Games Like 8-Bit Invaders! (2026)

Shared: Base Building

Surviving alone was already brutal - surviving with friends who make catastrophic decisions is another beast entirely. A deep, unforgiving co-op survival game that rewards patience, preparation, and someone on the team who knows what a Science Machine actually does.

Shared: Base Building

Forget commanding armies. Here you manage three starving civilians in a bombed-out shelter, and every decision about who eats tonight will follow you long after you close the game.

Shared: Base Building

Crash a plane, lose your son, then spend 30+ hours building spike traps and slowly losing your mind to cannibals. Solo or with up to 8 friends online, this one earns its Metacritic 83.

Shared: tier:indie

The dating-sim wrapper is bait, and MiSide knows it. What starts as idle chores with an anime girl becomes a genre-hopping psychological horror that two developers built better than most studios manage with a full team.

Shared: Base Building

Seven years of patches have turned a janky early-access survivor into one of the deepest base-building sandboxes on PC, and the Unreal Engine 5 overhaul means you're no longer buying into a museum piece.