The Best Shoot-em-up Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 5

Update : Earthion added at rank #48.
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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!


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

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CYBERSLAYER: No Time to Regret (2025)

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Android PC Windows Nintendo Switch

A brutal first-person slasher set in a cyberpunk future. Fight your way through a deadly megastructure, where humanity’s last survivors battle for existence.


  • first-person
  • rhythm
  • 3d
  • cyberpunk
  • visual-novel
  • shoot-em-up
  • action-adventure
  • action
  • shooter
  • futuristic
  • parkour
  • casual
  • arcade
  • rpg
  • fps

43

Monster Blast Infinity (2025)

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Shoot waves of monstersFight your way from wave to wave and kill all the monsters. Collect coins to buy weapons, ammunition and special items like dynamite or gun turrets in the shop machine. Be quick, because the shop is only open for 30 seconds between each wave. Each level has four rounds.


  • wave
  • shoot-em-up
  • top-down
  • action
  • shooter
  • single-player

44

After Dark (2025)

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After Dark is a horror adventure game filled with monsters, oddities, and more! Traverse a strange, other-worldly forest to rescue your sister and bring her back home! There will be many dangers along the way, can you survive?


  • shooter
  • walking-simulator
  • loot
  • horror
  • hidden-object
  • first-person
  • linear
  • surreal
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • fps
  • zombies
  • dark

45

Project Downfall (2019)

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An overdose of reality can have dire consequences... Tumble down the rabbit hole and embrace your downfall with 12 endings, non linear day by day progression, sanity system and more...


  • shooter
  • first-person
  • cyberpunk
  • boomer
  • bullet
  • shoot-em-up
  • time
  • fps
  • multiple-endings
  • choices
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • souls
  • stylized
  • atmospheric

46

Mutant (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

-15 Huge Levels. -Nine Mutant Special Abilities. -Hold Up To Four Guns At Once. -Beat Your Enemy With Crates, Barrels, Or Cars.

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  • beat-em-up
  • action-adventure
  • shoot-em-up
  • 3d
  • parody
  • shooter
  • driven
  • action

47

Glitch Blaster's Waifu (2024)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Welcome to 'Glitch Blaster's Waifu,' the ultimate retro-style shoot 'em up adventure! As an intrepid hacker, you find yourself pitted against a malevolent AI that has kidnapped innocent girls.


  • shoot-em-up
  • top-down
  • anime
  • aliens
  • bullet-hell
  • shooter
  • colourful

48

Earthion (2025)

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Earthion is a side-scrolling space shooter developed natively for 16-bit systems. Guide space fighter pilot Azusa Takanashi in her fight to repel the alien invaders and save planet Earth.


  • space
  • 1990s
  • soundtrack
  • music
  • shoot-em-up
  • retro
  • scroller
  • bullet-hell
  • pixel
  • shooter
  • 2d
  • japan
  • stylized
  • anime
  • futuristic

49

RedRaptor (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Blast off for a retro arcade experience in RedRaptor, a vertical shoot’em up inspired by genre classics of the ’90s!

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  • vertical
  • retro
  • shoot-em-up
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • shoot
  • scrolling
  • 1990s
  • old-school
  • rhythm
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action

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Memory Lost (2024)

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Memory Lost is a story-driven action shooter, the battles in which are built around the mechanics of mind capturing and moving into the enemy's body. First-aid kits were not delivered, there is only one magazine in the weapon - change the bodies to survive!


  • top-down
  • cyberpunk
  • shooter
  • beat-em-up
  • lore
  • twin-stick
  • shoot-em-up
  • hack-and-slash
  • soundtrack
  • isometric
  • sci-fi
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • violent
  • narrative

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