- #1 Galactic Outlaws
97% matchPositive97% of 36 reviews2025
Dev: Square Wheel
Windows
"Galactic Outlaws" is a side-scrolling space shooter where you lead an elite squad on high-risk missions. Customize and upgrade unique ships, master devastating weapons, and battle waves of enemies in a galaxy plunged into chaos. Victory depends on your strategy and skill!
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 22.7% ★, Side Scroller 11.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.7%, Bullet Hell 9.9%, Shooter 8.1%
- #2 SHOGUN
96% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: GunealPub: Deep Rock Labs LLC
Windows · Linux
SHOGUN is an arcade style shooter that emphasizes running and gunning to stay alive. Rip through waves of increasingly difficult enemies hell-bent on your doom by shooting, looting, and eluding a bullet hell of cartoonish horror. Refuse death, explode with burning rage and tear asunder!!!
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 31.5% ★, Bullet Hell 13.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.8%, Shooter 10.3%, Arcade 9.5%
- #3 GANA FORCE
96% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Liao Kai
Windows
Gana Force is a Horizontal shooter where you'll unleash powerful firepower, skillfully dodge bullets, and utilize the terrain to maneuver and defeat enemies. Game environments include alien cell levels, scorching sun, space battleships, and more. Powerful bosses and bullet hell challenges await you!
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 33.8% ★, Bullet Hell 17.1%, Side Scroller 10.5%, Arcade 9.8%, 1980s 7.6%
- #4 Galactic Vanguard
95% matchPositive88% of 26 reviews2025
Dev: TopGame
Windows
Galactic Vanguard is a fast-paced, retro-style action shooter. Grab your weapons and eliminate relentless enemy forces and powerful alien creatures. Engage in intense battles across space bases, desert wastelands, lava valleys, and abandoned alien ruins!
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 34.9% ★, Side Scroller 10.5%, Arcade 10.2%, Bullet Hell 9.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.5%
- #5 Flying Fury
94% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Panzero
Windows
A side scrolling shooter with a bullet hell influence. Does it explode? Yes. Everything does. Enemies show their battle damage through having chunks be blown off. There are multiple enemies all with unique behaviours, all which are designed in junction with each other.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 16.5%, Bullet Hell 16%, Side Scroller 15.2%, Shooter 11.6%, Arcade 10.6%
- #6 Battle for Asciion
94% matchPositive83% of 11 reviews2026
Dev: Relevo
Windows
Battle for Asciion is a classic horizontal shoot ’em up built entirely from real text characters. No sprites. No pixels. No images. Just pure ASCII action, massive bosses, weapon upgrades and retro arcade challenge.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 28.3% ★, Side Scroller 15.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.9%, Shooter 11.2%, Arcade 10.7%
- #7 Hop's Awakening!
93% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Eden CruzPub: Eden Cruz Games
Windows
Blast through enemy invaders in colorful 2D pixel art!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.1%, Comic Book 14%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.4%, Arcade 10.5%, Cartoon 8.9%
- #8 VALE
92% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: F-GamesPub: JTS Development
Windows
Fight your way to dominion over the universe in this Shoot Em Up game based on the book! On the planet Vale, known for its extreme cold and endless snowfields, the story follows young Talen Esko and his sister Salla, whose family, the Esko clan, is transferred to govern this icy world.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 23.4% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 12.3%, Bullet Hell 11.8%, Side Scroller 11.6%, Shooter 8.6%
- #9 Chromacell
91% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: 171Dev
Windows
In this sideways scrolling shmup, take control of your spaceship and navigate through vibrant pixelated environments filled with hordes of enemy spacecraft. Upgrade your ship and weapons, dodge enemy fire while blasting through each stage. Emerge victorious as the ultimate space pilot!
