60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Arcade, Shoot 'Em Up, Retro.
PULSOR is a fast paced shoot em' up space arcade game where you orbit a black hole. Use your quick reactions and aim to blast the obstacles in your way !
Power Gunner
Fuel is life. Survive relentless alien swarms in this fast-paced arcade shooter featuring auto-targeting weapons, deadly terrain navigation, and score-chasing chaos.
Nova Swarm
Blast through the swarm in a fast vertical shoot ’em up with 30 ships to master. Defeat bosses, choose upgrades that transform your run, and chase higher scores. Learn the patterns, discover powerful builds, and dive straight back in for one more attempt.
Fuel is life. Survive relentless alien swarms in this fast-paced arcade shooter featuring auto-targeting weapons, deadly terrain navigation, and score-chasing chaos.
Why similar: Addictive 20.3% ★, Bullet Hell 11.9%, Space 9.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 8.3%, Score Attack 7.8%
Blast through the swarm in a fast vertical shoot ’em up with 30 ships to master. Defeat bosses, choose upgrades that transform your run, and chase higher scores. Learn the patterns, discover powerful builds, and dive straight back in for one more attempt.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 23%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.3%, Space 14.4%, Score Attack 13.7%, Arcade 7.7%
Shoot different types of spaceships while avoiding getting shot yourself. Kill 10 minutes at a time with this affordable colourful timewaster.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17%, Space 14.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.3%, Retro 8.4%, Difficult 8.4%
Hyper Simon X is an Arcade Shoot 'Em Up Puzzle game that ingeniously blends SHMUP mechanics with the classic nostalgia of 'Simon Says' memory games. Prepare for a challenge like no other as you destroy the enemies in the exact order displayed!
Why similar: Addictive 20.4% ★, Shoot 'Em Up 12.2%, Bullet Hell 11%, Space 10.9%, Action 8.9%
Arise Wyver and fly against overwhelming odds in this modern labor of love tribute to classic shoot'em ups!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.8%, Space 12.5%, Score Attack 9.4%, Difficult 7.6%
Combining retro puzzles and a arcade space shooter. You and your crew found strange materials in the galaxy core to upgrade your ship to the most powerful. While collecting core materials you came across something unbelievable ... The Core Message. The Core Message changes everything.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24.9%, Space 17.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.8%, Retro 10.8%, Arcade 8.9%
Using a powerful weapon and raw skill, can you take out an entire space pirate fleet? Harken back to the era of old browser games in this fast-paced bullet hell shoot 'em up where stages change based on objectives cleared!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 20.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.1%, Score Attack 13%, Space 11%, Family Friendly 7.7%
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 The General by yourself or with a friend locally and play 10 different Challenges.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.2%, Space 12.5%, Difficult 10.3%, Score Attack 9.2%
STURMWIND EX is a shoot-em up in the tradition of old arcade games. If it moves - shoot it!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 20.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.2%, Space 14.4%, Retro 8.6%, Action 8%
Bite-sized arcade shmup. Slam enemies, beat Bosses, get power-ups and repeat! Pilot your ship through deep space.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 21%, Space 16.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 16%, Score Attack 14.2%, Retro 9%
Vortex Attack is a frenetic arcade space shooter featuring worldwide tournaments and an intense local multiplayer mode.A worthy successor to Galaga for the XXI century.WARNING: Highly addictive.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.1%, Space 12.7%, Difficult 10.4%, Score Attack 9.3%
Bit Blaster XL is a fast-paced, retro arcade shoot 'em up (shmup) inspired by the classic quarter-munchers of the ‘80s. Easy to pick up, hard to put down, boost, dodge, shoot, and chase high scores in this addictive, old-school action game!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.3%, Space 11.8%, Difficult 9.9%, Score Attack 9.2%
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: Bullet Hell 20.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.8%, Retro 10.3%, Action 9.6%, Arcade 9.3%
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: Bullet Hell 29.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.2%, Retro 10.5%, Arcade 7.3%, Action 7.1%
Cosmo Chaser is space fighter action game which presents restless shooting battle. It demonstrates new style of vertical scroll shooter by presenting classic arcade action in 3D space.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.5%, Space 15.9%, Retro 10.5%, Sci-fi 8.9%
Echoes+ is an intense retro action space shooter that will test your reaction and concentration levels to the max!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 30.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.1%, Action 13.2%, Space 13.1%, Indie 8.2%
Retro Wing Prime is a minimal, polished, retro-inspired, one button arcade game. Easy to learn and hard to master, it's a classic concept with modern gameplay elements and a unique control scheme. Unlock 5 unique ships and many helpful power-ups as you try for a high score!
