- #1 Insectipede
97% match2 user reviews0% of 2 reviews2019
Dev: LoadUpGames.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
Time to bug out and blast back in this arcade shooter packed with waves of insects and UFOs. Fight through 50 challenging stages, grab power-ups, and chase the high score.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15.2%, 1980s 12.9%, Top-Down Shooter 11.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.3%, Shooter 9.7%
- #2 Royal Odyssey
96% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Lion Crest Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Royal Odyssey is a retro-style arcade space shooter where you pilot Prince Zayven’s ship through a deadly asteroid storm, blasting your way to survival.
Why similar: 1980s 14.8%, Bullet Hell 13.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.1%, Retro 7.2%
- #3 Red Galaxy
95% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2021
Dev: CSZgames
Windows
This is a retro space shooting game, where you only fight against the strongest enemy. There are 15 unique bosses in the game, and players need to use different weapons and strategies to defeat them. Dedicated to you who are both challengers and retro game lovers.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17.4%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Shooter 11.2%, Arcade 10.3%, Old School 7.2%
- #4 Exorush
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Thrashmodule
Windows
A 2D vertical shoot 'em up that lets you upgrade your ship with an insane amount of options. From missiles and pods to specials and shields, you can upgrade every bit of your ship from guns to thrusters.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.4%, Top-Down Shooter 11.2%, Shooter 10.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.6%, Arcade 10.5%
- #5 Return Ace
94% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: NEROTA
Windows
Be shot and shoot back! Rule reversal type Shmup "Return Ace"What you have been given is the power to take advantage of the oncoming malice and return it.Please enjoy the unique sense of incompatibility, tension, and striking that the experience of bullet energy weaves.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17.7%, 1980s 14.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.8%, Shooter 10.7%, Old School 9.1%
- #6 Neon Invaders
94% matchPositive93% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: Paul Connor
Windows
Neon Invaders will take you back to your gaming roots with its constant action and relentlessly brutal enemies. Absorb enemy shots of the same colour to trigger a flurry of fire to decimate the alien invaders. Dodge and Match your way to victory through 40 levels and 5 difficulty settings.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 14.8%, 1980s 12.9%, Top-Down Shooter 11.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.9%, Shooter 9.5%
- #7 THUNDER STRIKER
93% matchPositive83% of 12 reviews2024
Dev: RETSUZANPub: Henteko Doujin
Windows
Blast your way through enemy territory and level up your versatile arsenal of high-tech weapons in this handheld game style retro shmup!
Why similar: 1980s 16.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Bullet Hell 12.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.6%, Retro 9.7%
- #8 Spacey Vade
92% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Brown Bot
Windows
Synth-wave styled physics based 2D puzzle shooter filled with nods to the golden era of classic arcade games. Think upside down Peggle crossed with Space Invaders and enemies crafted from the blended remains 70's, and 80’s gaming.
Why similar: 1980s 17.5%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.9%, Old School 9.8%, Shooter 8%
- #9 While you are Downloading
91% matchPositive87% of 23 reviews2018
Dev: Alien Nude LTD
Windows
A quick and action paced retro styled arcade shooter, or shoot 'em up (shmup) if you like. Perfect to play in short chunks, like when you are waiting for big games to download.
Why similar: 1980s 16.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.4%, Old School 10.1%, Arcade 9.6%, Shooter 8.8%
- #10 Chaos Moon : 1CC Edition
90% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: SNOWBALL EFFECT GAMES
Windows
A classic style SHMUP in the tradition of 80's and 90's vertical scrolling shooters. Maximize your run and get to the top of the High-score Leaderboard. Can you achieve the rank of Fleet Admiral? It's a challenge. Visit our website for a free playable browser demo of the game.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15.5%, 1980s 14.2%, Shooter 12.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.2%, Arcade 10.5%
- #11 StormBonk
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Edenvind
Windows
A fast, addictive space run where you weave through meteors, blast obstacles, collect coins, and survive wave after wave of rising danger.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.1%, Top-Down Shooter 15.4%, Shooter 10.8%, Arcade 9.4%, Old School 9%
- #12 EGGCONSOLE ZANAC EX MSX2
88% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: D4Enterprise Co.,Ltd.
