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A small topdown shooter in pixelart graphics.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 18.4%, Top-Down Shooter 17.1%, Flight 15.2%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Shooter 10.3%

A throwback to retro shoot'em up games typical of the 80s, where you play as a tooth fairy fighting against rotten teeth and bacteria using different abilities and special shots.

Why similar: Flight 23.3%, Top-Down Shooter 21.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.5%, Shooter 6.9%, Anime 5.6%

A 2D top-down arena shooter. A freely scrolling shooter. Pixel graphics reminiscent of the SNES. Easy to control with the directional pad, two shot buttons, and a bomb button. Make full use of your two shots to smash through enemies.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 22%, Top-Down Shooter 21.2%, 2D Platformer 13.5%, Shooter 8.3%, Female Protagonist 7.3%

Dodge, boost, and blast through relentless enemy waves in this vibrant arcade shooter. Upgrade between battles and become the ultimate space fighter.

Why similar: Flight 28.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.9%, Top-Down Shooter 24.5%, Arcade 6.6%, Shooter 4.1%

Santa's going high-tech with the Present Launcher 1225! Join the jolly ride, rescue reindeer, and blast presents down chimneys in this holly, jolly, fast paced shoot 'em up. Make every shot count and save Christmas in a dash!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.9%, Flight 27.4%, Top-Down Shooter 24.4%, Shooter 7.7%, Arcade 5.3%

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 25.2%, Top-Down Shooter 21%, 2D Platformer 15.8%, Shooter 11.8%, Top-Down 5.7%

DRUM'N'BASS MASSACRE is a high-velocity aerial combat shooter where you destoy your enemies while performing unimaginable maneuvers using your interstellar interceptor, accompanied by original drum and bass soundtrack

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27%, Flight 25.6%, Top-Down Shooter 22.8%, Arcade 6.4%, Top-Down 5.6%

Hardcore yet cute Danmaku shooting makes a grand comeback!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.8%, Top-Down Shooter 19.2%, 2D Platformer 12.4%, Shooter 10.8%, Arcade 9.4%

Space adventure is a classic Shoot 'Em Up style game with a fast pace and a test of your reflexes. Maneuver, collect bonuses and score points to become the best!

Why similar: Flight 25.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.7%, 2D Platformer 13.2%, Shooter 9.7%, Arcade 8.7%

Redline Protocol is a fast modern-retro helicopter combat game built around low-altitude attacks, tactical objectives, wrap-around battlefields, and escalating chaos.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.7%, Flight 22.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.9%, Shooter 10.4%, Arcade 9.2%

Retro-inspired arcade-style shooter. Save humanity from incoming waves of flaming hot meteors, alien ships hell-bent on destroying humanity, and the strangeness of space by shooting, blasting and nuking incoming waves of meteors and enemies.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.3%, Top-Down Shooter 21.9%, Flight 20.6%, Shooter 9.7%, Arcade 8.2%

A fast-paced vertical shooter built for short sessions! 2-Minute and 5-Minute score attack modes with beautiful X68000-style pixel art.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.5%, 2D Platformer 14.2%, Shooter 10.3%, Arcade 8.7%

Even if you are not good at avoiding bullets or shmup games there is no problem. A 2d casual rolling shooter best for killing time!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.3%, Top-Down Shooter 27.2%, Shooter 12.2%, Arcade 8.3%, Top-Down 7.1%

A Touhou-inspired bullet hell shooting game where you play as magic-using anthropomorphic characters. Explore Lunamara, a land full of magical creatures and youkai, and discover why the moon's rotation around Earth has been halted.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.5%, Top-Down Shooter 24%, Shooter 9.6%, Female Protagonist 9.2%, Top-Down 7.3%

Asteroids and Aliens, Arcade Shooter pays tribute to the Arcade Classic Asteroids. Destroy the Asteroids, save the humans, kill Aliens with Lasers, Missiles, Smart Bombs, or Nukes. You have unlimited Missiles/Bullets but limited Laser firepower and Shields, they can be recharged collecting powerups.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.6%, Top-Down Shooter 24.1%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Shooter 9.5%, Top-Down 7.3%

An adventure for all those who dream of conquering the skies. Choose your pilot, upgrade your ship, and make battles against waves of enemies and colossal bosses. Collect stars, unlock new missions and write your legend.

