The Best Bullet-hell Games - Page 5

Update : Cygni: All Guns Blazing added at rank #47.
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Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX (2023)

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Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

Soar sky-high in Raiden III x MIKADO MANIAX, an electrifying entry in the classic arcade shoot-‘em-up series! Customize your music, wallpapers, game mode, and more before launching into high-octane aerial action!


  • top-down
  • jet
  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • space
  • aliens
  • flight
  • cooperative
  • shoot
  • pixel
  • local
  • boss
  • 2d

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Shogun (2024)

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Android Linux PC Windows Xbox 360

SHOGUN is an arcade style shooter that emphasizes running and gunning to stay alive. Rip through waves of increasingly difficult enemies hell-bent on your doom by shooting, looting, and eluding a bullet hell of cartoonish horror. Refuse death, explode with burning rage and tear asunder!!!


  • bullet-hell
  • shooter
  • boomer
  • arcade
  • cartoony
  • shoot-em-up
  • first-person
  • 1990s
  • end-boss-fight
  • humor

43

The Knight Witch (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5

The Knight Witch is a Metroid Vania shoot 'em up with spell casting and rogue lite elements. You take control of Rayne, a former Knight Witch trainee on a mission to save her town from an evil emperor's revived golem army. Experience the thrill of battle as you level up and choose between "Knight" and "Witch" skill sets to customize your playstyle.


What we like:
  • Non-linear and utility gated map exploration
  • 360 degree aiming system
  • Accessible shooting mechanics
  • Card system for spell casting
  • Rogue lite elements like hidden bosses and ambushes
  • Armor purchasing with durability and perks
What could be improved:
  • Difficulty of bosses/ambushes not always consistent or explained in game

  • card
  • twin-stick
  • bullet-hell
  • deckbuilder
  • metroidvania
  • shooter
  • battler
  • shoot-em-up
  • exploration
  • boss
  • hand-drawn
  • choices
  • boss-fight
  • fight
  • action-adventure

44

Outer Terror (2023)

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Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox Series X Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox Series X/s

DON’T DIE as you assemble a ridiculous arsenal of weapons and desperately hold out against massive hordes of creatures pulled from a variety of classic horror genres reminiscent of 80s and 90s Golden Age comics and B-movies in this stylish action-packed arcade roguelite.

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  • rogue-like
  • cooperative
  • bullet-hell
  • 2.5d
  • action-adventure
  • horror
  • 1990s
  • arcade
  • 1980s
  • retro
  • dark
  • demons
  • action
  • colourful
  • pixel

45

Kona & Snowrabbit (2024)

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PC Windows

Kona, an ice artist with a reputation for mischief, and Snowrabbit, a white-furred snow rabbit full of desire. After hearing the story of Aquus, the mermaid goddess, the two down-on-their-luck artists break into the monastery of Aquus, nicknamed "the sea on land," to make a statue of a goddess.

Buy

  • top-down
  • detective
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator
  • survival
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • quebec
  • humor
  • casual
  • massively

46

Z-Warp (2022)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Xbox Series X Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.


  • retro
  • bullet-hell
  • vertical
  • boss
  • pixel
  • shoot-em-up
  • old-school
  • arcade
  • shooter
  • action
  • replay-value
  • chiptune
  • difficulty
  • vertically
  • cave

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Cygni: All Guns Blazing (2024)

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PC Windows j Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

An unrelenting onslaught of eye-popping visuals, ear bursting soundscapes and mind-melting action makes CYGNI the vanguard for the next generation of shoot-em ups. Outgunned, outmanned and out on your own, plunge into a sky full of hell in a last-ditch battle for survival.

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  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • twin-stick
  • boss
  • mind-melting
  • arcade
  • boss-fight
  • orchestral
  • shoot-em-up
  • vertical
  • top-down
  • scrolling
  • sci-fi

48

Godstrike (2021)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Godstrike is a time based twin-stick shooter where you must face ruthless bosses in intense 1v1’s. Play as Talaal, the last Herald, hunted by her sibling. Time is your currency and health, use it to create ability combos and fight for glory on the highscores!


  • bullet-hell
  • boss
  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • rogue-like
  • rush
  • boss-fight
  • boss-rush
  • battle

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Touhou: New World (2023)

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l PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch

Delve back into the world of Touhou in this bullet hell action-RPG adventure! The boundary between Gensokyo and the outside world has been breached, and it falls to Reimu Hakurei and Marisa Kirisame to discover why. Level up skills, forge new equipment, and explore Gensokyo to uncover the truth!


  • rpg
  • japanese
  • bullet-hell
  • jrpg
  • magic
  • anime
  • boss
  • demons
  • isometric
  • fantasy
  • action
  • fight
  • combat
  • attack

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Batsugun Saturn Tribute Boosted (2023)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A PIONEER OF THE BULLET HELL GENRE BY TOAPLAN IS BACK!


  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • shooter
  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • 1990s
  • pixel
  • war
  • top-down
  • sci-fi
  • tanks
  • drama

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