Games Like MF-01 Aerostrike

Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 30.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 29.3%, Shooter 10.8%, Retro 7.4%, Sci-fi 7.1%

Explore a variety of diverse biomes and regions, each featuring unique ecosystems that range from deserts to caves and mountains. Engage in combat with enemies in both close quarters and long-range scenarios! Fight bosses and attempt to escape the planet Vulcan

Why similar: Metroidvania 21.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.8%, Bullet Hell 12.7%, Dystopian 10%, Sci-fi 9.9%

Explore a dangerous, fantastical world and slay the divine being that corrupted it. Goldstained is a top-down 2D action-adventure where unlocking new weapons with new movesets is your way forward through boss fights, puzzles, and combat!

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.8%, Bullet Hell 22.1%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Action-Adventure 8.4%, PvE 7.2%

Atomanta is a sci-fi retro-styled vertical shoot 'em-up inspired by various Mega Drive and arcade titles from the '90s, by combining the old-school visuals of pixel art with a more modern approach of a faster bullet hell experience, smaller hitbox, and a bunch of weapons to fight off enemy forces.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 29.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.7%, Shooter 11%, Sci-fi 7.7%, Futuristic 6.4%

This is an action game in which the player cannot jump by himself, but jumps with the blast of a bomb. You can dash with the blast on your back, and even attack with bombs, allowing you to enjoy bombs to the fullest.

Why similar: Metroidvania 55.3%, Sci-fi 14.9%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, PvE 7.6%, Action 5.8%

Enjoy this 2D metroidvania-like bullet hell platformer. Jump, dodge and traverse using your jet pack. Find weapons and abilities. Fight bosses and escape an old space station drifting through the cosmos. You are alone, with nothing but a space suit and a gun. Just keep going! Persevere and triumph!

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.1%, Bullet Hell 23.5%, Shooter 8%, Action-Adventure 7.6%, Retro 7.5%

You’re stuck out in the middle of space alone in ship, see how long you can survive with endless enemy ships and do all it again.

Why similar: Vehicular Combat 19.5% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 19.4%, Bullet Hell 18.7%, Sci-fi 9.1%, Shooter 7.6%

Throw a dude at another dude! Badass Brigade is a light-hearted 2D action game where you shoot, punch, grab, and throw your foes. Take on missions where you can explore the world and uncover a wide variety of weapons and gear for new ways to fight.

Why similar: Metroidvania 40.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 25.5%, Sci-fi 9.3%, Action-Adventure 9%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%

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 33.2%, Bullet Hell 27.6%, Shooter 11.6%, Sci-fi 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

OUTGUNNED! is a fast-pased action-platformer set in a cyberpunk dystopia where cats are the dominant species. Topple the corporation as one of the playable characters.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 25.1%, Bullet Hell 13.3%, Shooter 8.4%, Sci-fi 7.5%

a cute little metroidvania with challenging combat and witchcraft 🧙🍐

Why similar: Metroidvania 43.3%, Bullet Hell 26.2%, Retro 8.7%, Shooter 7.9%, Pixel Graphics 4.8%

Super Nano Blaster is a shoot-em-up for PC and Mac, offering single-player and local co-op modes, that transports you to a retro-style digital universe. Delve into technology with your vessel and destroy anything that gets in your way!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.9%, Bullet Hell 21.7%, Minimalist 8.7%, Dystopian 8.5%, Shooter 8.2%

A brutal action metroidvania set in a world where reality is breaking apart. Battle biomechanical mutants, traverse shifting landscapes, and uncover fragments of your lost mind as you push deeper into a twisted post-apocalyptic nightmare.

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.6%, Dystopian 11.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Action-Adventure 8.1%

BANAN'EM UP! is a tiny challenging arcade shoot’em up where you shoot down quirky aliens to save your planet. Evade bullets, shoot enemies, get upgrades, survive for challenging waves to defeat the final boss, "The MONKE". Die, learn, repeat: get stronger, be powerful!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.9%, Bullet Hell 20%, Vehicular Combat 19.8% ★, PvE 8.9%, Shooter 8.6%

Half on-rails shooter, half exploration-driven adventure. Zoom into a world where billions of bullets surround you and your handy punch feature can send enemies flying.

