- #1 Super Glitter Rush
97% matchVery Positive96% of 113 reviews2021
Dev: tiny cactus studio
Windows
Super Glitter Rush is a boss-rush style bullet hell shoot-em-up!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 38.1%, Bullet Hell 30.6%, Indie 12.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Cute 8.9%
- #2 東方眠世界 ~ Wonderful Waking World
96% matchVery Positive98% of 291 reviews2022
Dev: Oligarchomp
Windows
A simplistic, dynamic Touhou fangame bullet hell shmup with a pixel art esthetic. Shoot down your enemies and dodge your way through an incessant barrage of projectiles!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 45.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 34.2%, Indie 10.8%, Pixel Graphics 9%
- #3 Gunbot Diplomacy: Blast Off
96% matchVery Positive87% of 141 reviews2025
Dev: Sleepy SentryPub: GrabTheGames
Windows
Median: 48 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 43%
Splatter slimes, massacre mutants, and assemble your perfect Gunbot! Survive the wasteland in this top-down shooter roguelite by customizing your weapons on the unique upgrade grid, and pick from tons of build-defining modules and wacky bots for a new experience every run. Prologue teaser build.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 78.3%, Cute 13.3%, Indie 8.4%
- #4 HoloCure - Save the Fans!
94% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 39,748 reviews2023
Dev: KayAnimate
Windows
Play as your favorite Vtubers from Hololive! Fight, explore, and clear your way through armies of fans and save them from their mind-control in this unofficial free fan-game.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 54.3%, Pixel Graphics 27.7%, Cute 17.9%
- #5 Pamina VS Slimes
95% matchVery Positive97% of 72 reviews2024
Dev: Rune Game Dev
Windows
Pamina VS Slimes is a fast-paced top-down arcade game where you defend your home from endless waves of slimes. Choose from 4 headpattable characters, master elemental strategies, and unleash powerful burst skills across 4 game modes. Get ready for non-stop action!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.6%, Bullet Hell 29.6%, Pixel Graphics 18%, Cute 9.9%
- #6 Gunner-chan!
93% matchVery Positive92% of 226 reviews2025
Dev: kido
Windows
A 2.5D top-down, roguelike shooter set in a base that has been taken over by a revolt of robots.
Why similar: Indie 73.9%, Cute 26.1%
- #7 東方実在相 ~ Dream Logical World
94% matchVery Positive82% of 309 reviews2022
Dev: Analogue Reverie
Windows
A reality-bending, strategy-oriented Touhou Project fan game. Shoot down enemies, dodge bullets and use Aspect Shifts to warp existence.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 55.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 44.8%
- #8 The Super Pie Throwing
91% matchVery Positive92% of 53 reviews2024
Dev: Lucky Guilty
Windows
A 3D Slapstick Gag Action Minigame!!! Throw pies, avoid weights, and all other sorts of things to earn HUGE POINTS!!!
Why similar: Indie 50.2%, Cute 49.8%
- #9 Mirage Feathers
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 2,386 reviews2024
Dev: oyasumi Workshop
Windows
Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 66%
「Maybe one day, I won't have to fight when I fly.」
Why similar: Bullet Hell 30.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 29.9%, Cute 15.9%, Pixel Graphics 12.3%, Indie 11.5%
- #10 Clean'Em Up
92% matchVery Positive90% of 72 reviews2016
Dev: Cheesy Holes
Windows
Clean’Em Up is a fast paced, arcade-style Top Down Shooter with neon graphics. You play as an Upgradable Antivirus. You seek and destroy tremendous viruses and threats, collect and protect files and survive huge Bosses. The story is simple: Your Computer has been hacked... Dozens of viruses and other threats have penetrated your System...
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #11 Pewt 'em Up!
