Dead
The universe wants you dead. Take on the ten great spirits of the universe in this intense boss fighting challenge!
91% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Games like OVERWHELM
If OVERWHELM left you wanting something tense and dark, you have options. Start with these games when you are ready.
Dead
The universe wants you dead. Take on the ten great spirits of the universe in this intense boss fighting challenge!
Tense, Dark, Retro
91% of 258 Steam reviews are positive$4.99After Death
After Death is a platform / exploration game in a dark and hostile world. With the help from lost souls, you will have to find a way to open a gate which seems to be the only exit from this mysterious world infected by monsters.
Dark, Retro, Scary
88% of 146 Steam reviews are positive$13.99Perennial Order
Perennial Order is a 2D plant horror boss rush with challenging one-hit-death combat. Set in an atmospheric Dark Age world plagued by nature-infested horrors, explore a lore-filled and eldritch land alone or in two player co-op, all in a realistic painterly style.
Also in Co-op · Tense, Dark, Fast-paced
93% of 704 Steam reviews are positive$19.99Wraithslayer
An intense and challenging boss battle in an abstract horror world.
Tense, Dark, Retro
95% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Tormentor❌Punisher
Everything in Tormentor❌Punisher can be killed in one hit, from bosses to yourself. Bosses conjure traps to make the arena hellish. Demons adjust to your play style and punish you. Perform combos on enemies and gain cool upgrades. Reload your machine gun by firing your shotgun. Let's do this!
Also in Co-op · Tense, Retro, Fast-paced
92% of 306 Steam reviews are positive$7.99Overclocked
Overclocked is a free-flowing action game that blends combat and platforming to create a fluid and rhythmic experience. Take on the role of Amber, a glass-cannon vigilante, as you fight to uncover a plot that threatens to tear your home apart.
Tense, Retro, Fast-paced
93% of 321 Steam reviews are positiveFreeINFERNIUM
Infernium, a survival horror approach to Pac-Man. Dive in a non-linear beautiful portrait of hell, die in a prison without bars and overcome a brutal penitence. Also available on Switch and PS4!
Tense, Dark, Replayable
64% of 168 Steam reviews are positive$29.99Void Memory
You, who was born in a world full of darkness, should wander this hollowed land to find the Relics for a person who created you. However, fallen and lost souls with trap-filled trials await in your course of doing so. Can you survive in this crumbling world and start a new era?
Tense, Dark, Retro
66% of 236 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1FreeCRUEL
A fast run-and-gun horror shooter with roguelike bones. Race a burning apartment block up ten shifting floors, trade soda for perks with a small dog, and blast cultists apart with a revolver, a shotgun or your bare fists. Hard, quick, and funnier than it has any right to be.
Tense, Dark, Retro
95% of 1,855 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99KINGDOM of the DEAD
Immerse yourself in a dreadful hand-drawn horror world and push Death’s armies back to the underworld!
Tense, Dark, Retro
78% of 335 Steam reviews are positive$14.99Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest
Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat. Playing as a Reaper of the twisted purgatorial afterlife, push your skills to the limit to destroy the hordes of demons and epic bosses to reach your destination.
Tense, Dark, Fast-paced
89% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$10.99A Hole New World
The city is being invaded by monsters from the Upside Down World! You, the Potion Master, must defeat evil all alone, with no tutorials or "Easy Mode" to assist you. You'll have to rely on the help of Fäy, your companion fairy, and your potions!
Tense, Retro, Fast-paced
75% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cheaper than OVERWHELM
Wraithslayer
An intense and challenging boss battle in an abstract horror world.
95% of 74 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Tormentor❌Punisher
Everything in Tormentor❌Punisher can be killed in one hit, from bosses to yourself. Bosses conjure traps to make the arena hellish.
92% of 306 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
It Steals
Collect the orbs in a maze while things that hide, hunt and lie in wait try to catch you.
98% of 2,168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
Haunted Lands
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer.
77% of 256 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$5.99
Slash or Die
In this game you will face violence and extraordinary complexity.
84% of 150 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Nowhere Patrol
Nowhere Patrol is a boss rush game with bullet hell and platforming elements.
