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A compact, bombastic single-player 2D fishing rogue-lite blending top-down story exploration with action-platforming combat.

FISH FEAR ME
A top-down action roguelite where you fish, fight, and sell sea creatures to pay off a cosmic debt, with a slow-burn start and roughly 9-hour logged review sessions.
2025-02-21
- Action
- Bird view / Isometric

Indie

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Antipaint

A humorous single-player roguelite bullet-hell shooter about battling artworks and collecting them as masterpieces, with a median reviewer playtime around 7 hours.

2024-03-11

Shooter
Action
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Arcade

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Pesticide Not Required

A compact single-player 2D action roguelite bullet-heaven with light farming sim elements, quick build-focused runs, rough UI, and fun bug-genocide gameplay.

2024-03-18

Action
Bird view / Isometric
Role-playing (RPG)
Arcade

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Gutwhale

A punchy roguelite where you fight through a digestive system by managing the space between your character and your ammo.

2020-04-06

Shooter
Action
Platform
Indie
Side view
Arcade

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Lake of Creatures

A difficult single-player action roguelike that mixes fishing with build-synergizing treasure runs, featuring bullet-hell combat and short, awkward-feeling sessions.

2024-11-15

Action
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)
Sport

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Bait & Tackle

A short, lighthearted fishing boss rush where you catch exotic fish and fight comical sea-monsters, with reviewers averaging around 38 minutes of play.

2025-10-03

Action
Comedy
Indie
Side view

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Shoot Trip Die

A short, psychedelic arcade roguelike where you blast monsters as a top-down shooter with the unique limitation of only firing left or right.

2022-05-05

Shooter
Action
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Arcade

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Turnip Boy Robs a Bank

A single-player action-adventure roguelite about a vegetable committing heists with the Pickled Gang, using dark-web tools to fight police and crack vaults in a cute 2D world.

2024-01-18

Shooter
Action
Comedy
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Hack and slash/Beat 'em up
Indie
Side view
Arcade

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Neon Blight

Neon Blight is a single-player cyberpunk roguelite combining shoot 'em up runs with a black market gun store, set in a dystopian undercity; reviewers find it creative but buggy, with a typical playtime of about 6-7 hours.

2022-07-11

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Business

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Fish Hunters: Most Lethal Fishing Simulator 🐟

A co-op gun-fishing adventure with a fish atlas and campfire downtime, undermined by bugs and AI-generated assets in the eyes of players.

2026-01-30

Action
First person
Adventure
Indie
Simulator

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FISH

A comedic run-and-gun platformer about an armed fish on a violent, stylishly weird rampage, playable in about an hour.

2026-06-22

Shooter
Action
Comedy
Platform
Indie
Side view

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STU THE FISHERMAN

A short, casual fishing roguelite where you explore shifting waters and reel in characterful fish.

2026-05-11

Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)