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Take on powerful tanks and battleships with the best use of your fighter in this military themed vertical arcade shoot ‘em up by Toaplan! Summon friendly fighter planes to avoid emergencies and increase firepower. Now on PC with modern enhancements!

Why similar: 1980s 27.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 20%, Top-Down Shooter 13%, Old School 11.9%, Arcade 10%

A classic old-school shooter with the possibility of upgrading your own spaceship.

Why similar: 1980s 24.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 19%, Old School 15.6%, Top-Down Shooter 13.2%, Aliens 10.4%

Blast battalions of tanks into smoking craters and conquer air and sea from the sky's fastest attack chopper! Toaplan's coin-op shooter Twin Cobra flies to PC with fresh features and quality-of-life updates!

Why similar: 1980s 28.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.9%, Old School 14.8%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Arcade 11.1%

An arcade-style 2D top-down space shooter. Blow up space rocks and space pirates for as long as you can. You'll also need to maximize a delicately-balanced economy of resources. Keep trying to out-do yourself! Five boss ships will break in at various points to make life difficult.

Why similar: 1980s 36.9%, Old School 13.6%, Arcade 10.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 10%, Top-Down Shooter 8.7%

Save Earth from an invasion of intergalactic chickens! Finger-blistering arcade shooting action for one or two players.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 22.9%, 1980s 17.8%, Arcade 13.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.4%, Old School 11.8%

Use quick reflexes and sharp aim to simultaneously blow up enemies and block alike in this satisfying retro style action brick breaker! The third installment in the Game Buddy series that faithfully recreates the look, sounds, and feel of classic late 80's handheld games!

Why similar: 1980s 33.4%, Old School 26.6%, Arcade 15.3%, Action 12.1%, Top-Down Shooter 7.6%

Star Razer is a shooter game inspired by the Vectrex game Asteroids, with a hint of Geometry Wars. You must face successive waves of enemies and achieve the highest score (online). The game is exclusively played with mouse and keyboard (for now).

Why similar: 1980s 36%, Shoot 'Em Up 29.3%, Arcade 16.7%, Action 13.9%, 2D 3.5%

Take off on a classic arcade journey with Tiger-Heli, Toaplan's pioneering vertical shooter that set the stage for an entire genre. Now available on PC with a host of modern upgrades!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33.6%, 1980s 19.2%, Arcade 16.9%, Old School 15.3%, Action 7.5%

The ruthless Gidans invite you to an explosive space scramble! Head into the mighty Super Fighter and disintegrate your foes in all directions with various upgradeable weapons. Toaplan's no-frills vertical shooter Truxton speeds onto PC with new features and quality-of-life updates!

Why similar: 1980s 23.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.5%, Old School 17.1%, Top-Down Shooter 13%, Arcade 11.2%

A modern tribute to arcade legends! This shoot'em up arcade game revives the classics after 45 years with fresh graphics and innovative gameplay. Become a part of Space Ranges Inc. Join now! Get the high score!

Why similar: Looter Shooter 26.8% ★, 1980s 24.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.7%, Arcade 11.4%, Aliens 9%

Neon Invaders will take you back to your gaming roots with its constant action and relentlessly brutal enemies. Absorb enemy shots of the same colour to trigger a flurry of fire to decimate the alien invaders. Dodge and Match your way to victory through 40 levels and 5 difficulty settings.

Why similar: 1980s 21.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.3%, Top-Down Shooter 12.6%, Old School 11.7%, Arcade 11.2%

Blast through alien hordes as the finest cyborg mercenary in existence! To emerge victorious, you'll need to manage time and resources skillfully. Toaplan's run-and-gun smash-hit finally arrives on PC, reloaded with new features and quality-of-life extras!

Why similar: 1980s 23.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.3%, Old School 15.6%, Top-Down Shooter 12%, Arcade 9.6%

GUN KING is a fast-paced top-down arcade shooter with unique gun mods that lets you play your way. Unlock and equip powerful gun mods to create wild synergies, amp up your firepower, and blast through hordes of enemies.

Why similar: 1980s 39.9%, Old School 20.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 12.1%, Top-Down Shooter 8.9%, Arcade 7.7%

WE HAVE ALIENS, YOU DON'T—Blast Martian invaders and flying saucers across 30 stages with robotic voice effects. Use your destructible shield, rescue army men for bonus points, and chase the high score.

Why similar: 1980s 24.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.9%, Old School 13.5%, Top-Down Shooter 13.1%, Arcade 10.9%

In the vast depths of space, lies a man with a dark past. Setting himself apart from that old life, and seeking justice against wrongdoing instead of being the cause of it, Captain Righteous uses the Freedom Fighter, his trusty space fighter to search for and combat the evil Captain Buster!

