60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Shoot 'Em Up, Top-Down Shooter, Shooter, Arcade.
Even if you are not good at avoiding bullets or shmup games there is no problem. A 2d casual rolling shooter best for killing time!
An old arcade style 2d shmup.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.1%, Top-Down Shooter 24.3%, Shooter 15.7%, Arcade 9.8%, Top-Down 7.5%
Blast off for a retro arcade experience in RedRaptor, a vertical shoot’em up inspired by genre classics of the ’90s!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.7%, Top-Down Shooter 26.5%, Shooter 12.5%, Arcade 6.8%, Pixel Graphics 5.6%
"Warrior of Democracy" is an incredible 2D shoot 'em up arcade where you, like a true hero, control a helicopter, battling endless waves of enemy fighters on your path to victory!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.1%, Top-Down Shooter 28.1%, Shooter 14.2%, Arcade 9.2%, Top-Down 6.2%
Summoned into the otherworldly realm of 'NewMe NuMe LuMe', the protagonist Kim Ttolttol must aid the gods who summoned her to defeat enemies and return home in this 2D top-down action game. Utilize a variety of weapons to vanquish diverse foes!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 24.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 19.6%, Shooter 16.8%, Arcade 11%, Casual 7%
Another version of the classic Asteroids game
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.1%, Top-Down Shooter 23.8%, Shooter 16.6%, Arcade 12.5%, Top-Down 6.8%
Retro style, propeller plane centred shoot 'em up inspired by the arcade classics of a fondly remembered bygone era.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.6%, Top-Down Shooter 26%, Shooter 16.5%, Arcade 10.1%, Top-Down 6.9%
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 25%, Top-Down Shooter 20.6%, Shooter 16.1%, Arcade 12.2%, Casual 7.5%
Blast off on a treacherous mission to recover an unidentified energy source amidst an alien onslaught! Nephenthesys is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up presented in widescreen top-down 3D style.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.6%, Top-Down Shooter 26.9%, Shooter 14.9%, Arcade 9.7%, Top-Down 6.6%
Blast your way through increasing waves of enemies in this fast-paced top-down action-arcade shoot 'em-up while unlocking new levels, weapon upgrades and harder enemy types as you make progress in RED BLASTER!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.8%, Top-Down Shooter 27.9%, Shooter 14.3%, Arcade 9.3%, Top-Down 6.3%
A top-down, 2d space-shooter that pits the user against swarms of alien ships from other dimensions. Destroy all enemies and portals as fast as possible. Battle increasingly tougher enemies through 40 Campaign levels and Endless Mode!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31%, Top-Down Shooter 27.4%, Shooter 14%, Arcade 9.1%, Top-Down 6.3%
Call Sign is Magic Liner is an old school Shmup with a new twist. You can strategically draw lines and defeat your enemies.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.7%, Top-Down Shooter 22.2%, Shooter 17%, Arcade 13%, Casual 9%
Blast through waves of chaos in this retro inspired space shooter. Simple mechanics, high energy rock/electronic soundtrack, and a gloriously goofy tone make Nova Rebellion a cosmic throwback Back when space shooters were all the rage.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30%, Top-Down Shooter 26.7%, Shooter 14.8%, Top-Down 8%, Sci-fi 4.8%
The vertical scrolling shooter game '.Decluster' and its sequel '.Decluster Zero' are now available in one package.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.1%, Top-Down Shooter 24.7%, Shooter 15.3%, Arcade 7.5%, Top-Down 5.7%
Pirate's Peril is an arcade shooter themed in the world of pirates on the open sea!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.7%, Top-Down Shooter 22.7%, Arcade 15.7%, Action 8.6%, Pixel Graphics 8.2%
4D:XD is a top-down 2D bullet hell space shooter. Conquer the game with as few deaths as possible!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28%, Top-Down Shooter 26.1%, Shooter 14.4%, Arcade 9.3%, Top-Down 6.4%
