- #1 DAMNOSAUR
97% matchVery Positive91% of 319 reviews2018
Dev: Evlanic Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
DAMNOSAUR is a chaotic arcade shooter that combines colourful anime with the Dino-apocalypse! Fight alone, or with a friend to take down these monstrous dinosaurs.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 39.8% ★, Shooter 23.2%, Anime 18.1%, Action 13.1%, 2D 5.9%
- #2 Blazing Chrome
96% matchVery Positive87% of 1,954 reviews2019
Dev: JoyMasherPub: The Arcade Crew
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 50%
In Blazing Chrome, bring your best pal and kick some metal butts to free the humankind while enjoying a classic run’n’gun, fully loaded with action and exciting fights!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 43.5%, Shooter 17.4%, Arcade 16.3%, Female Protagonist 8.5%, 2D 7.7%
- #3 Wild Guns Reloaded
96% matchVery Positive87% of 489 reviews2017
Dev: NatsumeAtariPub: Natsume Inc.
Windows
Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 73%
Wild Guns Reloaded is a fast-paced arcade-style shooter, mixing the Wild West with steampunk. Play as Clint, Annie, Doris, or Bullet the dog with his sentry drone. Grab some friends and play together for some four player action!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 39.5%, Shooter 23.9%, Arcade 23.8%, Action 9.4%, 2D 3.4%
- #4 Terror of Hemasaurus
94% matchVery Positive91% of 1,031 reviews2022
Dev: Loren Lemcke
Windows
Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 71%
A retro city smash 'em up with satisfying destruction physics. Play as a Giant Monster unleashing terror upon mankind in this modern arcade experience with the action turned up to eleven.
Why similar: Dinosaurs 36.5% ★, Arcade 20.6%, Comedy 13.2%, Sci-fi 9%, 2D 7.2%
- #5 Hazelnut Hex
94% matchVery Positive98% of 131 reviews2023
Dev: Chunderfins
Windows
Rescue breakfast in this arcade-style bullet hell shoot 'em up!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.5%, Female Protagonist 13.7%, Shooter 13.7%, Arcade 13.3%, Cute 8.5%
- #6 Roarr! The Adventures of Rampage Rex
95% matchMostly Negative36% of 248 reviews2018
Dev: Born Lucky GamesPub: Klabater
Windows · Mac
Median: 12 minMean: 3.3 hrs≥1hr: 24%
An arcade game with a co-op mode in which an angry female T-Rex must defeat space invaders. Stylish, cartoon, polygonal graphics and murderous opponents from the universe - this is just a real Jurassic adventure!
Why similar: Dinosaurs 32.1% ★, Female Protagonist 18.2%, Arcade 16.4%, Funny 11.6%, Hand-drawn 10.4%
- #7 Neptunia Shooter
93% matchVery Positive88% of 745 reviews2019
Dev: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 67.2 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: Shoot 'Em Up 32.8%, Female Protagonist 10.7%, Shooter 10.2%, Anime 10.1%, Arcade 8.9%
- #8 HUNTDOWN
91% matchVery Positive95% of 4,343 reviews2021
Dev: Easy Trigger GamesPub: Coffee Stain Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%
In the mayhem-filled streets of the future where criminal gangs rule and cops fear to tread, only the bounty hunters can free the city from the corrupt fist of felony. Lay waste to the criminal underworld and make a killing in this hard boiled action comedy arcade shooter.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.8%, Precision Platformer 21.8%, Shooter 13.5%, 2D Platformer 9.5%, Arcade 9.2%
- #9 Iron Meat
90% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 1,083 reviews2024
Dev: Ivan Valeryevich SuvorovPub: Retroware
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 74%
Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.5%, 2D Platformer 19.9%, Shooter 16.7%, Arcade 13.3%, Linear 9.8%
- #10 Mighty Gunvolt
92% matchMostly Positive74% of 429 reviews2015
Dev: INTI CREATES CO., LTD.