Windows
The Zanac battle, which was supposed to have ended, was not over. To suppress the reactivated organic intelligence, Zanac takes flight once again!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.9%, 1980s 15.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.1%, Shooter 12.6%, Arcade 12.2%
- #13 Space Maxwell: Arcade
89% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2022
Dev: Dreamland Games
Windows
Shoot your enemies and try not to let them multiply themselves and turn the game into a chaotic space battle! Space Maxwell is an arcade shooter where your spaceship has the ability to destroy or to multiply your enemies. Climb the leaderboard and try to survive as long as you can!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17.8%, Top-Down Shooter 14.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 12%, 1980s 10.7%, Shooter 10.2%
- #14 STARR RINGER
89% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Sterling McKay
Windows
Grab the fate of all life in your hands. Blast your way through the cosmos, destroying monstrous cosmic beasts and the space cultists summoning them, on your path to stopping your mother from unleashing the chaos realm upon the universe, in this sci-fi cosmic horror bullet-hell, STARR RINGER.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.6%, Shooter 10.5%, Arcade 9.8%
- #15 Netherspace
87% matchPositive85% of 13 reviews2021
Dev: Konstantinos Katsoris
Windows
A sci-fi shoot'em'up game with heavy focus on upgrades experimentation, featuring two unlikely heroes that must work perfectly together, despite their share of secrets, to surpass their limits and succeed in eliminating a threat that might destroy both Earth and Andraxia if left unchecked.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.2%, Top-Down Shooter 10.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.7%, Shooter 10.3%, Old School 9%
- #16 Defendor
86% 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 14.6%, 1980s 14.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.8%, Shooter 12.2%, Old School 9.2%
- #17 River Rush
84% matchPositive100% of 12 reviews2022
Dev: 2nd Best Games
Windows
Take your chance and feel like 10 again.😊To start let's meet this retro cutie.🚀 River Rush is reminiscent of an old vertically scrolling shoot’em up games.🚀 If you remember them, it's time to catch up with nostalgia. Or your father's nostalgia.😉 Board in and have some fun.👨🚀
Why similar: 1980s 20.2%, Bullet Hell 16.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.5%, Old School 11%, Arcade 8.7%
- #18 Project AionIX
86% matchNo user reviews
Dev: AionBlaze Studio
Windows
Blast through waves of alien enemies in Project AionIX! Master your piloting skills, dodge, and survive in this fast-paced space shooter!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.9%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.5%, Shooter 11.2%, Old School 9.1%
- #19 Sophstar
83% matchVery Positive100% of 102 reviews2022
Dev: Banana Bytes
Windows
A vertical arcade shoot'em up with an inventive teleport system, lots of fast-blazing action and explosions, tons of boss fights, a risk/reward based score system and a proper challenge for both veteran and new players of the genre.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.9%, Shooter 7.4%, Old School 7.3%
- #20 Killon
84% matchPositive90% of 10 reviews2023
Dev: Luois Games
Windows
Killon is a retro shooter that features exhilarating combat, manic enemies and a charged cannon waiting to be unleashed. Fly a starship across the universe and restore the future today.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15.1%, 1980s 12.6%, Top-Down Shooter 12%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.2%, Shooter 8.9%
- #21 AREA WARS™
82% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: RexoPub: STUDIO.D0DO
Windows
AREA WARS™ is a fast-paced 2D omnidirectional shooter where you battle enemies from every direction in a constantly changing enclosed area. Defeated enemies trigger chain explosions that engulf nearby foes and boost your score multiplier. Built for short, repeatable runs with score-focused gameplay.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 22.7%, Top-Down Shooter 17.3%, Shooter 11.7%, Arcade 9.9%, 1980s 8.6%
- #22 Star Jet Alpha
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Valles Games
Windows · Mac
Star Jet Alpha is a top-down space shooter inspired by classic arcade games. Progress through each stage by blowing up enemy space stations while avoiding or destroying enemy missiles, space mines and asteroids. Unlock Star Jet capabilities by completing stages.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.7%, 1980s 13.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 11%, Shooter 10.8%
- #23 Frenzy
80% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Ocean SoftwarePub: Pixel Games UK
Windows
In this simple riff on an arcade classic, released in 1983 for the ZX Spectrum by famed game developer/publisher Ocean Software, search labarinthine levels for the exit, while surviving an ever-increasing onslaught of deadly robots.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Retro 12.9%, 1980s 11.9%, Shooter 11.2%, Arcade 9.6%
- #24 Storm Mined
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Hémisphère gauche
Windows · Linux
Minestorm reimagined with modern gameplay! Blast through waves of deadly mines, gear up with powerful upgrades between levels, and dive into intense rhythm-based stages set to an original soundtrack !
Why similar: Bullet Hell 13.6%, 1980s 13.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.4%, Shooter 8.7%
- #25 Hexapoda
78% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: TOMAGameStudio
Windows
After the last human war, gases were spread through the atmosphere making it unbreathable. The richest to fled to orbital colonies and the others took refuge underground. Get ready to fight giant Insects for the future of humanity !
