Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to HellEscape
2D bullet hell with auto-fire and roguelite elements.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. HellEscape launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Bullet hell (roguelike) on steam
2025 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
- 2BW
Hi HN ! This is an open source project I've been working on for a while. It's actually the third breakout-like game I've built. I really like the simplicity of the concept, having just one input (the puck horizontal position) and a simple gameplay that gives a low skill floor. My girlfriend and I played a lot of the excellent LBreakoutHD, an open source breakout game that follows the traditional formula of having multiple lives, scoring points by breaking bricks and catching the good upgrades that spawn randomly and fall down, while avoiding bad upgrades. She liked this game because it is…
2025 · breakout.lecaro.me · its alternatives →
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A minimalist tactical ARPG fusing Diablo and Into the Breach
2022 · its alternatives →
- 4AM
2024 · asterogue.com · its alternatives →
- 5FF
2020 · friendlyfiregame.com · its alternatives →
- 6AR
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A seeded chess-pathfinding roguelite. Guide Prince Chazz across the board, dodging enemy pieces, and race the per-seed leaderboard.
Jun 2026 · princechazz.com · its alternatives →
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- 11IS
It's my first steam game, I'm very pleased with how it came out. It's the largest person project I've ever made. I'm happy to answer any questions.
2023 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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- 14MT
2025 · dodge.trickle.host · its alternatives →
- 15AR
My background project for the last two years has been re-implementing my 2004 C++ shoot'em up game in TypeScript + WebGL, and it's finally done (just in time for the 20th anniversary!) Play the game online: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga/darklaga.html Technical article about the remake: https://nicollet.net/blog/darklaga/remake.html I have tested Firefox, Chrome and Edge on desktop and mobile (no access to a device capable of running Safari). It's amazing how much difference 20 years makes: the hardware is so much more powerful, the web…
2024 · nicollet.net · its alternatives →
- 16DP
Hi HN, I’ve been working on Gore – a port of the classic Doom engine written in pure Go, based on a ccgo C-to-Go translation of Doom Generic. It loads original WAD files, uses a software renderer (no SDL or CGO, or Go dependencies outside the standard library). Still has a bit of unsafe code that I'm trying to get rid of, and various other caveats. In the examples is a terminal-based renderer, which is entertaining, even though it's very hard to play with terminal-style input/output. The goal is a clean, cross-platform, Go-native take on the Doom engine – fun to hack on, easy to read,…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 17IM
2022 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 18TT
I’ve been building termcraft, a terminal-first 2D sandbox survival game in Rust. The idea is to take the classic early survival progression and adapt it to a side-on terminal format instead of a tile or pixel-art engine. Current build includes: - procedural Overworld, Nether, and End generation - mining, placement, crafting, furnaces, brewing, and boats - hostile and passive mobs - villages, dungeons, strongholds, Nether fortresses, and dragon progression This is still early alpha, but it’s already playable. Project: https://github.com/pagel-s/termcraft Docs:…
Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 19IW
The goal is to have a pixel, mod-friendly perfect recreation of Wolfenstein 3D in Rust.
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Castlevania creator Kickstarting his next game (pre-launch)
2015 · its alternatives →
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- 23IM
2025 · bullseye2d.org · its alternatives →
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