Why similar: Side Scroller 19.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 19%, Bullet Hell 17.8%, Shooter 12%, Arcade 10.4%
- #10 Future Knight
91% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Studio KobaPub: Aeternum Game Studios
Windows
Frenetic action and LCD aesthetic! In this 2D Shoot 'Em Up, switch between a robot hero and his benign tumor to stop a bizarre cult. You have 8 hours to save humanity's memory: defeat grotesque bosses, ride the skies on your Future Board, and master the chaos in a retro-futuristic Tokyo.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 19.8%, Boomer Shooter 16.4% ★, Side Scroller 13.3%, Arcade 13%, Action 8.7%
- #11 Thunder Infinity
90% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Enrique G. GalvezPub: Magic Games
Windows
Thunder Infinity takes classic shoot 'em up gameplay to the next level by adding survival, roguelite, and bullet hell elements. Choose your pilot, ship, and weapons, and destroy the Varkon Star Empire in the final offensive of the Aegis Star Bastion.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 39.7% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 16.1%, Bullet Hell 15.9%, Shooter 9.9%, Arcade 8.3%
- #12 Shikhondo: Blue Pieta
89% matchPositive100% of 42 reviews2026
Dev: DeerFarmPub: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows
Once more, the hunt for Youkai begins! Across the ocean in a city far, far away, the side-scrolling shoot 'em up action of our two protagonists unfolds! Complete the Pietà of struggle that burns blue with its raging barrage!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.7%, Side Scroller 16.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.5%, Arcade 11.7%, Shooter 9.8%
- #13 Art Strikers
89% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Friendly Fire Software
Windows
Draw your path to victory in Art Strikers! A unique art themed bullet hell shoot-em-up that looks and plays like a beautiful work of art.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 19.4%, Side Scroller 18%, Bullet Hell 17.6%, Shooter 11.9%, Cartoon 9.2%
- #14 UfoPilot : The Phadt Menace - Steam Edition
88% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2021
Dev: nornware AB
Windows
A sci-fi retro side-scrolling shoot-em-up / rescue game.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 16.6%, Side Scroller 15.8%, Shooter 11.4%, Arcade 10.5%, Action-Adventure 10.4%
- #15 Kaiju Kite Attack
87% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2019
Dev: PWCA
Windows
OH MY KAIJU!!! IT'S...KAIJU!!! KAIJU KITE ATTACK!!! The FIRST EVER SHMUP-platformer! Get your kite in the sky now! The Kaiju are coming to town to burn it down. Save your Meemaw! Save the universe! FLY OR DIE!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 16.7%, Bullet Hell 15.1%, Side Scroller 14.2%, Shooter 10.5%, Arcade 8.8%
- #16 RIKI
86% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: PRG
Windows
Help ranger Riki to fight an unknown menace which could destroy not only the Amazon forest but the entire world. A fast and yet challenging game.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 15.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.2%, Shooter 11.1%, Arcade 10.9%, Action-Adventure 10.4%
- #17 Cosmic Destroyer
86% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: Coffee Maker Games
Windows · Linux
Turn the incoming swarm of deadly bullets into your own weapon of chaos in this precision STG bullet hell. Grab and toss enemies, dodge and deflect torrents of bullets, and reshape the battlefield with explosive chain reactions.
Why similar: Side Scroller 21.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.6%, Bullet Hell 18.5%, Shooter 11.9%, Arcade 9.8%
- #18 Airborne Justice
85% matchMixed62% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: SEEP
Windows · Linux
Airborne Justice is a shoot 'em up that pays homage to classics from the golden age of video games. Take control of a helicopter, fight enemies, and restore peace to the skies!
