60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Arcade, Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up.
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.
Red Galaxy
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.
Netherspace
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.
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 17.2%, Top-Down Shooter 15.7%, Shooter 12%, Arcade 11.2%, Aliens 9.5%
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 15.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.1%, Shooter 10.5%, Arcade 9.3%
1x! Space Adventure is an arcade top-down shump with gradually increasing difficulty.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 18.2%, Bullet Hell 17.9%, Arcade 13.7%, Shooter 13.4%, Top-Down Shooter 12.9%
4D:XD is a top-down 2D bullet hell space shooter. Conquer the game with as few deaths as possible!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 21.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.6%, Top-Down Shooter 16.3%, Shooter 10.8%, Arcade 9.2%
Nebula Warrior is a fast-paced arcade space shooter, a 15–20 minute action-driven experience designed like a high-intensity road trip through space. It evolves from a classic top-down shooter into a full 3D jet-style space combat, blending nostalgia with modern intensity.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.7%, Top-Down Shooter 12.2%, Shooter 11.4%, Arcade 11.1%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 18.8%, Bullet Hell 17.2%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Aliens 10.5%, Arcade 8.6%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 15.7%, Bullet Hell 15.1%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Arcade 7.8%, Shooter 7.7%
The vertical scrolling shooter game '.Decluster' and its sequel '.Decluster Zero' are now available in one package.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23%, Bullet Hell 19.4%, Top-Down Shooter 15.8%, Shooter 11.9%, Action 7.8%
Laser Droplets is a mixture of shoot ‘em up, bullet-hell, arcade styled, 2D game. It consists of 16 mini stages, each with a unique stage boss.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 21.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.1%, Arcade 14.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.5%, Action 10.2%
A retro space shoot 'em up with pixel art graphics, unique enemies, tough angry bosses, and a killer soundtrack. You are among the first pilots to arrive in the system to mount the counteroffensive against the aggressors. Get out there and show these aliens the price for messing with The Alliance!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 22.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 21%, Shooter 12.3%, Arcade 10.9%, Action 7.4%
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 19.7%, Bullet Hell 17.1%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Shooter 12.9%, Arcade 12.7%
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 19.2%, Bullet Hell 18.3%, Top-Down Shooter 15.7%, Action 11.6%, Arcade 10.4%
It's time for the death test, bullet believers. Prove your strength in the face of an ever-growing opponent.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24%, Shoot 'Em Up 20%, Top-Down Shooter 18.3%, Shooter 13.7%, Arcade 11.8%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 17%, Bullet Hell 15.2%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Shooter 8.5%, Aliens 8.3%
PRISMIDIA: Spirit of the Rift is a sci-fi shoot 'em up game in the style of arcade classics. Dodge barrages of attacks, survive bullet hell bosses, and save Prismidia!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.1%, Bullet Hell 19.7%, Shooter 11.6%, Arcade 10%, Aliens 9.1%
Dininho sees an imminent threat on a planet within his system. Taken by a mixture of euphoria and concern, Dininho jumps into his ship and without thinking twice, takes off towards what may be the most dangerous and heroic adventure of your life.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 19.1%, Bullet Hell 19.1%, Top-Down Shooter 14.1%, Shooter 13.9%, Arcade 13.8%
Punch through the cosmos! An arcade-inspired shoot-em-up where you play as an immortal lobster speeding through space.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.9%, Top-Down Shooter 13.9%, Arcade 12.8%, Action 10.4%
CAVE's arcade bullet hell shooter returns as DoDonPachi Resurrection Reignite. New stages, a new character, new music, and other new elements set the stage for a new challenge.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.8%, Shooter 10.3%, Arcade 10.3%
In the vast depths of space, lies a man with a dark past. Setting himself apart from that old life, and seeking justice against wrongdoing instead of being the cause of it, Captain Righteous uses the Freedom Fighter, his trusty space fighter to search for and combat the evil Captain Buster!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16.3%, Top-Down Shooter 11.2%, Shooter 11.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.8%, Arcade 10.5%