91% matchVery Positive96% of 171 reviews2022
Dev: team tsoto
Windows · Linux
Pewt 'em Up! is a retro inspired arcade space shoot 'em up with lots of upgrades, achievements, extras and more.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 67.2%, Pixel Graphics 24.4%, Indie 8.4%
- #12 Touhou Endless Dream
89% matchVery Positive94% of 1,872 reviews2021
Dev: a10a010Pub: MyACG Studio
Windows
Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 12.0 hrs≥1hr: 85%
A bullet hell roguelike game. Players can utilize characters with different abilities, collect and assemble powerful items. Dance through an unending barrage of bullets to save both yourself and Touhou Gensokyo from the darkness that is engulfing everything.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.6%, Indie 24.4%, Pixel Graphics 17.7%, Cute 15.4%
- #13 SUPER CIRCUIT BREAKERS
89% matchVery Positive82% of 94 reviews2020
Dev: Triverske
Windows
Back with new weapons, new enemies, and with more circuits to break than ever! Destroy millions of robots in this free-to-play shooter with up to 6 players.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 58.4%, Pixel Graphics 22.1%, Cute 19.4%
- #14 Maid Survivors : Little Angels
86% matchVery Positive93% of 227 reviews2025
Dev: MilkEmpirePub: Phoenixx Inc.
Windows
[Maid Survivors : Little Angels] is a roguelite arena shooter game where various lovely maid-warriors battle waves of enemies and powerful bosses. Upgrade the maid-warriors, choose from a variety of weapons and items to create your own build and protect Earth's peace from enemies!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 74.1%, Indie 25.9%
- #15 Is It Wrong to Try to Shoot 'em Up Girls in a Dungeon?
87% matchVery Positive92% of 246 reviews2020
Dev: MAGES. Inc.Pub: PQube
Windows
Median: 24 minMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 28%
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 47.1%, Bullet Hell 42.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%
- #16 Laser Disco Defenders
88% matchVery Positive83% of 52 reviews2016
Dev: Out Of BoundsPub: Excalibur Publishing
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 93%
A self-inflicted bullet hell that combines retro sci-fi with the sounds and sights of the disco era
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 35.6%, Bullet Hell 33.7%, Indie 23.6%, Cute 7.1%
- #17 Bullet Hell Monday: Finale
84% 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 45%, Bullet Hell 40.7%, Indie 14.3%
- #18 東方催狐譚 ~ Servants of Harvest Wish
84% matchVery Positive96% of 414 reviews2020
Dev: Dream Compass
Windows
Set off on a journey to an autumnal paradise in this bountiful Touhou vertical Bullethell Shmup fan game made by overseas fans!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 52.2%, Bullet Hell 47.8%
- #19 WOWOWOW KORONE BOX
82% matchVery Positive92% of 744 reviews2024
Dev: tian nyaPub: holo Indie
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 36%
A hololive fangame featuring Inugami Korone of hololive GAMERS! Collect as many Korone Boxes as possible while contending with an endless onslaught of enemies and bosses using whatever weapons you happen to pick up!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 41.6%, Bullet Hell 36.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Cute 7.9%, Indie 5.3%
- #20 Blast Off Far Away
83% matchVery Positive95% of 56 reviews2022
Dev: C405Pub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Shoot to move, move to live, live to shoot! Blast Off Far Away (B.O.F.A.) is a space-themed, top-down arena shooter, with a focus on fast-paced arcade-esque gameplay, with the unique twist where movement is limited through the use of the player's gun.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 78.4%, Pixel Graphics 21.6%
- #21 Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
81% matchVery Positive93% of 1,762 reviews2015
Dev: Emad
Windows
Median: 36 minMean: 10.1 hrs≥1hr: 39%
Jigoku Kisetsukan is a bullet hell shootergame with anime-style drawings and chip music.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 57.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.4%, Indie 14.7%
- #22 東方菈菈队
79% matchVery Positive96% of 56 reviews2023
Dev: SlimeSmilePub: 雾雨威Channel
Windows
一款东方同人STG射击游戏,魔女罗菈Rola穿越到幻想乡发动圣诞节异变,博丽灵梦发现后大战罗菈Rola!开始紧张刺激的弹幕游戏吧!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 79.6%, Indie 20.4%
- #23 Dorothy's Job
76% matchVery Positive99% of 75 reviews2025
Dev: Bola 13 Studios
Windows
A frenetic and hilarious isometric twin-stick shooter where you play as Dorothy, a muscular maid who is in charge of cleaning levels full of enemies and filth with deadly mops, vacuums, and outrageous cleaning tools.