Why similar: Side Scroller 13.9%, Bullet Hell 13.1%, Comic Book 12.5%, Shooter 9.6%, Arcade 9%
- #19 Tadpole Tales
84% matchVery Positive90% of 869 reviews2021
Dev: Andrei CretuPub: Pinnical Studio
Windows
A tiny 2D Hand-drawn "Clean 'Em Up" game about a tadpole cleaning rivers and fighting pollution.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.2%, Side Scroller 17%, Bullet Hell 15.7%, Hand-drawn 10.1%, Arcade 9.1%
- #20 Max and the Book of Chaos
84% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2020
Dev: Orenji Games Entertainment
Windows
“Max and the book of chaos” is and arcade 2D action game with elements of run and gun and shoot ´em up classic games with a strong arcade feeling. A kid who will have the destiny of the world in his hands. Will have to face this wave of disasters, save the world and free your buddies.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 16.7%, Shooter 14.8%, Action-Adventure 14.2%, Arcade 14.1%, Action 11.4%
- #21 Impact Trial: Hyperchaos
83% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Manuel Bacallado
Windows
Survive endless waves and let yourself be swept away by the chaos. Impact Trial: Hyperchaos is a fast-paced arcade bullet hell game with adaptive difficulty, where every second counts and only your reflexes decide how long you last. The longer you hold out, the harder it gets.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 33% ★, Bullet Hell 16.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.4%, Shooter 11.3%, Arcade 10.9%
- #22 The Rush
82% matchPositive91% of 32 reviews2024
Dev: Hornbuckle Who
Windows
The Rush is a horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up with graphics inspired by classic space shooters of the MSX. Buckle up and see if you have what it takes to master the highly adaptive Chameleon Quartz space fighter and single-handedly obliterate the alien invaders!
Why similar: Side Scroller 20.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.3%, Bullet Hell 19.1%, Shooter 12.9%, Arcade 11.2%
- #23 tz mini stg collection
81% match5 user reviews100% of 5 reviews2025
Dev: Tamazusa
Windows
This book contains several of tamazusa's small-scale STG works, mainly game jam works.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 22%, Bullet Hell 18.2%, Side Scroller 15.5%, Shooter 15.3%, Arcade 15.2%
- #24 Origami Flight
82% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2019
Dev: Whalesoft Entertainment
Windows · Linux
Origami Flight is a sidescrolling 2D shoot' em up where you control a paper airplane with a simple but challenging mission: to save the Origami World. Now you must beat 6 different stages with tons of enemies in order to save the Tsuru from the evil Origami Fox.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.1%, Side Scroller 21.9%, Bullet Hell 12.5%, Shooter 9.1%, Arcade 8.8%
- #25 Star Tank
80% matchPositive85% of 20 reviews2021
Dev: Ferulox Studios
Windows
Star Tank is a shmup with eighties aesthetics, a mixture of styles (Galaga-Operation Wolf). A difficult game that requires great control skills. 20 stages. 5 bosses. Various enemies. Become an expert pilot of a StarTank!!!!
Why similar: Side Scroller 17.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.5%, Shooter 12.7%, Arcade 11.9%, Action-Adventure 11.9%
- #26 Celestia
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Devon Meyer
Windows
Celestia is a solo-developed indie game. An angelic bullet-hell shoot-'em-up where you defeat enemies throughout the skies, and relax on a floating island with your companions.
Why similar: Side Scroller 25.8%, Bullet Hell 21.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.6%, Shooter 13.2%, Arcade 10.9%
- #27 Super Arcade Boy in Defender of Planet Earth
81% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2017
Dev: LoadUpGames.com
Windows · Mac · Linux
A retro-style classic side-scrolling shoot ’em up. Fly Super Arcade Boy through 8 levels, blast enemy waves, grab power-ups, and take down bosses.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.2%, Side Scroller 16.5%, Bullet Hell 14.8%, Shooter 12.2%, Arcade 10.4%
- #28 666: El día del portal
79% matchNo user reviews2024
Dev: MatnogamesPub: Erbe Software
Windows
Action-platformer game with dual scrolling and multidirectional shooting.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 30.9% ★, Side Scroller 15.6%, Action-Adventure 14.3%, Arcade 12.9%, Shooter 12.8%