96% of 234 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Overcome
Beat your inner demons without attacking them, in this extremely difficult platformer about how grief changes one's perception of the world.
100% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$8.99
Pixel Survivors : Roguelike
A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down.
79% of 374 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$3.99
Bleed
A pixel-art action-platformer where a pink-haired heroine with a big arsenal fights her way to the title of greatest hero of all time.
92% of 1,500 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Primal Light
Inhabit Krog, a mysterious blue creature in a red loincloth, as he traverses a labyrinth of ladders, levers, traps, and monsters.
79% of 332 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
Blood Harvest 3
Blood Harvest 3 is a fast, bloody 2D action platformer about clearing 25 arenas across 6 locations.
74% of 179 Steam reviews are positive$2.99
Hidden gems like OVERWHELM
PAPERHEAD
Run and gun through a nightmarish research facility, sketching bombs into existence with a magic pencil.
95% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99
CRUEL
Blast your way up a collapsing tower floor by floor, where every run reshuffles the rooms and death sends you back to the bottom.
95% of 1,855 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Perennial Order
Perennial Order is a 2D plant horror boss rush with challenging one-hit-death combat.
93% of 704 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
Death In Abyss
Death In Abyss is an intense flight shooter that challenges you to utilize your maneuverability and explosive firepower to survive against the…
83% of 160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest
Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat.
89% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$10.99
Mina the Hollower
Mina the Hollower sends a mouse Hollower to a cursed island, whip in paw.
87% of 7,970 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 401$19.99
Haunted Lands
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer.
77% of 256 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$5.99
Devilated
Devilated is an ultraviolent RPG old-school shooter where you brutalize and cannibalize your demonic foes in equal measure.
85% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Endoparasitic
Crawl through a lab on one arm, hand-load every bullet and hold off the parasite in your head long enough to reach the exit.
93% of 2,970 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 8$9.99
Return
Return to your home planet after 200 years of space travel in this atmospheric, art-driven adventure.
86% of 195 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
It Steals
Collect the orbs in a maze while things that hide, hunt and lie in wait try to catch you.
98% of 2,168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 7$4.99
Pixel Survivors : Roguelike
A rogue-lite game where you must face hundreds of monsters with increasingly difficult bosses that strong enough to take you down.
79% of 374 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$3.99
Newest games like OVERWHELM
PAPERHEAD
Run and gun through a nightmarish research facility, sketching bombs into existence with a magic pencil.
95% of 686 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 17$19.99
Mina the Hollower
Mina the Hollower sends a mouse Hollower to a cursed island, whip in paw.
87% of 7,970 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 401$19.99
Haunted Lands
Slay grim cultists, infernal minions, and nightmarish creatures in this dark and bloody retro-inspired action platformer.
77% of 256 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$5.99
KILL THE WITCH
In an age when humanity gave up on happiness—just to escape unhappiness—and became nothing but bugs.
78% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$10.99
Death In Abyss
Death In Abyss is an intense flight shooter that challenges you to utilize your maneuverability and explosive firepower to survive against the…
83% of 160 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
MOMIBOSU
A boy and a girl with a mysterious weapon drone in their hands embark on an adventurous journey from their small underground village to the vast…
92% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$12.99
CRUEL
Blast your way up a collapsing tower floor by floor, where every run reshuffles the rooms and death sends you back to the bottom.
95% of 1,855 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 6$9.99
Awaria
Repair generators in haunted tunnels while fire, scrap and lightning chase you through a fast, funny bullet hell.
96% of 20,097 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 26Free
Magenta Horizon - Neverending Harvest
Magenta Horizon is a fast-paced 2D action platformer with challenging spectacle fighter inspired combat.
89% of 179 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$10.99
Absolute Insanity
Kill strange creatures with crazy weapons. The more you kill the more unlocks you gain, don't let them get close to you.
95% of 57 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Devilated
Devilated is an ultraviolent RPG old-school shooter where you brutalize and cannibalize your demonic foes in equal measure.
85% of 168 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$19.99
Perennial Order
Perennial Order is a 2D plant horror boss rush with challenging one-hit-death combat.
93% of 704 Steam reviews are positive$19.99