6 Similar Games Short List
Here are our hand-picked short list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Atomicrops. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Atomicrops.
Release Date: 12/07/2017, updated in 2019
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Iron Crypticle is an action adventure game where you shoot your way through dungeons with up to four friends. You play by moving with one stick while shooting with the other and work through floors of enemies. It stands out for blending the arcade...
Release Date: 30/01/2023
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Checkmate Kings is a frantic shooting game where you play a king who can summon chess pieces by shooting the opponent king. Play is a mix of arcade-style shooting to build an army of pieces and then triggering their specific movement to hit the enemy...
Release Date: 05/04/2016, updated in 2020
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Enter the Gungeon is a shooting game where you use one stick for running around and the other to aim. These twin-stick controls combine with loads of enemy bullets to dodge to create a tough challenge. You play four adventurers descending into the...
Release Date: 23/09/2015
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Assault Android Cactus is a fast cartoon-style shooting game where you respond to a distress call from a crippled space freighter and defend it from wayward robot workers. One stick controls the movement while the other stick controls the direction of...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Guncar Arena is a super-fast shooting game where you drive a weaponised car shooting hordes of alien invaders. Play requires expert timing and deft steering to drift through attacks while tactically and inventively using your weapons to target enemies....
Release Date: 19/09/2022
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Rogue : Genesia is a shooting game where you battle hundreds of enemies at the same time to defend a desperate world. Like Vampire Survivors, you use one stick to control your movement and the other for aiming, and...
25 Similar Games Long List
Here are our hand-picked long list of similar games; the perfect thing to play next if you enjoyed Atomicrops. We don't use automatic matching, instead, we hand-pick games that are good to play if you have enjoyed Atomicrops.
Release Date: 26/02/2016, updated in 2018
Platforms: Amazon Fire, Android, Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Stardew Valley looks like a farming simulator. That’s partly what it is, but you must also develop relationships with the other townsfolk and delve deep into the mines. Its quirky labyrinthine attention to detail is inviting for young players to try...
Release Date: 15/01/2019, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
This game is set after civilization has been destroyed, and humans are emerging from underground to rebuild society. By gathering resources, crafting and building you slowly gain the tools to collect food, store grain, chop trees and build dwellings....
Release Date: 15/08/2018
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Grid, Open World and Pixels
Graveyard Keeper is a funeral-themed role-playing game where you are the caretaker of a local cemetery. You make choices about how to lay out the plot, what services to offer and generally how to make money from your unusual enterprise. The pixilated...
Release Date: 31/03/2016, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Hyper Light Drifter is a fast action role-play game that combines exploration and puzzles with arcade style shooting. You play a Drifter who can access technology in a post-technological world. This grants access to upgradable energy weapons to help you...
Release Date: 25/02/2018, updated in 2019
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Day and Night and Open World
Farm Together is a low-pressure farm simulator. You develop your farm by yourself or cooperate with your friends. Starting with an empty plot you can grow crops, plant trees, take care of the animals, add buildings and facilities, and unlock new items...
Release Date: 18/06/2019
Platforms: Mac, PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Littlewood is a town and farming simulator a little like Stardew Valley or Animal Crossing. Here though, the twist is that the game is set after a grand adventure. You beat the boss, and...
Release Date: 13/05/2021
Platforms: Android, PC, Stadia, Switch and iOS
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Cards and Grid
Hundred Days is a strategy game about making wine. You control every aspect of a new Winery, choose vines, learn how to grow them and when to harvest. You make decisions about the process with a simple interface that takes you through each day. It's a...
Release Date: 11/08/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Garden Story is a role-playing adventure, crafting and farming game similar to Stardew Valley. It also features combat, dungeons and puzzles similar to the Zelda games. You defend your garden-home from an invasion on...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels
Concerned Ape’s Haunted Chocolatier is a strategy game from the creator of Stardew Valley. You explore a fantasy world gather ingredients to make different blends of chocolate that sell in your chocolate shop.
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels
Witchbrook is a role play game that takes you through the highs and lows of school-life. You play a witch-in-training but it's not just about learning spells. The push and shove of student life at the magic school and town life are very much front and...