Windows
Median: 54 minMean: 1.8 hrs≥1hr: 47%
Take control of one of three playable characters (Gunvolt, Ekoro, and Beck) as you blast your way past the baddies in stage after stage of side-scrolling action! Each stage ends with a boss encounter. Defeat the boss to complete the stage.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #11 METAGAL
91% matchMostly Positive70% of 152 reviews2016
Dev: RetroRevolution
Windows · Mac
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Help the young cyborg-girl Meta , in her battle against the evil "General Creeper" who kidnap her creator and her sisters! Collect new powers in order to face the advanced levels, in this fun and furious , platformer-shooter
Why similar: Female Protagonist 35.8%, Arcade 15.1%, Action 14.3%, Cute 10.8%, Anime 10.8%
- #12 Radioactive Dwarfs: Evil From The Sewers
89% matchVery Positive96% of 52 reviews2021
Dev: Slay Buherman
Windows
Blast through the sewers in Radioactive Dwarfs! Retro top-down shooter with NES-style pixel graphics and chiptune music. Help the armed heroine search for her brother in an underground dwarven settlement: many enemies, items, secrets, and bonus levels. A thrilling adventure awaits!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 37.6%, Shooter 18.8%, Arcade 16.4%, 1980s 15.5%, 2D 6.1%
- #13 RagingBlasters
89% matchVery Positive99% of 124 reviews2021
Dev: TERARIN GAMES
Windows
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 38.4%, Shooter 18.6%, Female Protagonist 17%, Arcade 8.2%, 1980s 6.8%
- #14 Gal Guardians: Demon Purge
88% matchMostly Positive80% of 1,371 reviews2023
Dev: INTI CREATES CO., LTD.
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%
In order to save their school after it turns into a massive demonic castle, two "Demon Hunter" sisters slash and shoot their way through this 2D action adventure. Players can swap between control of both characters on the fly, each with entirely different skillsets.
Why similar: 2D Platformer 34.7%, Female Protagonist 20.6%, Anime 13.9%, Cute 11.2%, Action 7.7%
- #15 Dimension Tripper Neptune: TOP NEP
86% matchVery Positive95% of 728 reviews2022
Dev: Idea FactoryPub: Idea Factory International
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 8.4 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Older Neptune and friends shoot and slash through enemies of Gamindustri in this rail shooter!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29.5%, Arcade 15.7%, Female Protagonist 11.6%, Anime 8.9%, Shooter 6.7%
- #16 SomnaBuster
86% matchVery Positive98% of 127 reviews2024
Dev: PD_CGT
Windows · Linux
BE WILD! BE WONDERFUL! BE-WITCHING!
Why similar: Precision Platformer 28.5%, 2D Platformer 11.3%, Arcade 9.1%, Female Protagonist 9%, Linear 7.2%
- #17 Gunslugs
87% matchMostly Positive75% of 129 reviews2015
Dev: Orangepixel
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 4.0 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 97%
Lock and load for chaotic, fast-paced action in Gunslugs! Battle the evil Black Duck Army across wild, procedurally generated levels packed with explosions, jetpacks, chicken guns, and rogue-like permadeath. Unlock heroes, conquer bizarre worlds, and fight your way to the gates of Hell!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29.4%, Shooter 25.3%, Arcade 18.9%, Female Protagonist 10.6%, 2D 8.2%
- #18 Neon Inferno
82% matchVery Positive94% of 391 reviews2025
Dev: Zenovia InteractivePub: Retroware
Windows
Median: 1.0 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 50%
NYC 2055: a city beyond salvation. Blast your way through this dense cyberpunk jungle in NEON INFERNO, an explosive fusion of 2D run-and-gun and gallery-shooter, and help the Family dominate its streets!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 34.4%, Female Protagonist 15.9%, Shooter 15.6%, Arcade 15.1%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #19 GhoulScrapers
83% matchVery Positive99% of 112 reviews2024
Dev: ShortCake_CafePub: Oniworks Studios
Windows
Ghoulscrapers is a precision platformer where you play as Eggroll, the new employee at Ghoulscrapers. You owe the government one gazillion dollars and it's your job to pay the debt before it's too late!
Why similar: Precision Platformer 40.6%, 2D Platformer 21%, Cute 8.4%, Funny 7.2%, Female Protagonist 6.3%
- #20 Jet Kave Adventure
84% matchVery Positive85% of 130 reviews2021
Dev: 7Levels
Windows
Jetpack through the prehistoric world in this Stone-Fiction adventure platformer. Enjoy challenging boss fights, flying over pitfalls, smashing through walls, knocking out enemies, and manipulating objects as you halt the alien threat once and for all.