Why similar: Bullet Hell 14.6%, 1980s 12.4%, Top-Down Shooter 12.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.4%, Shooter 8.5%
- #26 Stellar Space
79% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: Next Step Studios
Windows · Mac
Stellar Space is a new take on a classic arcade game with a modern, rogue-like, form for new players to enjoy!
Why similar: 1980s 12.7%, Top-Down Shooter 12.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.2%, Bullet Hell 9.7%, Shooter 8.5%
- #27 1982
78% matchVery Positive93% of 801 reviews2017
Dev: Binary Zoo
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 18.9 hrs≥1hr: 36%
1982 is a FREE retro inspired blasta-thon that will test your gaming skills to the max.
Why similar: 1980s 21.4%, Retro 14.8%, Arcade 13.5%, Shooter 11.3%, Bullet Hell 10.9%
- #28 Gamma Zero
77% matchPositive90% of 21 reviews2025
Dev: Sinclair Gurny
Windows · Mac · Linux
The earth is being attacked by creatures from deep space! Time to bring the fight back to them! Battle through multiple stages of heart pounding bullet hell action. Evade the onslaught of bullets, rack up massive multipliers, and get revenge for your planet!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.7%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.6%, Old School 13%, Arcade 8.5%
- #29 Ultra Mission™
79% 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: 1980s 16.8%, Top-Down Shooter 13.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.1%, Shooter 10.1%, Arcade 9.3%
- #30 SOLSTORM
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Jerry Zhu
Windows · Linux
SOLSTORM is a classic hand-crafted arcade bullet hell, skillfully weave, and dodge through 9 stages with waves of projectiles as you persevere and see a space odyssey to the end!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.5%, Shooter 9.3%, Arcade 8.7%
- #31 TROID BLASTER 2
76% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: KINGSGUARD GAMES
Windows
TROID BLASTER 2 is a physics based asteroids tribute game, featuring: * Random Levels * Gachapon random generated pilots and ships * 30 weapon types to unlock * Physics based! * Hundreds of bite sized levels to play * A graveyard to bury and remember your fallen pilots
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 14.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.7%, 1980s 12.4%, Shooter 12%, Arcade 11.5%
- #32 ARONDIGHT アロンダイト
76% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: COPIKAL
Windows
ZANAC-like Ultra High-Speed Scrolling 2D Shooter Humanity suffered a crushing defeat in the war against the sentient AI, RA6 the Great Sovereign, losing 70% of the global population. Now, you board the anti-AI fighter MSX-3 Arondight, and launch into the final battle against the Sovereign.
Why similar: 1980s 23.2%, Top-Down Shooter 20.9%, Old School 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Retro 7.2%
- #33 Lilac 0
74% matchVery Positive95% of 73 reviews2025
Dev: Bullet Prince
Windows
The machine world of Molybdion has fallen into disarray. As Nidhogg eats the root of the planet, unending wars rage on the surface! Slice your way through hordes of metallic foes in five frantic levels, defeat fearsome bosses, and dodge countless bullets in this vintage vertical shoot 'em up.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 20.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.3%, Arcade 11.8%, Old School 10.8%, Shooter 10.8%
- #34 Space Waves
77% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2021
Dev: Paul Connor
Windows
Space Waves is a procedurally generated 2D arcade style shooter with multiple collectable power ups and varying enemy types. This game will casually draw you in and then increase the pace and difficulty as you progress through the never ending levels.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.1%, Top-Down Shooter 13.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.8%, Shooter 11.5%, Arcade 10.7%
- #35 Astroblaster
81% matchNo user reviews2022
Dev: David ArmstrongPub: Pizza Parlor Games
Windows
An arcade-style 2D top-down space shooter. Blow up space rocks and space pirates for as long as you can. You'll also need to maximize a delicately-balanced economy of resources. Keep trying to out-do yourself! Five boss ships will break in at various points to make life difficult.
Why similar: 1980s 26.3%, Retro 10.5%, Arcade 10.1%, Old School 10.1%, Top-Down Shooter 9.7%
- #36 Battle AirForce
73% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2025
Dev: SUZUKIPLAN
Windows · Mac · Linux
Three years after Battle Marine a new battle is about to begin! Battle AirForce is the first orthodox style vertical scrolling bullet hell STG since NOKOGI Rider by SUZUKI PLAN. It was created in Z80 full assembly language, aiming at a level close to the limit of VGS-Zero.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.8%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.8%, 1980s 10.4%, Shooter 10%
- #37 Steel Alcimus
75% matchPositive86% of 42 reviews2018
Dev: Hijong ParkPub: PsychoFlux Entertainment
Windows
Steel Alcimus is a top-down helicopter shooter. Complete various tasks with your ally aircraft; such as saving the carrier, taking down the buildings, carrying objects, etc.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15%, Top-Down Shooter 13.5%, 1980s 12.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.3%, Old School 9.3%
- #38 ZEROCRON
74% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: T.R.S.
