- #1 Steel Saviour Reloaded
97% match8 user reviews88% of 8 reviews2022
Dev: Commodore SinapsyPub: Commodore Industries
Windows · Linux
Steel Saviour is back! Try yourself at this revised 16: 9 version of a cult side scrolling shooter.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 31.5% ★, Local Co-Op 21.1%, Local Multiplayer 15.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.4%, Multiplayer 5%
- #2 Retro Wars
96% match1 user reviews0% of 1 reviews2021
Dev: Paul Connor
Windows
Take on an entire army in this 80s inspired retro top down vertical scrolling shooter. Be a one man war machine or take a friend into battle for some fun 2 player local co-op.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 31.7% ★, Local Co-Op 25.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 13%, Top-Down Shooter 12.2%, Shooter 4.1%
- #3 Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
96% matchVery Positive93% of 4,036 reviews2015
Dev: Asteroid Base
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 78%
Explore a neon galaxy in your very own battleship in this 1- to 4-player couch co-op adventure.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 32.9%, Co-op Campaign 27.6% ★, Local Multiplayer 15.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 7.2%, Multiplayer 4.9%
- #4 Burst Fighter
95% matchPositive90% of 29 reviews2017
Dev: Lion Core
Windows
Burst Fighter is a shoot'em up game with unique customizable ship feature fused with modern graphic and gorgeous art styles. Dodge, counter, and defeat various enemies / attack patterns. Experience more than 8 challenging and intense boss battles.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 20.9%, Co-op Campaign 19.1% ★, Local Multiplayer 14.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.3%
- #5 Star Gun
94% match9 user reviews78% of 9 reviews2025
Dev: Transfinity Games
Windows
Star Gun is a fast-paced, auto-scrolling space shooter with RPG-style progression. Unlock unique ships and equipment, build powerful loadouts, and master skill-based combat as you blast through an unpredictable galaxy—solo or in local co-op.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 28.4% ★, Local Co-Op 24.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.9%, Local Multiplayer 14.8%, Sci-fi 4.6%
- #6 Spaceship Hunters
94% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: PIerre NuryPub: Pierre Nury
Windows · Mac · Linux
Spaceship Hunters is a chaotic couch co-op shoot-em-up for 4 players. Working as a crew, fight your way through the worst criminals the universe has to offer.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 34.4% ★, Local Co-Op 27.5%, Local Multiplayer 19.3%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Sci-fi 3.5%
- #7 A Tiny Snow Game
93% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2025
Dev: Alex Djenkov
Windows · Mac
Get ready for an epic snowball showdown! This fun couch co-op game for 1-4 players offers exciting modes like Free-For-All, King’s Crown, and a campaign. With vibrant visuals, dynamic gameplay, and a kid-friendly mode, it’s perfect for all ages. Join the frosty fun and share your feedback!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 41.7%, Top-Down Shooter 14.4%, Co-op Campaign 13.2% ★, Local Multiplayer 11%, Shooter 6%
- #8 SUPERVERSE
92% matchMixed66% of 41 reviews2025
Dev: Superverse Industries
Windows
SUPERVERSE is a fast-paced, action-packed space shooter that launches you into an ancient network of interconnected universes. Your mission: travel back through space-time and prevent the extinction of humanity.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 17.4% ★, Local Co-Op 15.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 14%, Top-Down Shooter 13.9%, 2.5D 10.9%
- #9 Hyperspaced
91% matchPositive94% of 35 reviews2025
Dev: RarebytePub: Headup
Windows
Blast your enemies, extinguish fires, clean up, repair, recycle and explore where no one has screwed up before! Team up and face swarms of foes as you pilot your way through a procedurally generated galaxy. Save the Multiverse in Hyperspaced, a chaotic co-op space action game for 1-4 players!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 31.6% ★, Local Co-Op 27.3%, Local Multiplayer 12.7%, Top-Down Shooter 10.5%, Multiplayer 6.1%
- #10 Paddlenoid
91% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2026
Dev: Deadbug Projects
Windows
Greetings, fellow human! Think you're a one-pod wonder? Break through 33 chaotic levels, take down 3 bosses, and bend the galaxy to your will. Play solo or with a friend. Just remember: ignore the glitch crystals!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 30.4% ★, Local Co-Op 24.4%, Local Multiplayer 16.3%, 2.5D 9.8%, Multiplayer 5%
- #11 Trigonarium
90% matchVery Positive89% of 76 reviews2015