Why similar: Flight 25.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.5%, Top-Down Shooter 18.5%, Hand-drawn 9.7%, Shooter 7.8%

Help Aru save Christmas in this humoristic, action-packed shooter set in the universe of QP Shooting - Dangerous!!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.4%, Flight 16.7%, Top-Down Shooter 16.6%, Anime 10.3%, Female Protagonist 8.1%

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: Shoot 'Em Up 25.8%, Top-Down Shooter 24%, Shooter 11.1%, Arcade 9.6%, Anime 8.6%

Not a regular shmup player? No worries! This is a super chill, low-difficulty, fully voiced bullet hell shooter just for you! Wipe out the AI machine armada attacking from all directions!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.5%, Top-Down Shooter 25.7%, Shooter 10.2%, Female Protagonist 9.7%, Top-Down 7.8%

Everyone, gather at the YO-KAI Disco! The cursed shooting party begins! All past game modes, additional characters, and BGM are included at once!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.2%, Top-Down Shooter 19.2%, 2D Platformer 13.6%, Shooter 11.5%, Arcade 10.6%

River Attack is a shootting up style game 2D, which combines harmoniously colored scenes with aerial shooting battle! Evolve your ship to defeat an alien invasion that has the technology to control human combat vehicles. Will you be able to defeat an army of ships to save your girl and the planet?!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.9%, Flight 23.1%, Top-Down Shooter 22.8%, Shooter 8%, Top-Down 7.7%

BEAT THE MONS is simple pixel auto shooter. Dodge, shoot, beat all these monsters and earn score! Life is not much else...

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 23.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.9%, 2D Platformer 14.5%, Shooter 11%, Arcade 8.8%

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 34.6%, Top-Down Shooter 29.7%, Shooter 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Arcade 6.1%

Top-down shooter action for the Atari Lynx handheld console. WANTED: Hot gun for hire. Travel to several exotic and dangerous places. Discover several exotic and dangerous aliens and kill them. Kill lots. For cash. Buy more weapons and kill again.

Why similar: Flight 26.9%, Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.9%, Shooter 7.8%, Arcade 6.2%

Clear the asteroid field before the Corpos hunt you down with their AI weaponry!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.6%, Flight 15.1%, Top-Down Shooter 13.4%, Shooter 11.9%, Top-Down 9.4%

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!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.6%, Top-Down Shooter 23.2%, Flight 20.2%, Arcade 8.6%, Top-Down 7.2%

Summoned into the otherworldly realm of 'NewMe NuMe LuMe', the protagonist Kim Ttolttol must aid the gods who summoned her to defeat enemies and return home in this 2D top-down action game. Utilize a variety of weapons to vanquish diverse foes!

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 22%, Shooter 12.8%, Arcade 9.8%, Top-Down 6.6%

Defeat is not the end. After a game over, return to your base to strengthen with battle points and try again. Artificial Dawn is a shooting game designed to grow stronger the more you try, and anyone can clear it as long as they don't give up.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.3%, Top-Down Shooter 21.1%, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Shooter 13.3%, Top-Down 6.6%

Jeb dreams of one day becoming a big game developer and he's created a bunch of cheesy arcade games that he wants people to play-test for him. But he doesn't want any girls because he thinks girls aren't any good at video games. Lilith will try to show him just how wrong he is.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.7%, Top-Down Shooter 24.9%, 2D Platformer 15.5%, Arcade 10.7%, Female Protagonist 7.2%

"Warrior of Democracy" is an incredible 2D shoot 'em up arcade where you, like a true hero, control a helicopter, battling endless waves of enemy fighters on your path to victory!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 36%, Top-Down Shooter 31.3%, Shooter 10.9%, Arcade 8.2%, Top-Down 6.8%

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: Shoot 'Em Up 32.2%, Top-Down Shooter 29.5%, Anime 9.3%, Pixel Graphics 8.4%, Robots 6%

