UFO 50 similar games & best alternatives

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UFO 50

PC (Microsoft Windows), Nintendo Switch • 2024

Should you play it?

UFO 50 is a collection of 50 single and multiplayer games that span a variety of genres, from platformers and shoot 'em ups to puzzle games, roguelites, and RPGs. Our goal is to combine a familiar 8-bit aesthetic with new ideas and modern game design.

What works

  • Huge variety of 50 unique, high-quality games
  • Innovative and creative game design
  • Excellent value for price
  • Strong nostalgic and retro appeal
  • Multiplayer and community features

Things to keep in mind

  • Some games are very challenging or obtuse
  • Not all games will appeal to every player
  • Lack of tutorials can frustrate some
  • Sedentary gameplay only
  • Initial learning curve for many games

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Lenna's Inception

  • 30XX

  • Spooky Station

  • Bounty of One

  • Doom & Destiny Advanced

  • Vertical Drop Heroes HD

Less fellowship-oriented

Games that feels like UFO 50 but with less of a community feel

  • Pipistrello and the Cursed Yoyo

  • Shovel Knight: Specter of Torment

  • Backpack Hero

  • Evoland 2

  • Retro City Rampage™ DX

  • Dark Deity 2

Less social

Games that feels like UFO 50 but with less teamwork and cooperation

  • Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils

  • Prodigal

  • Gravity Circuit

  • Angry Video Game Nerd II: ASSimilation

  • Siralim 2

  • Bad Bitch Blasters

Less intimate

Games that feels like UFO 50 but with less focus on close relationships

  • Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

  • Retro Game Crunch

  • Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove

  • Shovel Knight: Shovel of Hope

  • Enter the Gungeon

  • The Slimeking's Tower

Less competitive

Games that feels like UFO 50 but with less competition against others

  • Pampas & Selene: The Maze of Demons

  • Infernax

  • Streets of Rogue

  • DELTARUNE

  • Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos

  • Sephiria

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to compare these games

Compare nearby games

Each card is a nearby game on the similarity map, compared with UFO 50. Swipe sideways to move between games. Titles already listed in What to play next are left out.

  • Cover and title: open that game’s page.
  • What works / keep in mind: the same highlights as the desktop comparison panel.
  • Bars: the main motivational differences versus this game.
How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Swipe to compare nearby games with UFO 50. These titles are not in What to play next.

UFO 50: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Status, Competition, Exploration.

Last update: 21/08/2026