- #29 Paper Planes Plus
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: orangeCAPSULEPub: squarePILLOWgames
Windows
A Stylish Hyper Frantic Fun SHMUP/BULLET-HELL Arcade Story experience! Engage enemies in one of 7 Paper styled aircrafts. 4 Chapters to JET through. DOGFIGHT specialized enemy pilots. Face SCREEN SIZED BOSSES. Utilize the PET-MODULE to gain an upper hand in battle.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 13.8%, Side Scroller 13.1%, Comic Book 13.1%, Bullet Hell 12.6%, Arcade 8.2%
- #30 Waldo - In the Heart of the City
78% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Rafael FernandesPub: Maniva Studio
Windows
Join Waldo in a fast-paced 2D adventure! Fly across Mosquitópolis, battle enemies, and uncover the source of a mysterious virus in this fun and educational shoot ’em up.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 14.4%, Side Scroller 13%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.5%, Shooter 10.5%, Arcade 10.4%
- #31 Throst
77% match3 user reviews67% of 3 reviews2026
Dev: ZiG GAMES
Windows · Mac · Linux
Throst is a 2D-retro-arcade-action adventure about precision flying under constant gravity. Dive through tight tunnels, outmaneuver and destroy defenses. Grab the enemy’s energy orbs, and blast your way back to orbit before you’re crushed or shot down.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 28.2% ★, Side Scroller 17.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.7%, Arcade 11.3%, Shooter 8.6%
- #32 MOONMAN: THE GAME
76% match4 user reviews50% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Wyatt Everett
Windows
MOON MAN: THE GAME is a 2d platformer shooter. In this game you will find many different worlds and weapons to use. The game is inspired by a certain someone.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 14.6%, Bullet Hell 14.2%, Side Scroller 13.6%, Shooter 10.4%, Action-Adventure 9.5%
- #33 Meat Gone Wrong
76% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Brush
Windows
Grab your fire-axe and smash your way out of this fast-paced shooter, ultra-violent graphic-novel inspired underworld where raging mutants, marauding mechs and menacing monsters prowl the darkness ready to tear you limb from limb!
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 32.9% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 14.8%, Comic Book 14.2%, Shooter 10.6%, Arcade 9.7%
- #34 First Person Stapler
75% matchPositive100% of 13 reviews2024
Dev: Andrew Connelly
Windows
Clear targets in your office call center and race to the exit in this ridiculous, stapler-centric target shooter.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 49.6% ★, Shooter 13.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.8%, 1990's 8.1%, Arcade 8%
- #35 DOSMan: Space Aliens in Space!
74% matchVery Positive84% of 80 reviews2024
Dev: DOSMan Games
Windows
Planet DOS is under attack by Space Aliens, DOSMan needs to fend them off and defend his home planet!
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 35.7% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 16.2%, Shooter 11.5%, Cartoony 8.7%, 1980s 7.5%
- #36 Otpisani: Nightingale
74% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Pr0py
Windows · Linux
A retro shooter game inspired by an old TV show. You play as a part of the resistance movement fighting the German occupation in a set of explosive missions while experiencing an exciting story.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 30% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 13.7%, Shooter 9.9%, Arcade 9.1%, Action-Adventure 9.1%
- #37 Glorkian Warrior: The Trials Of Glork
75% matchVery Positive90% of 370 reviews2015
Dev: Pixeljam
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.8 hrs≥1hr: 95%
A comic-styled mashup of Galaga-style shoot-em-up, simple platforming action, and Saturday morning cartoon. In collaboration with Eisner-award-winning cartoonist James Kochalka!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 17.9%, Side Scroller 16.3%, Bullet Hell 16.1%, Comic Book 13.4%, Shooter 10.3%
- #38 Chester’s Revenge
73% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wojo Studios LLCPub: RedDeer.Games
Windows
Run-and-gun action game with multi-stage boss battles. Play as Chester, world's most badass guinea pig, who is hell-bent on a quest for revenge.