Why similar: 1980s 29.6%, Old School 18.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 13.2%, Arcade 11.5%, Top-Down Shooter 10.4%

Evasion from Cluster 42, an arcade spaceshooter for 1 or 2 players with 3D GFX and a Background Story. Play every level from top down view or from side view. You'll get a different view and a different experience that way for each level!

Why similar: Looter Shooter 23.5% ★, 1980s 20.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.9%, Top-Down Shooter 10.8%, Arcade 9.9%

Embark on a dangerous investigation in Ultra Mission™, the latest game by Gumbo Machine™. As an agent of the Stellar Exchange Commission, you must traverse the 20 dizzying levels within Otto Labs, each littered with powerful automatons and questionable experiments. This is going to be a blast!

Why similar: 1980s 26.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.2%, Old School 13.8%, Top-Down Shooter 13.6%, Arcade 11.1%

Take your chance and feel like 10 again.😊To start let's meet this retro cutie.🚀 River Rush is reminiscent of an old vertically scrolling shoot’em up games.🚀 If you remember them, it's time to catch up with nostalgia. Or your father's nostalgia.😉 Board in and have some fun.👨‍🚀

Why similar: 1980s 32.5%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.6%, Old School 17%, Arcade 10.7%, Top-Down 5%

Barback is a 1980s arcade action run and gun game.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.8%, Old School 26.5%, Arcade 18.8%, Action 15.8%, 2D 3.9%

Welcome to a world of dangerous rectangles where quick reflexes and maneuvering will help you keep breathing... Well, for at least a few more seconds! Two buttons. Life or death. How long can you survive? Okay, so you died. Try Again. Die. One more time. Die. Just one more. Die. One more!

Why similar: 1980s 39.5%, Old School 20.7%, Arcade 18.4%, Action 15.3%, 2D 4.2%

Gunstorm is a space shooter loaded with playability. Wave after wave of alien craft attack your agile ship. Use the mouse to control your ship at the speed of thought in a perfectly balanced game that starts easy and gradually gets more difficult.

Why similar: 1980s 31%, Shoot 'Em Up 18.5%, Top-Down Shooter 14.5%, Old School 13.3%, Arcade 10.3%

A fast pace retro arcade shooter. Fight waves of zombies and dragons with a great gun collection. Battle five wild bosses all while trying to keep the high score.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.1%, 1980s 23.1%, Arcade 14.9%, Top-Down Shooter 13.4%, Action 12.7%

TROID BLASTER 2 is a physics based asteroids tribute game, featuring: * Random Levels * Gachapon random generated pilots and ships * 30 weapon types to unlock * Physics based! * Hundreds of bite sized levels to play * A graveyard to bury and remember your fallen pilots

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.3%, 1980s 19.4%, Top-Down Shooter 14.8%, Arcade 13.8%, Old School 11%

Meteor Havok is a take on the classic Asteroids arcade shooter. Enter the asteroid fields to blast a path to safety with your agile ship and powerful lasers.

Why similar: 1980s 39.5%, Top-Down Shooter 21.9%, Arcade 18.5%, Action 15.6%, 2D 3.9%

A quick and action paced retro styled arcade shooter, or shoot 'em up (shmup) if you like. Perfect to play in short chunks, like when you are waiting for big games to download.

Why similar: 1980s 27.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.5%, Old School 16.4%, Arcade 12.3%, Top-Down 5.5%

The Queen of the Cosmic Wartoads has been abducted by the Rigellian Slime Beasts, their deadliest foe, and turned into the most hideous thing imaginable: a human being! Traverse the Rygellian Time-Void, reach the Slime King's lair and dismantle their deathly machine with your Cosmic Tool Kit.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.9%, 1980s 21.8%, Arcade 12.8%, Old School 11.9%, Action 8.1%

Defendor is a throwback to the fast paced arcade games of the 80s.A retro style, arcade shooter where you upgrade your base to increase the capabilities of your ship, unlock new weapons, ships and cause more mayhem.Defend your base until everyone makes it into the escape ship.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.8%, 1980s 23.9%, Top-Down Shooter 15.5%, Old School 14.6%, Action 11.6%

An 8-bit style vertical SHMUP (very loosely) based on the writings of H.P. Lovecraft.

Why similar: Old School 29.4%, 1980s 23.9%, Arcade 20.6%, Action 13%, Shoot 'Em Up 8.5%

An arcade style game where you play as an animal hopping around a road trying to crash cars. Work your way through different levels or play in survival mode - how many can you crash before you're run over?

