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Games like Cosmic Waves

2025PC8.80 €

A modern take on block-breakers featuring destruction, a dynamic camera, bosses and wave-emitting towers. The focus is on how creatively you clear each level, not just whether you do.

  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Fast pace

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In short: Games like Cosmic Waves

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes Cosmic Waves special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Shatter

88 %Match

2009PC, PlayStation, Steam Deck playable95 % positive1.59 €

Brings what grabs you about Cosmic Waves: combat with precise timing, a clearly guided structure and easy-to-grasp systems.

A modern take on brick-breaking where your paddle can pull and push the ball with physics-based force, mixed with boss fights and an electronic soundtrack.

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Arkanoid: Doh It Again

Easy to pick up

A classic Breakout-style game where you steer the Vaus paddle ship to bounce a ball, clear brick patterns and collect power-ups. Quick reflexes and short, addictive levels are the core of the experience.

Zuma's Revenge!

Easy to pick up

A colorful PopCap ball-shooting puzzle arcade game where you control a frog and match balls to stop advancing chains. Frog movement, new power-ups and tiki boss fights add variety to the classic Zuma formula.

Breakout: Recharged

Gameplay comes before story

A modern remake of the classic Breakout arcade game with neon visuals, power-ups, an endless arcade mode and 50 challenge levels. Quick reflexes and precise aiming are key, backed by an electronic soundtrack.

Reaxxion

Easy to pick up

A breakout-style arcade game where your paddle is made of liquid metal that can absorb and generate balls, and turn them into golden brick-busters in the Reaxxion Chamber. Power-ups and secret challenge levels add variety to the classic formula.

Super Star Path

Action-packed real-time combat

An arcade space shooter that blends color-matching puzzles with frantic shooting: you carve a path through alien waves and take down bosses. The pixel art look adds retro charm.

Intake

Gameplay comes before story

A neon retro-futuristic arcade shooter that blends Ikaruga-style color-matching shooting with Dr. Mario-like puzzle logic. You blast falling pills to a pulsing electronic soundtrack while chasing combos.

Crossniq+

Gameplay comes before story

Crossniq+ is a fast arcade puzzler where you slide tiles on a grid to build same-colored rows and columns. Tiles wrap around the edges, so every move demands careful planning and quick thinking.

Waveform

Pure single-player experience

You guide a wave of light through the solar system from Pluto to the Sun, using strange objects and hazards to shape your path. An arcade-style action-puzzler that is easy to learn but hard to master.

IonBall 2: Ionstorm

Action-packed real-time combat

A fast-paced 3D arcade brick-breaker in the spirit of Breakout and Arkanoid, with 60 levels, boss fights, enemies with unique abilities and weapon upgrades for the ball.

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