- #1 Seconds Till Destruction
70% matchPositive100% of 27 reviews2025
Dev: The Eagle Studios
Windows
Kill everyone in six seconds! Seconds Till Destruction is a lightning-fast and randomized top-down shooter. Use a massive array of guns and quick thinking to destroy humanity, one floor at a time!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.1%, Score Attack 14.3%, Shooter 10.8%, Top-Down 8.6%
- #2 SUPER FLAIL
71% matchVery Positive93% of 158 reviews2018
Dev: CryptMadePub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 44%
SUPER FLAIL is a fast-paced arcade score attack game of flail-swinging rampage. Swing your flail to destroy everything until you die. Compare your score with other players and get on the top of the leaderboards.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 21%, Score Attack 12.5%, Shooter 9.8%, Difficult 9.4%
- #3 Rysen
72% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2018
Dev: nkmr appworks
Windows
An old arcade style 2d shmup.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.4%, Shooter 13.5%, Score Attack 13.4%, Top-Down 9.3%
- #4 Confiscator
71% matchNo user reviews
Dev: The immaterials
Windows
Combining intense action and dark storytelling, Confiscator offers a unique experience where gritty shootouts and grime intertwine with the tragic tale of the protagonist on a path of self-destruction. Are you ready to become a confiscator?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 22%, Shooter 12.9%, Top-Down 7.7%, Blood 7.5% ★
- #5 Undercroft Warriors
66% matchMostly Positive79% of 448 reviews2024
Dev: Fuzzy
Windows
Crush the forces of hell and get a high score in this addictive, action-packed, arcade-inspired twin-stick shooter!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.6%, Score Attack 11.7%, Shooter 9.8%, Difficult 9.5%
- #6 Zombies
68% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Owen Walker
Windows
Zombies is a round based survival game following a sole surviver and thier blood lust for killing the undead.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.4%, Zombies 18.1%, Top-Down 8.7%, Fast-Paced 7.4%
- #7 Defendor
67% matchPositive80% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: almostApixel
Windows
Defendor is a throwback to the fast paced arcade games of the 80s.A retro style, arcade shooter where you upgrade your base to increase the capabilities of your ship, unlock new weapons, ships and cause more mayhem.Defend your base until everyone makes it into the escape ship.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.8%, Shooter 14%, Top-Down 8.4%, Action 8.4%
- #8 GyroBlade
68% matchMixed68% of 19 reviews2020
Dev: H.T.Project Games
Windows · Mac
Retro style 2D vertical scrolling simple shooter.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.6%, Score Attack 14.7%, Shooter 11.8%, Top-Down 9.8%
- #9 BIRDCAGE
62% matchVery Positive97% of 192 reviews2025
Dev: POLYGON BIRD
Windows
Shoot, slash and weave through bullets and enemies in this story-driven arcade shooter. The RADON Daughters have launched their ultimate weapon. Take control of the experimental gunship HALCYON and break out of the CAGE.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 21.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.9%, Shooter 10.4%, Difficult 9.8%, Score Attack 9.7%
- #10 Sefir: Mafia Story
67% matchMostly Positive73% of 75 reviews2021
Dev: Septime Studios
Windows
Sefir: Mafia Story is a reflex and fast thinking based 2D top down shooter game.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.9%, Fast-Paced 12.4%, Shooter 11.1%, Top-Down 10.9%, Difficult 10.8%
- #11 Breakpoint
65% matchVery Positive97% of 236 reviews2020
Dev: Studio AesthesiaPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 29%
Breakpoint is a twin-stick slasher where your weapons explode. Break through the swarm to claim your spot on the online leaderboard.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 17.4%, Score Attack 15.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.9%, Fast-Paced 13.4%, Shooter 8.2%
- #12 Nova Rebellion
65% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Centurion Dragons Studios
Windows
Blast through waves of chaos in this retro inspired space shooter. Simple mechanics, high energy rock/electronic soundtrack, and a gloriously goofy tone make Nova Rebellion a cosmic throwback Back when space shooters were all the rage.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.4%, Top-Down Shooter 28%, Shooter 12.9%, Top-Down 10%, Action 5.2%
- #13 Defender's Squad: The Last Ride
65% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: JMC
Windows · Linux
Defender's Squad is a sci-fi vertical scrolling shooter 2D that combines 7 different levels. Play Solo and pick one of the 3 ships to kill enemies and save the earth from aliens.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.3%, Score Attack 17.4%, Shooter 13.5%, Top-Down Shooter 11.5%, Top-Down 11.4%
- #14 Bullet Hell Monday: Finale
64% matchVery Positive95% of 84 reviews2023
Dev: Masayuki Ito
Windows
"Bullet Hell Monday: Finale" is a beginner-friendly bullet hell shooter. Upgrade your craft, clear the Chapter Mode, defeat bosses, and enhance your abilities to conquer stages.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29.6%, Top-Down Shooter 26.1%, Difficult 10.2%, Score Attack 9.6%, Shooter 9.2%