Dev: Kimmo LahtinenPub: Kimmo Factor Oy
Windows
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Trigonarium is a hardcore twin-stick shooter for fans of challenging arcade gaming. Fight your way through multitudes of enemy formations in constantly shifting battle arenas to face the colossal level bosses.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 35.8% ★, Local Co-Op 28.8%, Top-Down Shooter 14%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.7%, Arcade 3%
- #12 RePair in the Space
89% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: 2JDev
Windows
RePair in the Space is a game where an alien and a robot must repair their ship. Whether playing with a friend or embarking on this journey alone, you’ll have to craft and use items to fix every sector of the ship, battling against time, haste... and sometimes against your friend or even yourself!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 37.6%, Co-op Campaign 32.5% ★, Local Multiplayer 15.9%, Action 4.1%, Arcade 4%
- #13 Protect Your Humans
89% matchNo user reviews2026
Dev: RaphMoite
Windows · Linux
Rebuild a kingdom, raise an army and defeat the Demon King and his servants in this 4 player Couch co-op action shoot-em-up adventure. Protect Your Humans, or there will be no humans left to fight with.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 35.8% ★, Local Co-Op 26.3%, Local Multiplayer 17.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.6%, Action 1.3%
- #14 Sky Force Reloaded
88% matchVery Positive93% of 2,688 reviews2017
Dev: Infinite Dreams
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.9 hrsMean: 14.9 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Sky Force Reloaded is a classic shoot ‘em up experience packed in gorgeous visuals and excellent gameplay. Enjoy flashy explosions, beautiful scenery and massive bosses in single player or local cooperative modes.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 26.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.6%, Top-Down Shooter 15%, Local Multiplayer 14.9%, 2.5D 7.7%
- #15 Ray’z Arcade Chronology
87% matchVery Positive90% of 105 reviews2023
Dev: M2 Co.,LTDPub: TAITO CORP.
Windows
Lock-on to an exhilarating sci-fi shooting fest with the trilogy which put Taito on the 90s arcade shooting map: The Ray Series, together in one collection for the first time!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.1%, Local Co-Op 17.6%, 2.5D 12.9%, Local Multiplayer 11.9%, Sci-fi 10%
- #16 Undercrewed
86% matchMostly Positive72% of 36 reviews2019
Dev: David Strachan
Windows
Grab your friends and build and fly your own customisable spaceship. With local and online co-op customise your spacecraft with a wide variety of components, you must work together to figure out the best way to survive your journey!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 33.4% ★, Local Co-Op 24.1%, Local Multiplayer 14.5%, Top-Down Shooter 11.7%, Sci-fi 6.1%
- #17 ARKADIANAX
85% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Ale Navarro
Windows
Shoot your way through hordes of enemy ships, tanks, mine fields, wind mills, lazer beams, massive boss fights and software bugs, all in a multidimensional shoot em up like never seen before!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 22.8% ★, Local Co-Op 20.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.7%, 2.5D 14.1%, Shooter 6.1%
- #18 Vulture
86% matchPositive83% of 18 reviews2017
Dev: Cubic Timeline Productions Inc.
Windows · Mac · Linux
Attention Pilots! Your skills are needed to defend our world! Collect, build, design, and fight your way to victory!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 18.9%, Top-Down Shooter 17.1%, Local Co-Op 14.4%, Co-op Campaign 13.3% ★, Local Multiplayer 9%
- #19 Gimme Space Battle
84% matchNo user reviews2025
Dev: François ProvansalPub: Lotus Game
Windows
It’s intergalactic chaos right on your couch. Up to 8 players, a single keyboard, and an arena where your ships face off in an explosive ballet. Here, you don’t pilot: you shoot and hope that’s enough to stay alive. Spoiler: it won’t be enough.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 26.9% ★, Local Co-Op 22.4%, Local Multiplayer 16.7%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.1%
- #20 The B.L.O.O.M Initiative
82% matchPositive100% of 11 reviews2025
Dev: Trema-CodingPub: Trema-Coding Ltd
Windows · Mac
A fast-paced top-down shooter where you harvest alien resources, grow living weapons, build battlefield defenses, and fight off alien birdmen and giant worms solo or in split-screen co-op
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 28.5% ★, Local Co-Op 20.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.6%, Top-Down Shooter 15.9%, Sci-fi 6.9%
- #21 RoboBunnies In Space!
