The Best Wave Games for PC Windows

Update : Nobodies: Silent Blood added at rank #10.
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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.

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  • 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.

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

6

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

7

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

8

DarkStorm (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Play as MARS (Machine of Absolute Retaliation and Safeguard), a robot programmed to exterminate the treacherous aliens who have taken over Razor City. As MARS, you must free Razor City from its domination in order to save the survivors from their doom.

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  • shooter
  • arena
  • dark
  • wave
  • 3d
  • endless
  • action
  • controller-support
  • aliens

9

Zombie Apocalypse: Survival Stories (2023)

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early access Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Improve your weapons or buy new weapons to survive in this action-packed atmosphere of zombie limbs and blood! Use equipment, special powers and weapons add-ons!

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  • casual
  • wave
  • zombies
  • survival
  • adventure
  • action

10

Nobodies: Silent Blood (2024)

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IOS iPhone Linux Mac OS PC Windows Android

Step back into the shoes of Asset 1080, the intelligence agency's top cleaner. Puzzle your way through 14 unique locations, devising clever ways to hide all evidence of your employer's deadly actions. Get in, get out, and leave no bodies behind.

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  • dark
  • puzzle
  • point-and-click
  • hidden-object
  • adventure
  • hand-drawn
  • wave
  • humor
  • cartoony
  • comedy
  • programming
  • conversation
  • strategy
  • violent
  • narration

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