Why similar: Metroidvania 30.2%, Bullet Hell 20.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.5%, Shooter 9.7%, Action-Adventure 9%

Dodge, slash, and shoot your way through waves of enemies while collecting items. Blast off on a quick trip toward the Moon in Radio-allergic Shoot ’Em Up!

Why similar: Bullet Hell 38.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 35.5%, Shooter 11.8%, 2D 5.5%, Action 4.7%

Engage in an action packed shoot em' up adventure! Choose from 4 powerful fighters and fight through 5 intense stages! Multiple tough and challenging bosses stand in your way, so use the insanity system BLANK STAND to erase them all!

Why similar: Bullet Hell 31.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 29%, Shooter 11.1%, Dystopian 9%, Sci-fi 6.5%

Well, the physpace is being destroyed, glitching by numerous hordes of malicious duplicating codes from the bitspace. People are panicking, we must send our final attempt to fix the issue, you must be trained to fix the bitspace and survive in it during the process, in its current, decaying status.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 27.9%, PvE 12%, Shooter 11.5%, Sci-fi 9.5%, Minimalist 8.9%

キャラをじっくり育てながら広い世界を冒険する――。 そんなSTGの最終編。ショットを合成して、いいとこどりのショットも作れる！ シリーズ最強の敵たちに最強の武器やスキルの組み合わせで対抗し、 この物語の真実に辿り着いてください―

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.5%, Bullet Hell 18.7%, Shooter 7.4%, Sci-fi 6.4%

Super Glitter Rush is a boss-rush style bullet hell shoot-em-up!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 34.8%, Bullet Hell 27.1%, Shooter 11.4%, Minimalist 7.4%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

COMMANDER BULLET is out to safe the UNIVERSE!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.2%, Bullet Hell 25.2%, Sci-fi 9.9%, Shooter 7.8%, Retro 7.3%

Pilot the tank Golgalian in an endless micro shoot 'em up inspired by arcades old and new. Blast mechs, dodge bullets, and compete on the global leaderboard!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29.1%, Bullet Hell 24.8%, Shooter 11.6%, Retro 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 6.9%

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 30.4%, Bullet Hell 26.4%, Shooter 10.2%, Futuristic 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

Zone of Lacryma is a story driven vertical shmup with 11 levels, highscores, speedrunning, upgrades and more.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.2%, Bullet Hell 19.6%, Dystopian 15.2%, Shooter 8.4%, Sci-fi 8.3%

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 41.1%, Bullet Hell 31%, Sci-fi 8.5%, Shooter 8.1%, 2D 5.1%

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 36%, Bullet Hell 23%, Shooter 11.5%, Sci-fi 7.2%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%

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 31.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 30.7%, Shooter 11.9%, Sci-fi 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 4.9%

"Don't go to GALXAGAR"; a phrase uttered by many who have traversed its rim. Untold treasures, and terrors, await within its blackened depths. Ready your craft, spacefarer, because you're about to enter the most dangerous sector in all the stars. Get ready.. for GALXAGAR!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.7%, Bullet Hell 27%, PvE 11.5%, Shooter 11.1%, Sci-fi 8.1%

Betrayed by her cut-throat crew, Luna Starr - former Space Pirate Captain turned bounty hunter - has a score to settle. As Luna, travel to 5 exotic planets to track down your mutinous mates, and face them in Bullet Hell dogfights to the death!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33%, Bullet Hell 28.4%, Sci-fi 11.9%, Futuristic 7.4%, 2D 4.6%

Embark on an adventure through space with the ferocious HELLSTAR SQUADRON. Dodge wave after wave of bullets, shoot the demons back to hell, and save the galaxy in this fresh, retro shoot 'em up/bullet hell experience!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 35.5%, Bullet Hell 29.5%, Retro 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Action 5.8%

Experience intense, fast-paced action as you dodge enemy fire, collect Xsteel scrap, and upgrade powerful ship systems. Navigate across beautiful expanses of the galaxy in levels filled with challenging foes and epic boss battles.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 32.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 31.4%, Shooter 15.7%, Action 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 6.5%

Embark on an epic adventure in the pixelated 2D world of "Nihilsearch" on a lifeless mechanical planet. Explore dark underground complexes, battle hostile machines and life forms, and meet diverse humans, life forms, and machines. Discover the meaning of life and create your own adventure!