A fast-paced vertical shmup where a living brain controls a combat ship to battle grotesque alien creatures across biomechanical worlds filled with massive bosses and intense arcade action.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 21.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.9%, Top-Down Shooter 16.6%, Shooter 10.9%, Arcade 9.3%
This book contains several of tamazusa's small-scale STG works, mainly game jam works.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.8%, Bullet Hell 17.7%, Arcade 14.3%, Shooter 14%, Action 13.6%
Play as one of 7 pilots in this thrilling sequel to a SHMUP classic. The time has come for a new generation of Psyvariars to rise… and save humanity.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 22.4%, Bullet Hell 19.1%, Top-Down Shooter 16.1%, Shooter 11%, Arcade 9.2%
Survive endless waves of escalating enemies in this fast-paced arcade shooter. Dodge overwhelming attacks, master precision movement, and fight to stay alive inside hypnotic neon chaos.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.4%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Shooter 12.1%, Arcade 11.5%
Absorb matching enemy fire, unleash devastating burst attacks, and survive escalating waves of neon arcade chaos in this fast-paced reactive shooter.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 16%, Bullet Hell 15.9%, Top-Down Shooter 13.9%, Shooter 11%, Arcade 10.4%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 22.4%, Bullet Hell 19.7%, Arcade 12.6%, Shooter 11.3%, Action 7.9%
Catboy in a bullet hell! Nyan, nyan, pew pew pew!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 22.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.8%, Top-Down Shooter 11.3%, Arcade 10.1%, Shooter 8.6%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 18.7%, Bullet Hell 18.4%, Top-Down Shooter 16.3%, Shooter 11.3%, Arcade 10.1%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 14.9%, Bullet Hell 14.7%, Top-Down Shooter 12.8%, Shooter 10.9%, Arcade 10.2%
Resurrection Core is vertically scrolling Bullet Hell Shoot ´Em Up game. It honors the arcade classics but also adds modern touch and unique game-play mechanics to the genre. Master the unique weapon systems and resurrect enemy cores to become the ultimate fighting machine!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 20.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.3%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Shooter 12.7%, Action 11.3%
A fast-paced roguelike space shooter where every credit counts. Fight through dangerous sectors, upgrade your ship mid-battle, and convert your earnings into permanent power. Because when you die, you keep what matters.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 16%, Bullet Hell 13.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.2%, Shooter 10.3%, Aliens 8.2%
Wrathflame is a 2D top down real-time bullet hell shooter featuring retro Pico8 pixel graphics and chiptunes. You are a sorcerer-monk of the order of Wrathflame battling the machinations of the heretical Wyvern cult. Completing each level gives you the opportunity to level up one of four spells.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Shooter 13%, Arcade 12.9%
Another version of the classic Asteroids game
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 19.7%, Top-Down Shooter 16.8%, Shooter 14.1%, Arcade 13.9%, Action 12.1%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 21.1%, Bullet Hell 19.3%, Shooter 12.7%, Arcade 10.8%, Action 7.5%
Armageddon Sky's Invasion is a vertical scrolling bullet hell shoot'em up. You will destroy countless waves of the invader's fleet to protect the planet that you love. Face challenging boss and be surprised by the beautiful backgrounds.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.9%, Action 13.8%, Arcade 13.5%, Shooter 13.5%
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 20.5%, Shooter 12.8%, Bullet Hell 10.3%, Arcade 10.1%, Top-Down Shooter 7.5%
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 16.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Shooter 11.8%, Arcade 11.2%
Auto shooter score attack survival game where your character moves forward continuously and you control the direction of travel by rotating left and right
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.5%, Action 14.1%, Shooter 13.9%, Arcade 13.9%
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 17.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.9%, Top-Down Shooter 14.3%, Shooter 11.9%, Arcade 11.6%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 17.2%, Bullet Hell 17%, Top-Down Shooter 14.5%, Shooter 11.7%, Arcade 11.1%
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 25.4%, Bullet Hell 20.3%, Top-Down Shooter 17.7%, Shooter 11.7%, Action 7.5%
