Games like NEAR DEADline
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You've been playing Nintendo DS for too long and you realize there's only 5 days left to meet your animation deadline; use the paddles to bounce the Z's away long enough to stay awake and finish!
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Ranked by how similar the games actually are, not by sales. Released and Price are remembered for next time.
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-20%$10.39Two Sides of Hell
4 days ago · Red Sky Games
Both: Bullet Hell · Twin Stick Shooter
Think fast, kill faster. Blast through shifting alien hellscapes in this roguelite platform-twin stick shooter, switching between Soldier precision and demonic destruction. Survive relentless hordes, brutal bosses, and endless roguelite chaos.
ActionRoguelikeRogueliteBullet HellTwin Stick ShooterShooterLocal Co-OpPlatformerPvEFuturistic
$11.99Sublight
6 days ago · CODEBREW SOFTWARE LTD
Both: Bullet Hell · Arcade
Sublight is a space bullet heaven roguelike, where you captain a powerful warship and carve through escalating waves of enemies. Upgrade your arsenal, unlock new ships, and experiment with countless builds to dominate the battlefield.
Action RoguelikeBullet HellRogueliteArcade3DTop-DownActionCasualLootSci-fi
$3.99Kitty Kitty Bounce Bounce
13 days ago · Liquid Darkness
Both: Arcade · Cartoony
Good old-fashioned arcade game in which you bop around a kitty using various cushions. Your goal is to break all breakable block without falling onto the floor. Learn each Kitty's story - beware, though, because even the silliest adventures finally end.
CasualArcadeAction-Adventure2DColorfulCartoonyHand-drawnCuteCatsRetro
$2.99DAKENSHI
9 days ago · rspepe
Both: Arcade
Can you hear the bad can? Tap, listen, and reject defective cans in a sound-based inspection game. The line keeps accelerating. Three mistakes end your shift. Headphones strongly recommended.
ActionCasualArcadeIndie2DMinimalistTime ManagementCookingInvestigationAtmospheric
New$1.90BABU - Blow All Blocks Up!
Yesterday · Hoopdy Woopdy Games (UG)
Both: Arcade
A sci-fi 80s retro shooter and bullet hell. Use your plasma cannon and bombs to repell an alien invasion. Either defeat the alien robots building and upgrading the blocks and turrets - or blow all of their blocks up! 20 straightforward levels.
ActionCasualArcade2DPixel GraphicsOld School1980sShooterReal Time Tactics1990's
$5.00GLITCHED MATRIX Prototype Lab
Aug 23 · GLITCHED MATRIX
Both: Arcade
Play a major role in an evolving simulation of simulations. Explore endless 2D and 3D dimensions spanning nearly every game genre, with 50+ experimental prototypes and stories whose worlds, systems, discoveries, and ideas can become part of the greater experience.
Action RoguelikeExplorationFPSCreature CollectorDungeon CrawlerColony SimSandboxUtilitiesEducationArcade
New$15.00DIY Dadish
Yesterday · Thomas K. Young
Both: Cartoony
Create your own adventure and share it with the world! Everyone's favorite radish dad is back, but this time the story is up to you! in DIY Dadish gives players the ability to design any Dadish level they can imagine.
ActionAdventurePlatformer2D PlatformerPrecision PlatformerPuzzle Platformer2DCartoonyColorfulCute
-20%$3.99Died in the Tower Again
3 days ago · BANANAK
Both: Bullet Hell
Climb a tower that never lets you leave. Move — your spells fire themselves. Combine 8 elements into automatic synergies, awaken them twice, and gamble on relics that break the rules. Die, bank your gold, climb again. 100 floors, 35 relics, 14 artifacts, and a leaderboard that remembers.
Bullet HeavenAction RoguelikeRoguelikeRogueliteBullet HellPixel GraphicsSingleplayer2DTop-DownAction
-10%$7.19Bot slash Bot
3 days ago · Traveller's Box
Both: Arcade
You click - You dash - You slash. Bot slash Bot is a fast-paced, top-down Hack n‘ Slash in which you control a rogue robot slashing & dashing through your former co-machines holding you captive! It's all about speed. Time is running out.
Fast-PacedHack and SlashArcadeIndieDifficultTop-DownPost-apocalypticCombatTime AttackSwordplay
-50%$4.99Asgard's Fall — Viking Survivors
12 days ago · Soulpotion
Both: Bullet Hell
Embark on an epic saga in Asgard's Fall, a norse Survivors-like Roguelite. Fight your way through hordes of creatures and let the gods feel your relentless wrath. How will your saga unfold?