Why similar: Metroidvania 52.1%, Action-Adventure 12.7%, Sci-fi 10.6%, Futuristic 9%, Pixel Graphics 6.8%

Super Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as SHMUP veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and SEVENTEEN playable ships.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 36.3%, Bullet Hell 33.3%, Retro 9.7%, Pixel Graphics 5.3%, Sci-fi 4%

Nevultra is an exciting shoot'em up that will take you back to the 8bit/16bit era. The protagonist, Nina, needs your help to reach her destination in deep space.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33.7%, Bullet Hell 24%, Shooter 10.3%, Dystopian 7.5%, Retro 5.9%

Join our brave captain on this action adventure in space! You'll be riding The Patchwork, a less than ideal spaceship, but enough to get away from pursuers. However, you'll be facing malfunctions, fires, enemies attacking... When it rains, it pours.

Why similar: Metroidvania 51%, Sci-fi 10.8%, Retro 10.4%, Action-Adventure 7.8%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%

Embark on a thrilling journey as a space mercenary! Customize your ships with powerful weapons and modules, choose contracts and destinations, and battle enemy fleets and epic bosses. Your decisions shape the universe around you, so forge your path in this action-packed space shooter!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.9%, Bullet Hell 25.1%, Shooter 11.8%, Futuristic 8.1%, Sci-fi 7.3%

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 28.9%, Bullet Hell 28%, Shooter 11.1%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Pixel Graphics 7.7%

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 24.8%, Bullet Hell 24.2%, Shooter 11.1%, Futuristic 10%, Sci-fi 8.5%

Defeat the Empire a second time in this short electro-jazz space shooter. Beat up bosses and upgrade your ship as you go deeper into the belly of the beast.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.3%, Bullet Hell 25.3%, Vehicular Combat 13.9% ★, Sci-fi 11.1%, Shooter 8.4%

Ascend to the Earth's surface in this vertical shmup! Punch, shoot, and grab enemies both mechanical and natural in your unique ship in this brutally hard vertical shooter.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.9%, Bullet Hell 24.6%, Sci-fi 11.4%, Futuristic 10.6%, Shooter 9%

A minimalistic 2D shoot-em-up, based on dodging bullets.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 36.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 33.4%, Shooter 12.1%, Minimalist 7.2%, Action 4%

Shoot 'em up has reached a new frontier! 2D bullet-hell sci-fi action shooter with mouse control and multiple buttons!

Why similar: Bullet Hell 30.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 28.4%, Shooter 9.6%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Dystopian 8.6%

Jetboy is a retro supercharged jetpacking pixel shooter with a pumping metal soundtrack.

Why similar: Metroidvania 45.1%, Sci-fi 20.8%, Retro 15.6%, Pixel Graphics 12.8%, Shooter 1.5%

ASCENXION is a 2D shoot 'em up game where you explore the field to progress. Players must overcome puzzles, traps, elite units, boss fights, and other various obstacles while navigating the field. Grow stronger through rewards earned, to uncover the truth of this world.