Why similar: Precision Platformer 37%, 2D Platformer 20.6%, Dinosaurs 18.6% ★, Arcade 11.7%, Funny 7.8%
- #21 Explosionade DX
85% matchMostly Positive78% of 86 reviews2015
Dev: Mommy's Best Games
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 89%
Pilot an experimental mech and shoot giant grenades to blow up sneaky aliens. Stomp their guts, destroy their base, and save the day!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.1%, 2D Platformer 14.6%, Arcade 12.3%, Shooter 12.3%, Anime 8.2%
- #22 Weapon of Choice DX
84% matchMostly Positive77% of 501 reviews2015
Dev: Mommy's Best Games
Windows
Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 6.9 hrs≥1hr: 69%
Weapon of Choice is a high-energy, side-scroller in which each playable character is unique with their own special weapon and abilities! Blast insane aliens, find new player characters, and choose between branching paths!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33.4%, 2D Platformer 11.9%, Arcade 11.8%, Hand-drawn 10.6%, Shooter 10.3%
- #23 Chenso Club
82% matchMostly Positive75% of 322 reviews2022
Dev: PixadomePub: Aurora Punks
Windows
Median: 30 minMean: 5.4 hrs≥1hr: 35%
Aliens are attacking! Who will save us? Chenso Club will! Using chainsaws, hammers, and the aliens’ own life force against them - these fearless warriors will pulverise enemies on their way to victory. Go solo! Go co-op! Go hack those aliens in this action-packed, side-scrolling platform brawler!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 26.5%, Female Protagonist 21.1%, Funny 12.5%, Cute 11.1%, Comedy 10.3%
- #24 Assault Android Cactus+
81% matchVery Positive94% of 2,009 reviews2015
Dev: Witch Beam
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.2 hrs≥1hr: 82%
Assault Android Cactus is an intense arcade style twin stick shooter - pick from one of nine unique synthetic heroines and blast your way through overwhelming robots hordes to save the ship from its own workforce. Supports single player and local co-op game modes.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33.3%, Shooter 16.8%, Female Protagonist 16.2%, Arcade 14.1%, Cute 9.1%
- #25 Super Alloy Ranger
79% matchVery Positive91% of 398 reviews2022
Dev: Alloy MushroomPub: Neverland Entertainment
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Super Alloy Ranger is a 2D side-scrolling action game. Play as Marksman Kelly or Combat Robot No.2 to challenge different levels within the dangerous Machine Empire and unlock new weapons. Use Kelly’s shooting and No.2’s deathblows to defeat abnormal Machine Bosses!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 50.4%, Sci-fi 17.2%, Action 15.3%, Female Protagonist 7.6%, Anime 5.2%
- #26 KUR
81% matchMixed67% of 63 reviews2022
Dev: Really RagdollPub: The Quantum Astrophysicists Guild
Windows
Destroy drones, ravage robots and stomp some skull-bearing spiderdroids in a dark-humor drenched take on the classic 90’s shooter.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 34.1%, Shooter 18.2%, Female Protagonist 17.1%, Funny 11.1%, Sci-fi 7.3%
- #27 Arcade Mayhem Juanito
78% matchVery Positive94% of 365 reviews2017
Dev: Game Ever Studio
Windows
Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%
Arcade Mayhem Juanito is a retro experience about arcade-hopping. Teleport into different video games, play with unique mechanics inspired by well-known arcade games, face stunningly animated bosses and join the fight against the clonocell invasion.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 36.3%, Arcade 20.9%, Hand-drawn 11%, Action 10.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%
- #28 Demon's Crystals
80% matchMostly Positive76% of 75 reviews2016
Dev: Byte4GamesPub: BadLand Publishing
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 5.5 hrsMean: 5.7 hrs≥1hr: 95%
Demon's Crystals is a frenetic twin stick shooter where you guide the Urican demons through countless hazards in order to restore peace to the world. A variety of weapons and power-ups will help you defeat the massive enemy hordes.