Layer Section, the home console port of arcade game RayForce is back with new features and online ranking. Use the new lock-on laser function to defeat multiple enemies at once for a higher score in this gorgeous 2D vertical shooting game!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.4%, Top-Down Shooter 24.4%, Shooter 15.4%, Arcade 11.3%, Top-Down 7.8%
CRAZY APPLIANCES is a fast paced top-down shooter game! The elect robots are insane, heroes! Fight your way by using various weapons and powerful items to defeat them in different dangerous situation!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.9%, Top-Down Shooter 24.6%, Shooter 13.3%, Arcade 10.3%, Top-Down 9.1%
Save Earth from an invasion of intergalactic chickens! Finger-blistering arcade shooting action for one or two players.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26%, Top-Down Shooter 20.8%, Shooter 16.2%, Arcade 12.5%, Casual 7.2%
ZOMBIES!!! Overloaded waves of undead chaos! Armed with crazy weapons and power-ups, you’ll fight, dodge, and nuke your way through endless hordes. Face intense bosses, survive outrageous room filling hordes, and climb the leaderboards! It’s fast, it’s gory, it’s OVERLOADED!!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.7%, Top-Down Shooter 24.6%, Shooter 15.7%, Arcade 11.4%, Top-Down 7.5%
Raider Pheasant is a single-player arcade shoot ’em up viewed from a dramatic high-angle perspective. Blast through enemy formations, power up your fighter, defeat massive bosses, and chase high scores with keyboard or controller.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.4%, Top-Down Shooter 27.7%, Shooter 15.3%, Arcade 10%, Sci-fi 5.1%
The second installment in Saikyo's vertical scrolling shooters, following the 1993 Best Shooting Game award winner “Sengoku Ace”.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.2%, Top-Down Shooter 20.5%, Shooter 16.2%, Arcade 12%, Top-Down 6%
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 25.4%, Top-Down Shooter 23.8%, Shooter 16%, Arcade 11.9%, Action 5.7%
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: Shoot 'Em Up 28.8%, Top-Down Shooter 19.9%, Arcade 15.1%, Shooter 9.6%, Top-Down 6.6%
Saga Onirica: Angelic Engine is a top-down shooter featuring experimental control schemes and mechanics, where you fight endless waves of demons by crafting the ultimate loadout from firearms, magic spells, and advanced technology.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.1%, Top-Down Shooter 20.9%, Shooter 16.1%, Arcade 12.2%, Casual 7.3%
The Guardians, a secret society wielding the power of the Force, have readied their tanks and intend on crushing the aspirations of the Hammerbolt Empire!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.4%, Top-Down Shooter 24%, Shooter 15.3%, Arcade 11.1%, Top-Down 7.9%
The third installment in the Eden series A 2D bullet-hell vertical-scrolling shump with a feel reminiscent of arcade games from the 1990s to the 2000s.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.7%, Top-Down Shooter 21.1%, Shooter 17.2%, Arcade 12.9%, Action 6.4%
1x! Space Adventure is an arcade top-down shump with gradually increasing difficulty.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.8%, Top-Down Shooter 21.1%, Shooter 18.3%, Arcade 14.2%, Action 7.4%
Take flight in a classic top-down vertical shmup with a modern physics twist. Command the skies with air-to-air dogfights and air-to-ground bombing. Blasted enemies burst into physical chunks, to trigger chaotic, high-scoring chain reactions!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.4%, Top-Down Shooter 24.3%, Shooter 16.8%, Arcade 12.7%, Top-Down 6.9%
Take to the skies as a team of cute pilots and fight for peace in vertical scrolling bullet hell style!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 34.4%, Top-Down Shooter 26.7%, Shooter 14.7%, Top-Down 6.6%, 2D 4.2%
Challenge your reflexes and defend your web from an onslaught of strange creatures to the beat of a dynamic, generative acid techno soundtrack in this all-nonsense arcade-style twin stick shooter.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.1%, Top-Down Shooter 28%, Shooter 14.4%, Arcade 9.3%, Top-Down 6.4%
