Games like Malicious Payload
Loved how fast-paced and tense Malicious Payload can get? These games could fill that gap nicely.
ROBOCRACY
Take on the challenge and face off against a rogue AI bent on enslaving humanity! Strap on your VR headset, step into the boots of a Galactic Ranger, and tear through waves of robots with explosive blasters, devastating shotguns, and an insane arsenal — just like classic arcade shooters!
Fast-paced, Tense
89% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$11.99Bad Bots
As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a way to prevent a potential planet-destroying catastrophe.
Fast-paced, Tense
67% of 145 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Deadly Stigma
Deadly Stigma is an exciting pixel shooter in Sci-Fi style. The action takes place on a spaceship built to transport the latest form of carbon life in the Universe. The central system was invaded by a virus created for destroying the Life Capsule. Your target is to stop it.
Fast-paced, Tense, Replayable
85% of 13 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Rail Gunner
A sci-fi rail shooter for PC, PCVR and Mac. Defend your train against AI controlled robots which run, fly, rocket and roll in pursuit. Enemies are fully destructible and physically simulated. A variety of weapons and power-ups to unlock.
Fast-paced, Tense, Replayable
80% of 44 Steam reviews are positiveFreeMark One
Robots built by humans are retaliating. Step in to dispose rogue robots, defeat powerful foes and save the human race in this sci-fi action shooter.
Fast-paced, Tense
100% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Dark Matter
The Space Pirates are planning on destroying the Earth. They have stolen many space cargo vessels in order to gain the supplies to blow it up. You play as Dark Matter, a hired bounty hunter who works with the Space Federation in order to stop the pirates. You must stop the pirates, save the space cargo vessels, and save the Earth.
Fast-paced, Tense
38% of 26 Steam reviews are positiveFreeColorfire Redux
Well, the physpace is being destroyed, glitching by numerous hordes of malicious duplicating codes from the bitspace. People are panicking, we must send our final attempt to fix the issue, you must be trained to fix the bitspace and survive in it during the process, in its current, decaying status.
Fast-paced, Tense, Replayable
92% of 36 Steam reviews are positiveFreeShrink Assault
Shrink Assault is a Sci-Fi game featuring a mix of Infinite Runners and Rail Shooter games! Skilfully control your spaceship to dodge obstacles and eliminate the threat! Can you survive?
Fast-paced, Tense, Replayable
80% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$4.99CRYPTARK
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.
Fast-paced, Tense, Replayable
83% of 913 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99Mr. Robot
Asimov is a lowly service mechanoid aboard the interstellar colony ship Eidolon. Carrying hundreds of frozen human colonists to a new world. When the Eidolon's computer brain malfunctions, it falls to Asimov to undertake a perilous journey through the bowels of the massive ship to save his robot friends and the precious human cargo. Mr.
81% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Deep Space Salvage Crew VR
A first-person procedural VR roguelike shooter, set in deep space. Find old wrecks adrift in space, board them and fight your way to the bridge to claim the salvage rights.
Fast-paced, Tense, Replayable
67% of 24 Steam reviews are positive$18.99Space Shells
Space Shells is a rogue-lite sci-fi VR game following an intergalactic mercenary tasked with hijacking a fleet of stunningly designed spaceships. Eliminate enemy droids, making clever use of specialized robotic shells to complete each treacherous mission.
Fast-paced, Tense, Replayable
60% of 5 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than Malicious Payload
Overdrive Escape
Miami City. 2054. The Ichido Corporation creates biological robots (replicants).
81% of 21 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
The Seeker
Welcome to the Seeker! Run, hide and hack in this indie top-down game that gives a whole new meaning to the word "random!"
86% of 70 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$0.74
Dangerous Bullets
Dangerous Bullets- This dynamic hardcore platforming, challenges you.
67% of 52 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$0.49
SEGFAULT
SEGFAULT is a hacker themed shooter game that focuses heavily on progression and skill.
50% of 4 Steam reviews are positive$0.74
Shapeshooter
SHAPESHOOTER is literally an on-rail shooter, you'll have to clear colonies across 4 planets from a little creatures infestation called polygoneers.
56% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Byte Family
Overcome obstacles and restore the cyber world ByteFamily, eliminating the system virus, unlocking new game modes and gaining new skills!
85% of 140 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$0.74
Unalive
Unalive is an action adventure roguelike game. Randomly generated laboratory rooms. Collect unique items to improve your abilities.