- #24 CosmoDreamer
78% matchVery Positive100% of 143 reviews2020
Dev: あうとさいど
Windows
From the popular free game "Outside" comes a dreamy and cute barrage shmups. The visuals are colorful, cute and fantastic, and the game features active gameplay.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 56.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.1%, Cute 12.2%, Indie 8.4%
- #25 Gare Sapphire Mechs
81% matchMixed69% of 51 reviews2015
Dev: Prexen Studios
Windows
A polished top down action shooter set in a digital like world with upgradable mechs.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #26 Terra Feminarum
80% matchVery Positive86% of 64 reviews2018
Dev: Polar Night Games
Windows
Terra Feminarum is a Finnish mythology themed Japanese style danmaku shoot ’em up.
Why similar: Indie 43%, Bullet Hell 28.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 28.3%
- #27 Maid of the Dead
77% matchVery Positive82% of 159 reviews2024
Dev: qureate
Windows
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 65.7%, Pixel Graphics 17.6%, Cute 16.7%
- #28 Clawface
79% matchVery Positive86% of 180 reviews2018
Dev: Hathos Interactive
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 24 minMean: 259.3 hrs≥1hr: 26%
Clawface is an intense, arcade-styled twin stick shooter where you play as an adorable robot equipped with crazy weapons and a giant claw to fight an endless wave of alien monsters!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 61.5%, Indie 38.5%
- #29 Get To Work, Succubus-Chan!
78% matchVery Positive80% of 516 reviews2021
Dev: SmallSqurrielPub: Mango Party
Windows · Mac
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 20.1 hrs≥1hr: 60%
Enter your own erotic dream and play this shoot-em up where you can customize your attacks.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 53.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 34%, Cute 12.4%
- #30 Moolii's Dreamland
77% matchVery Positive93% of 101 reviews2023
Dev: WOWOH CATPub: OKJOY
Windows
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: Shoot 'Em Up 37.5%, Bullet Hell 36.9%, Indie 14%, Cute 11.6%
- #31 MAID MOVING BOXES
74% matchVery Positive91% of 141 reviews2025
Dev: Partaevil
Windows · Linux
An anime android maid and her work drone are meeting a quota at the warehouse! A simple yet engaging game about the monotonous, relaxing process of working as a mover. Short but challenging levels, multiplayer, and lots and lots of boxes await you!
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #32 Rule No. 1
75% matchVery Positive93% of 259 reviews2021
Dev: Walk Without Rhythm Games
Windows
A silky smooth Arena First Person Shooter with a prime focus on game-feel. Massacre waves of sentient metallic geometry and their monster compatriots as you fight for your Hi-Score! Designed to be the ultimate 'warm-up' or 'waiting-for-download' game!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 79%, Pixel Graphics 21%
- #33 Revenant
73% matchVery Positive94% of 458 reviews2023
Dev: MAYFLY
Windows
Revenant is a pixel-art style shooting game set in the near future.
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 55.7%, Indie 44.3%
- #34 Caterpillarnoid
76% matchVery Positive89% of 112 reviews2020
Dev: Pavel Kutejnikov
Windows
Breaking bricks with physics, bombs, shooting and robot-enemies.