- #15 The Pulse of Evil
63% matchVery Positive95% of 219 reviews2023
Dev: MadnukinPub: Mads Games
Windows
Find yourself on a mission exploring the depth of an ominous forgotten mine. You arrive barehanded but quickly find the tools needed to go deeper. Destroy the infected living parts of the mine and face the final threat and complete your mission.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 24.9%, Shooter 14.4%, Top-Down 9.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%
- #16 Orchid Glitter
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Tamazusa
Windows
Orchid Glitter is late 2000s style 2d shmups. This isn't just a bullet-hell shooter where you dodge bullets. The game design also includes features like eliminating bullets with charge attacks, and earning points and resources by taking dangerous actions.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.7%, Top-Down Shooter 26.2%, Score Attack 14.9%, Shooter 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 7.2%
- #17 ASTROLANCER
63% matchVery Positive98% of 135 reviews2024
Dev: Studio Hexeye
Windows
ASTROLANCER combines top-down shooter and shoot 'em up gameplay into one action-packed experience! Devise your own playstyle with a huge variety of weapons. Hardcore and casual players alike are welcome!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 28.9%, Pixel Graphics 8.7%, Futuristic 7.4%, Shooter 6.3%
- #18 Topspace
65% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2023
Dev: Topspace Crew
Windows
A topdown bullet hell game where you control a spaceship and fight waves of asteroids and enemy spaceships.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.9%, Score Attack 21.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.3%, Shooter 10.2%, Top-Down 7%
- #19 Crucible
65% matchPositive100% of 30 reviews2021
Dev: TriScalePub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Dodge your way through the crucible of fire! Crucible is a 2D, high-action, top-down shooter game.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.5%, Top-Down Shooter 27%, Shooter 12.3%, Score Attack 11.4%, Top-Down 10.1%
- #20 Asteroides
65% matchMostly Positive73% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Verrua GiuseppePub: bit ManiaX
Windows · Mac
it's simple, fast, rocking, without pauses, without life, without time will you save the earth? Asteroides is a 70/80s shooter with realistic physics and a completely three-dimensional environment. Moving, destroying and surviving is complicated in an infinitely finite space.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.4%, Shooter 14.9%, Score Attack 10.5%, Action 8.3%
- #21 RedRaptor
64% matchPositive88% of 16 reviews2023
Dev: Novax GamesPub: Eastasiasoft Limited
Windows
Blast off for a retro arcade experience in RedRaptor, a vertical shoot’em up inspired by genre classics of the ’90s!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.2%, Top-Down Shooter 29.9%, Shooter 11.7%, Pixel Graphics 7.8%, Top-Down 6.9%
- #22 Bounce your Bullets!
65% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Quentin Edel
Windows
A small game where you cannot stop moving forward. Your bullets get stronger and stronger after they bounce enough times. Bounce your Bullets! is a casual yet increasingly difficult colorful shmup where you survive for as long as possible against growing waves of enemies.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.7%, Top-Down Shooter 25.6%, Score Attack 22.8%, Shooter 10.7%, Top-Down 7.7%
- #23 Bloodway Infinity
66% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2020
Dev: NormerSE
Windows
Two-dimensional game in New York. You must play as a secret agent so that he can gain immortality.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.3%, Shooter 14.3%, Score Attack 9.7%, Top-Down 8.2%
- #24 Spider Crisis
69% matchNo user reviews2021
Dev: Method 9 Software
Windows
The world is infested with giant mutated spiders. In Spider Crisis you operate a small remote control tank equipped with deadly weapons. Use your weapons to shoot, bomb, and burn these creatures back to where they came from.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 26.2%, Shooter 10.5%, Difficult 10.4%, Score Attack 9%
- #25 Blade Rush
62% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Noba
Windows
Master your Blade in frantic, fast paced combat!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 30%, Score Attack 16.8%, Action 9.4%, Shooter 6.9%
- #26 TCSTRIKERS2
65% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Project Anthem
Windows
Touhou-like 2D shooting!!! Chubby protagonist!! Orthodox and easy to understand operation!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.3%, Score Attack 12.7%, Shooter 12.4%, Action 5.7%
- #27 Twnkl Gft 2: A Lust For Blood
62% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: Bis the FairyPub: Electric Prune Juice
Windows
It's Christmas! Pelt the humans with gifts! Quickly!!!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 26.8%, Action 8.6%, Top-Down 8.4%, Score Attack 8%
- #28 Always Surrender
62% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2024
Dev: The Covert Sheep Example
Windows
Battle a never ending swarm of enemies, but be sure to surrender before you die...