84% match7 user reviews86% of 7 reviews2021
Dev: Giant Fox Studios
Windows · Mac
Two robobunnies team up to transport a magic crystal safely through 50 action-packed levels, protecting it from danger lurking in the shadows. With hours of gameplay that is perfect to binge alone, with a friend, or 5 minutes at a time. How deep into space can you go?
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 23.3% ★, Local Co-Op 22.5%, Local Multiplayer 14.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.1%, Sci-fi 7.2%
- #22 Galactic Wars EX
83% matchPositive84% of 37 reviews2022
Dev: Volcano BytesPub: JanduSoft
Windows
Galactic Wars EX is a pixel perfect co-op retro arcade shmup retrogaming experience for modern pcs
Why similar: Local Co-Op 29.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.9%, Top-Down Shooter 17.5%, Local Multiplayer 6.3%, Vehicular Combat 5.5%
- #23 With Friends Like These
82% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Shy Kids Club
Windows
In this 2D couch co-op adventure, team up with a pal to save the world from the playful chaos caused by your shipwrecked party friends. Together you must share and swap controls, combining your abilities in the ultimate showcase of friendship.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 40.4% ★, Local Co-Op 31.9%, Local Multiplayer 16.9%, Multiplayer 4.7%, Shooter 2.3%
- #24 Chewbrick
81% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Decabry
Windows · Mac · Linux
Arcade shoot'em up. Dodge ORBs, destroy them with different weapons and superpowers, pick up bonuses and crystals to improve Chewbrick.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 25.7% ★, Local Co-Op 21.4%, Local Multiplayer 15.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.1%, Indie 6.8%
- #25 Fool's Gold
80% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Solar Flare
Windows
Fool’s Gold is a chaotic, couch co-op adventure-themed heist! Two bumbling explorers will work together to traverse ancient tombs and temples, grabbing as much treasure as they can, while contending with deadly traps, perilous enemies, and environmental puzzles.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 38.9% ★, Local Co-Op 28.8%, Local Multiplayer 18.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Top-Down 3.4%
- #26 Aplowcalypse
81% matchMostly Positive76% of 68 reviews2016
Dev: Biodrone Studios
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 17.5 hrs≥1hr: 56%
Snow Plows vs Aliens: 4 player, local co-op chaos
Why similar: Local Co-Op 50.7%, Local Multiplayer 29.8%, Indie 7.9%, Action 7.2%, Top-Down 4.4%
- #27 PURSUIT OF LAUGHTER
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Frazier Kyle
Windows
Your spirit has been reawakened by the Jester God and you must embark on a journey where humor and darkness intertwine, navigate mysteries with laughter as your guide in a world where whimsy shadows logic.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 42.9% ★, Local Co-Op 36.9%, Local Multiplayer 10.8%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Indie 1.5%
- #28 Crimzon Clover World EXplosion
78% matchVery Positive97% of 367 reviews2021
Dev: YOTSUBANEPub: KOMODO
Windows
Median: 1.2 hrsMean: 7.9 hrs≥1hr: 52%
Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. Earn all the power-ups for an overpowered experience in the all new ARRANGE version.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 19.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.7%, Top-Down Shooter 16%, Local Multiplayer 9.8%, Sci-fi 7.4%
- #29 Celestial Odyssey
79% matchNo user reviews
Dev: MackelachPub: Lemma Arts
Windows
Celestial Odyssey is a cooperative 2D arcade game with a short but touching plot, where you will need to repair a space bus falling apart on the fly alone or with a friend while flying between tiny planets. Monitor the fuel level, manage to patch up the holes and break the record!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 41.9% ★, Local Co-Op 31.1%, Local Multiplayer 17.8%, Multiplayer 5.7%, Action 2.7%
- #30 SKIRMISH
78% matchPositive92% of 13 reviews2023
Dev: Bullet Giraffe
Windows · Mac · Linux
Destroy your friends in SKIRMISH! This Local-Multiplayer Top-Down Space Shooter is a blast! Be the last ship in one piece to be victorious!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 26.1%, Local Multiplayer 18.1%, Top-Down Shooter 14.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.7%, Vehicular Combat 7.9%
- #31 Tipston Salvage
77% matchVery Positive96% of 89 reviews2024
Dev: Pontus Karlsson
Windows
