The top results based on the latest update are Monolith [Score: 3.2], Starward Rogue [Score: 3.1] and Zunius [Score: 2.9].
The top rated games you can find here are Hades [SteamPeek Rating: 11.5] ranked #76, The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth [SteamPeek Rating: 11.4] ranked #209 and Risk of Rain 2 [SteamPeek Rating: 11.0] ranked #168.
Also don't forget to check the newest releasesDualism [Release date: 2021-01-14] ranked #216, HOUSE OF GOD [Release date: 2020-12-02] ranked #165 and Cookie Invaders [Release date: 2020-12-01] ranked #53.
While it is tempting to play with the newest and the best, there might be some other gems in the results, like Nuclear Throne [SteamPeek Rating: 8.9] ranked #52, Tower of Guns [SteamPeek Rating: 5.3] ranked #59 and Super House of Dead Ninjas [SteamPeek Rating: 6.9] ranked #61.
Nova Drift
7.9
Nova Drift distills the mechanical depth and strategy of an ARPG into classic arcade space combat. Control an endlessly evolving bio-mechanical ship, face legions of strange and deadly foes, and ride the wake of a dying star across the void.
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Release date: 7 Jun, 2017
Monolith is a top down action shooter with procedurally generated elements. Explore a large, abandoned facility in search of incredible power, fighting dangerous foes and gaining new weapons and upgrades as you progress.
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Release date: 20 Jan, 2016
Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.
Zunius - A Psychedelic Rogue-Like Bullet Hell. Beneath the stars, the moon and the infinite you will navigate this celestial journey as the mysterious traveller. Whom are you? Where are you? What is the nature of this universe? How can you possibly dodge all these bullets? Play this game to find out.
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Release date: 1 Jun, 2016
Enter the Blacksea Odyssey, a violent top-down rogue-lite space shoot ‘em up RPG brimming with colossal creatures and runic technologies. Explore dangerous, interstellar spacescapes as you hunt enormous space-behemoths with a harpoon and rune-infused spears.
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Release date: 22 Jan, 2016
A throwback to the classic quarter eating arcade games of the 80's. Bit Blaster XL is a retro styled, addictive, and fast paced arcade shoot 'em up! (shmup).
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Release date: 22 Jan, 2018
Blast-off is a hardcore jumper/runner/shmup, where your alter ego will be a ball of anti-matter seeking to leave our Universe. Anti-matter is extremely difficult to exist in our universe, because when it contact with matter it annihilates.
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Release date: 10 Oct, 2016
Straimium Immortaly is a shmup roguelike dungeoncrawler. Explore the butts-hard procedurally generated Cubicus battling beasties, looting endless item and weapon upgrades and defeating huge boss meanies in your vengeful quest to eradicate the Queeni Emperess.
Rising Hell is a vertical platformer rogue-lite filled with adrenaline-pumping action and tons of heavy gothic metal shreds. Climb out from the ever-changing hell while you fight hordes of blood-lusting demons.
ASTRO: The Beginning is a dynamic side scrolling shoot 'em up about a close-knit space team caught in a clusterf*ck of epic proportions.Unravel the evil plans of your foes and secrets of world order while taking down various types of enemies and engaging in crazy boss battles.
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Release date: 30 Sep, 2020
BroodStar is a classic arcade shmup with roguelike elements. Battle your way through hordes of enemy creatures, collecting upgrades and fighting terrifying bosses on a quest to destroy the living planet, the BroodStar.
Can you create the raddest spaceship? Captain Forever Remix is the spaceship builder roguelike. Voyage across the Solar System and blast apart randomly-generated enemies for spare parts. This is an officially-licensed re-imagining of the indie classic Captain Forever.
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Release date: 20 May, 2019
Hell is Other Demons is an action-platform shooter, with Roguelite elements. Explore a sprawling, hand-crafted world full of demons, insanely over-the-top boss fights, and a heavy synthwave soundtrack.
A lunar lander roguelike that feels like spinning across an icy road and nailing a perfect parallel park. Slingshot from landing pads to fuel platforms, avoid interstellar debris, discover a dense network of game-changing upgrades, and top the leaderboard in this physics-loaded ode-to-arcades.
Rush Rover is a 2D top-down shooter game. Compared to other similar games of the genre, the shooting experience is closer to traditional shoot'em up games. It includes random map generation, unique weapons, lots of different enemies, exciting boss battles and a dynamic chiptune soundtrack.
Blast off in Dr. Leopold's bomber in this relentless rogue-lite shooter. Tour the solar system on a desperate randomly generated bomb run. Face impossible odds trying to achieve the demented dream of an insane scientist.
A free-form arena-shooter Roguelite with heavy emphasis on building an overpowered character! You play as a little shape that shoots other shapes! Strengthen your character by mixing and matching mods and upgrades, and experiment with a limitless rune upgrade system!
Danger Gazers is a post-apocalyptic roguelite top-down shooter where you pave your own path. The choices you make will decide your fate, it will either turn you into the new ruler or... the ashes to be windswept away.
Help her heart battle tough bosses in this Boss Rush, Bullet-hell with rogue-lite elements. Fight through several randomly chosen boss battles leading up to a final battle. Each defeated monster will give her random gifts that power up her heart. Don't let her heart break!
Red Zirion is a retro shooting game with upgradeable attributes in the roguelike style. Game inspired by groups of heroes and animated series from the 80s.
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Release date: 8 Aug, 2017
Skillfully pilot the Graceful Explosion Machine, a fighter ship armed with a ludicrously overpowered quad-weapon array! Lost in deep space, you'll shoot, dash and combo your way through jewel-hued uncharted planets, fighting an alien armada to find a way home.
Buckle up for shoot ‘em up chaos in this fast-paced and hyper-stylized roguelite. As the infamous bounty hunter Black Paradox, it’s up to you to travel through space and defeat the Hellraisers – the most dangerous criminal organization in the galaxy.
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Release date: 1 Oct, 2015
Steredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival.