Why similar: Indie 52.7%, Pixel Graphics 34.8%, Cute 12.5%
- #35 Snezhinka:Sentinel Girls2
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 2,364 reviews2024
Dev: hinyari9
Windows
Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 10.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%
A fast-paced shooter with simple controls. Enhance your character by purchasing cards and hold the line against waves of hostile mechs as an employee of a private military company.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 43.2%, Pixel Graphics 22.2%, Cute 17.7%, Indie 16.9%
- #36 Bot Vice
75% matchVery Positive93% of 1,456 reviews2016
Dev: DYA Games
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Show off your skills & reflexes in this frantic gallery shooter action arcade, filled with bullets, bots and explosions! You play as Erin Saver, carrying out her personal vendetta against the criminal Wildbots.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 37.5%, Bullet Hell 36.7%, Pixel Graphics 15.5%, Cute 10.3%
- #37 A Whole Wolfrush
71% matchVery Positive96% of 188 reviews2025
Dev: uglycoal
Windows
Four friends battle their way across space to claim a once-in-a-lifetime wish. Their lives are in your hands.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.6%, Bullet Hell 35.5%, Indie 14.5%, Pixel Graphics 7.4%
- #38 Its Simple, SHOOT
74% matchVery Positive93% of 69 reviews2019
Dev: KyleR
Windows
Its Simple, SHOOT! Is a minimalist top down 2D waveshooter that has the player utilizing various weapons and abilities to overcome their foes.
- #39 Pink Hour
73% matchVery Positive93% of 1,002 reviews2015
Dev: Studio PixelPub: PLAYISM
Windows · Mac
Median: 18 minMean: 10.9 hrs≥1hr: 16%
Help a pink-clad office lady find a missing document so the boss doesn't get angry in this free spin-off minigame to Kero Blaster.
Why similar: Indie 50.9%, Pixel Graphics 33%, Cute 16.1%
- #40 BLUE REVOLVER
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive99% of 858 reviews2016
Dev: danboPub: Stellar Circle
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 45.6%, Bullet Hell 31.9%, Indie 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%
- #41 Disaster Arms - Impact Project B.A.H.N.
70% matchVery Positive100% of 59 reviews2025
Dev: PD_CGT
Windows · Linux
- DRY CONTACT - INSTIGATION OF HYBRID SOLDIER LIFELINE - BIO-AFFECTIONATE HYPER NETWORK -
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 44.6%, Bullet Hell 44.4%, Cute 11%
- #42 Cavalry Girls
69% matchVery Positive89% of 1,930 reviews2023
Dev: 中子星游戏研究所Pub: OKJOY
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.3 hrs≥1hr: 71%
In this refreshing and exciting shooting game, lead the brave and fearless girl soldiers to fight with the enemy. Refit different types of machine armour, reasonably deploy machine soldiers with different skills, repel all kinds of enemies, and protect the Empire behind you in the gunfire.
- #43 Xmas Shooting - Scramble!!
73% matchVery Positive93% of 138 reviews2016
Dev: Orange_JuicePub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Help Aru save Christmas in this humoristic, action-packed shooter set in the universe of QP Shooting - Dangerous!!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 36.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 35.7%, Indie 16%, Cute 12%
- #44 BLUE WISH DESIRE
71% matchVery Positive100% of 62 reviews2021
Dev: xxgameroom
Windows
BLUW WISH DESIRE is 2D veritically scrolling shmup. Go through the barrage and destroy the oncoming enemies. In addition, this game is equipped with an auto guard system that automatically prevents mistakes. So even those who are not good at barrage STG are safe.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 41.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 37.6%, Indie 20.6%
- #45 Cyber Slayer
70% matchVery Positive86% of 71 reviews2022
Dev: Double Dice GamesPub: DigiPen Institute of Technology
Windows
Battle your way through waves of robots as you attempt to survive in an unforgiving, grungy arena. Bathe in glory as you put on a good show for the audience, and be rewarded with upgrades. Try to last as long as you can to put your name down in history!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 100%
- #46 Just A Dream
72% matchVery Positive82% of 79 reviews2017
Dev: The Hyper Carries!
Windows
Just a Dream is a fast paced top down action game. You enter a world filled with your worst nightmares and must escape. As you fight across your dream from level to level, you encounter the very things that you dread every night.