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.2%, Top-Down Shooter 24.2%, Score Attack 20.2%, Shooter 10.6%, Top-Down 7.8%
- #29 Blast Rush LS
61% matchPositive100% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Bipedal DogPub: indie.io
Windows
Ever played a difficult shmup wishing for just one more bomb? Blast to your heart’s content in Blast Rush LS, a fresh explosive experience with infinite bombs, other powerful abilities, and extra challenges that demand more than just big booms. Escaping an exploding mothership isn't easy, after all!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.4%, Score Attack 18.5%, Top-Down 8.9%, Shooter 8.5%
- #30 Vectro Blast
64% match7 user reviews100% of 7 reviews2020
Dev: Sagittaras Games
Windows
Jump into endless fights in this arcade game. You have just one job: Survive as long as you can and beat your score over and over. The enemies are stronger with each wave so your journey to great score would not be easy.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.4%, Score Attack 22.3%, Top-Down Shooter 21.8%, Shooter 8.2%, 2D 7%
- #31 KAIKAN
61% matchVery Positive97% of 65 reviews2023
Dev: zakichi
Windows
KAIKAN is a vertical scrolling shooter that focuses on destroying enemies. Destroy enemies with 6 types of aircraft with different performance, clear 5 stages, and aim for a higher score.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.9%, Top-Down Shooter 23.1%, Score Attack 15.3%, Shooter 13.4%, Top-Down 6.2%
- #32 Marimoth
64% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Nether Lamp
Windows
Marimoth is a short shoot 'em up that puts in control of a moth whose shots bounce off the walls. Calculate your aim, evade enemy attacks by learning their patterns and collect coins to power up.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.5%, Score Attack 15.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.3%, Shooter 10.6%, Pixel Graphics 9%
- #33 Neon Fighter
63% matchPositive95% of 20 reviews2022
Dev: kurigamedev
Windows
Neon Fighter is a tiny arcade game packed with lasers and explosions, in which every few seconds you are forced to switch weapons automatically, making you have to adapt quickly to the new situation and re-evaluate your perspective.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.5%, Score Attack 20.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.8%, Top-Down 6.9%, Futuristic 6.3%
- #34 Exo-Calibre
61% matchPositive86% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Vampixel GamesPub: Eastasiasoft Limited
Windows
Take to the skies as a team of cute pilots and fight for peace in vertical scrolling bullet hell style!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.9%, Top-Down Shooter 28.4%, Shooter 13%, Top-Down 8.3%, Action 5.5%
- #35 Gun vs. Zombies
62% matchPositive86% of 14 reviews2024
Dev: IonForce Studio
Windows
Gun vs. Zombies is a thrilling showdown where precision meets undead mayhem. Take control of a dynamic gun affected by physics as you fend off waves of zombies hungry for a brain feast. Compete against others on the global leaderboard by showcasing your shooting skills.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.6%, Zombies 23.1%, Score Attack 23%, Shooter 7.8%, Action 6%
- #36 Warcat Parade
62% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Hefka Games
Windows · Linux
Catboy in a bullet hell! Nyan, nyan, pew pew pew!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.5%, Score Attack 21.1%, Top-Down Shooter 17.8%, Shooter 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%
- #37 CYBERDAD
62% matchVery Positive90% of 120 reviews2021
Dev: Cyberpunk EnjoyersPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Set in the year 2078, CYBERDAD is a 2D cyberpunk gunfight dungeon crawler following a disgruntled father seeking to rescue his daughter, and exact his revenge.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.4%, Shooter 12.4%, Top-Down 9.9%, Cyberpunk 8.8%
- #38 They Do Not Die: Call of Crimson Tgirl Apex Land Zombie Shooter Duty 2D Keywords
61% matchPositive87% of 15 reviews2024
Dev: BoringKate
Windows · Linux
I just think that top down shooters are neat. It's a pretty zen time. A podcast game.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 25%, Shooter 15.1%, Zombies 12.6%, Action 9.1%
- #39 Day of the Undead
61% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: CatAttack Games
Windows
Fight endless waves of zombies across 9 unique maps! Collect powerful, unique guns, unlock game-changing perks, and survive as long as you can in this fast-paced arcade shooter. How long can you last against the undead?
