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A single-player 2D pixel art side-scroller about fighting enemy waves, gathering resources, and building upgrades to escape a dangerous planet.

Drill Core
A strategic planet-mining colony sim that mixes base management with tower defense, balancing resource extraction against escalating alien attacks.
2025-07-17
- Science fiction
- Strategy

Indie

Side view

Sandbox

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Arcadium - Space Odyssey

A procedurally generated bullet-heaven roguelite where you harvest resources, craft builds, and battle alien waves in short, pleasant single-player runs.

2026-01-26

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

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Hive Jump 2: Survivors

A single-player bullet-heaven roguelite about jetpacking through alien swarms and upgrading with their guts, with very positive reviews and ~12 hours of reviewer playtime.

2024-09-10

Action
Science fiction
Survival
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Zombotron

A single-player indie action-shooter with tight gunplay and tense alien-planet survival, usually around 10 hours for reviewers.

2019-04-22

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Indie
Side view
Role-playing (RPG)

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Project Lazarus

A single-player mech survival rogue-lite on an alien planet, with short auto-fire survivor-like sessions.

2023-06-08

Action
Bird view / Isometric

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Desperate Place

A strategic single-player tower defense game about repairing a stranded starship on an alien planet, with an active shooter twist and a ~4-hour campaign.

2025-04-21

Shooter
Science fiction
Strategy
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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An Action Roguelite for when you have 20 minutes to spare

A fast-paced single-player action roguelite for short sessions, with satisfying shooting, build crafting, and a cool soundtrack, though visuals can get messy.

2026-02-17

Action
Indie

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Texplore

A single-player roguelite about mining, fighting, and gambling on runs to build an escape ship from a dying Earth.

2026-01-04

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Adventure
Survival
Indie
Side view

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Trashed

A single-player sci-fi base-builder where you take over a derelict waste facility, build defenses, and fight alien creatures, with mixed reviews and a short early-access playtime.

2021-02-17

Shooter
Action
Adventure
Strategy
Third person
Bird view / Isometric
Indie

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Plant Survivor

A casual top-down tower defense roguelike on an alien planet where you place turrets and upgrade with gems to survive waves of creatures.

2026-02-19

Strategy
Indie

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CONTINGENCY

A tight, intense roguelite platformer where you scavenge, manage fear, and upgrade gear to survive on an alien planet.

2019-08-26

Action
Adventure
Indie
Role-playing (RPG)

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Terrene - An Evidence Of Life Game

A 2D sci-fi pixel art adventure of mining, crafting, and fighting across procedural planets, with co-op play and a median reviewer playtime around 6 hours.

2021-02-12

Action
Adventure
Survival
Indie