Join the fight against alien invaders in Pink Devil. Pilot an upgradable fighter jet through diverse environments, from oceans to deserts. Face unique bosses with distinct tactics and use weapons like machine guns, lasers, and rockets. Become the unstoppable Pink Devil and save the planet.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.7%, Top-Down Shooter 23.9%, Flight 14.4%, Shooter 9.4%, Arcade 7.5%

A mysterious midsummer downpour has caused Gensokyo's lakes and rivers to spill over. Not only that, but youkai and phantoms inhabiting those bodies of water have become unnaturally ferocious. Venture off on an adventure into the deep skies to find the cause of this classic rain-themed incident.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.6%, Top-Down Shooter 22.6%, Shooter 13.1%, Arcade 11.6%, Anime 8.4%

The second installment in Saikyo's vertical scrolling shooters, following the 1993 Best Shooting Game award winner “Sengoku Ace”.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.4%, Top-Down Shooter 21.3%, Shooter 11.6%, Arcade 10.1%, Anime 8.5%

A Danmaku Shooting Game.

Why similar: Flight 23.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.8%, Top-Down Shooter 20.1%, 2D Platformer 12.3%, Top-Down 6.5%

Kamio Recoil is an exploration shooter, where every shot propels you through zero-gravity! Play as an assembled squad of five girls equipped with Spirit Arms as they maneuver through intricate areas and blast away the yokai invasion in order to defend the world.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.3%, Flight 16.9%, Anime 13.4%, Female Protagonist 11.4%, Shooter 9.4%

This is a retro barrage flying shooting game. Drive a space fighter plane, shuttle between planets and space stations, and use powerful firepower to destroy enemy space battleships! !

Why similar: Flight 26.6%, Top-Down Shooter 20.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.7%, Arcade 7.6%, Shooter 7.2%

The vertical scroll type Shoot Em Ups Game. The player-controlled fighter jet have the durable and can't be shot down in one hit. You will fight through the total of 5 stages, attacking enemies with missiles and lasers, blocking enemy bullets with shields.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 33.8%, 2D Platformer 21.7%, Shooter 13%, Arcade 10.2%, Top-Down 9.2%

An old arcade style 2d shmup.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29.4%, Top-Down Shooter 28.4%, Shooter 12.5%, Arcade 9.2%, Top-Down 8.7%

Shoot for the stars and help Latte train in her quest to become the top cheerleader in the universe! Use your Pom-Pom Blasts to pummel the competition while dancing through a downpour of endlessly raining enemy bullets! Ready? Aim. Fire!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.8%, Top-Down Shooter 24.3%, Shooter 9.7%, Anime 8.8%, Female Protagonist 8.4%

Moolii’s Dreamland is a Bullet-hell game. Players will play as the little fox Moolii to fight against monsters in her dream. This game features whimsical level designs, monsters, and powerful bosses, along with combos of ammo skills and magical tricks. Help Moolii wake up from her nightmare!

Why similar: Flight 26.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.4%, 2D Platformer 12.7%, Shooter 8.4%, Female Protagonist 8%

Enjoy a free shoot'em up side-scrolling mini-game with the characters from the anime and JRPG DanMachi, and fight through stages of bullet hell and bosses!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.3%, Top-Down Shooter 19.8%, 2D Platformer 14.3%, Shooter 8.9%, Anime 7.2%

Pirate's Peril is an arcade shooter themed in the world of pirates on the open sea!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 34.1%, Top-Down Shooter 24.4%, Arcade 13.4%, Pixel Graphics 10.6%, Top-Down 7.4%

The Valkirias are here. Fast paced action Shoot 'em up with beautifully rendered 3D graphics. Select between four characters with different abilities and follow their story. Upgrade and unlock fighters, battle bosses and play amazing special stages, solo or with a friend.