Fire up your blaster cannons and take on waves of enemies in this retro shoot'em up with procedural levels. Come back stronger with each attempt and beat the high score!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.5%, Top-Down Shooter 12.8%, Arcade 10.6%, Shooter 10.1%
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 23.9%, Bullet Hell 20.1%, Top-Down Shooter 17.6%, Arcade 7.7%, Shooter 7.2%
Blast off as a little star trying to rid the cosmos of angry celestial beings in Feeble Light, a 3-tone pixel art shoot’em up where minimalistic presentation makes way for precision controls and fluid animation!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.8%, Bullet Hell 21.7%, Shooter 13.5%, Arcade 11.6%, Action 8.8%
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 17.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.7%, Shooter 14.6%, Bullet Hell 14%, Action 13.3%
The second installment in Saikyo's vertical scrolling shooters, following the 1993 Best Shooting Game award winner “Sengoku Ace”.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 18.9%, Bullet Hell 16.9%, Top-Down Shooter 13.7%, Shooter 13.1%, Arcade 12.8%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 19.4%, Bullet Hell 16.4%, Shooter 14.1%, Arcade 12.3%, Action 11.7%
Hit the road for explosive bullet hell action through a post-apocalyptic wasteland!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 22%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.9%, Top-Down Shooter 16.3%, Shooter 11.4%, Arcade 8.5%
Beyond Solar is an intense pixel art bullet hell shooter that captures the feel of retro arcade classics while introducing modern systems. Master tight controls, dodge relentless enemy patterns, and survive increasingly chaotic encounters through skill and smart decision-making.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 15.5%, Bullet Hell 14.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.6%, Aliens 10.1%, Shooter 9.4%
Touhou Renkyouto is a top-down bullet hell title starring the green-eyed Parsee Mizuhashi. Adventure from the Underworld to the surface and back again to solve an incident involving stray spirits causing chaos, and maybe help Parsee realize her love along the way.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 17.2%, Bullet Hell 16.9%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Shooter 11.5%, Arcade 10.8%
Cosmic Survivor is a space arcade survival game: pilot unique ships, face waves of meteors, alien swarms, and colossal bosses while unlocking weapons, achievements, and new challenges.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.6%, Shooter 13.7%, Arcade 13.5%, Action 12.1%
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 23.6%, Top-Down Shooter 19.6%, Shooter 13.1%, Arcade 11.3%, Action 7.4%
An arcade style bullet-hell shoot 'em up where you'll have to dodge thousands of bullets.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28%, Bullet Hell 21.3%, Top-Down Shooter 18.2%, Arcade 14.3%, Action 9%
Brought to you by the makers of GIGANTIC ARMY, Supercharged Robot VULKAISER, and SATAZIUS, WOLFLAME is a return to the form of glorious 2D vertical vertical shooters like Raiden, Raptor, and Twin Cobra.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.1%, Bullet Hell 17.3%, Arcade 13.1%, Shooter 13.1%, Action 8.3%
A score-driven vertical STG built around aggressive grazing, medal chaining, and risk-reward survival mechanics. Dodge impossible bullet patterns, manipulate time itself, and push for the ultimate 1CC.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.7%, Bullet Hell 18.5%, Top-Down Shooter 12.6%, Shooter 11.9%, Arcade 10.6%
Hardcore yet cute Danmaku shooting makes a grand comeback!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.5%, Bullet Hell 16.7%, Top-Down Shooter 13.8%, Shooter 13.7%, Arcade 13.4%
Guide the Gamma Brothers through waves of alien attacks, blasting your way home from work in this frantic twin-stick space shooter about brotherly love.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 17%, Bullet Hell 15.9%, Shooter 11.1%, Arcade 10.5%, Aliens 8.9%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 18.3%, Bullet Hell 18.1%, Shooter 12.4%, Arcade 11.7%, Action 7.8%
Cosmonator is an 'RPG-em-up': a hybrid of classic fast-paced top-down shoot-em-up action infused with deep character building elements. Build up your own unique alien-killing machine to avenge the destruction of planet Earth!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.7%, Top-Down Shooter 17.5%, Action 12.7%, Bullet Hell 12.7%, Aliens 6%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 24.1%, Bullet Hell 20.1%, Top-Down Shooter 17.6%, Shooter 10.9%, Arcade 8.5%
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 24.5%, Bullet Hell 21.8%, Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Shooter 11.3%, Arcade 8.9%