Why similar: Indie 100%
- #47 HSS:Reload
69% matchMostly Positive72% of 209 reviews2024
Dev: SmokingBear Studio
Windows
This is a very fast God's perspective roguelike shooter, the player will pilot the mech, explore the alien frontier, enjoy the "Crimsonland + Vampire Survivors (Vampire Survivors)" endless killing!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 48.4%, Cute 31.7%, Indie 19.9%
- #48 Galeid.
67% matchVery Positive98% of 54 reviews2024
Dev: upa=宇羽
Windows
「いつもあなたの傍に」 Galeid.は不気味な夢の世界で魚を釣ったりゴミを食べたり世界を救ったりする こわかわホラーRPGです。
Why similar: Pixel Graphics 58.4%, Cute 41.6%
- #49 Neptunia Shooter
69% matchVery Positive88% of 738 reviews2019
Dev: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 65.1 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Armed to the teeth, players begin as Neptune in an unworldly 8-bit space dimension ravaged by creatures who burst endless waves of bullets. Shoot, dodge, and defeat the boss in six unique bullet-hell worlds.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 41.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 33.9%, Pixel Graphics 13.8%, Cute 10.4%
- #50 Project Starship
70% matchVery Positive81% of 466 reviews2016
Dev: Panda Indie Studio
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 92%
Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?
Why similar: Indie 90.6%, Bullet Hell 5%, Shoot 'Em Up 4.4%
- #51 PARA♰BELLUM ~ 魔弹帕菈
66% matchVery Positive97% of 144 reviews2024
Dev: ChronoYukiPub: 马家沟红旗农机合作社
Windows
Necromancer's army is gathering! But he can't afford Necronomicon Prime so his army can only use free medieval equipment set... We believe that one battle sister can solve them well. Go Forth, Sister Para, Blast your enemy in this survivor-like shooter game!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 36.8%, Bullet Hell 35.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.1%, Indie 13.8%
- #52 DRAINUS
66% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,100 reviews2022
Dev: Team LadybugPub: WSS playground
Windows
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 2.9 hrs≥1hr: 68%
This is a side-scrolling shooting game in which you take control of the "Drainus", the Kharlal Empire's most cutting-edge fighter with the ability to absorb energy bullets, and take down the enemy ships zipping through space.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 52.2%, Indie 26%, Bullet Hell 16.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
- #53 鈴集無名の丘 ~ Little Doll Queen
67% matchVery Positive92% of 106 reviews2023
Dev: 幸歸鈴園
Windows
Gensokyo suddenly plunged into a huge miasma of toxic fog, and the lands are now gloomy and lifeless. The source of these strange phenomena is the Nameless Hill, a forgotten land of sin. It's a danmaku experience full of poisons and suffocation. That means, this is a shooting game.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 42.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 38.2%, Indie 11.9%, Cute 7.4%
- #54 Robot girl's dream -RobotBattleChampionship-
64% matchVery Positive97% of 184 reviews2025
Dev: DeskClub Games
Windows
This game is an RPG game that follows the growth of a robot girl who has lost her memories. Players can aim for victory in the robot battle tournament, the main objective, and also enjoy interactions with both humans and robots.
Why similar: Cute 100%
- #55 Project Beril / 贝丽尔养成计划
67% matchVery Positive93% of 82 reviews2022
Dev: SlimeSmile
Windows
This is an AI game.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 39.5%, Bullet Hell 37.2%, Indie 23.3%
- #56 DRACOMATON
64% matchVery Positive91% of 1,064 reviews2023
Dev: Gun Jumpers
Windows · Mac
Dracomaton is a top-down roguelike bullet hell about Eclipse, a small robot who awakens in an abandoned factory filled with corrupted training bots and the secrets of cosmic dragons. Fight your way to the top of the tower by transforming your robot body, changing your entire arsenal on the fly!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 92.7%, Indie 7.3%