Games like Steam-Heart's

"Drifting Lands" is an action-packed, hack-and-slash side-scrolling game with RPG elements. Pilot your aircraft through treacherous terrains and enemies, while upgrading and customizing your ship to fit your playstyle. Engage in challenging boss battles and intense missions, with the freedom to choose your own path as you progress through the game.

In Fission Superstar X, you must navigate through the galaxy, managing your spaceship's power and crew while fending off alien attacks to deliver a superweapon to Earth. This challenging, rogue-like journey features fast-paced combat, destructible environments, and procedurally generated levels, ensuring each playthrough is unique. With numerous ship modules, weapons, and upgrades to discover, you'll need to strategize and adapt to reach your destination in one piece.

Chorus is a thrilling single-player space combat game that offers a rich narrative experience. As the pilot of the sentient spaceship, Chorus, and its former cultist commander, players embark on a redemptive journey to fight against an oppressive religious cult. The game features fast-paced space combat, deep exploration of the cosmos, and RPG elements that let you customize your ship and character. Prepare to face dogfights, uncover secrets, and experience the power of a living ship.

"Enemy Mind" is a side-scrolling space shooter for PC with a classic 8-bit art style and 8 levels of challenge across 70 waves. As a being of pure psychic energy, you can take over and control any of the 20+ unique ships you encounter, each with their own power and ability. The game features an adaptive story system that changes with your play style and offers multi-player co-op for up to four players. The soundtrack is an original chiptune-inspired creation by Rainbow Kitten.

Xotic is an arcade-style first-person shooter where players use a sentient weapon called the Macroterra to destroy enemies and scab plants, earning points and upgrades while re-planting life on a desolate planet. The game encourages impressive scores by offering bonuses for chain reactions, hidden collectibles, and mid-air Orb essence grabs. Upgrades allow for improved abilities and skills, such as increased score potential and the use of mobile shields.

"Starr Mazer: DSP is a single-player Science Fiction Action game with outstanding gameplay, awesome graphics, and a wonderful soundtrack. In this side-scrolling shoot'em up, you control a squadron of pilots with diverse skills and weapons, battling through nine intense levels to take down the G'ell Super Ship. The roguelike twist on the lives/continues system, combined with the ever-evolving SK:ORE system, ensures that the fight never ends."

In Shoot 1UP, players control a fleet of ships instead of a single one, with each 1UP collected adding to the armada immediately. The game features up to 30 ships on-screen at once, and weapons upgrade as more ships are collected. Local co-op play allows for up to 60 simultaneous player ships, and sacrificial bombs become more powerful with more ships. The game offers a challenging yet enjoyable manic shooting experience.

It is the year 2197. Humanity has never been closer to immortality - there is no disease that can't be cured, no virus that can't be defeated. Until now. You will use cutting-edge technology to shrink yourself down and hunt down a new and mysterious virus that can't be defeated by any other means

UfoPilot: The Phadt Menace - Steam Edition again puts you at the controls of a nimble Vector-class starfighter, this time as a mercenary for hire tasked with rescuing captured StarFleet pilots from deep behind enemy lines. A sci-fi retro side-scrolling shoot-em-up / rescue game.

"Kromaia is a 360° shoot-'em-up game that combines classic arcade action with modern technology, allowing players to explore and battle in three-dimensional space. The game features adaptive AI, with enemies getting tougher as the player improves, and true 360° movement and shooting that tests high-speed flying and sharpshooting skills."