The Best Shoot-em-up Games - Page 3

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Llamasoft: The Jeff Minter Story (2024)

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42 of the weirdest, trippiest, sheepiest games ever created. Enter the mind of Jeff Minter, the legendary creator of Attack of the Mutant Camels, Gridrunner, and Tempest 2000, in this interactive documentary from Digital Eclipse.


  • platform
  • precision
  • psychedelic
  • documentary
  • controller-support
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • interactive
  • surreal
  • 1980s
  • arcade
  • abstract
  • retro
  • pixel
  • 1990s

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Cybertrash STATYX (2024)

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

Cybertrash STATYX is a story-driven 2D action-platformer with tactical elements, set in a cyberpunk world.

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  • 2d
  • robots
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • tactical
  • cyberpunk
  • platform
  • pixel
  • retro
  • dystopian
  • conspiracy
  • shooter
  • linear
  • action
  • futuristic

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A Zombie Tail (2024)

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PC Windows Android

Defeat waves of zombies in this strategy defense style game. Armed with a bone and several power ups, keep the zombies at bay as you battle across several levels, by timing and managing your attacks across 4 lanes. Will Roxy find her human before the zombies do!


  • shoot-em-up
  • zombies
  • tower-defense
  • dog
  • linear
  • family-friendly
  • 2d
  • cute
  • strategy
  • funny
  • colourful
  • 1990s
  • achievements
  • survival

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Critical Failure (2024)

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PC Windows Android

This is a simple wave-based zombie survival game. The world's first VIDEO GAME CONTROLLED LIVE ACTION SERIES. Be prepared to directly influence the world of CRITICAL FAILURE.


  • cinematic
  • shoot-em-up
  • choices
  • action-adventure
  • attack
  • score
  • cooperative
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • adventure
  • zombies
  • exploration
  • atmospheric
  • team
  • first-person

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VERZEUS (2024)

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PC Windows

Blast and weave your way through enemy fire while managing a wide variety of ship power-ups in this retro style horizontal shoot-'em-up!

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  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • retro
  • bullet-hell
  • 1980s
  • flight
  • shock-wave
  • pixel
  • aliens
  • arcade
  • casual
  • shooter
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • space

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Tiger-Heli (2024)

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Take off on a classic arcade journey with Tiger-Heli, Toaplan's pioneering vertical shooter that set the stage for an entire genre. Now available on PC with a host of modern upgrades!

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  • shoot-em-up
  • vertically
  • attack
  • score
  • 2d
  • controller-support
  • arcade
  • scrolling
  • bomb
  • retro
  • 1980s
  • old-school
  • pixel

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The Chronicles of Ezra Blackwell: Episode 1, Pappi's Peril (2024)

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PC Windows

First Person Mystery Adventure with twisting story and multiple endings. Investigate Pappi's disappearance and find secrets along the way. Earn some cash and deliver some pizza to a scary statue!

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  • shoot-em-up
  • pve
  • multiple-endings
  • action-adventure
  • thriller
  • 3d
  • horror
  • stylized
  • open-world
  • first-person
  • mystery
  • casual

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Rutabaga Desert Storm (2024)

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PC Windows

Lead the vegetable revolution alone or with a friend in the side-scrolling shoot ‘em up Rutabaga Desert Storm! Take down wave after wave of enemies, dodge their projectiles, and grab power-ups to boost your destruction! Can you defeat the oppressive humans and free the proletariat vegetable masses?

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  • shoot-em-up
  • scroller
  • attack
  • score
  • bullet-hell
  • pixel
  • local
  • cooperative
  • arcade
  • casual
  • shoot
  • linear

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Arsenal Online (2024)

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Linux PC Windows

High-octane 2D shooter. Put your shooting skills to the test with over 200 weapons and attachments. Play game modes solo or co-op online!

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  • shoot-em-up
  • gun
  • bullet-hell
  • sandbox
  • 2d
  • military
  • simulation
  • attack
  • score
  • casual
  • arcade
  • shooter
  • customization
  • tactical
  • physics

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Touhou Meijinka ~ Song of Divine Tempest (2023)

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PC Windows

A thunderous concert appears...

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  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • 1990s
  • hand-drawn
  • anime
  • family-friendly
  • top-down
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • cute
  • arcade
  • old-school
  • retro
  • shooter

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