A fast-paced vertical shooter built for short sessions! 2-Minute and 5-Minute score attack modes with beautiful X68000-style pixel art.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 25.8%, Shoot 'Em Up 17%, Shooter 15.6%, Arcade 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 5.5%
An unknown Alien Race has launched a failed attack on Earth Station Alpha and are regrouping! Fight off the incoming fleets, discover where their ships are being constructed, and launch an assault! If Earth Station Alpha is destroyed, the planet will be lost and humanity exterminated.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.3%, Top-Down Shooter 26.8%, Shooter 14.8%, Arcade 9.2%, Top-Down 6.4%
A small topdown shooter in pixelart graphics.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 21.8%, Top-Down Shooter 20.3%, Shooter 17.9%, Arcade 11.7%, Casual 8.2%
Space & Pixels is a top-down space shooter with classic gameplay. Battle through each level, blast lots of enemies, upgrade your ship's firepower, and uncover the truth behind your dangerous mission.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 31.3%, Shooter 20.2%, Arcade 15.3%, Top-Down 8.5%, Action 8.2%
This book contains several of tamazusa's small-scale STG works, mainly game jam works.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 29%, Top-Down Shooter 19.3%, Shooter 18.1%, Arcade 14.1%, Action 7.4%
Punch through the cosmos! An arcade-inspired shoot-em-up where you play as an immortal lobster speeding through space.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.9%, Top-Down Shooter 27%, Arcade 12.3%, Top-Down 8.5%, Shooter 6.4%
Auto shooter score attack survival game where your character moves forward continuously and you control the direction of travel by rotating left and right
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 22.6%, Top-Down Shooter 21%, Shooter 17.7%, Arcade 13.5%, Action 7.6%
Retro style 2D vertical scrolling simple shooter.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.4%, Top-Down Shooter 25.8%, Shooter 14.9%, Arcade 10.2%, Top-Down 8.6%
Dininho sees an imminent threat on a planet within his system. Taken by a mixture of euphoria and concern, Dininho jumps into his ship and without thinking twice, takes off towards what may be the most dangerous and heroic adventure of your life.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.3%, Top-Down Shooter 22.5%, Shooter 18.3%, Arcade 13.9%, Action 6.5%
Shoot, dodge, and survive your way through unique bosses and swarms of enemies in this Galaga inspired arcade shooter where the fate of a galaxy rests in your hands.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28.1%, Shooter 18.1%, Arcade 13.8%, Casual 8.4%, Action 7.7%
Hardcore yet cute Danmaku shooting makes a grand comeback!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.2%, Top-Down Shooter 20.6%, Shooter 17.4%, Arcade 12.7%, Action 5.7%
PCpill™ is an action-packed top-down shooter where you take control of the PCpill™ Antivirus to disinfect the hard drive of an old desktop PC. Use your PillGun to blast the rot away and restore your computer, one file at a time!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.1%, Top-Down Shooter 21.8%, Shooter 16.7%, Arcade 12.6%, Action 6.9%
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 27.5%, Top-Down Shooter 25.4%, Shooter 17.5%, Top-Down 7.4%, Action 6.7%
Orchid Glitter is late 2000s style 2d shmups. This isn't just a bullet-hell shooter where you dodge bullets. The game design also includes features like eliminating bullets with charge attacks, and earning points and resources by taking dangerous actions.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 33.2%, Top-Down Shooter 27.3%, Shooter 9.3%, Arcade 7.6%, Pixel Graphics 6%
Blast your way through enemy territory and level up your versatile arsenal of high-tech weapons in this handheld game style retro shmup!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 27.1%, Shoot 'Em Up 26.7%, Shooter 9.9%, Sci-fi 8.2%, Arcade 7.9%
MACE is a classic space shoot ’em up, inspired by the legendary Amiga games of this genre. Handdrawn 2D graphics in HD resolutions, parallax scrolling, explosion effects and optimized games mechanics, combined with the proven gameplay are transporting the “Spirit of Amiga” in today’s Age.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 30.4%, Top-Down Shooter 22.8%, Shooter 13.5%, Arcade 10.3%, Casual 9.8%