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.3%, Zombies 23.1%, Score Attack 17.7%, Difficult 7.7%, Shooter 6.4%
- #40 Crisis Wing
62% matchVery Positive90% of 89 reviews2020
Dev: Pieslice Productions
Windows · Mac
Crisis Wing is 90's style vertically scrolling arcade shooter. Master 7 intense vertical stages, and take down massive bosses. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op. Get ready for pure, high-octane action.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.2%, Top-Down Shooter 23%, Score Attack 10.9%, Difficult 10.1%, Shooter 9.7%
- #41 Top Gnome
61% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Onyx Prism
Windows
A top down shooter where the only way to move and fight is with the recoil of your blunderbuss. Whirl through waves of garden-destroying pests to defend Bert's garden, strive to reach higher and higher scores and become the Top Gnome!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.6%, Score Attack 15.4%, Difficult 11.2%, Shooter 11%
- #42 Ultra Mission™
64% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Gumbo MachinePub: Gumbo Machine, LLC
Windows · Linux
Embark on a dangerous investigation in Ultra Mission™, the latest game by Gumbo Machine™. As an agent of the Stellar Exchange Commission, you must traverse the 20 dizzying levels within Otto Labs, each littered with powerful automatons and questionable experiments. This is going to be a blast!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 21%, Shooter 11.8%, Score Attack 11.2%, Top-Down 9.6%
- #43 Demonizer
62% matchPositive90% of 50 reviews2020
Dev: Iori Branford
Windows · Linux
The fantasy bullet battle to end monstergirl genocide! Turn hateful humans into lovable demons in this 90s arcade style shooter.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23%, Shoot 'Em Up 22%, Shooter 10.7%, Score Attack 10.2%, Difficult 10.1%
- #44 STAR SHREDDERS
62% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Sharkbowl Games
Windows
STAR SHREDDERS is a prologue to an extensive, story-rich SHMUP with strategic elements. Play as Clash, leading the Valkyrie force in the onset of an epic interstellar war. This teaser sets the stage for a larger adventure.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 26.4%, Score Attack 17.3%, Cyberpunk 8.3%, Story Rich 6%
- #45 GyroGunner
62% matchPositive100% of 15 reviews2023
Dev: H.T.Project Games
Windows
An omnidirectional scrolling twin-stick shooter with pixel art reminiscent of the 80's.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26%, Shoot 'Em Up 24.5%, Score Attack 13.8%, Shooter 12%, Top-Down 8.9%
- #46 Mortal Mythos: Island of Fairies
64% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Timur Bondar
Windows
Dodge waves of bullets in cover shooter + shmup-inspired combat, as you strike back with powerful attacks of your own! Use clever cover spots to gain an advantage over your enemies, find treasures to make yourself stronger, and avoid taking damage to raise your score!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 24.5%, Shooter 16.8%, Top-Down 8.6%, Action 5.9%
- #47 BLOODSTAGE Possessed By A Tsundere Demon
63% matchMixed45% of 11 reviews2022
Dev: Panzershark
Windows
An unknown life form controls the crowds of mutated employees of the space station. Impress the demon girl by destroying thousands of possessed with dozens of weapons.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 24.1%, Shooter 14.2%, Zombies 13.2%, Top-Down 8.3%
- #48 Bullet Hell Monday: Black
61% matchPositive94% of 33 reviews2023
Dev: Masayuki Ito
Windows
This is a high-difficulty bullet hell shooting game and a sequel to "Bullet Hell Monday." It offers an exciting experience for players who demand advanced skills and precise strategies. As a common system, six types of special weapons are equipped, expanding the player's tactical range.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.8%, Top-Down Shooter 28.2%, Shooter 12.1%, Score Attack 11.6%, Top-Down 8.2%
- #49 Zomb Bomb
61% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: 5th Wheel Games
Windows
A fast pace retro arcade shooter. Fight waves of zombies and dragons with a great gun collection. Battle five wild bosses all while trying to keep the high score.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.4%, Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Shooter 15.1%, Zombies 12.4%, Action 10%
- #50 Polyfury
60% matchPositive100% of 23 reviews2023
Dev: Wayfarer Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
