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A brutal early-access bodycam revenge FPS in Hong Kong with bullet-time slides, close-quarters combat, and challenging run-based action.

Dead Format
A ~6-8 hour survival horror in 1990s Scotland, following a missing brother's trail through VHS tapes in a tense, resource-scarce adventure.
2025-12-10
- Action
- First person

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Games like Better Than Dead

A brutal early-access bodycam revenge FPS in Hong Kong with bullet-time slides, close-quarters combat, and challenging run-based action.

Dead Format
A ~6-8 hour survival horror in 1990s Scotland, following a missing brother's trail through VHS tapes in a tense, resource-scarce adventure.
2025-12-10
- Action
- First person

Horror

Survival

The Hong Kong Massacre

A short, fast-paced top-down shooter with dual-wielding and slow-motion shootouts in a Hong Kong crime setting, offering repetitive but fun mindless action.

2019-01-21

Shooter
Action
Bird view / Isometric
Fighting
Indie
Arcade

Severed Steel

A short single-player cyberpunk FPS combining parkour, bullet time, and destructible levels, with a ~4-hour campaign and replay modes.

2021-09-17

Shooter
Action
First person
Indie

Blood High!

A compact hardcore vampire boomer shooter with blood-ammo shooting and flying-head executions, praised for its tight combat but thin on content.

2026-05-22

Shooter
Action
First person

Akane

A compact, intense arcade slasher set in neon-soaked Mega-Tokyo, featuring one-hit-one-kill combat and a punishing restart-on-death loop.

2018-09-10

Action
Science fiction
Bird view / Isometric
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Indie
Arcade

OTXO

A dark, brutal roguelite shooter set in an abstract mansion, with slow-motion gunplay and an addictive loop that sampled reviewers played for 8–24 hours.

2023-04-20

Shooter
Action
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Fighting
Indie
Simulator

Neon White

A single-player speedrunning FPS where you trade guns for parkour moves through short, replayable levels; reviewers averaged roughly 18-21 hours of play.

2022-06-16

Shooter
Action
First person
Platform
Fantasy
Indie
Text
Arcade
Visual Novel

MORTALITY DECOMP. KILLERS

A short, free-to-play indie action game where a resurrected detective joins a secret taskforce to stop immortality weaponization, combining a cool style with janky quirks.

2025-04-25

Shooter
Action
Third person
Indie

The Cleaner

A gory, single-player die-and-retry action game with no cutscenes, a unique cleaner protagonist, and slow-motion gunplay that reviewers found janky and short (median ~26 minutes).

2022-05-05

Shooter
Action
First person
Indie

Wanted: Dead

A roughly 8-hour cyberpunk slasher/shooter with demanding, unconventional combat and a violent, erratic tone.

2023-02-14

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Third person
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up

Transience

A roughly seven-hour futuristic revenge story in 2056 New Houston, casting you as an accountant-mercenary turned target, with mixed feedback on its combat and intro.

2025-12-04

Shooter
Action
First person
Indie
Stealth

HUNTDOWN: OVERTIME

A single-player action roguelite prequel in crime-ridden streets, with cybernetic limb upgrades and a hunt-die-repeat loop that runs about 8–13 hours.

2026-05-07

Action
Side view

Dead Format