Why similar: Side Scroller 14.7%, Bullet Hell 14.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.9%, Cartoon 9.1%, Cartoony 8.7%
- #39 TENGAI
71% matchPositive100% of 19 reviews2026
Dev: ZerodivPub: KMBOX
Windows
Three years after Sengoku Ace. The long-awaited sequel arrives!! Saikyo's side-scrolling shooter. The first installment!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 19.6%, Side Scroller 15.5%, Bullet Hell 14.8%, Shooter 13.5%, Arcade 13.1%
- #40 Karous
71% matchPositive93% of 30 reviews2026
Dev: RS34
Windows
Slash, shoot, guard, grow! Karous, a Dreamcast shoot 'em up originally released back in 2007, is now soaring onto PC. Play as Karous, a girl who lost her parents in a great war with humans. Driven by her father's dying words, she descends to Earth in search of the Sanguis Dei.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.8%, Bullet Hell 25.9%, Shooter 17.5%, Arcade 15.2%, Action 5.5%
- #41 Gunvein
72% matchVery Positive97% of 215 reviews2022
Dev: NGDEV
Windows
Gunvein is a dynamic, aggression-based bullet hell shoot em up where you use lock on lasers, charged weapons, bombs & hypers to overwhelm the enemies before they overwhelm you.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.7%, Bullet Hell 24.4%, Arcade 14%, Shooter 9.9%, Action 8.1%
- #42 Mow That Lawn
73% match4 user reviews75% of 4 reviews2024
Dev: Suburban Codestew
Windows · Mac
Action-packed sidescrolling gardening-shooter, with colorful comicbook-style graphics and gameplay inspired by the arcade-machines of the early 80's. Mow that lawn, jump over the holes and don't let piles of dirt, animals, drones-with-water-balloons or mischievous friends, get in your way.
Why similar: Side Scroller 18.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.1%, Comic Book 16.2%, Arcade 11.7%, 1980s 8.8%
- #43 PigShip and the Giant Wolf
73% match2 user reviews50% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Pixel Bones Studio
Windows
Pig Ship and the Giant Wolf is a classic Shoot'em Up with a 8btis monochrome aesthetic. Cross the 6 worlds full of enemies and defeat the Giant Wolf to save your brothers.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 17.3%, Bullet Hell 15.9%, Side Scroller 15.6%, Shooter 10.9%, Arcade 10.4%
- #44 GUN DOG ROCK RAPID
72% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2020
Dev: leimonyaPub: leimonya
Windows
Super simple 2D shooter game! Use the two types of shots to push forward.Kick out the swarming zakos and take on the powerful bosses.7 crazy worlds are waiting for your cat!?
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.5%, Side Scroller 21.7%, Shooter 16%, Arcade 14.8%, Action 6.9%
- #45 Herodes
71% match9 user reviews89% of 9 reviews2023
Dev: TecnoloGilsPub: QUByte Interactive
Windows
Pilot a miniaturized ship and save humanity from the inside out! Herodes is a fast-paced action SHMUP where you enter the human body to hunt a deadly virus. Destroy organic defenses and survive visceral bosses in this tribute to genre classics.
Why similar: Side Scroller 22%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.2%, Bullet Hell 18.2%, Shooter 14.2%, Arcade 12.3%
- #46 Jetpack Kiwi
70% match2 user reviews100% of 2 reviews2023
Dev: Pitigamedev
Windows
Jetpack Kiwi is a classic 2D side scrolling shoot em up game featuring 20 levels, 5 bosses, hordes of enemies spaceships, with multiple characters to choose from; each one with an unique special attack. Complete the game in single player or with a friend in local co-op!
Why similar: Side Scroller 16.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.4%, Bullet Hell 15.6%, Shooter 11.6%, Arcade 10.7%
- #47 The X-Type
70% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: BinaryWriter
Windows
Master a modular arsenal and survive a biomechanical nightmare in this intense cinematic shmup. Face grotesque aberrations, unlock achievements, and conquer the hardcore mode. The first level of an expanding saga!
