Games Like Dead Pixels (2026)

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: Resource Management

Wrangle, feed, and crossbreed slimes on an alien ranch in this endlessly cheerful first-person sim that somehow makes spreadsheet farming feel like a vacation.

Shared: Couch Co-op

Soccer with rocket-powered cars sounds gimmicky until your first aerial goal, and then you lose four hours without noticing. Free-to-play with a Metacritic 86, this one earns every minute of your time.

Shared: Couch Co-op

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.