet hell rogueli…
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2 86%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicstability, grinding86% User Score 519 reviewsGet back to some serious Old-School gaming with Syder Arcade! A love letter to Amiga games of the 90′, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders. Syder Arcade is a free scrolling, multi directional shoot ’em up, an uncompromised old-school experience, furious, challenging, straightforward. This game will bring you back in time, when bulky starships were …
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3 76%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsstability, grinding83% User Score 777 reviewsCritic Score 63%4 reviewsCapsized is a fast paced 2D platformer focused on intense action and exploration. As a intrepid space traveler, your ship has crash landed on a mysterious alien planet. You must navigate through the perilous environment and fight off blood-thirsty creatures to save your crewmates and escape with your lives!
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4 88%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplayreplayability92% User Score 51 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsUFOs! Aliens! Aircrafts! Resistance! SHOOT 'EM UP! Squad 51 vs. the Flying Saucers is a spaceship shooter with 2D gameplay and 3D environment. Enjoy a smart combination of a fast-paced shooting experience and the 1950's sci-fi movies aesthetic, with live-action cutscenes.
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5 85%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, stability90% User Score 648 reviewsCritic Score 81%17 reviewsThe Bug Butcher is an action-packed 2D side scrolling shoot em up game where peril comes from above. So in a nutshell, pest control with machine guns in space. The core mechanics hold old ties from the classic arcade shooter “Super Pang” where you shoot vertically, but with modern day twists. You are Harry, a brash and tenacious exterminator who has a knack for decimating bugs.
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6 61%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicgameplay, story61% User Score 72 reviewsDeep Eclipse: New Space Odyssey is the ultimate space thriller in the best tradition of the genre. You're the pilot of a space fighter, accidentally catapulted into a parallel universe populated by hostile alien creatures; and they're not happy to see you! To get out of this hell, do your best, to destroy hordes of enemies.
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7 82%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, stability82% User Score 169 reviewsYou play the psychotic A.I. of a warship lost in space which tries to come back to Earth. Build your spaceship from scratch. Load it with weapons. And use your creation to destroy waves of innocent aliens throughout numerous levels. Loot their carcasses, extend your ship and jump to the next sector for more action!
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8 95%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory95% User Score 84 reviewsIt's the future! And humanity is, predictably, under attack by extraterrestrial forces. Lucky for us we have an experimental ship that's never before been flown that will surely...uh, possibly...well, implausibly be able to win the war! All we need now is a pilot or two.
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9 100%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplayreplayability, story100% User Score 62 reviewsA sci-fi roguelike deckbuilder where you explore the galaxy, face hostile aliens, and upgrade your starship. It will take adaptability and strategic thinking to survive and uncover the secret your enemies want to keep hidden.
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10 52%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayoptimization, stability52% User Score 3,416 reviewsnterstellar Marines resurrects the old school tactical FPS, offering a unique blend of co-op, role-playing and nonlinear gameplay. Set in a believable future, you take on the role as an elite soldier handpicked to join Project IM, a top secret military program being assembled to protect mankind from all dangers outside our solar system. Interstellar Marines is inspired by Half-Life, System Shock …
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