Sine Mora similar games & best alternatives

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Sine Mora

PlayStation 3, Ouya, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), iOS, PlayStation Vita, Xbox 360 • 2012

Should you play it?

Sine Mora is a horizontal shoot'em up that provides a unique take on challenge, where time is the ultimate factor.

What works

  • Beautiful graphics and art style
  • Innovative time-based health mechanic
  • Challenging and skill-based gameplay
  • Engrossing dark sci-fi story
  • Multiple game modes and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Short story mode length
  • High difficulty can be frustrating
  • No multiplayer or cooperative play
  • Non-english voice acting with subtitles
  • Some players find story confusing

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • RUINER

  • Ziggurat

  • Super Meat Boy 3D

  • RIVE

  • KILL KNIGHT

  • NINJA GAIDEN: Ragebound

Less competitive

Games that feels like Sine Mora but with less competition against others

  • Zombotron

  • Forgive Me Father 2

  • Akimbot

  • Forgive Me Father

  • Jets'n'Guns Gold

  • Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun

More social

Games that feels like Sine Mora but with more teamwork and cooperation

  • Sky Force Reloaded

  • Jets'n'Guns 2

  • MOTHERGUNSHIP

  • Strike Force Heroes

  • Assault Android Cactus+

  • Deathsmiles

Choose your own criteria ->

From the same developer

From the same developer, ranked by motivational fit.

  • ROMEO IS A DEAD MAN

  • Killer is Dead - Nightmare Edition

  • No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle

  • killer7

  • SkyDrift

Similarity map

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).

Sine Mora: Less representative of its motivational profile, with noticeable differences. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Violence, Survival, Fellowship, Intimacy. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Competition, Status. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Relaxation.

Last update: 03/08/2026