Why similar: Action 100%
- #29 Destructivator 2
78% matchVery Positive96% of 55 reviews2020
Dev: Pug Fugly GamesPub: Thalamus Digital
Windows
A platform shooter that brings 90's gaming smashing into your face! Blast and insta-melee your way through hordes of alien soldiers, robots, bosses and loads more. Fight on foot, in a fighter or in a bomber. Take on bosses and ensure that the alien menace won't threaten Earth ever again!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 31.3%, Shooter 23.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.5%, Arcade 9.2%, 2D 6.4%
- #30 TWINKLE STAR SPRITES
79% matchMostly Positive73% of 277 reviews2016
Dev: SNK CORPORATION
Windows
Median: 18 minMean: 6.8 hrs≥1hr: 35%
“TWINKLE STAR SPRITES ”, a competitive 2D top-down view scrolling shooter released on NEOGEO MVS in 1996, departs for new adventures on the Steam gaming platform!Master your shots, and aim for the magical Twinkle Star”!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 47.3%, Female Protagonist 15.2%, Arcade 15.2%, Anime 10%, Cute 6.6%
- #31 Super Time Force Ultra
77% matchVery Positive89% of 968 reviews2014
Dev: Capybara Games
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 81%
Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.3%, Dinosaurs 18.4% ★, 2D Platformer 17.7%, Shooter 13.6%, Arcade 11.4%
- #32 FLARE NUINUI QUEST
74% matchVery Positive94% of 252 reviews2024
Dev: sulpxPub: holo Indie
Windows · Linux
Play as Shiranui Flare in this retro action platformer, wielding her dual pistols, as you explore the world on a quest to save your friends!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 35.1%, Cute 14.6%, Female Protagonist 13.8%, Anime 12.6%, Action 8.4%
- #33 Alien Strike: Blasting the Intruders
72% matchVery Positive94% of 156 reviews2026
Dev: Combo Game StudioPub: Nuntius Games
Windows
Slide, jump and shoot in 8 directions in this explosive Run 'n Gun for up to 3 players! Swap weapons in real time, activate insane specials and take on alien bosses in an action-packed invasion of retro mayhem!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.4%, 2D Platformer 17.6%, Shooter 14.5%, Arcade 11.9%, 1980s 11.2%
- #34 Super Hydorah
76% matchVery Positive87% of 320 reviews2017
Dev: LocomalitoPub: Abylight Studios
Windows
Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 72%
Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Lance, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 56.3%, Arcade 20.6%, Action 7.5%, 2D 6.6%, Funny 5.4%
- #35 Bot Vice
75% matchVery Positive93% of 1,478 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 32%, Shooter 15%, Female Protagonist 14.2%, Arcade 13.4%, Funny 9.8%
- #36 Double Cross
77% matchMostly Positive78% of 134 reviews2019
Dev: 13AM Games
Windows
Median: 42 minMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 44%
Explore alternate dimensions, fight interdimensional criminals, and solve crimes in this thrilling action platformer!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 31%, Action 26.8%, Adventure 16.9%, 2D 13.2%, Colorful 12.2%
- #37 Dino Quake
73% matchVery Positive100% of 51 reviews2025
Dev: Neutronized
Windows
Join Mina and Kiwi to stop an alien invasion from outer space! Dino Quake is a platformer arcade game where you hit the ground to create quakes, stun enemies, then kick them to trigger epic avalanches. Play solo or team up with a friend in local co-op!
Why similar: Dinosaurs 33.2% ★, 2D Platformer 22.5%, Arcade 18.3%, Linear 9.6%, 2D 5.2%
- #38 Garbanzo Quest
72% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 654 reviews2024
Dev: zagawee
Windows · Mac · Linux
GARBANZO QUEST! The crazy bullet-heck platformer where your main weapon is your own spit! Bring a friend! Hand-crafted challenges, secrets, and branching paths galore!
Why similar: Precision Platformer 45.1%, 2D Platformer 27.6%, Cute 8.7%, Funny 7.9%, Colorful 4%
- #39 Parry Nightmare
73% matchVery Positive85% of 178 reviews2024
Dev: KAKUKAKU GAMESPub: Phoenixx Inc.
Windows
Team up with your "other self", Honno-chan, as you parry, pummel and pulse your way out of your darkest nightmare in this one-of-a-kind "parry heaven" action game!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 29.2%, Cute 24%, Anime 16.6%, 2D 10.7%, Colorful 9.1%
- #40 Shikhondo: Blue Pieta
71% matchVery Positive98% of 62 reviews2026
Dev: DeerFarmPub: CFK Co., Ltd.
Windows
Once more, the hunt for Youkai begins! Across the ocean in a city far, far away, the side-scrolling shoot 'em up action of our two protagonists unfolds! Complete the Pietà of struggle that burns blue with its raging barrage!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26%, Arcade 15.2%, Shooter 13.5%, Female Protagonist 12.1%, Anime 7.3%
- #41 Vengeance Hunters
73% matchVery Positive86% of 65 reviews2024
Dev: Nalua Studio SLU
Windows
Vengeance Hunters is an adrenaline fueled Neo-Geo hardware developed beat’em’up that lets you and a friend in local co-op fight mutants, zombies, punks, gangsters, lab techs with bombs (you read that correctly), suited mystery men, cyborgs and more across multiple stages, sublevels and secret areas.
