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Absence of Light $9.99
"Absence of Light" is an exploration based shoot 'em up that combines intense bullet-dodging combat with a metroidvania-style level design. Solve, shoot, and shine your way through the kingdom of Luminara and reawaken the light!
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Cosmic: A Journey Among Shadows$16.99
Embark on a journey through a land of darkness to save your lost shadow. With the help of a mysterious beast’s shadow, master new abilities, outsmart enemies, and uncover hidden truths in your quest to reclaim what’s been taken.
Sloth TalesFREE
"It's called Sloth Tales and it's about Jimmy's search for his biological father. Quite frankly it's brilliant." – Wordsworth the Panda.
Imp of the Sun$19.99
Restore the Sun’s light and end the Eternal Eclipse in this 2D fast-paced action-platformer game inspired by Peruvian cultures. Explore hand-crafted environments, battle and improve your skills to defeat the Four Keepers that stole the power of the Sun.
In The DarknessFREE
Hello there traveller. Are you going into that maze? I must warn you, it's an awfully dreadful place there. Full of monsters and the like. You won't find many torches in there, you'll be in the darkness. But if you insist, go right on ahead. Farewell traveler.
One Dog Story$11.99
One Dog Story is an engaging pixel adventure game with RPG elements, gameplay that’ll get you hooked for hours, and well-developed characters. You wake up in an underground laboratory, free again after a horrific accident. Prepare to explore this expansive game world and its many secrets and mysteries.
Figment 2: Creed Valley$24.99
Figment 2: Creed Valley is an action-adventure game set in the human mind. Face bosses in musical showdowns, make your way through puzzles, and explore unique environments.
Zapling Bygone$15.99
Zapling Bygone is a twisted metroidvania where you murder your foes and steal their abilities by wearing their skulls and absorbing their consciousness into your hive-mind.
Aeterna Noctis$29.99
Aeterna Noctis is a challenging metroidvania that majestically combines action, exploration and adventure. With 2 game modes and difficulty based on action or the exclusive Noctis mode where a level of difficulty is added in precision platforming never seen in the metroidvania genre.
The Knight Witch$19.99
The Knight Witch is a metroidvania adventure game with fast-paced, shoot 'em up combat set in a beautifully hand-drawn world. Cast devastating card-based spells, forge close bonds, and make moral choices all in your quest to save your home and discover who's behind the War Golem invasion.
ITTA$14.99
Test your limits in ITTA, a bullet-hell, boss-rush style adventure. Armed with her father’s revolver and guided by a strange ghostly cat, a displaced girl must battle her way through impossible trials in search of answers… and peace.
The Pathless$39.99
From the creators of ABZÛ, The Pathless is the mythic adventure of an archer and an eagle in a vast forest. Become the Hunter, a master of archery who travels to a mystical island to dispel a curse of darkness that grips the world.
Forced Sacrifice: Lost Soul$2.99
Nothing can stop the inevitable. Everything will play out, just as it has been planned. Forced Sacrifice: Lost Souls is a bullet-hell game with a storyline reaching for metaphysical and theological topics. Gather the power, get rid of demons and retake The Soul from the traitors.
RIKI$0.99
Help ranger Riki to fight an unknown menace which could destroy not only the Amazon forest but the entire world. A fast and yet challenging game.
Vacant Kingdom$7.99
Vacant Kingdom is a synthesis of bullet hell and story-driven action-RPG. Explore a whimsical yet desolate land and rally its adrift people by solving their problems.
It Takes Two$39.99
Embark on the craziest journey of your life in It Takes Two. Invite a friend to join for free with Friend’s Pass and work together across a huge variety of gleefully disruptive gameplay challenges. Winner of GAME OF THE YEAR at the Game Awards 2021.
Bleeding Metal Rainbow$1.0
Focus! Your battle will be short and sweet! Dodge and take your aim precisely. Spraying bullets all over the place gets you nowhere! How fast can you defeat the boss enemy?