Operate dysfunctional junkyards together with your friends in this knockabout couch co-op game for 1-4 players. Tipston Salvage is all about cooperation, communication and hard work!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 34.7% ★, Local Co-Op 28.6%, Local Multiplayer 14.9%, 2.5D 10.1%, Multiplayer 4.2%
- #32 Die, Pablo! - A tower defense adventure
76% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2024
Dev: Mike Karman
Windows
The world famous chef Louis is mad! He animates all sorts of inanimate objects to attack the restaurant critic Pablo for an alleged bad review of his restaurant. Luckily, Pablo likes playing tower defense games and knows exactly how to defend himself!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 43% ★, Local Co-Op 24.8%, Local Multiplayer 12.9%, Tactical 6.7%, Multiplayer 3.9%
- #33 Until the Last Plane 1942
75% matchPositive85% of 39 reviews2025
Dev: CarloC
Windows
In Until the Last Plane 1942 you control two airplanes simultaneously. A short game that delivers a relaxed alternative to the usual shoot'em ups. Singleplayer or local co-op.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 33.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.7%, Top-Down Shooter 18.3%, Local Multiplayer 15.9%, Arcade 5.8%
- #34 Scrap Galaxy
77% matchPositive80% of 20 reviews2017
Dev: Catalope Games
Windows
Scrap Galaxy is a local build-and-destroy deathmatch game for up to 4 players. It is a 2D top-down shooter taking place out in space in a galactic junkyard. In this setting, the players are trying to survive by constructing space ships.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 24.3%, Local Multiplayer 19.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 15%, Top-Down Shooter 13.2%, Vehicular Combat 8.2%
- #35 Sleeper Agent
75% matchNo user reviews
Dev: POWERBOMB
Windows
Sleeper Agent is a top-down, couch co-op where you play as two mischievous aliens with unique abilities, JUMBO and SLIM, tethered together as they drag along the unconscious body of a secret agent! THRASH, STUMBLE, and SMASH your way through the levels! Oh! And be sure not to wake the agent..
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 40.1% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 20.4%, Top-Down Shooter 18.4%, 2.5D 9.4%, Shooter 4.4%
- #36 Tombstone Taxi
74% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Pixel Diamond Games
Windows · Mac
Take shared control of a vehicle with friends, driving passengers across a dangerous wasteland. Deliver them safely and you can upgrade your guns and vehicle to be a better taxi service. Work together to help more passengers before your vehicle breaks down and you have to start over from scratch!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 30.7% ★, Local Co-Op 26.6%, Local Multiplayer 17.1%, Top-Down Shooter 9.1%, Multiplayer 6.4%
- #37 Snake Party Extreme
73% match1 user reviews100% of 1 reviews2026
Dev: yyrGames
Windows
The best Snake game ever made. A chaotic, unforgettable, laugh-out-loud 4-player couch battle. An intense test of your arcade gaming skills. Snake Party Extreme is all of these...and so, so much more!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 38.2% ★, Local Co-Op 27.1%, Local Multiplayer 21%, Arcade 6%, Top-Down 3.2%
- #38 Joey and Penguin's 2 Player Adventure
73% match3 user reviews100% of 3 reviews2022
Dev: Mitten Mob GamesPub: Self
Windows
The ultimate cooperative adventure! Pass a water balloon between you and your friend to thwack bad guys. You can only get through by working together!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 38.3% ★, Local Co-Op 27.5%, Local Multiplayer 16.4%, Multiplayer 6.2%, Top-Down Shooter 4.1%
- #39 FullBlast
74% matchMostly Positive71% of 87 reviews2016
Dev: UFO Crash Games
Windows · Mac
Median: 4.2 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Blast your way through waves of alien invaders in this retro style shooter with modern visuals. Collect power ups, destroy the enemy ships and defeat the mega bosses in 12 action packed levels. On your own or with a friend in local co-op mode.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 27.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.5%, Top-Down Shooter 15.3%, 2.5D 12.7%, Shooter 5.8%
- #40 Overcooked
72% matchVery Positive90% of 16,312 reviews2016
Dev: Ghost Town Games Ltd.Pub: Team17 Digital Ltd
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 11.2 hrs≥1hr: 75%
Overcooked is a chaotic couch co-op cooking game for one to four players. Working as a team, you and your fellow chefs must prepare, cook and serve up a variety of tasty orders before the baying customers storm out in a huff.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 39.7%, Co-op Campaign 21.1% ★, Local Multiplayer 19.1%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Arcade 6.1%