Why similar: Arcade 36.1%, Hand-drawn 20.8%, 2D 13%, Action 12%, Colorful 11.7%
- #42 Contract Rush DX
70% matchVery Positive100% of 264 reviews2025
Dev: FigburnPub: 2 Left Thumbs
Windows
Contract Rush DX is a hand-animated 2D Shoot 'Em Up, with multiple playable characters. Explore the world, collect powerful upgrades throughout levels, and unleash them to defeat difficult boss battles!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 43.2%, Shooter 14.4%, Hand-drawn 13.8%, Arcade 11.8%, Funny 7.9%
- #43 Game Type DX
76% matchMostly Positive76% of 50 reviews2015
Dev: Mommy's Best Games
Windows
Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 4.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Help Hoodie Girl fight the evil MediaBall's inane advertisements! It's a looping shooter in which each loop increases the speed and difficulty!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 47.3%, Shooter 22.7%, Action 12.5%, Comedy 9.9%, 2D 7.5%
- #44 Curse Crackers: For Whom the Belle Toils
71% matchVery Positive95% of 417 reviews2022
Dev: Colorgrave
Windows
Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 4.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Bounce, vault, and fight your way through a whimsical world with the help of your loyal companion. Eat snacks, collect artifacts, and travel the world to stop Bonnie and her boney band of troublemakers!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 32.3%, Female Protagonist 25.3%, Funny 16.6%, Colorful 8.4%, 2D 7.6%
- #45 Dinosaur Hunt
74% matchMixed67% of 3,914 reviews2015
Dev: Racing BrosPub: ANPA.US
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.1 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 79%
Dinosaur Hunt is an intense action shooter that will take you on an epic journey of hunting the world’s most horrifying animals!
Why similar: Dinosaurs 60.7% ★, Shooter 25.4%, Action 8.9%, Adventure 4.9%
- #46 DRAINUS
71% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 1,135 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 51.1%, Shooter 20%, Female Protagonist 13.2%, Action 7.4%, 2D 4.7%
- #47 Project Mercury
75% matchMixed58% of 592 reviews2017
Dev: Raxasoft Games
Windows
Median: 6 minMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 25%
Make your way on foot, on a hoverbike, up skyscrapers, and down bottomless pits, as you exterminate a threat of unknown origin!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 50.6%, Sci-fi 22.5%, Action 16.9%, 2D 10.1%
- #48 Decline's Drops
68% matchVery Positive95% of 222 reviews2024
Dev: Le Moulin aux Bulles
Windows
Grab your punching gloves, put your clogs on and smash your way in the world of Decline's Drops, a fully hand-drawn platform-brawler full of weird frogs, bizarre chickens and odd hydras! Avenge your destroyed garden and defeat the 6 heads of the Eternal Corp.! If you can, that is.
Why similar: Precision Platformer 39.3%, 2D Platformer 22.3%, Female Protagonist 15.5%, Cute 8.2%, Hand-drawn 6%
- #49 SUPER CHICKEN JUMPER
68% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 5,354 reviews2021
Dev: Sewer Cat
Windows
Median: 2.5 hrsMean: 4.8 hrs≥1hr: 76%
A spy-chicken tries to save the world from doom in this runner/shooter game that has a little bit of everything with a touch of chicken and anime girls on top. Run for your life in 6 different worlds and shoot your way through tons of enemies until you become a legend.
Why similar: Arcade 23.8%, Funny 17%, Anime 15.7%, Cute 15.3%, 2D 9.4%
- #50 Mega Serval
67% matchVery Positive98% of 360 reviews2022
Dev: Syaxamaphone
Windows
Serval's friends are in danger and it's up to her to save the day! Progress through 12 action-packed platforming stages in this "Kemono Friends Project" derivative work!
