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MK_Games · 2025 · Windows, Linux

Steam: 93 % positive of 150 reviews, as of Oct 28

The official Project X sequel ✨ Back after 30 years!🎮 A demanding, skill-based experience that rewards patience and mastery. Not every game is for everyone — this one is for players who love a real, fair challenge. Try the demo and see if you’re up for it. Failure teaches. Mastery rewards.

24 games that play like Project X: Light Years and 24 that look like it. Closest by gameplay: Bit Blaster XL, Space Elite Force and Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo.

Player tags

  • Side Scroller
  • Bullet Hell
  • Shoot 'Em Up
  • Competitive
  • Shooter
  • Arcade
  • 2D
  • Linear
Map region: Arcade Shooters & Bullet Hell
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Best matches

Plays and looks like Project X: Light Years

These games are close to it by gameplay and by look, so they appear in both lists below.

By gameplay

Plays like Project X: Light Years

Matched from Steam descriptions and player tags. The tags under each game are the ones both games share.

More matches

  1. Sky Force Reloaded91 % positive of 2,709Shared: Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Shooter
  2. 1993 Space Machine73 % positive of 118Shared: Side Scroller · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up
  3. SATAZIUS85 % positive of 183Shared: Side Scroller · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up
  4. Super Hydorah85 % positive of 290Shared: Side Scroller · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up
  5. Titan Attacks!92 % positive of 655Shared: Side Scroller · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up
  6. R-Type Final 275 % positive of 660Shared: Side Scroller · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up
  7. REMOTE LIFE89 % positive of 199Shared: Side Scroller · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up
  8. Distant Space82 % positive of 494Shared: Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Shooter
  9. Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved90 % positive of 1,022Shared: Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Shooter
  10. ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA91 % positive of 845Shared: Shoot 'Em Up · Shooter · Arcade
  11. Starr Mazer: DSP67 % positive of 227Shared: Side Scroller · Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up
  12. Switch 'N' Shoot96 % positive of 129Shared: Bullet Hell · Shoot 'Em Up · Shooter

By look

Looks like Project X: Light Years

Matched from screenshots. Each card shows the screenshot closest to the look of this game.

More matches

  1. Velocity®Ultra80 % positive of 142
  2. GUNFIELD96 % positive of 253
  3. Crimsonland92 % positive of 2,112
  4. Beat Invaders95 % positive of 196
  5. Duke of Alpha Centauri76 % positive of 325
  6. Space Elite Force87 % positive of 158
  7. Enemy Mind80 % positive of 104
  8. Super Bit Blaster XL93 % positive of 779
  9. Droid Assault82 % positive of 267
  10. Shatter95 % positive of 663
  11. Psycho Starship Rampage82 % positive of 127
  12. Infested Planet94 % positive of 2,473

At a glance

What games like Project X: Light Years have in common

  • The tags they share most often with Project X: Light Years: Shoot 'Em Up (24 of 24), Bullet Hell (23) and Side Scroller (11).
  • They came out between 2007 and 2024, none of them after Project X: Light Years (2025).
  • Best rated by Steam players: Bit Blaster XL (95 % positive of 5,496).

How these matches work

Matches come from embeddings of Steam descriptions, player tags and screenshots, computed offline. “Plays like” compares what the games are about and how players tag them; “Looks like” compares their screenshots. The share of positive reviews is based on Steam user reviews.

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