Why similar: 1980s 40.8%, Old School 24.3%, Arcade 15.7%, Action 8.6%, 2D 3.8%

Save our galaxy from the invasion of an alien race.

Why similar: 1980s 39%, Shoot 'Em Up 33.5%, Arcade 19.1%, 2D 4%, Casual 3.7%

Killon is a retro shooter that features exhilarating combat, manic enemies and a charged cannon waiting to be unleashed. Fly a starship across the universe and restore the future today.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 21.6%, 1980s 20.9%, Top-Down Shooter 12.7%, Old School 11.8%, Arcade 11.1%

I.F.O is an old school LCD-style shoot'em up game. You have to shoot UFOs using a classic aircraft and save the animals which kidnapped by the aliens. Let's save the Earth from the aliens! You are the last hero of the world.

Why similar: 1980s 31.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 28.2%, Old School 12.6%, Action 9.8%, Aliens 9.3%

The sequel to Toaplan’s shoot ‘em up masterpiece Truxton is a thrilling insane space action with an unforgiving difficulty level. Enjoy the visually stunning pixel graphics and vibrant music as you dodge the high-speed bullet rain and take on tough bosses.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23.9%, Old School 19.4%, Top-Down Shooter 15.6%, Arcade 12.2%, Aliens 7.7%

Zombies are attacking your record store! Throw classic albums and compact discs at the approaching horde. But hey, you're still on the clock, so get those records put away!

Why similar: 1980s 26.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 25.8%, Old School 16%, Arcade 14.3%, Action 8.7%

A classic style SHMUP in the tradition of 80's and 90's vertical scrolling shooters. Maximize your run and get to the top of the High-score Leaderboard. Can you achieve the rank of Fleet Admiral? It's a challenge. Visit our website for a free playable browser demo of the game.

Why similar: 1980s 24.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 24.6%, Arcade 13.8%, Old School 13.4%, Action 11.2%

Be shot and shoot back! Rule reversal type Shmup "Return Ace"What you have been given is the power to take advantage of the oncoming malice and return it.Please enjoy the unique sense of incompatibility, tension, and striking that the experience of bullet energy weaves.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27%, 1980s 26.8%, Old School 15.7%, Arcade 12.3%, Action 7.3%

This is a shoot em up game , In this game the player combats a large number of enemies by shooting at them, the game is set in the Chinese People’s War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression,off the air of the North Eastern Province.

Why similar: 1980s 29.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.8%, Old School 19.8%, Top-Down Shooter 13.7%, Action 10%

An arcade style game where you control a bumper to bounce the blitzr ball! Destroy all blocks to beat levels. Discover power ups and unlock perks to help you along the way!

Why similar: 1980s 35%, Old School 21.2%, Arcade 18.6%, Action 16.7%, 2D 4.3%

The Zanac battle, which was supposed to have ended, was not over. To suppress the reactivated organic intelligence, Zanac takes flight once again!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.4%, 1980s 26.1%, Arcade 16%, Old School 15.9%, Action 12.5%

Return to classic 80s shooters while fighting off the fast food horde in this retro space shooter.

Why similar: 1980s 35.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 27%, Old School 19.5%, Action 13.6%, Casual 3%

Asteroid Blasters is a non-stop action space shooter. Inspired by Asteroids, this game will see you choose between 6 different ships each with their own characteristics and utilize a variety of weapon powerups to eradicate your enemies. Play 2 players to increase your chance of survival.

Why similar: 1980s 31.2%, Shoot 'Em Up 23.1%, Old School 19%, Arcade 12.9%, Action 7.3%

Brick breaker arcade action with unique features

Why similar: 1980s 51.4%, Arcade 24.5%, Action 15.8%, 2D 4.3%, Indie 1.7%

A side scrolling side-on shooter from the depths of a long-lost arcade cabinet where you take the role of a UFO on the hunt for human prey! Capture them alive with your tractor beam and pull them into your saucer while unleashing your heat ray upon tanks, planes, and all manner of military might!

Why similar: 1980s 42.3%, Old School 22%, Aliens 15%, Arcade 9.1%, Action 8.3%

The earth is being attacked by creatures from deep space! Time to bring the fight back to them! Battle through multiple stages of heart pounding bullet hell action. Evade the onslaught of bullets, rack up massive multipliers, and get revenge for your planet!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.2%, Old School 20.5%, Top-Down Shooter 15.6%, Aliens 11%, Arcade 10.6%

Blast away in this pure retro-styled shooter and battle through tons of dangerous levels and manic boss fights.

