The Best Wave Games

Update : Nobodies: Silent Blood added at rank #17.
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Dome Keeper (2022)

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PC Windows Android Linux Mac OS

Dome Keeper is a thrilling mining game that combines rogue-lite elements with intense monster battles. Excavate resources, upgrade your gear, and defend your dome against enemy attacks. With effective gameplay mechanics, a variety of resources and upgrades, and unique gadgets, Dome Keeper offers a satisfying experience.


What we like:
  • Effective gameplay mechanics
  • Variety of resources and upgrades
  • Unique gadgets for the dome
What could be improved:
  • Starting over can feel slow compared to the fast-paced gameplay

  • survival
  • rogue-like
  • time-management
  • aliens
  • management
  • wave
  • resource
  • mining
  • underground
  • resource-management
  • inventory
  • base-building
  • tower-defense
  • dark
  • post-apocalyptic

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CURSES (2022)

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PC Windows Android vita Playstation 4

A short visual novel, CURSES is a game about a girl with troubles and dark feelings. Help her cope with them with the aid of a cynical cat and sprinkle of magic.


  • emotional
  • brawler
  • choices
  • magic
  • lgbtq
  • cats
  • conversation
  • wave
  • 1990s
  • point-and-click
  • dark
  • comedy
  • boss
  • beat-em-up
  • story

3

Blood and Bacon (2016)

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PC Windows

This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

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  • shooter
  • wave
  • gore
  • first-person
  • cooperative
  • blood
  • horror
  • fps
  • memes
  • funny
  • boss
  • online
  • illuminati
  • zombies
  • half-baked

4

Killing Floor 2 (2015)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4

In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe after it has been overrun by horrific, murderous clones called Zeds that were created by rogue elements of the Horzine Corporation. 6-player Co-Op & 12-player VS Zed-slaughtering mayhem.


  • zombies
  • shooter
  • wave
  • cooperative
  • first-person
  • survival
  • gore
  • fps
  • boss
  • moddable
  • team
  • survival-horror
  • online

5

Surfingers (2016)

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Android Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Surf as far as you can. Through the oceans, caves, snowy hills and deserts full of sand.


  • wave
  • casual
  • fast-reaction
  • tarantino
  • cult
  • reaction
  • innovative
  • sport
  • entertainment
  • split-screen
  • reflexes
  • arcade

6

M.Duck (2022)

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Android IOS iPhone

Help a tribe of duck-people escape 18+ puzzle planets. Travel across a colorful galaxy and visit 3 biomes. Learn and master original Sokoban inspired mechanics. Harness gravity to reshape planets to your needs.


  • boss
  • wave
  • rogue-like
  • old-school
  • boss-fight
  • achievements
  • story
  • casual
  • fight
  • classic
  • single-player
  • shooter

7

YouRiding - Surf and Bodyboard (2022)

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IOS iPhone Android

Each sport comes with maneuvers like layback snap, tail blow, or nosepick for surfing, and El Rollo, ARS, and backflip for bodyboarding. Ride real waves like Kirra in Australia, Skeleton Bay in Namibia, Teahupoo in French Polynesia, or Supertubos in Portugal. Play hundreds of different waves created by the community giving you a potential infinite content to discover.

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  • wave
  • vertical
  • sport
  • realistic
  • local

8

Horizon Shift (2015)

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PC Windows

Horizon Shift is an explosive wave based single screen shooter with a ton of new ideas and platformer elements. Do what it takes to protect your horizon from the ever encroaching enemy attack!

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  • arcade
  • shooter
  • wave
  • bullet-hell
  • platform
  • old-school
  • fast-paced
  • turret
  • boss
  • breakout
  • twin-stick
  • retro
  • action
  • survival
  • shoot-em-up

9

Firespike (2024)

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PC Windows

How many Waves can you survive? Firespike is an wave survival game with minimalistic gameplay and roguelite elements. You play an rifleman and defeat the hordes of skeletons that come each wave. Each Wave gets progressively more difficult.

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  • rogue-like
  • retro
  • wave
  • pixel
  • minimalistic
  • 2d
  • action
  • survival

10

Summoner's Greed (2017)

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Android

Once upon a time in a far away land, a king held a treasure, but not in his hand. Months went by, and seasons changed; the chest was untouched, unseen and unscathed.

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  • wave
  • endless
  • cute

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