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A single-player, fast-paced sidescrolling space shooter with a 90s retro look and unforgiving wall collisions.

Neptunia Shooter
A short, hard single-player bullet-hell shooter in an 8-bit space setting with six worlds and boss fights, generally well reviewed but basic in design.
2019-05-21
- Shooter
- Action

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Absolute Blue
Games like Absolute Blue

Find the Steam hidden gems

actions with secrets you find without a guideor

Edit search

Games like Absolute Blue

A single-player, fast-paced sidescrolling space shooter with a 90s retro look and unforgiving wall collisions.

Neptunia Shooter
A short, hard single-player bullet-hell shooter in an 8-bit space setting with six worlds and boss fights, generally well reviewed but basic in design.
2019-05-21
- Shooter
- Action

Science fiction

Side view

BLUE REVOLVER

A single-player vertical-scrolling bullet-hell shooter with adaptive difficulty, special weapons, and high-score chasing, delivering a compact five-hour adrenaline-fueled challenge.

2016-10-11

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Arcade

Space Warpster

A fast-paced, single-player 2D side-scrolling shoot 'em up with pixel art and old-school reflex play, praised by reviewers as a short but enjoyable arcade run.

2026-06-11

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Survival
Indie
Side view
Arcade

Emerald Blue

A single-player vertical-scrolling bullet hell in the New East/West skies, putting a rebel pilot in an experimental jet with tiny-hitbox dodging and chain-scoring across short, replayable runs.

2025-11-25

Shooter
Action
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Arcade

Blue Flow

A challenging 2D pixel-art platformer with precision jumps, shooting, and puzzles, offering a rewarding but compact 1-2 hour experience.

2026-03-12

Action
Adventure
Indie

SPACEMAN

A very short retro shoot-em-up with an authentic arcade feel, playable solo with gamepad or keyboard and no timed-input pressure.

2026-02-17

Action
Side view

Amaranthine

A single-player horizontal scrolling shooter with procedural generation and warp travel to a frozen planet, delivering fast-paced mouse-controlled combat in a short ~85-minute arcade experience.

2016-04-06

Action
Indie

Geometry Skies

A fast-paced abstract arcade shooter that trades downtime for intense high-score chasing with simple, snappy gameplay.

2026-03-23

Tiamat X

A short, difficult side-scrolling space shooter with six arcade-style levels, marred by technical issues and punishing no-checkpoint design.

2015-05-29

Action
Indie

Space BloX

A brief retro 2D shoot 'em up where you steer a spaceship through randomly generated block barrages, playable solo or in co-op.

2019-06-17

Action
Indie

Solar Wind

A fast-paced side-scrolling shoot 'em up set across space, asteroid belts, and moons, offering upgrade-driven blasting with a challenging-but-accessible difficulty and a pick-up-and-play arcade feel.

2018-04-17

Action
Strategy
Indie

Abstract Code

A single-player indie SHMUP/visual novel hybrid with thought-provoking themes and simple, addictive arcade gameplay, best enjoyed in short bursts.

2024-03-25

Indie

Neptunia Shooter