Why similar: Female Protagonist 27.4%, 2D Platformer 23.2%, 1980s 22.4%, Action 7.2%, 2D 5.9%
- #51 Minishoot' Adventures
64% matchOverwhelmingly Positive98% of 7,977 reviews2024
Dev: SoulGame Studio
Windows · Mac
Median: 8.7 hrsMean: 9.8 hrs≥1hr: 90%
Fly into a charming handcrafted world and go on an adventure that mixes up open exploration with crispy twin-stick shooter action. Fight your way from the shiny overworld to the deepest caves, improve your ship and overcome the dungeons' bosses to rescue your friends!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 34.3%, Shooter 22.5%, Cute 15.8%, 2D 9.1%, Colorful 8.4%
- #52 The Bug Butcher
69% matchVery Positive90% of 1,204 reviews2016
Dev: Awfully Nice Studios
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.1 hrs≥1hr: 88%
A fast paced action shooter inspired by the arcade classic Super Pang! Use a wide selection of weapons and powerups to tear through increasingly challenging levels.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 51.7%, Arcade 23.3%, Sci-fi 11.3%, Action 7%, 2D 6.8%
- #53 Panzer Paladin
69% matchMostly Positive75% of 669 reviews2020
Dev: Tribute Games Inc.
Windows · Linux
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 83%
Hop in the Paladin power armor, seize melee weapons from the demonic invaders and give them a taste of their own medicine!
Why similar: 2D Platformer 35.2%, Arcade 13.9%, 1980s 13.4%, Anime 13.1%, 2D 7.7%
- #54 Revolgear Zero
64% matchVery Positive98% of 128 reviews2026
Dev: Bikkuri SoftwarePub: Henteko Doujin
Windows
Shizuku and Akane...two pilots bound by rivalry and friendship battle to save their world from malevolent cosmic forces! A classic arcade style shmup with deeply satisfying fast paced combat, wide variety of load-out combos, and even local co-op!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 43%, Arcade 11.9%, Anime 11.4%, Cute 9.9%, Sci-fi 8.8%
- #55 Xmas Shooting - Scramble!!
69% matchVery Positive93% of 138 reviews2016
Dev: Orange_JuicePub: Fruitbat Factory
Windows
Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 86%
Help Aru save Christmas in this humoristic, action-packed shooter set in the universe of QP Shooting - Dangerous!!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27%, Shooter 12.2%, Female Protagonist 12.2%, Arcade 9.2%, Anime 8.9%
- #56 Rock Boshers DX: Directors Cut
70% matchVery Positive89% of 55 reviews2014
Dev: TIKIPOD
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 88%
Get ready to take a trip back to the 80s, the 1880s! Help young Queen Victoria fight her way across Mars and attempt to escape home in this exceedingly retro arcade adventure! Prepare to bosh rocks! - with only the occasional break for tea and scones.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 24.1%, 1980s 22.6%, Action 18.9%, Sci-fi 13%, 2D 11.5%
- #57 Beekyr Reloaded
70% matchVery Positive86% of 98 reviews2017
Dev: KaleidoGames
Windows
Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 5.3 hrs≥1hr: 89%
The giant hornets have destroyed your hive and taken the pollen. Fight the swarms alone or with a friend and destroy the dangerous hornet queen! The insect world is very dangerous but... what are you waiting for to get your revenge?
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 40.8%, Shooter 20.5%, Arcade 16.6%, Cute 7.3%, 2D 6%
- #58 Rusted Moss
66% matchVery Positive89% of 1,644 reviews2023
Dev: EmlisePub: PLAYISM
Windows
Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 9.2 hrs≥1hr: 77%
Rusted Moss is a twin-stick shooter metroidvania where you sling around the map with your grapple, blasting your way through witches and rusted machine monstrosities alike. This wasteland once harboring mankind has since fallen, and Fae long forgotten now knock on humanity's door...
Why similar: Precision Platformer 43%, 2D Platformer 24.1%, Female Protagonist 18.3%, 2D 6.5%, Action 5%
- #59 Rule No. 1
67% 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: Female Protagonist 24.6%, Shooter 23%, Arcade 21.8%, Anime 13.6%, Funny 10.5%
- #60 Freedom Planet
67% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 4,884 reviews2014
Dev: GalaxyTrail
Windows · Mac · Linux
Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 6.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%
Fight your way across the celestial world of Avalice where cats are green, motorcycles drive up walls and monster girls do most of the buttkicking! Freedom Planet is a cartoony, combat-based platform adventure that pits a spunky dragonoid and her friends against an alien attack force.
Why similar: Female Protagonist 42.9%, 2D 14.5%, Action 11.1%, Cute 9%, Anime 8.2%