Games like The Polynomial
Looking for games like The Polynomial? Here are top casual shooter recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Symphony, Beat Hazard or AudioSurf.
1 87%Game Brain Scoremusic, storystability, optimization87% User Score 1,206 reviewsYour music is under attack… You must liberate it! In Symphony, you fight through levels uniquely generated by your own song collection, discover items and vanquish bosses to defeat the evil within! With Symphony, we wanted to push the limits of user-music-based gameplay and focused on two concepts: Your music creates the game Every song has a unique emotion, sound and rhythm, and we wa…
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94%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, monetization94% User Score 5,056 reviewsExperience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music. Power up your spaceship and watch as the music boosts your firepower. Unleash hell on the enemy ships when you max out with weapon pickups! Beat Hazard seamlessly mixes the love of gaming and music. Together they become great…
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92%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, stability96% User Score 7,550 reviewsCritic Score 84%3 reviewsAudiosurf is a puzzle/rhythm hybrid game created by Invisible Handlebar, a personal company created by Dylan Fitterer. It's track-like stages visually mimic the music the player chooses, while the player races across several lanes collecting colored blocks that appear in sync with the music. The music used in the game is chosen from the user's own library, from almost any DRM-free format, as well …
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80%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsgameplay, story80% User Score 131 reviewsMusic. Lasers. Space. Plasma. Rockets. Bosses. Serene and peaceful space scenery, just to contrast this all. Melt your eyes off your face in Polynomial 2. Polynomial 2 is an amazing visual candy which tends to be a space shooter and a music visualizer.
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74%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsstory, stability76% User Score 2,249 reviewsCritic Score 70%4 reviewsProteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it. The procedurally generated islands are home to creatures natural and imagined, tranquil valleys and ruins with magical properties.
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84%Game Brain Scorestory, gameplaygrinding, optimization91% User Score 2,936 reviewsCritic Score 73%7 reviewsExo One is a single-player, exoplanetary exploration game where you pilot an alien craft capable of manipulating gravity.
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91%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplayoptimization, story91% User Score 482 reviewsSoundodger+ combines the twitchiness of bullet hell shooters with the sonic thrills of rhythm games to create a wholly unique experience. Studio Bean has updated the original Adult Swim Games title with all-new tracks, controller support, and a fully-featured level editor.
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73%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, replayability77% User Score 1,497 reviewsCritic Score 50%1 reviewsDash across Scenic Locations destroying bug like creatures called the Flanx using 6 Unique Attacks that include Massive Terrain Deformation and High Speed Barrages of Energy Blasts! Supports modding.
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78%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, replayability78% User Score 543 reviewsCritic Score 80%3 reviewsUtterly unique and spellbindingly beautiful, PixelJunk Eden welcomes you to a psychedelic world unlike anything you’ve ever experienced before. As a tiny, silk-spinning “grimp,” it is up to you to collect the lost “Spectra” that have been scattered across all the gardens of Eden. Swing and jump between plants and rock formations, collect pollen to seed new plants and explore the incredible garden…
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96%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplayoptimization, stability96% User Score 2,900 reviewsFloating Point is a free, peaceful game about using a grappling hook to swing yourself gracefully through randomly generated spaces. In the air, you're fighting gravity. When you splash down beneath the water, you're fighting your own buoyancy to swing yourself further into the depths. The only objective is to collect points, and the only thing that increases your points is swinging swiftly, smoo…
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