A shoot em' up with a manga inspired look. Destroy enemies, and use their salvage to gain more power.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.2%, Top-Down Shooter 25%, Shooter 15.2%, Top-Down 7.8%, Sci-fi 5.8%
Quasar is a "Bullet Hell Space Opera" with endless levels and upgrades for your ship. You'll fight against squadrons of enemy ships, even battling entire armadas, with bosses appearing occasionally during Survival mode.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 26.7%, Top-Down Shooter 26%, Shooter 13.9%, Character Customization 10.5%, Arcade 9.2%
Survive endless waves of escalating enemies in this fast-paced arcade shooter. Dodge overwhelming attacks, master precision movement, and fight to stay alive inside hypnotic neon chaos.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.7%, Top-Down Shooter 23.4%, Shooter 15.9%, Arcade 11.5%, Top-Down 6.7%
Shoot for the stars and help Latte train in her quest to become the top cheerleader in the universe! Use your Pom-Pom Blasts to pummel the competition while dancing through a downpour of endlessly raining enemy bullets! Ready? Aim. Fire!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.4%, Top-Down Shooter 24%, Shooter 14%, Arcade 9.6%, Comic Book 6.1%
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 28.9%, Shooter 16.7%, Top-Down Shooter 11.8%, Arcade 10.1%, Top-Down 9.8%
Not a regular shmup player? No worries! This is a super chill, low-difficulty, fully voiced bullet hell shooter just for you! Wipe out the AI machine armada attacking from all directions!
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 28%, Top-Down Shooter 26.3%, Shooter 15.2%, Top-Down 8.1%, Arcade 6.8%
A 2D vertical shoot 'em up that lets you upgrade your ship with an insane amount of options. From missiles and pods to specials and shields, you can upgrade every bit of your ship from guns to thrusters.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 24.7%, Top-Down Shooter 21%, Shooter 16.8%, Arcade 12.6%, Top-Down 6.4%
This is the biggest news title of 2025. A cute bullet-hell shooter is now available. The game features cool and futuristic visuals and active gameplay.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 27.8%, Top-Down Shooter 23.3%, Shooter 19.1%, Action 7.3%, Top-Down 6.4%
Play as one of 7 pilots in this thrilling sequel to a SHMUP classic. The time has come for a new generation of Psyvariars to rise… and save humanity.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 32.2%, Top-Down Shooter 25.9%, Shooter 14.7%, Arcade 9.4%, Top-Down 6.7%
Dodge waves of bullets in cover shooter + shmup-inspired combat, as you strike back with powerful attacks of your own! Use clever cover spots to gain an advantage over your enemies, find treasures to make yourself stronger, and avoid taking damage to raise your score!
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 30.9%, Shoot 'Em Up 27.5%, Shooter 20.4%, Top-Down 7.3%, Action 4.6%
You are last humanity hope to bring down the greatest threat mankind has been deal with it. Gears up your arsenal, face hordes of enemies and deadly bosses in this new verticall shoot em up.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 23%, Top-Down Shooter 21.5%, Shooter 16.3%, Arcade 13.4%, Action 6.8%
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 37.4%, Shooter 16.8%, Arcade 12.8%, Top-Down 7.1%, Pixel Graphics 5.2%
Seven years ago the Void opened over the Rim and the gates appeared. You are a pilot with a debt, a worn-out ship and a signal that repeats every 402 seconds using your hull number. Fly, trade, fight, rebuild your ship piece by piece and decide who gets left behind. A single-player space action RPG.
Why similar: Shoot 'Em Up 25.4%, Top-Down Shooter 21.5%, Shooter 16.2%, Arcade 13%, Action 6.5%
Pilot your helicopter to victory as your complete objectives, dodge missiles, and destroy your enemies. But don't forget to keep an eye on your fuel, ammunition, and health or you might not survive.
Why similar: Top-Down Shooter 28.4%, Shoot 'Em Up 26.8%, Shooter 15.4%, Arcade 8.7%, Top-Down 7.3%
