A compact sci-fi roguelike that replaces twin-stick aiming with strategic positioning and upgrade-driven combat against alien fleets.

• Shooter
• Action
• Indie
• Role-playing (RPG)

A challenging single-player base-defense arcade shooter with procedural waves, rapid upgrades, and retro vector visuals that players find addictive in short bursts.

• Shooter
• Action
• Indie

A single-player space-set twin-stick shoot 'em up with resource trading and ship upgrades, offering a short but difficult campaign that reviewers found mixed.

• Shooter
• Action
• Strategy
• Bird view / Isometric
• Indie
• Simulator

A bite-sized twin-stick space horror shooter about harvesting asteroids, upgrading your arsenal, and surviving an evolving alien threat.

• Shooter
• Action
• Bird view / Isometric
• Indie
• Arcade

A compact, replayable top-down arcade space shooter with weapon upgrades, boss fights, and a metal-synth soundtrack, lasting about 2.5 hours.

• Action
• Indie

A single-player, fast-paced 2D space shooter with pixel art and alien waves, centered on orbital defense and an ~11-hour arcade experience.

• Action
• Science fiction
• Indie
• Arcade

A retro-styled single-player arcade shoot'em up with wave-based power-stealing combat, rotating pie shields, and synergistic upgrades, best in short bursts.

• Action
• Indie
• Role-playing (RPG)

A retro-inspired single-player space shoot 'em up with roguelite upgrades and a chaotic Martian invasion, averaging about 13.5 hours among reviewers.

• Action
• Indie

A frantic twin-stick arcade shooter about defending Earth's cities from aliens with upgradable fighters, offering short, high-energy sessions (median reviewer run ~42 minutes).

• Shooter
• Action
• Indie
• Arcade

A single-player arcade space shooter set in a deadly spherical arena, where you upgrade your ship and chase high scores in short, fast-paced bursts.

• Action
• Arcade

A retro single-player arcade shoot 'em up: orbit Earth, shoot aliens, and manage a rechargeable shield in escalating short sessions.

• Action
• Indie

A compact single-player arcade defense game blending Space Invaders and Missile Command, with sentinel upgrades, evolving enemy waves, and mouse-only controls.

• Action
• Indie