72% of 299 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$0.74
Bladestar
Bladestar is a sci-fi cinematic action shooter featuring visually rich worlds with potentially endless enemies on each level.
67% of 87 Steam reviews are positive$0.54
CAT Interstellar
A short story inspired by Robert Heinlein's:The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress
70% of 696 Steam reviews are positive$0.89
Gamma Space
You play the role of a spaceship surrounded by an asteroid field.
50% of 2 Steam reviews are positive$0.79
Project Nimbus: Complete Edition
Take a weaponized Battle Frame into high-speed aerial combat over a devastated future Earth.
84% of 1,498 Steam reviews are positive$6.99
Hidden gems like Malicious Payload
Skin Deep
You are a thawed-out insurance commando clearing space pirates off a starship, one sneeze trap at a time.
94% of 1,698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
EVOTINCTION
In 'Evotinction', a third-person hacking and stealth game, you are Dr. Liu, the only one who can stop rogue AIs in a futuristic research facility.
85% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
CARNAGE OFFERING
A fast-paced sci-fi FPS where you battle waves of robots and genetically engineered creatures.
81% of 181 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Wandering in Space VR
Join Wandering In Space, a unique FPS ROGUELITE SCI-FI experience built for VR.
73% of 164 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Hardspace: Shipbreaker
Slice open derelict hulls in zero gravity, salvaging every part you can before the reactor goes up.
89% of 19,557 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 253$34.99
GUNHEAD
Gunhead is a fast paced strategic roguelike FPS where you take the role of a pirate mech with a gun for a head, looting derelict spaceships filled…
68% of 156 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Space Pirate Trainer
Pick your blasters and gadgets, hold the landing platform against wave after wave of droids, and move to a soundtrack that keeps the pace up.
94% of 2,653 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
CRYPTARK
Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly…
83% of 913 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$14.99
Psycho Starship Rampage
You play the psychotic A.I. of a warship lost in space which tries to come back to Earth. Build your spaceship from scratch. Load it with weapons.
82% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Syndrome
Syndrome, a sci-fi survival horror game that places you in a living hell inside a doomed starship. Find out what happened to your lost crew. Run.
69% of 254 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Survive in Space
The game is spread over 50 different levels, and Sasaki must fight through them all to redeem his people.
68% of 223 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Bad Bots
As Sam McRae, last surviving member of the “Titan Hauler” crew, you must hack and blast your way through an onslaught of truly bad 'bots to find a…
67% of 145 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Newest games like Malicious Payload
Rob o Bot
Rob o Bot is a survivors-like action game where you fight hordes of robots that began acting on their own after a mysterious virus infected a new…
100% of 12 Steam reviews are positive$3.50
The Last Salvage Squad
Battle enemy forces reminiscent of alien weapons from retro sci-fi works in this single-player 2.5D FPS.
98% of 570 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Mala Petaka
A 2D Pixel Art Shooter-inspired sci-fi FPS runs on GZDoom. You play as 'Petaka', an angry amnesiac that's on a journey to revive his memory by…
100% of 85 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Starstrike
Take command of Earth's most powerful starships and battle through the heart of enemy space in this action packed roguelike!
91% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
Rail Gunner
A sci-fi rail shooter for PC, PCVR and Mac. Defend your train against AI controlled robots which run, fly, rocket and roll in pursuit.
80% of 44 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Skin Deep
You are a thawed-out insurance commando clearing space pirates off a starship, one sneeze trap at a time.
94% of 1,698 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
Genesis Survivors
Welcome, hackers, you're being transferred to Eden City to defend its citizens against the alien threat!
69% of 110 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
PhaigeX: Hyperspace Survivors
PhaigeX is a fast-paced "Bullet Heaven" space shooter, tasking the player to explore space sectors and contain a rising incursion of rogue…
84% of 32 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Colorfire Redux
Well, the physpace is being destroyed, glitching by numerous hordes of malicious duplicating codes from the bitspace.
92% of 36 Steam reviews are positiveFree
ROBOCRACY
Take on the challenge and face off against a rogue AI bent on enslaving humanity!
89% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$11.99
EVOTINCTION
In 'Evotinction', a third-person hacking and stealth game, you are Dr. Liu, the only one who can stop rogue AIs in a futuristic research facility.
85% of 174 Steam reviews are positive$29.99
Space Killer
Take on the role of a spaceship pilot and protect the universe from an alien invasion. Destroy hordes of infected ships and defeat powerful bosses.
74% of 46 Steam reviews are positive$7.99