Games like Mr. Shifty

If Mr. Shifty left you wanting something fast-paced and tense, you have options. These games are a good place to start.

Mr. Fast
Mr. Fast is a top-down shooting game with a bullet time twist! Enemy's time moves more slowly than yours. You're fast enough and you can kill others with one shot.
Fast-paced, Tense, Retro
79% of 105 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
ION Shift
ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas. The campaign progressively challenges the player through evolving level design, tight mechanics, and a focus on player-driven mastery.
Fast-paced, Tense, Retro
90% of 141 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Bleed
Wryn wants to be the ultimate videogame hero, and her plan is to fight every hero who currently holds the title. A fast, acrobatic action-platformer: slow time, triple dash, wall jump and shoot your way through seven levels and a stack of inventive bosses. Short, but built to be replayed.
Fast-paced, Tense, Colorful
92% of 1,500 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Shady Knight
Shady Knight is a first-person skill-driven melee action game centered around swift swordplay, acrobatic archery, and fluid platforming that seamlessly blends combat and parkour skills into a stylish dance of death full of creative chaos.
Fast-paced, Tense
93% of 899 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$19.99
I Am Your Beast
You are retired agent Alphonse Harding, done with one last job, now hunted through the wilderness by the COI. Turn it around in fast, replayable micro-sandboxes where stylish kills cut seconds off the clock and every level begs for a faster run.
Fast-paced, Tense, Colorful
97% of 5,390 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 22$19.99
My Friend Pedro
A 2D action game where a talking banana sends you through the underworld, guns blazing. Style is scored, chaos is encouraged, and every level is a short, frantic ballet of flying bodies.
Fast-paced, Tense, Colorful
95% of 24,663 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 16$19.99
NOT A HERO
A pixel-art cover shooter with a very stupid premise played very straight: BunnyLord, a rabbit from the future, is running for mayor, and you are his campaign staff. Slide into cover, shoot, reload, repeat, and try not to die while the jokes land between firefights. Fast, funny and harder than it looks.
Fast-paced, Tense, Colorful
87% of 1,637 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Bloodroots
One-hit kill die-retry murderballet. Left for dead by a colorful band of bandits: you will chain killing sprees to exact revenge on the treacherous Mr. Black Wolf. Improvise your kills with utterly everything you can get your hands on: from carrots to plasma guns.
Fast-paced, Tense, Colorful
89% of 233 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Severed Steel
A one-armed sharpshooter, a superstructure full of bad guys and not a single reload in sight. Severed Steel is a fast, acrobatic FPS where you run walls, dive through bullet time and shoot your way through fully destructible voxel levels. When your gun runs dry, throw it at someone and take theirs.
Fast-paced, Tense
95% of 9,127 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 11$1.74
Maximum Action
A retro physics shooter where every fight is your own action movie: dive in slow motion, dual-wield machine guns, kick a rocket out of the air. Short, punchy levels built for one more go, a full level editor, and workshop mods to keep the mayhem fresh. Brutal, funny and fast.
Fast-paced, Retro
89% of 3,687 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Kill The Crows
A top-down western where one bullet kills anything, including you. Isabella walks into a ruined town full of crow-masked cultists with a revolver, a fanning trick called Showdown, and nothing to lose. Fast runs, pixel art with real bite, and gunfights that reward nerve over caution.
Fast-paced, Tense, Retro
95% of 2,889 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$4.99
Shotgun Cop Man
GO TO HELL, ARREST SATAN. Propel yourself to justice and glory on a journey through hell in this punchy, crunchy, son-of-a-gun precision platformer from the creator of My Friend Pedro.
Fast-paced, Tense, Colorful
96% of 673 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 3$9.99

Cheaper than Mr. Shifty

Severed Steel

An acrobatic shooter where slow-motion flips, crumbling voxel buildings and a one-armed heroine keep every firefight moving.

$1.74

Velocity®Ultra

Velocity®Ultra is an award-winning top down shooter that puts you in control of the galaxy’s only Quarp Jet, an advanced spacecraft with the ability…

$9.99

Super Ledgehop: Double Laser

Cutie anime girl realizes her cool big bro is missing?? Cheese it up with Chizuru and SHOOT TO THE BEAT OF THE SONG in this top down bullet hell…

$0.99

Tower 57

Tower 57 is a fast-paced neo-retro shooter where cooperation is as important as your ammo capacity.

$1.19

10 Second Ninja

Ninjas are cool, this is an established fact of the universe.

$1.99

David.

A short, tough, minimalist boss-fighter. You are David: a tiny square with a slingshot-like power, facing giant physics-beasts across a 9-level…

$1.99

Party Hard

Sneak through loud parties as a very patient man with very bad intentions, one trap at a time.

$1.99

State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem

Prepare for bullet hell action and crazy driving! Your town is on fire, anarchy reigns the streets, aliens rampage in the sky!

$1.99

Hero of Not Our Time

Hero of Not Our Time is a 2D top-down action game with elements of 90s classics.

$0.99

Stealth Bastard Deluxe

Armed with only your wits and a pair of Stealthing Goggles, it’s your job to sneak your way through a deadly facility that’s determined to…

$9.99

Pinkman

Pinkman is a fast-paced, action platformer about a lost man with pink skin and an incredible skill to fart.

$0.99

NEO NEO

NEO NEO is a super fast, brutal top-down arcade game, inspired by the likes of Hotline Miami and Super Hexagon.

$0.99

Hidden gems like Mr. Shifty

Bloodthief

Sprint through haunted crypts as a vampire, turning slain enemies into speed and strength while you hunt the perfect route.

$19.99

Advent NEON®

Hyperactive 2D action platformer with wicked fast attacks, omnidirectional dashing, and time-freezing!

$13.99

Shotgun Cop Man

GO TO HELL, ARREST SATAN. Propel yourself to justice and glory on a journey through hell in this punchy, crunchy, son-of-a-gun precision platformer…

$9.99

Jackal

Execute ultra-violent raids in 1970s casino hotels. Take down the Las Vegas mob as a drug super-powered hitman in physics-fueled top-down close combat

$14.99

Shady Knight

Shady Knight is a first-person skill-driven melee action game centered around swift swordplay, acrobatic archery, and fluid platforming that…

$19.99

ION Shift

ION Shift delivers fast, high-stakes gameplay with precision controls and a unique sandbox-style approach to combat arenas.

$2.99

I Am Your Beast

You are retired agent Alphonse Harding, done with one last job, now hunted through the wilderness by the COI.

$19.99

Kill The Crows

Walk a ruined western town with a revolver, drop crow-masked cultists in fast arena runs, and remember that the same single shot can end you.

$4.99

MULLET MADJACK

Shoot your way up a robot billionaire's tower before your heartbeat runs out, one frantic floor at a time.

$19.99

Better Than Dead

An untrained survivor with a pistol works through a revenge list in photorealistic Hong Kong, dying, learning each room and returning faster.

$11.99

Bounty of One

A colorful western arena roguelite where your gun only fires while you stand still, solo or with up to four friends.

$6.99

Midnight Fight Express

You brawl across a whole city before sunrise, turning from a rusty ex-crook into a one-person action film.

$19.99

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