As others have said, look into the Rogue-like genre. (And also Rogue, itself, if that's your thing.)
I feel that Rogue Legacy and Rogue Legacy 2 deserve some mention here, for being essentially Mega-Man gameplay, but perfected.
In particular, Rogue Legacy 2 has difficulty sliders that can make it extremely arcade-like, such as maxing out both player and enemy damage, to make every encounter a one-hit kill.
Even while aware of how little classic scifi or fsntasy covers usually have in common with the book contents... This is still surprisingly weird.