Windows
ZEROCRON is a straightforward, classical arcade Twin-Stick Shoot-Em-Up with a strong Commodore-Amiga-era feel. Blast asteroids and enemies to burning pixeldust!
Why similar: 1980s 13%, Top-Down Shooter 13%, Old School 11.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.3%, Shooter 9%
- #39 Martian Invaders
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2022
Dev: LoadUpGames.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
WE HAVE ALIENS, YOU DON'T—Blast Martian invaders and flying saucers across 30 stages with robotic voice effects. Use your destructible shield, rescue army men for bonus points, and chase the high score.
Why similar: 1980s 16.4%, Top-Down Shooter 13.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.2%, Shooter 10.3%, Arcade 9.5%
- #40 Atomic Guardians
73% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: Mosh Jason Games
Windows
ATOMIC GUARDIANS is a fully CO-OP arcade retro shoot 'em up, where one player flies the ship, and the other player mans the shields. Fight your way through a never ending horde of Brutal Bosses, Alien Monsters and Gigantic Asteroids as you rack up a new world-wide high score. Play with up to three friends, and see how long you can last!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.2%, Old School 11.8%, Shooter 11.5%, Arcade 10.7%
- #41 Galactic Explorers
72% match4 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2022
Dev: Caden KoehlPub: Koehl Studios
Windows
Galactic Explorers is a top-down 2D retro space shooter inspired by early games such as Galaxian, and Asteroids.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15.5%, Top-Down Shooter 13%, 1980s 10.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.6%, Shooter 8.5%
- #42 OUMUAMUA
71% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: RETSUZANPub: Henteko Doujin
Windows
Use quick reflexes and sharp aim to simultaneously blow up enemies and block alike in this satisfying retro style action brick breaker! The third installment in the Game Buddy series that faithfully recreates the look, sounds, and feel of classic late 80's handheld games!
Why similar: 1980s 22.7%, Old School 18.9%, Arcade 13.7%, Top-Down Shooter 8.1%, Retro 7.5%
- #43 Double D. F.
75% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: RielFactor
Windows
To bring you the old school 2D space arcade feeling in a modern look and feel. Whether you like the hard core style of the old days, or you have become the more lay back type, shoot your way home at the fun rate for you. Upgrade your ship on the way home, to get ready for the final battle. Have fun!
Why similar: 1980s 18.9%, Bullet Hell 16.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.3%, Shooter 10%, Arcade 9.3%
- #44 Burning Skies Arcade
69% matchVery Positive84% of 56 reviews2024
Dev: NukGames
Windows
Lt Blitz has the city sieged, and it's your job to destroy his troops. Shoot, dodge and upgrade your jet and and try to take on this challenge! Burning Skies is a free, endless retro shmup, that will take you right back to the era of arcade machines, with modernized graphics and gameplay!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.3%, 1980s 15.3%, Top-Down Shooter 13%, Shoot 'Em Up 11%, Shooter 10.4%
- #45 GALXAGAR
71% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: MoonMuse Entertainment
Windows
"Don't go to GALXAGAR"; a phrase uttered by many who have traversed its rim. Untold treasures, and terrors, await within its blackened depths. Ready your craft, spacefarer, because you're about to enter the most dangerous sector in all the stars. Get ready.. for GALXAGAR!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 20.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.9%, Shooter 11.7%, 1980s 10.4%, Arcade 10.2%
- #46 misaligned
71% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2023
Dev: Michal Kelisek
Windows
Classic 80s inspired shooter
Why similar: Bullet Hell 23.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.2%, 1980s 12.6%, Shooter 11.9%, Arcade 10%
- #47 Super Arcade Boy in Goodbye Greenies
72% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: LoadUpGames.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
Super Arcade Boy returns in a retro shoot ’em up with 8 levels, waves of Greenies, power-ups, and 8 big boss battles. Talk with the alien leader—then save the planet.