- #41 1 Shot 1 Kill
72% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Legend Studio
Windows · Linux
Dash, dodge, and take aim! A fresh take on arena shooters, where it only takes one shot to kill or be killed.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 27.3% ★, Local Multiplayer 18.5%, Local Co-Op 16.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.4%, Multiplayer 5.7%
- #42 Super Grav
73% matchPositive94% of 16 reviews2016
Dev: DemonStudios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Super Grav is a retro gravity cave flyer for 1-4 players, featuring single player or co-op multiplayer missions, racing and dogfighting. Back by popular demand, Super Grav is the official sequel to the 1998 Net Yaroze coverdisc hit, Gravitation.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 28.9% ★, Local Co-Op 19.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.3%, Local Multiplayer 12.3%, Shooter 4.9%
- #43 Super Retro Fighter
71% matchMostly Positive78% of 87 reviews2021
Dev: Syndrome interactivePub: Cat God Studio
Windows
Classic STG game Have fun with your friends just like your childhood!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 33.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.5%, Local Multiplayer 15.7%, Top-Down Shooter 15.6%, Sci-fi 5.6%
- #44 MT Force Aliens Uprising
70% matchMixed64% of 11 reviews2024
Dev: RDM GameS
Windows
Dive into the heart-pounding action as MT Force, an elite government unit racing against time to unravel the mysteries of enigmatic anomalies. Rumors suggest that a mysterious scientist made contact with aliens, and now everything is out of control!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 38.7% ★, Local Multiplayer 22.8%, 2.5D 16.1%, Shooter 6.4%, Sci-fi 6%
- #45 Starexcess
71% match6 user reviews83% of 6 reviews2019
Dev: Super16bits
Windows
Escape from a tyrant government and save the planet Shambala. Be the resistance! Starexcess is a retro-looking vertical shoot 'em up inspired by the 16-bit era. Take on enemy armies and dodge frenetic shots in this shoot 'em up for one or two players in a local ofline co-op.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 29.1%, Local Multiplayer 20.7%, Top-Down Shooter 15.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%
- #46 BOXHEAD:Immortal
69% matchMostly Positive76% of 138 reviews2024
Dev: Fire Source Studio
Windows
A zombie virus, brought to BOXHEAD World by a meteorite that fell unexpectedly, continues to turn people into the zombies. To survive in this purgatorial world, you must unleash every bullet into the hordes of the zombies and use any explosive objects to drench every inch of the land in blood.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 24.6%, Local Multiplayer 17%, Top-Down Shooter 16.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.9%, 2.5D 10.5%
- #47 When It Hits the Fan
71% matchPositive91% of 11 reviews2017
Dev: Heartfelt Games LLC
Windows
When It Hits the Fan is a 2d action arcade top-down shooter for PC and arcade involving four apocalyptic events at once: zombie outbreak, robot AI takeover, demon incursion, and alien invasion!
Why similar: Local Co-Op 31.8%, Local Multiplayer 18.6%, Top-Down Shooter 18%, Indie 7.4%, Action 6.5%
- #48 MARK-I: Mission Pilot
70% match6 user reviews100% of 6 reviews2021
Dev: huindie
Windows
Arcade top-down shooter with coop for 2 players. Play as Pilot of 「MARK-I」 – new prototype of intelligent combat unit. Complete short intense action mission by shooting enemies, avoiding threats and upgrading shell with different battle configurations.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 30.2%, Co-op Campaign 22.8% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 14.9%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Arcade 5.5%
- #49 Squomb
70% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Retromagine
Windows
Too close. Too late. You drop a SQUOMB. Boom. You die. They die. Good. Respawn as your squid miner and dive back in. 1–4 players. PvP or Co-op. Fast, explosive 1-bit madness inspired by Bomberman.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 31.8% ★, Local Co-Op 29.3%, Local Multiplayer 18%, Multiplayer 6.5%, Arcade 5.2%
- #50 Rogue Tanks
68% match8 user reviews100% of 8 reviews2024
Dev: Clayton Games
Windows
Blast through random levels of enemies with or against up to 3 of your friends in this action roguelike top-down shooter! Travel from the desert to the enemy base and...into space!? Upgrade with quicker firing, bouncing bullets, and more. Defeat huge bosses to unlock more tank classes!