The Rainbow World$0.99
Explore a vibrant world in this action adventure RPG where you get embroiled in a war between the 7 major races of the rainbow world.
Blue Flame$4.99
Blue Flame is a fast paced top-down action game set in a medieval fantasy world. Take the role of the last pyromancer and restore order to a kingdom in which fires only emit cold.
Amaya's Lost Soul$2.99
Welcome to AMAYA’s LOST SOUL. In this 2d Action Game you play as Amaya the daughter of an all and mighty great “CREATOR” the leader of the out raiders. You Amaya are tasked taking down a kingdom in this choice driven 2d action platformer.
Tanks, But No Tanks$7.99
Battle your friends in this multiplayer arena shooter, where you'll ricochet bullets off of walls, collect coins, and purchase upgrades in between rounds. Use a diverse array of weapon types, ranging from deployable turrets to teleportation projectiles to cause extra mayhem on the battlefield!
Starcom: Unknown Space$24.99
Starcom: Unknown Space is an action RPG of space exploration and adventure. Build your own starship while discovering an epic story in a universe of strange mysteries, alien factions and uncharted worlds.
Omega Warp$14.99
Omega Warp is a sci-fi themed action-adventure, which takes place aboard an interstellar freighter. Explore, upgrade your skills and equipment, and uncover the mysteries surrounding the freighter's loss of communication with the base of operations on Earth.
ASCENXION$9.99
ASCENXION is a 2D shoot 'em up game where you explore the field to progress. Players must overcome puzzles, traps, elite units, boss fights, and other various obstacles while navigating the field. Grow stronger through rewards earned, to uncover the truth of this world.
Shotgun WitchFREE
Only armed with a double barrel shotgun, go through waves of hell spawns to get your book back! A bullet hell arena shooter!
Joshua's Legs$13.99
Joshua's Legs is a unique game with devious controls about a two-legged arachnid hoping to find his long lost prosthetic legs collection. Venture in a world that will only reveal its secrets to the true hardened climbers.
tranceWave NEOFREE
tranceWave NEO is a classic arcade twin-stick shmup, inspired by others in the "trance shooter" genre. Move, shoot, survive, and aim for a high score!
Yet Another Fantasy Title (YAFT)$19.99
Become a rogue in a fantasy action adventure game filled with absurd humor. Go on a quest to kill the dragon - and realize this is only the beginning. Learn spells from a wizard and brawling from an orc. Save the kingdom, destroy a ring, fight a monstrous beaver!
Star Singularity$14.99
A space action-adventure unlike any other: navigate your spacecraft through a galactic-scale mystery. Make sure to loot, craft and upgrade your space fleet. Play the story campaign or test your skills in vicious arena modes against AI opponents.
Color Soul: Memories$4.99
A short stylized game set in a colorless world... in the beginning. Unlock colors as you visit the three different areas of the world and unveil the question of who you are and where you are from after losing your memories.
Cavity Busters$14.99
Cavity Busters is a roguelite toothpunk bullet hell where you use your one and only tooth to chomp the cavity infested enemies. Run on the walls, dodge through bullet filled rooms and stomp baddies. Collect power ups, contract powerful diseases, and dig your way through the body.
Fate of the World$9.99
Fate of the World is a dramatic global strategy game that puts all our futures in your hands. The game features a dramatic set of scenarios based on the latest science covering the next two centuries. You must manage a balancing act of protecting the Earth’s resources and climate versus the needs of an ever-growing world population, who...
Edge Of Dead: Under A Uranium Sky$10.99
A bullet hell that let's you pickup and throw the furniture! Throw grenades and activate shields, stun enemies, shoot and dodge enemy fire and set the floor ablaze. Buy a porcupine shotgun from the shop or try a rancid burrito!
Trash Quest$2.99
Trash Quest is a compact metroidvania with a single spawn point, run and gun action and tight platforming. Navigate an interwoven maze of rooms through this space station, destroying robots, collecting power ups and unlocking shortcuts.
