Games like The Maze of the Kings
Looking for games like The Maze of the Kings? Here are top arcade shooter recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with Samurai Ace, Spellbearers or Salt and Sacrifice.
1 Sai-Kyo's commemorative first title. Its simple controls and unexpected world setting sparked discussion, earning it the 1993 “Best Shooting Game Award” from several industry magazines. Touhou Sengoku Kitan A tale from the distant past, at the eastern edge of the world. There, a vibrant town culture, advanced technology, and ancient sorcery coexisted without contradiction, maintaining a lo…
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58%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicgameplay, story93% User Score 14 reviewsSpellbearers is a top-down, 2D, twin stick shooter inspired by "Super Smash TV". Battle against hordes of magical enemies to liberate the rulers of three kingdoms that have been overtaken by dark forces. With staff in hand, do you have what it takes to uphold the title of The Spellbearer?
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71%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, replayability70% User Score 878 reviewsCritic Score 75%2 reviewsBuy Salt and Sacrifice for PS4 and PS5. Salt and Sacrifice is the follow-up to souls-like dark fantasy RPG, Salt and Sanctuary.
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75%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaystability, optimization76% User Score 14,984 reviewsCritic Score 75%49 reviewsBuy The Ascent on PlayStation Store. The Ascent is a solo and co-op action-shooter RPG, set on Veles, a packed cyberpunk world.
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68%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, grinding68% User Score 1,645 reviewsCritic Score 80%14 reviewsIn this frantic 2D action game, you are part of the Mercenary Kings, the most skilled team of warriors-for-hire on Earth, but when your comrades have fallen and the fearsome forces of CLAW have seized an island-wide top secret Laboratory Base, you must do what it takes to stop them. But you're not going in unprepared! Your back-up is made of a crew of rogue geniuses and experts of their field! Ab…
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplayreplayability, stability87% User Score 839 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsInspired by the Hotline Miami and Resident Evil series, Splatter is a top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against all kinds of monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments.
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75%Game Brain Scoremusic, humorgameplay, stability75% User Score 104 reviewsNoReload Heroes is a chaotic co-op party shooter for up to four people. Work as a team to beat the accidental evil you created, and be sure to pick up the best magitech guns on the way, or it's back to the bottom floor with you!
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78%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsgrinding, stability85% User Score 892 reviewsCritic Score 51%2 reviewsHexen: Beyond Heretic is a fantasy first-person shooter developed by Raven Software and published by id Software in 1995. It is the direct sequel to the first game in the series, Heretic.Story While the Sidhe elf Corvus battled the evil forces of D'Sparil, the remaining two Serpent Riders were busy sowing the seeds of destruction in other dimensions. As a Warrior, Mage, or Cleric, you must fight …
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56%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsgameplay, grinding53% User Score 249 reviewsCritic Score 70%1 reviewsIn Desert Child, you are a young and talented hoverbike racer who needs to figure out how you can scrape enough cash together through racing and odd jobs to punch your one way ticket to the Red Planet to enter the biggest race in the universe, the Grand Prix.
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79%Game Brain Scoregameplay, replayabilitygraphics, grinding81% User Score 213 reviewsCritic Score 75%4 reviewsRuners is a top-down rogue-like dungeon shooter where you explore a vast underground labyrinth and face fierce monsters and bosses. As the game advances further into the dungeon, you will gather Runes, which will be used to combine into 285 unique spells. Discovering new spells will unlock their entries in your Runedex; unlock them all! But be careful – if you die, your playthrough is finished. W…
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