Why similar: 1980s 42.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.9%, Old School 15%, Action 12.2%, Aliens 9.9%

ZEROCRON is a straightforward, classical arcade Twin-Stick Shoot-Em-Up with a strong Commodore-Amiga-era feel. Blast asteroids and enemies to burning pixeldust!

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 21.4%, 1980s 21.1%, Old School 18.3%, Top-Down Shooter 13.4%, Arcade 10.9%

Synth-wave styled physics based 2D puzzle shooter filled with nods to the golden era of classic arcade games. Think upside down Peggle crossed with Space Invaders and enemies crafted from the blended remains 70's, and 80’s gaming.

Why similar: 1980s 31.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.7%, Old School 16.7%, Top-Down Shooter 15.2%, Action 5.6%

Mutant Legion is a charming but brutal top down shooter: Play as a mercenary on a mission to defeat all enemies, get paid and ultimately get out alive. Pick up and discover various weaponry, secrets and the path to victory.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33.6%, 1980s 28.6%, Old School 17.3%, Action 14.4%, 2D 3.7%

Hyper Frenzy is a free arena-styled singleplayer 2D space shooter using top-down perspective. Fight in different modes against bots, collect various items and use one of the plenty weapons to defeat your opponents. Create your own maps and gametypes.

Why similar: 1980s 20.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 20.2%, Top-Down Shooter 13.3%, Arcade 11.6%, Old School 10.4%

How long can you survive the depths of space in this fresh revival of the classic arcade shooter, all while grooving to an original score by Megan McDuffee. Pilot solo or recruit a friend for local co-op across 30 unique challenges or the endless arcade mode.

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.2%, 1980s 21.9%, Top-Down Shooter 16.1%, Old School 14.4%, Arcade 12.1%

Another version of the classic Asteroids game

Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.9%, Old School 16.7%, Top-Down Shooter 16.7%, Arcade 16.3%, Action 12%

Time to bug out and blast back in this arcade shooter packed with waves of insects and UFOs. Fight through 50 challenging stages, grab power-ups, and chase the high score.

Why similar: 1980s 23.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 22.2%, Top-Down Shooter 14.1%, Arcade 12.7%, Old School 11.2%

Gunstorm II is an space-shooter with bags of playability, character, pretty weapons, and lots of fun. The plot-based action takes you to five different worlds, in a perfectly balanced game that starts easy and gradually gets more difficult.

Why similar: 1980s 31.6%, Old School 16.4%, Top-Down Shooter 15.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 14.2%, Arcade 8.2%

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Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.7%, Top-Down Shooter 19.7%, Arcade 14.4%, Old School 14.3%, Action 8.5%

Earth is on the verge of World War 3. All life as we know it will be gone tomorrow. Take control of "Super Star Dan" to build a super SSD that can store every DNA on earth before the world goes up in flames. "Life Saver" is a twin stick shooter that you don't want to miss out on!

Why similar: 1980s 33.7%, Shoot 'Em Up 17.4%, Arcade 12.7%, Top-Down Shooter 11.1%, Action 7%

Orbis Fractura is the next evolution in classic arcade action. Smash through dynamic sci-fi arenas with explosive power-ups, relentless enemy formations, and a pulse-pounding electro-metal soundtrack. Designed for old-school arcade fans, it’s a bold 3D reimagining of Breakout-style gameplay.

Why similar: Old School 28.4%, Arcade 18.5%, 1980s 18.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 16.6%, Action 11.7%

A 2-D, top-down, line-drawing, sci-fi, action-strategy game, Vertex demands your attention while challenging your reflexes. Whether you're travelling on new or existing orthogonal lines, your goal is simple: capture a percentage of the total screen area while avoiding enemy droids!

Why similar: 1980s 30.2%, Old School 18.4%, Arcade 17.6%, Action 14.8%, Top-Down 6.8%

In this game , Players need to control their tanks, through the enemy lines, break the enemy base, and defeat all the enemy tanks

Why similar: 1980s 31.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.3%, Old School 20.9%, Action 17.2%, Indie 4.8%

MeteoStorm is an action packed retro shoot-em-up. MeteoStorm offers up to 25 challenging waves of exciting shoot-em-up action with 3 different difficulty levels!

Why similar: 1980s 30.3%, Shoot 'Em Up 29.5%, Arcade 16.7%, Action 13.4%, Linear 3.9%

In this game , Players need to control their tanks, through the enemy lines, break the enemy base, or defeat the enemy tanks

Why similar: 1980s 31.6%, Shoot 'Em Up 21.3%, Old School 20.9%, Action 17.2%, Indie 4.8%