Why similar: Flight 23.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.5%, Top-Down Shooter 21.7%, Shooter 10.2%, Arcade 8.6%

ReCoil is a 2D Top-Down Shooter with a unique twist to it's genre. The recoil of your weapons launches you back.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 40.5%, Top-Down 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, 2D Platformer 9%, Shooter 8.2%

The third installment in the Eden series A 2D bullet-hell vertical-scrolling shump with a feel reminiscent of arcade games from the 1990s to the 2000s.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.2%, Top-Down Shooter 22.3%, Shooter 12.5%, Arcade 11%, Top-Down 5.9%

Zombies left, right and center!! Will the maids be able to bring peace back to Akiba?! A shooting game aimed at restoring peace to Akiba by controlling gun-slinging maids and defeating zombies.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.2%, Top-Down Shooter 27%, 2D Platformer 13%, Shooter 9.7%, Anime 8.9%

A topdown bullet hell game where you control a spaceship and fight waves of asteroids and enemy spaceships.

Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 29%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.1%, Flight 14.5%, Shooter 8.7%, Arcade 7.5%

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 34.3%, Top-Down Shooter 28.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.5%, Shooter 6.5%, Arcade 6.3%

A shoot em' up with a manga inspired look. Destroy enemies, and use their salvage to gain more power.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.2%, Top-Down Shooter 25.8%, Anime 10.9%, Shooter 10.7%, Top-Down 8%

Defend Terra against the onslaught of hostile invaders in this 2D top-down space shooter. Upgrade and empower your ship's different systems to stand a chance against the growing threat. If you fall, Terra falls, and the rest of the galaxy will soon follow.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 21.7%, Flight 21.2%, Top-Down Shooter 17.5%, 2D Platformer 10.6%, Shooter 8.4%

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: Top-Down Shooter 28.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.9%, Flight 12.1%, Pixel Graphics 7.3%, Shooter 7%

Blast your way through increasing waves of enemies in this fast-paced top-down action-arcade shoot 'em-up while unlocking new levels, weapon upgrades and harder enemy types as you make progress in RED BLASTER!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 36%, Top-Down Shooter 31.4%, Shooter 11%, Arcade 8.4%, Top-Down 7.1%

CRAZY APPLIANCES is a fast paced top-down shooter game! The elect robots are insane, heroes! Fight your way by using various weapons and powerful items to defeat them in different dangerous situation!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29.2%, Top-Down Shooter 26.6%, Shooter 9.8%, Top-Down 9.8%, Arcade 8.9%

Challenge your reflexes and defend your web from an onslaught of strange creatures to the beat of a dynamic, generative acid techno soundtrack in this all-nonsense arcade-style twin stick shooter.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33.4%, Top-Down Shooter 29.9%, Shooter 10.5%, Arcade 8%, Top-Down 6.8%

Buckle up and blast off with Raiden IV x MIKADO remix! This classic arcade shoot ‘em up comes fully equipped with new music, battle modes, vertical screen play, and more!

Why similar: Flight 26.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.4%, Top-Down Shooter 19.7%, Shooter 9.8%, Arcade 8.5%

Returning to the classic style of spaceship games in pixel art. Survive in space as many enemy ships and anything else that can destroy your ship, get all the advantages and improvements available to get your best score.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.1%, Flight 16.8%, Shooter 14.2%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Arcade 9.4%

Popular vertically scrolling shoot'em up game Shikhondo is back and powered up! One day, the soul-starved Youkai escape from the depths of hell. Now, the story of the Grim Reaper and the girl who has fallen into this land begins!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.5%, Top-Down Shooter 26.8%, Arcade 11.3%, Anime 9.8%, Top-Down 7%

Blast alien invaders and song lyrics into stardust in this relaxingly chaotic shoot-'em-up! A full-length, '80s-inspired rock album plays start to finish as you fight through an alien invasion. No death. No game over. Just tune in and get that high score. Arcade style!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.9%, Top-Down Shooter 27.7%, Shooter 10.6%, Arcade 9.8%, Hand-drawn 7.8%

Ignite your rocketship engines and zoom your way through the caves of tiltfire. Fly around tight corners and blast AI drones in this fast paced top-down shooter.

Why similar: Flight 35.2%, Top-Down Shooter 27.4%, Shooter 12.1%, Top-Down 8.4%, Robots 7.2%