Games Like 99 Waves to Die (2026)

Shared: Score Attack

Few games from 2012 still live rent-free in people's heads the way this one does. Brutal, precise, and stranger than it has any right to be.

Shared: Score Attack

Gorgeous on the outside, brutally unforgiving underneath, Cuphead is the boss-rush couch co-op that will bond you with a friend or destroy that friendship entirely, probably both in the same session.

Shared: tier:sub-5

Russian roulette with a 12-gauge and enough item-based mind games to make pure luck feel like a skill issue. Dirt cheap, brutally short, weirdly hard to put down.

Shared: Wave Survival

Forty-five-plus potato characters, six weapon slots, and a shop that fires every 20 waves: Brotato distills the horde-survivor loop down to its most potent form and dares you to put it down.

Shared: Score Attack

The 1993 shooter that built the genre, now on Steam with multiplayer intact. If you haven't played it, that's on you.