Why similar: Space 12.6%, Action 10.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.6%, Score Attack 10%, Difficult 8.5%
METAL CRISIS is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up inspired by 3D space shooters of the 90s. Pilot the most advanced ship Earth has created capable of acquiring enemy weapons as you battle through hordes of fighters and hulking bosses in it's war against the space colonies rebellion.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.2%, Space 9.5%, Shooter 8.8%, Sci-fi 8.1%
A no nonsense, no autofire hiscore attack. A fast-paced, reflex-based topdown shoot 'em up. Like 1980s arcade-flavoured ice cream with laser blast sprinkles :)
Why similar: Bullet Hell 20.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.2%, Score Attack 12.2%, Difficult 10.4%, Action 9.1%
Endless arcade action with just ONE button - Switch directions whenever you shoot!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.2%, Score Attack 12.9%, Difficult 9.6%, Arcade 7.3%
Clear hordes of cosmic critters in this simple 2D shooter but be carefully, bullets that exit the arena will warp behind you and become dangerous to you ship. Whatever goes around comes around.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 31.2%, Space 14.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 9.8%, Action 9.7%, Retro 8.7%
Distant Space are present the arcade game of cosmic fights in arcade style of the 80's, this is a game where you can control the spaceship and forced to destroy extraterrestrials, which are moving in the certain order.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 20.2%, Space 19.7%, Bullet Hell 12.7%, Arcade 9.6%, Difficult 8%
Devastation - Annihilate the Alien Race, is a 2D, dual stick shoot em' up, bullet hell, arcade game. Tear up hordes of aliens with skill based game play, bombs & upgrades to obliterate everything!. Gun down 11 massive bosses, bank insane score on the leaderboards & overcome clouds of enemy fire.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 16%, Action 15.1%, Space 11.5%, Indie 11%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.3%
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 17.2%, Space 16.6%, Bullet Hell 13%, Score Attack 12.5%, Shooter 9.3%
Weave and cleave your way through walls of bullet and push your score to unknown limits in this aggressive Shoot'em'up to save humanity from its own hubris
Why similar: Bullet Hell 26.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.7%, Score Attack 14.8%, Arcade 9.4%, Space 8.4%
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 22.3%, Bullet Hell 21.4%, Arcade 10.2%, Shooter 9.3%, Score Attack 7.5%
Red Ruin is a Space-Arcade-Shooter, in which you control two ships. Each ship has unique properties and they can switch position with each other. Using the advantages of both ships strategically will bring you victory.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 25.1%, Space 20.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.9%, Difficult 14.1%, Action 11.3%
Marimoth is a short shoot 'em up that puts in control of a moth whose shots bounce off the walls. Calculate your aim, evade enemy attacks by learning their patterns and collect coins to power up.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.7%, Score Attack 10.9%, Arcade 10.5%, Retro 10.4%
No health bars to hide behind. No progression curve to cushion you. Just you and your inertia. In a cold pixel void, pure dogfighting — drift to find that one lethal shot. Luck won't help. Only skill.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 22.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.4%, Space 13.5%, Shooter 9.9%, Action 9.9%
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 32.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.5%, Space 11.4%, Shooter 9.8%, Retro 9.6%
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 28.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.3%, Addictive 15.9% ★, Space 7.8%, Retro 7.4%
This week, every pilot on Earth flies the same new seeded run: identical enemies, identical drops, pure skill. Flow through alien formations, arm your wingmen, and power up when you can. Out-score your friends in Plasma Sky, an arcade shmup with over 100 handcrafted levels. Blast into the neon sky!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 19.5%, Bullet Hell 15.9%, Score Attack 15.3%, Space 14%, Retro 10%
Blast’N Bounty is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up featuring 8 stages players can tackle in the order of their choosing. Cruise through a crazy solar system in a mix of pixel art and low poly 3D with action that’s easy to learn but tough to master!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 23.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.4%, Difficult 11.5%, Space 10.7%, Score Attack 7.9%
Dodge, defend, and destroy! Engage in a frenetic shoot 'em up, facing relentless bullet streams that test your reflexes. Experience dynamic shifts between vertical and horizontal views as you fend off endless enemy waves. Use polarity shields for defense and strike back fiercely. Conquer the chaos!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 20.7%, Space 18.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 15.7%, Difficult 11.9%, Arcade 7.6%
Challenge yourself to a new kind of bullet-hell fusion shooter. Change your aircraft to get new skills just when you need them against advancing foes. Aim for the top spot!
Why similar: Addictive 24.9% ★, Bullet Hell 15.1%, Space 11.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 10.7%, Difficult 7.8%
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: Bullet Hell 25.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.5%, Space 10.6%, Shooter 8.8%, Arcade 8.2%
Grab up to 3 friends and defend the sun from swarms of enemies in this local coop twin stick shooter. Siphon energy from the sun and shoot as many attackers as you can to claim the high score before it explodes! Fight over experience and upgrade your ship to keep up with the ever-mounting pressure.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 23.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 16%, Arcade 8.5%, Score Attack 7.6%, Space 7.4%
Create your own bullet hell in this escalating symphony of destruction. How long can you survive?
