Games Like I Hate Running Backwards (2026)

Shared: Roguelite, Run-Based

A top-down bullet-hell roguelike that has eaten more hours than any shooter I've touched this year, and it controls like a twin-stick arcade cab running at a locked 60fps.

Shared: Boss Rush

Fourteen years old and still pulling all-nighters - if a 2D sandbox has ever consumed your sleep schedule, Terraria is probably the reason why.

Shared: Roguelite

Roguelite dungeon runs meet colony micromanagement in a package that keeps pulling you back for 'just one more crusade' - and now with local co-op too.

Shared: Run-Based

A punishing roguelike action-platformer where every run tries to kill you faster than the last. Survive long enough and you might just become unstoppable.

Shared: Roguelite

Forget the genre label. Once you crack the weapon evolution system, thirty minutes vanish and then another thirty, and then it's 2 AM and you're theorycrafting a Bloody Tear build in your head.