You thought geometry was difficult? Now it's got a gun! Face the fury of the Seven Deadly Shapes and blast your way through a barrage of bullets and lasers in this highly accessible bullet hell.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 22.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.5%, Score Attack 17.6%, Shooter 9.8%, Difficult 9.1%
- #51 .Decluster & .Decluster Zero
60% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2024
Dev: Masayuki Ito
Windows
The vertical scrolling shooter game '.Decluster' and its sequel '.Decluster Zero' are now available in one package.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.8%, Top-Down Shooter 27.2%, Shooter 14.1%, Score Attack 9.3%, Top-Down 7.5%
- #52 Clive vs Hives 2
62% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Ugly Duckling Games
Windows
Blast aliens to pieces and start a rebellion in this fast paced pixel art top down shooter where sprinting kills.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 26%, Shooter 11.7%, Zombies 11.6%, Top-Down 10%, Fast-Paced 9.2%
- #53 TCSTRIKERS1
62% matchMostly Positive72% of 18 reviews2020
Dev: Project Anthem
Windows
The first game in the TCSTRIKERS series. The simple controls make it fun for everyone.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.5%, Shooter 16.7%, Score Attack 12.3%, Action 9.6%, Top-Down 8.4%
- #54 Vacubot
59% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Ohbit
Windows
Vacubot is a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Players must survive increasingly challenging battlefields by using a variety of weapons to fight off swarming enemy robots and powerful bosses.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 31.6%, Shooter 19%, Top-Down 11.9%, Action 8.7%, Futuristic 7.9%
- #55 Cosmic Paradox: Noire
63% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AUTO SLAVIC d.o.o.
Windows
Cosmic Paradox: Noire is a 2D top-down shoot ‘em up adventure set in a world of two overlapping dimensions. Witness the battle between the Vex Accord and the Oronix Empire, increase your odds of survival with the right upgrades and choose a ship that is best suited to your playstyle.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.8%, Score Attack 17.9%, Shooter 9.9%, Top-Down 9.3%
- #56 POOSTALL Royale
58% matchVery Positive85% of 1,113 reviews2023
Dev: RWS C TeamPub: Running With Scissors
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 22%
APRIL FOOLS 2023ㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤㅤ Don't let the title fool you, this isn't a battle royale game. Maybe this isn't even a game at all... well, just download now and figure it out!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.9%, Top-Down Shooter 32.5%, Score Attack 14.1%, Top-Down 10.7%, Action 6.4%
- #57 TCSTRIKERS5
58% match3 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: Project Anthem
Windows
This is the biggest news title of 2025. A cute bullet-hell shooter is now available. The game features cool and futuristic visuals and active gameplay.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.5%, Top-Down Shooter 24.7%, Shooter 16.9%, Action 10.1%, Top-Down 8%
- #58 Operation : Escape
59% match6 user reviews67% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: ICT@SUPub: ZDKHub
Windows
A sci-fi top-down shooter game. 2D top-downYou shooting game. You get kidnapped by alien from far away and infested by their blood, which makes you able to use their weapon. You have to get out there before they catch you and do some weird thing with your body
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 39%, Shooter 20.3%, Action 12%, Top-Down 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%
- #59 Bullet Hell Monday
59% matchVery Positive95% of 60 reviews2022
Dev: Masayuki Ito
Windows
Beginner Welcome Bullet Hell Shooter. "Chapter Mode", which is starting from a simple stage and gradually becoming more difficult, is recommended for beginners. Once you get used to bullet hell, let's experience full-scale bullet hell in "Challenge Mode".
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.4%, Score Attack 13.8%, Shooter 12.7%, Top-Down 9.8%
- #60 Gunslinger Nova
61% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: instasiv
Windows
A top-down, 2d space-shooter that pits the user against swarms of alien ships from other dimensions. Destroy all enemies and portals as fast as possible. Battle increasingly tougher enemies through 40 Campaign levels and Endless Mode!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.3%, Top-Down Shooter 30.6%, Shooter 13.1%, Top-Down 8.4%, Action 5.5%