Why similar: Metroidvania 32.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 23%, Bullet Hell 20.9%, Shooter 8.3%, Minimalist 7.4%

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 40.2%, Bullet Hell 34.3%, Shooter 14.7%, 2D 5.8%, Action 3.2%

Jump on your hoverbike and blast off for unlimited ninja-themed bullet hell mayhem!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 37%, Bullet Hell 30.6%, Shooter 11.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.9%, Retro 5.7%

Embark on a retro-shoot-'em-up task to fight space pirates, industrial equipment, archeotech and, probably, space gods. Engage enemies in increasingly cruel levels, fight vile bosses, uncover secrets and pursue the call of ancient technologies.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.6%, Bullet Hell 24.6%, Sci-fi 9.6%, Shooter 7.3%, Minimalist 7.2%

Journey through Proximus-3 as Jaughn (pronounced “John”), and embark on a lighthearted and action-packed journey of redemption, quickly becoming embroiled in an unexpected Rebellion to save the galaxy.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.3%, Bullet Hell 23.2%, Dystopian 11.1%, PvE 10.1%, Shooter 9.6%

Classic 80s inspired shooter

Why similar: Bullet Hell 31%, Shoot 'Em Up 29.2%, Shooter 11.6%, Sci-fi 8%, Minimalist 7.7%

Top-Down Shooter with a mobile APP interaction.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 27%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.1%, Shooter 13.2%, Action-Adventure 12.5%, Sci-fi 9.1%

PickaLegend - A bullet hell game about visiting interesting places and destroying everything in sight with your pets.

Why similar: Metroidvania 31.5%, Bullet Hell 22%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.4%, PvE 8.1%, Action-Adventure 6.7%

Revive Orpheus story to save Eurydice

Why similar: Metroidvania 33.2%, Bullet Hell 19.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.5%, Dystopian 9.2%, Action-Adventure 7.3%

AngerForce: Reloaded is an action-packed vertically scrolling shoot'em up game that pays homage to the classics of 90’s arcades. This high octane experience is set against the backdrop of a 19th century human world that has seen the outbreak of a robot rebellion.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 42.8%, Bullet Hell 38.1%, Shooter 19.1%

TRI-GER is a top-down rouge-like SHMUP with technicolor vector based graphics. Fight endless waves of enemies, and be sure to match your color to get a high score!

Why similar: Bullet Hell 32%, Shoot 'Em Up 31%, PvE 12.1%, Minimalist 8.1%, Action 7.2%

Amo is a top-down metroidvania, where a lost dog, Amo, gets stranded on an island. Explore the vast environments, fight through the enemies of the past, and solve the many mysteries that the island holds.

Why similar: Metroidvania 59%, Action-Adventure 13.7%, Retro 7.3%, 2D 6.2%, Adventure 4.4%

Astronite Landing on Neplea is the prologue to this fantastic 1bit metroidvania that combines action, exploration, puzzles and platforms. Take on Astronite's first major challenge and defeat the deadly Kronch.

Why similar: Metroidvania 50.8%, Sci-fi 13.2%, Action-Adventure 10.5%, Pixel Graphics 9.4%, 2D 5.4%

Garden of the Atom is a combat-focused Metroidvania where you hold nothing back. Start with every movement ability unlocked and play as 'Prodigy,' an exiled genius infiltrating a futuristic dictatorship to stop a tyrant from harnessing a cataclysmic meteor shower.

Why similar: Metroidvania 48.5%, PvE 11.4%, Action-Adventure 9.4%, Sci-fi 8.9%, Pixel Graphics 5.4%

A post-apocalyptic arcade shooter. Collect fuel and dodge enemy fire as you fight back against the evil Scorpio gang. Mixes cars, shmups and themes that would have been right at home in 80's anime and arcades..

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 22.9%, Vehicular Combat 20.1% ★, Bullet Hell 16.5%, Shooter 9.2%, Dystopian 8.5%

When you're a mercenary on the harvest mines, you're either on the edge of livin or in the middle of dyin. In a new frontier of space exploration, you have been hired to defend a mining operation on the edge of space from increasing waves of marauders. Upgrade your ship, fortify the station, and fight hard.

Why similar: Bullet Hell 34.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 30.7%, Sci-fi 16.8%, Shooter 14.3%, Adventure 3.3%

Unite the FELLAS and fight for FREEDOM!

Why similar: Metroidvania 29.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 20%, Bullet Hell 19.3%, Shooter 8.9%, Action-Adventure 8.1%