Action RoguelikeBullet HellRogueliteCasualPixel GraphicsIndie2DRoguelikeHack and SlashStrategy👍 1,305
$7.99Crystalyn
Aug 26 · Soulstone Forge
Both: Bullet Hell
Start with one bullet. End with hundreds. Crystalyn is a fast-paced top-down bullet-hell looter shooter about pushing your build to its absolute limits. Fight monsters, defeat bosses, and turn their loot into unstoppable firepower.
Early AccessAction RoguelikeRogueliteBullet HellLooter ShooterSingleplayerPixel GraphicsHack and SlashShoot 'Em UpTop-Down Shooter
-10%$8.99Driving Rogue
4 days ago · Gravity Works
Both: Arcade
Drift, slipstream, and chain risky near-misses at insane speeds to build huge combos. Adapt to procedurally generated streets and challenges, upgrade your ride, unlock abilities, and stack powerful cards to break records. Climb the Redline rankings and fight your way to the top of the leaderboards.
Fast-PacedArcadeIndieRacingDifficultControllerOnline Co-OpDriving3DCasual
-20%$4.79Neural Maze
3 days ago · unCurieux Studio
Both: Arcade
2 neurons. 2 sticks. One brain has to drive both at once: yours. Guide your stray neurons through ever-more-twisted mazes — inverted controls, power cuts, memory mode — under the eye of a doctor who's in over his head.
ActionPuzzleDifficultArcade2DSingleplayerControllerScienceFunnyMinimalist
-10%$5.39ToonSouls Maker
3 days ago · Toon Crafter
Both: Arcade
Create, play, and share your own chaotic 2D platforming levels! Inspired by classic cartoons, powered by your creativity, and fueled by one simple truth: My game is good. The algorithm just ignores me.
Early AccessActionAdventureAction-AdventureArcadePlatformerRoguelikeShooter2D PlatformerAction Roguelike
-15%$5.09Lopem
6 days ago · Aria Gharachorlou
Both: Bullet Hell
Find yourself at arms with the strongest forces the Order of Elysium can muster. Lopem is a fast-paced 2D card‑merging roguelite where imagination and technical know‑how are your keys to survival in a magical realm shaped by corruption and enigma.
ActionStrategyAction RoguelikeCard GameBullet HellCard BattlerRogueliteTurn-Based Tactics2DCute
-30%$3.49Runner Gunner
3 days ago · JoyForge Games
Both: Stylized
Race through the streets in this third-person action runner, dodging obstacles or shooting them out of your way. Collect points, purchase powerful upgrades, and optimize your run to beat your high score. Can you make it to the top of the leaderboard?
ActionCasualShooterRunnerOn-Rails Shooter3DStylizedThird PersonAtmosphericCyberpunk
-25%$2.99WomboCombo
3 days ago · wannabe
Both: Arcade
Become the hero in this fast-paced incremental roguelike game! Show off your reaction skills to your Overlord, earn massive gold, stack game-breaking upgrades, and forge powerful combos to survive relentless enemy waves.
Action RoguelikeRoguelikeBeat 'em upPvETop-DownArcade2DActionCasualFantasy
$0.99武道余晖 The Last Glimmer of the Martial Way
10 days ago · rebel1999
In real-time action games controlled by mouse and keyboard, players defeat enemies to level up and learn skills, collect equipment to enhance their strength, and complete objectives within levels. After defeating all bosses, they can successfully save the world and complete the game.
AdventureActionAction RoguelikeMystery Dungeon2DSingleplayerIndieLootCombatViolent
-15%$6.79Bullet Train
4 days ago · mis.hinged
Both: Cartoony
Welcome on the Bullet Train: destroy enemy towers, collect powerful orbs and improve your train! Fight through escalating enemy territory to defeat the creatures that destroyed your town!
Vehicular Combat3DActionAction RoguelikeIndieMemesFantasyCartoonySingleplayerDragons
$3.99HOSHIKUI
Aug 28 · rspepe
Both: Arcade
An action roguelite with no attack button. You are a dying star: ramming other stars is how you attack, heal, move, and grow. Steal their heat, gain mass, and outrun the heat death of the universe — across an infinite, procedurally generated galaxy.