Ogo$4.99
Ogo is an arcade twin-stick shooter where you control yin and yang to defeat your enemies, complete varied levels or just relax in different endless game modes.
Carebotz$1.99
Carebotz is an arena shooter game spiced with metroidvania elements. You control BIBZ, a little maintenance droid. Collect the tons of blueprints, navigate the tight corridors, customize your toolset, learn to take advantage of gravity, upgrade, repair and encounter many different types of enemies!
Rusty's Day Off: Episode One - Janitor on Duty$14.99
Rusty's Day Off is a stylized FPS with puzzle elements in which you play as Rusty, a janitor, facing his own rogue robots. You'll have to fight, solve puzzles, and jump & run all over the place to get through this day.
Spaceport Hope$1.99
A huge hand-crafted world packed with 13 unique bosses, a gripping story, and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is the ultimate test of gaming prowess.
Otter Space Rescue$0.99
Your Otter Space crew has been captured by evil robots. Save your team and fight together through endless rooms of evil robots.
BioGun$19.99
Get injected into the microscopic world of BioGun. Face viral threats and winding corridors on your mission to save man’s best friend from the inside. Will you save dog-kind from extinction?
Beyond the Storm$11.99
Be NEARLY vaporized, crushed, blown to pieces, flame broiled, and electrocuted using your incredible targeting skills and class 1 fancy flying to keep you alive in this SHMUP that brings back the essence of the classic arcade shmups!
Galaxy Kingdoms$6.99
Galaxy Kingdoms is an action/adventure shooter. Feel the journey of a bounty hunter as he explores the galaxy in search of quests and treasure. Strengthen yourself by buying new weapons and armor and then take on more powerful enemies.
Simona's Requiem$7.99
Simona's Requiem is a retro-styled platformer Inspired by old action-adventure games but with a modern touch. Pick up the scythe as Simona and slash your way to the Fisher King who has hidden behind the moon.
Chaotic Pursuit$2.99
Chaotic Pursuit is a hardcore Top-Down Shooter with cute graphics. You miss a shot and you're out!
Hadley's Run: A Starship Saga$11.99
Stranded in a distant galaxy, portal jump your way home and defeat the DraadMek in this roguelite space shooter adventure. Unlock epic upgrades, explore alien galaxies, make friends, find love and do battle against a relentless alien AI threat.
LUMbA: REDUX$4.99
LUMbA: REDUX Is a challenging, fast-paced, bullet hell shooter. Take control of LUMBA and cleanse this world of the monsters that have consumed it.
Esse Proxy$19.99
Slick, stylish and brutal, 3D Cyberpunk Shooter. Located in a dystopian future, you'll experience the intertwined stories of three different characters, each with their own abilities, playstyles, strengths and weaknesses. Kill or die, learn and repeat before you unveil the secrets of Esse Proxy.
Astronite$14.99
Astronite is a 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Recover the planet where you and yours lived before it was invaded by strange creatures.
Mutant Gate$0.99
After years in cryoprison, Dr. Green awakens on a mutant-infested Earth colony. Seeking redemption and his estranged daughter Anna, he battles through a ravaged planet in a 4-hour campaign of intense combat, encounters, and adventure. Mutant Gate has hybrid tile/ASCII visuals & Steam Deck support.
Riskers$4.99
Riskers is a fast-paced top-down 2D shooter. A life-changing decision plunges you into a criminal world that starts a life or death game of finders-keepers. Race, shoot and fight your way through the open-world city as you try to stay alive and live another day.
DOOMBLADE$15.99
Deep underground, Gloom Girl discovers DOOMBLADE, a sentient weapon hellbent on escape after eons in chains. Together, “Doom and Gloom” embark on a vengeful quest to unlock the powerful abilities and destroy the Dread Lords once and for all in this 2D Action Metroidvania.
Resolutiion$19.99
Resolutiion is a zelda-like action-adventure, where an old killer and his AI explore a vast, mysterious world, full of mighty weapons, surreal abilities and gruesome bossfights.