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 24.5% ★, Local Co-Op 17.3%, Top-Down Shooter 14.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.6%, Local Multiplayer 10.7%
- #51 Pocky & Rocky Reshrined
68% matchVery Positive89% of 248 reviews2023
Dev: Winning Entertainment Group Inc.
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 76%
The original cute and hardcore shrine maiden shooter is now available on Steam! Completely new game, a sequel to the home original "Pocky&Rocky" (Super Nintendo Entertainment System)! The adventures of Pocky&Rocky begin once again.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 30.5%, Top-Down Shooter 28.3%, Local Multiplayer 18.5%, Shooter 8.9%, Action 7.4%
- #52 Riders 2491
69% matchMixed55% of 22 reviews2020
Dev: GoeX Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Riders 2491 is an action shoot'em up game that pays homage to the classics of 90’s arcades with modern visuals.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 24% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 19.3%, Local Co-Op 17.4%, Local Multiplayer 7.8%, Arcade 7.8%
- #53 Dead End Job
69% matchMostly Positive74% of 138 reviews2019
Dev: Ant Workshop LtdPub: Headup
Windows · Linux
Median: 36 minMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 42%
Dead End Job sends you into a madcap, Ren & Stimpy-esque world to bust up ghosts. It’s a procedurally generated, couch co-op, twin-stick shooter that straps a vacuum pack to your back and puts a plasma blaster in your hand. For you, it’s just another day in the office.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 46.4%, Top-Down Shooter 25.8%, Action 8.6%, Indie 7.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 5.7%
- #54 Dimension Drive
68% matchVery Positive80% of 106 reviews2017
Dev: 2Awesome Studio
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.3 hrs≥1hr: 95%
This intense space shoot ’em up challenges you to fight across two battlefields on one splitscreen. Instantly switch between them to dodge waves of bullets, reach secret areas, or surprise your enemies. Play solo or turn it up to 11 with a local co-op partner.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 31.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.5%, Local Multiplayer 15.8%, Top-Down Shooter 12.6%, Arcade 4.9%
- #55 The Art Of Flight
66% matchPositive93% of 14 reviews2025
Dev: Et Al GamesPub: Page To Pixel Publishing LLC
Windows
Play solo or with your friends in this fast-paced space shooter. Pilot multiple ships at the same time while taking on waves of enemies, finding power-ups, and gaining additional episodes along the way. Who will make it to the top of the leaderboard?
Why similar: Local Co-Op 34.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.6%, Top-Down Shooter 18.1%, Arcade 6.9%, Shooter 5.3%
- #56 Astrotoons
67% matchNo user reviews
Dev: NotDemo Games
Windows
Astrotoons is a party-shooter offering both co-op and PvP modes up to four players. Cooperate with friends to complete missions and escape, or compete against each other in exciting PvP matches.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 26.6%, Co-op Campaign 25.4% ★, Local Multiplayer 17.5%, Top-Down Shooter 10.8%, Multiplayer 6.9%
- #57 Have a Blast
67% match5 user reviews80% of 5 reviews2021
Dev: Bojan EndrovskiPub: Firenut Games
Windows
Have a Blast is a high energy, kinetic, multiplayer party game. Battle through the most ridiculously hazardous corners of the galaxy and use your surroundings to your advantage. Outmaneuver your frenemies and shatter them into colorful bits.
Why similar: Local Multiplayer 21.3%, Local Co-Op 21%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.1%, 2.5D 10.3%
- #58 Kankao in Action
67% matchNo user reviews2027
Dev: Inonimatos Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Kankao in Action is a 2-player co-op adventure with local and online co-op, where teamwork, coordination, and chaotic fun are the only way forward.
Why similar: Co-op Campaign 43.9% ★, Local Co-Op 34.5%, Local Multiplayer 8.6%, Indie 3.4%, Action 3.3%
- #59 Spinner Invaders 2: A Mad Revenge
66% matchNo user reviews
Dev: Wobi Games
Windows
Shoot your way through a thrilling action adventure of 120 waves in 4 different game modes while fighting against waves of enemies and 12 extreme bosses. Save the world from a new mystery threat by yourself or with a friend locally and play 10 different Challenges.
Why similar: Local Co-Op 31.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 21%, Local Multiplayer 20.5%, Arcade 7.4%, Combat 4.1%