Why similar: Bullet Hell 26%, Addictive 25.1% ★, Difficult 14%, Action 10.4%, Arcade 10.1%
Void Gore casts you as an ace pilot descending through the levels of hell and getting rich in the process.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 31%, Score Attack 17.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.4%, Shooter 8.9%, Arcade 8.2%
Red Horizon is an addictive space shmup game. Heavily influenced by the classics of the past, Red Horizon takes a modern spin on the genre combining it with some subtle Rogue-like elements to provide players with a unique experience every time they play.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 17.2%, Space 14.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 12%, Difficult 9.7%, Indie 8.6%
A BAFTA Cymru-nominated arcade space shooter about momentum. There is no brake. You learn to fly with what you've got, die, and get a little better each time. No random builds, no unfair deaths. Every run you lose, you lost. Just one more cycle.
Why similar: Space 15.8%, Bullet Hell 15.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 14%, Score Attack 13.5%, Difficult 9.8%
Retro arcade classic, Defeat a million invaders from another dimension in this side scrolling shoot'em up.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.4%, Space 11.5%, Shooter 8.5%, Casual 8%
【About "The Hurricane of the Varstray"】"The Hurricane of the Varstray" is a vertically scrolling shoot'em up with a SF story: in the distant future, to defend the Earth against the invasion of mystery mechanical structures, 4 girls head to "the Varstray sector," far away from the Earth and considered as the v
Why similar: Bullet Hell 27.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 20%, Space 10.2%, Action 7.2%, Score Attack 6.9%
The critically acclaimed update to the Space Invaders franchise has arrived to invade Steam with greatly improved graphics and audio! Packed with pulsing, vibrant visuals enhanced further by interactive sound. The invaders have evolved, the question is: can you keep up?
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.1%, Space 12.7%, Difficult 10.3%, Score Attack 9.5%
Space Wars is an exciting 2D space shooter. It has tons of powerups, tons of action, and tons of hardcore gameplay!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 18.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.9%, Space 13.8%, Action 12.6%, Casual 11.9%
Cybxus Hearts inspired by classic Japanese shooting games. This is a game where you control three different characters at the same time.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 32.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.6%, Arcade 10.3%, Score Attack 9.1%, Action 9%
Single player, top down, retro space-shooter, destroy enemies and fight bullet-hell bosses, upgrade during runs and after them to progress further and faster.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 25.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.9%, Space 13%, Shooter 8.9%, Arcade 8.2%
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 29.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.3%, Arcade 12.8%, Space 10.1%, Action 9.4%
CoreShot is a classic arcade style space shooter, where you pilot the spacecraft HonestWing to destroy the cores of evil. As you soar through enemy spacecraft, psychic pyramids, and grim castles, you will be tested against enemies with a variety of attack styles and epic boss battles. Blast away
Why similar: Space 21.4%, Bullet Hell 15.9%, Score Attack 14.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 11.8%, Arcade 11.4%
Blaster Panic is a 2D space shooter where you defend your home base against an onslaught of enemies. Fight through ongoing boss battles. Last as long as you can to dominate the leaderboard.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 22.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.3%, Space 14.2%, Score Attack 10.2%, Sci-fi 8.2%
COMMANDER BULLET is out to safe the UNIVERSE!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 24.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.6%, Difficult 12.1%, Retro 8.7%, Arcade 7.6%
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: Bullet Hell 27.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.7%, Score Attack 10.6%, Sci-fi 8.8%, Action 8.6%
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 30.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.4%, Space 10.6%, Shooter 9.8%, Arcade 9.4%
Sweezy Gunner is an eye melting, brain bending, mouse squeezing 2D Shoot em up. destroy everything in your path, Upgrade the Sweezy Gunner ship. A Large open World! Travel through the lush green fields, frozen tundra and arid desert. Explore the depths of the many dungeons, caves and temples and collect that tasty loot!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 27.7%, Space 21.4%, Action 16.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.1%, Indie 11.8%
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: Bullet Hell 22.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 21%, Score Attack 10.5%, Space 10.4%, Arcade 10.4%
Wirehawk is a neon vector shmup in the spirit of 80s arcade classics. Play it your way: razor-sharp mouse control, or a dedicated controller mode rebalanced for the stick. Blast asteroids and alien waves, dodge bullet storms, slow time with stasis. Autofire always on.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.6%, Space 14.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.2%, Score Attack 11.8%, Difficult 8.9%
Beyond The Heavens is a arcade style shoot-em-up where you take control of a ship seeking to reach the destination that calls out to it. The journey will take place across several worlds including Heaven and Hell!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 20.6%, Space 18.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.3%, Action 14.2%, Indie 10.3%
Inspired by classic arcade games, Viper Attack is a fast, addictive arcade shoot-up! Master the challenge and fight your way through many brutal levels
Why similar: Bullet Hell 19.1%, Space 15.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.5%, Action 13.2%, Casual 12.4%
Wield the power of the stars in this intense multi directional shmup.
Why similar: Bullet Hell 25.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.2%, Arcade 11.2%, Action 11.1%, Space 11%
You’re a mediator trying to prevent an interplanetary conflict. How will you do it? By destroying infrastructure, overthrowing a monarchy, wiping out a hive, and eradicating half of a nebula… All this and more in ITZO, an 8-bit bullet hell game!
Why similar: Bullet Hell 31.9%, Space 21.8%, Shooter 10.8%, Retro 10.4%, Arcade 9.4%