Why similar: 1980s 14.6%, Bullet Hell 13.1%, Shooter 10.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.7%, Old School 9.4%
- #48 VERZEUS
70% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2024
Dev: RETSUZANPub: Henteko Doujin
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!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 13.8%, 1980s 13.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.6%, Retro 9.7%, Shooter 9.1%
- #49 Gunlocked
68% matchVery Positive87% of 502 reviews2022
Dev: FromLefcourt
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.6 hrs≥1hr: 81%
A twin stick shooter without the twin stick, Gunlocked is a sci-fi action roguelike about careful positioning and upgrade selection. Manage unique targeting systems across multiple weapons and upgrades, as you battle legions of alien ships, and then do it all over again!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.6%, 1980s 12.2%, Arcade 9.2%, Shooter 8.7%
- #50 Dead End City
69% matchPositive93% of 40 reviews2022
Dev: Pixel Licker LLC
Windows
A post-apocalyptic arcade shooter. Collect fuel and dodge enemy fire as you fight back against the evil Scorpio gang. Mixes cars, shmups and themes that would have been right at home in 80's anime and arcades..
Why similar: 1980s 16.4%, Bullet Hell 12.2%, Top-Down Shooter 11.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.1%, Shooter 9.3%
- #51 Zenvader
66% matchPositive97% of 29 reviews2025
Dev: RyiSnow
Windows
Zenvader is a super retro shooter mixed with roguelite elements. Dodge the barrage of bullets, improve your unit, and try to defeat the Alien King!
Why similar: 1980s 17.2%, Bullet Hell 15%, Old School 13.2%, Top-Down Shooter 11.8%, Shooter 9.6%
- #52 Cosmic Cruiser
70% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2022
Dev: ImaginePub: Pixel Games UK
Windows
In this unique shooter from 1984. take on the role of a pilot of an out-dated Cosmic Cruiser, fighting to rescue the crew of a distant space station that had been captured by a raiding party from the sinister Rallom Empire.
Why similar: Shooter 16.1%, 1980s 12.6%, Retro 11.6%, Arcade 11.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.8%
- #53 Warcat Parade
68% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2024
Dev: Hefka Games
Windows · Linux
Catboy in a bullet hell! Nyan, nyan, pew pew pew!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.8%, Top-Down Shooter 10.7%, Arcade 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%
- #54 Invaders from the Lost Sectors
67% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: The Lost Sectors
Windows
Invaders from the Lost Sectors is classic arcade action. Aliens descend with increasing speed towards your base. Shoot them all before they land. Player controlled settings like guided missiles, rate of fire, enemy speed and more help you customize exactly the game experience that you want.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 16.1%, Shooter 13.9%, 1980s 12.2%, Arcade 12.2%, Family Friendly 9.2%
- #55 Pangaroids
69% matchPositive82% of 17 reviews2022
Dev: Adam Wozniak
Windows · Mac
Destroy the deadly bouncing orbs for the highest score in this Pang meets Asteroids arcade blaster.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.7%, 1980s 12.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.4%, Shooter 9.3%
- #56 4D:XD
68% matchPositive82% of 11 reviews2023
Dev: Ryan Brammen
Windows
4D:XD is a top-down 2D bullet hell space shooter. Conquer the game with as few deaths as possible!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 23.9%, Top-Down Shooter 16.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.6%, Shooter 11.3%, Arcade 9.5%
- #57 Exovore
67% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2025
Dev: Tapzilla
Windows · Linux
EXOVORE is a fast-paced twin-stick space horror shoot’em-up inspired by the arcade classic Sinistar. Harvest asteroids, build your arsenal and face an evolving alien terror that hungers for your ship’s core. Retro-style visuals meet modern chaos in this relentless fight for survival among the stars.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17.1%, Top-Down Shooter 15.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.4%, Shooter 9.5%, 1980s 8.2%
- #58 Starfighter Neon
70% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2017
Dev: MadeOfDinosaurs
Windows · Mac
You've been dropped into enemy space. Weave your Starfighter between alien spaceships, lasers, asteroids and bombs destroying as many as you can and collecting valuable coins and powerups as you go.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.1%, Shooter 8.5%, Arcade 8%
- #59 Arcade Classics
67% matchPositive96% of 26 reviews2023
Dev: Reza MirzaeiPub: Dreamware Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Collection of a few arcade classics, remade with a fresh and friendly looking art style and a beautiful soundtrack.
Why similar: 1980s 18.3%, Top-Down Shooter 17.2%, Shooter 12.8%, Arcade 11.9%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%
- #60 Gratuitous Space Shooty Game
66% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Positech Games
Windows
Gratuitous Shooty Game is a hobby space shooter made by the developer of Gratuitous Space Battles, reusing the art from that game :D.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15.6%, Top-Down Shooter 12.4%, Shooter 10.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.5%, Arcade 9.9%