Action RoguelikeRoguelitePerma DeathArcade2DTop-DownControllerProcedural GenerationActionMinimalist
-20%$5.59Glitch Protocol
3 days ago · Boogygames Studios
Both: Arcade
A brutal precision platformer where the level itself is lying to you. Run, jump and die through 200 handcrafted rooms of vanishing floors, fleeing doors and gravity that flips mid-jump. Then build your own lies in the editor and share them as codes.
ActionSingleplayer2D PlatformerPlatformerArcadeIndieAtmosphericPrecision PlatformerDifficultCyberpunk
$9.99THE WELL IS NOT EMPTY
Sep 7 · tweakEra
Both: Stylized
The well has gone dry. It's up to you to find out why. Traverse through abandoned tunnels. Discover remnants of a ritual never meant to be seen. Power dying machinery to bring light into darkness. Dig into broken earth and crawl your way out. Down here you’re not exploring... you're trespassing.
AdventurePsychological HorrorHorrorStylizedStory RichGoreRetroAtmosphericActionStealth👍 148
-20%$15.99Chibi Legends: Mini Mayhem
3 days ago · Could Care Less
Both: Bullet Hell
A cute and chaotic action roguelike bullet hell packed with RNG loot, powerful builds, animated 3D enemies, and epic boss fights! Collect, upgrade, and combine hundreds of items and abilities to become ridiculously OP.
Action RoguelikeRPGBullet HellRoguelitePvEActionAction RPGCasualRoguelike3D
$9.99ZENONIA 1
Aug 31 · Com2us Holdings, CFK Co., Ltd.
Both: Cartoony
Remember the RPG that defined a generation? ZENONIA is back—faithfully restored and now on Steam. Relive the adventure that kept you playing for hours, or experience it for the first time.
RPGAction RPGIndieAdventure2DAction-AdventureCuteCartoonyPixel GraphicsFantasy👍 440
-20%$3.19Meowtsky
3 days ago · Odd Orange Cat
Both: Cartoony
Meowtsky is a puzzle game inspired by the classic Klotski. Slide pieces to guide your cat to the goal in the fewest moves possible, with 120 classic levels and an addictive Endless mode.
Casual2DCartoonyLogicOrganizingLinearTutorialIndieSingleplayer
-20%$2.39Jumping Jimothy
3 days ago · Sky Wolf Studio
Both: Arcade
Hop Seattle's favorite little nugget through Seattle avoiding traffic and diving gulls. 100 fixed levels across ten chapters, five ways to play, fun soundtrack and 45 critters and costumes to unlock. Plus one Daily course a day, the same road for everyone. Everything is included and it runs offline.
CasualArcadeCuteSingleplayer2D PlatformerFamily FriendlyColorfulReplay ValueFunnyTop-Down
-20%$7.19Save Mom
3 days ago · Amigos Entertainment
Both: Cartoony
A co-op action game about protecting your mom in a post-apocalyptic world. Explore ruined cities, gather resources, upgrade your motorhome, build defenses, and battle enemies. Your mission: Get Mom to safety. Her survival is in your hands!
ActionCo-opCartoonyTop-Down ShooterPvEFunnyShooter3DPost-apocalypticBase Building
-20%$5.59United Heist: Facility Zero
4 days ago · No more Sleep
Both: Stylized
A co-op puzzle heist for two. One of you breaks into a secret bunker. The other sits in the observation office, watching the bunker. A walkie-talkie is your only link. Talk to each other and find out how good your teamwork really is.
Co-opCo-op CampaignEscape RoomPuzzleAdventureCasualMysteryMultiple EndingsAbstractStylized
-20%$3.99Vibe Lab: Idle Dev Sim
3 days ago · Green Growth Digital
Both: Arcade
A cozy idle game about vibe-coding with AI. Hire a crew of agents, climb a five-branch upgrade tree, and dress the whole lab from 80 cosmetics across five tiers. Progress lands in minutes, not days — no subscriptions, no daily check-in. Numbers go up, vibes stay immaculate.
IdlerCasualSimulationResource ManagementPixel GraphicsRetroRobotsSingleplayerArcade2D
$3.50Slap the Gamer
2 days ago · Tired Game Dev Interactive Studios
Both: Arcade
Slap an obnoxious gamer, rack up an absurd slap count, unlock achievements, and endure increasingly annoying taunts in this deliberately stupid arcade clicker inspired by the chaotic spirit of classic Flash games.
ActionCasualSimulationArcadeBeat 'em upExploration2DColorfulAtmosphericIndie
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Both: Arcade
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$1.99Mars 2099
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Both: Arcade
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