Release Date: 06/02/2018
Platforms: Mac and PC
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 3D First-Person, Blocks, Day and Night and Open World
Eco extends the resource-collecting and building of Minecraft by introducing environmental implications to your actions. Using resources like trees will erode the soil; mining might pollute the river; and each animal depends on another.
Release Date: 18/04/2019
Platforms: Android, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and iOS
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night and Pixels
Forager is an open-world adventure where you manage resources in a simple pixel world. The collecting, crafting and consuming requires you to tap buttons. It soon becomes apparent that you need to automate your work if you are to progress effectively....
Release Date: 18/02/2021
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS4 and Switch
Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds
Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels
Learning Factory is a strategy game where you automate an old factory. Unusually, this isn't to make money and conquer the world but a round about approach to understand cats. Peculiar backstory aside, the game tasks you with renovating the factory,...
Release Date: 23/09/2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World
Staxel is a strategy farming game. It looks like Minecraft and has block building tools that are similar. However, this is a farming game more like Stardew Valley rather than open-world adventure. There are no monsters or dangers you find in other...
Release Date: 09/06/2021
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels
Black Skylands is an adventure game where you pilot an airship through a sprawling open world of floating islands. You play Eva, who's ship has been destroyed and father killed. Your task is to rebuild your home from the deck up, arm and prepare for...
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: PC, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made
Disc Room is an action survival game set in a sprawling intergalactic slaughterhouse. You are a scientist from the future exploring the facility and must get through each room that is filled with sharp discs by running and dodging. You have special...
Release Date: 24/04/2020, updated in 2021
Platforms: PC and Switch
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels
Nira is a survival game where pixelated characters explore the primitive world to find resources to survive. It's unusual not only because of its basic art style but because its simplicity gives rise to emergent and open play. Something like a cross...
Release Date: 14/10/2022, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S
Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds
Components: 3D Third-Person
Trifox is a shooting game where one stick controls your movement and the other controls the aiming. You traverse through the levels, defeating hordes of enemies with a variety of different skills and weapons. While the controls are simple, mastering...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC and Switch
Components: 2D Overhead
Wizard with a Gun is a survival game where you play a wizard in a magical wilderness wrought with dangerous creatures and arcane mysteries. Either alone or with other players online you embark on a journey to collect, craft and outfit your wizard to...
Release Date: 22/10/2020
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Hand-Made and Open World
Zelter is a zombie survival game. But you aren't only defending yourself from the oncoming hordes of zombies but developing a safe haven for a new life like Stardew Valley.
Release Date: 04/06/2021, updated in 2022
Platforms: PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Astro Aqua Kitty is a space adventure where an intrepid crew of cats launch into space to harvest milk from far off planets. You play by moving and shooting your way through levels to meet inhabitants and upgrade your abilities. It stands out for this...
Release Date: Coming soon
Platforms: PC
Components: 2D Overhead
Demon Spore is a shooting game set in a lab with an escaped alien creature that grows organically as you play. You take on the role of a failed lab experiment that gives birth to a rapidly growing viral horror.
Release Date: 27/09/2019, updated in 2020
Platforms: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Freedom Finger is a tongue-in-cheek game where you pilot a hand that can shoot from its middle finger. Along with the shooting, the game is music driven as you punch, grab, and pound enemies to smithereens. It takes the classic, Gradius and Nemisis...
Release Date: 08/11/2014, updated in 2018
Platforms: Mac, PC, PS Vita, PS4, Switch and Xbox One
Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Risk of Rain is a running, jumping and fighting game where you defeat hordes of monsters and the difficulty steadily increases the longer you survive as you try to scavenge the parts to make a way back home. When you die, you start over but do keep some...
Release Date: 22/02/2022
Platforms: PC, PS4 and Switch
Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels
Sol Cresta is a classic-style arcade shooting game. It follows previous Cresta games (Moon Cresta and Terra Cresta) focus on bullet dodging, ship augmenting action. Here though you have three ships that can combine their weapons in different ways.
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