Why similar: Side Scroller 21.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.6%, Bullet Hell 19%, Shooter 11.7%, Arcade 9.5%
- #48 R-Type Final 2
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 820 reviews2021
Dev: Granzella Inc.Pub: NIS America, Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 12.8 hrs≥1hr: 72%
R-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29.3%, Side Scroller 25%, Shooter 15.7%, Arcade 14.3%, Action 7.6%
- #49 Rangerdog
70% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2021
Dev: OOEGAMESPub: Hanaji Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Save the universe with Rangerdog! A cute retro-style side-scrolling shoot 'em up!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 19.3%, Side Scroller 14.3%, Bullet Hell 14.1%, Arcade 11.1%, Shooter 10.4%
- #50 Suicide Runners
69% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2024
Dev: JTW
Windows
Classic 2D shoot em up with updated graphics. Dodge a storm of bullets as you blast through space shooting hordes of enemies. Collect powerups to survive against fearsome bosses. Pilot a suicide runner as you fight to unravel the mystery of what is destroying the universe.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.1%, Bullet Hell 18.2%, Side Scroller 14%, Arcade 13.4%, Shooter 10.1%
- #51 Fox Fairy Saga · Nine Nights: Prologue
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Cat Play
Windows
In Northeast China, there is a beautiful legend about the little fox fairy: In ancient times, the Five Immortals and Holy Spirit lived in the deep mountains and forests of Northeast China, guarding this land and all things inside. Every Holy Spirit possesses a unique power and mission.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 30.2% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 13.4%, Bullet Hell 13.3%, Shooter 11.8%, Action-Adventure 11.1%
- #52 Nightmare Busters Rebirth
68% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Aurora Game StudioPub: Pix'n Love Games
Windows
Hunt down nightmares in the Kingdom of Dreams in this gorgeous, action-packed 2D run 'n gun, playable in local co-op for up to two players!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 14.8%, Comic Book 13.6%, Shooter 9.8%, Action-Adventure 9.1%, Arcade 9.1%
- #53 Arrow Hell
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Afzal Ansari
Windows
Slash. Dodge. Shoot. Survive. A fast-paced arcade shooter packed with relentless enemy waves.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.6%, Shooter 14.5%, Arcade 13.9%, Comic Book 10.8%
- #54 Chaotic Loop
68% matchPositive80% of 15 reviews2022
Dev: technologicalpixel
Windows
Chaotic Loop is a little game, where your objective is to complete the level you choose, also everytime you play something in the game will change and this makes the loop of finishing the level chaotic.
Why similar: Side Scroller 19.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.5%, Comic Book 13.3%, Shooter 10.6%, Arcade 9.2%
- #55 Jungles of Maxtheria
69% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2020
Dev: SlifkerGames
Windows · Mac · Linux
Search for lost treasure in this Indiana Jones style adventure. Your quest for fortune and glory will not be easy however. Few ever return from their expeditions into the deep jungles. So, if you are brave enough, the "Jungles of Maxtheria" awaits!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 17.3%, Side Scroller 16.3%, Arcade 11.3%, Action-Adventure 11.3%, Cartoon 8.1%
- #56 Habroxia 2
67% matchVery Positive92% of 62 reviews2021
Dev: Lillymo Games
Windows
Blast off for a sequel that pushes every facet of 2D shoot'em ups to escape velocity!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25%, Side Scroller 20.8%, Shooter 16.5%, Arcade 15.9%, Action 11.4%
- #57 Magnus
66% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: Katuunu XVIPub: Cicada Studios
Windows · Linux
A challenging 2D boss rush shooter. Use your reflexes and mobilities to face off against a legion of foes.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.7%, Shooter 13.9%, Arcade 13.4%, Action 9.6%
- #58 GPU Inferno
65% match4 user reviews100% of 4 reviews2025
Dev: Moriba
Windows
If your FPS drop to 30… you lose! GPU Inferno is a survivor bullet hell where you play as a graphics card fighting off viruses, crypto miners, and malware. Your real FPS are your health. When the GPU is damaged, actual background processes on your PC will slow down your FPS.
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 36.2% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 16.9%, Bullet Hell 16.7%, Shooter 10.1%, Arcade 8.7%
- #59 DAVE a nice guy
66% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: noisy kazoo
Windows
fast paced action game
Why similar: Boomer Shooter 41.1% ★, Shooter 15.3%, Bullet Hell 15.2%, Arcade 14.8%, Action 10.5%