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Shoot 'Em Up

Shoot 'Em Up or shmup games are a subset of shooter games where the player continually moves forward while waves of enemies enter the screen. Both shooting and dodging are critical to advancing. See also Bullet Hell.

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Project Landsword
Tactical stealth meets top-down mecha combat and excessive destruction
MezzSoft
Action
GIF
Gun Knight
A knight who modifies his gun by changing its attachments.
Stepford
Shooter
Play in browser
Sonar Smash
A super cute, fast paced shoot 'em up featuring a lovable dolphin.
Pixel Pajama Studios
Shooter
Play in browser
Belly
An organic and dark Shoot 'em up experience.
Theo V.
Simulation
KARASU MELTDOWN!
FRENETIC BULLET HELL CARAVAN
CROW'S NEST
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
satryn
a chaotic, infinite twin stick shooty ✨
maybell🌻
Action
GIF
Touhou ~ Unmei no Hoshi ~ / 東方運命の星
A Touhou fangame made with the PICO-8 fantasy console.
Chronocide
Play in browser
GIF
ZEPTON
a pico-8 voxel shmup
REZ
Shooter
Play in browser
IRENA : Genesis Metal Fury (SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis)
Metal shoot'em up for SEGA Mega Drive / Genesis
White Ninja Studio
Shooter
Crimson Fantasia
Twin-stick youkai-busting action!
CROW'S NEST
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
XYDONIA / ザイドニア
Action-packed Japanese-inspired retro SHMUP
Breaking Bytes
Shooter
Fastest Gun in the West [Jam Prototype]
Prove once and for all who the fastest gun in the West is.
ralh
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Monolith (Demo)
Fight your way through the ruins of an ancient facility.
Team D-13
Shooter
Planetary Pest Control
An asymmetrical couch co-op adventure played with a Mech and a Monkey.
DangerZone GA
Adventure
HARVEST 2300
Survivors, bullethell, mystery
xk
Survival
Play in browser
HALF-LIFE 2D: BLOCK MESA
Run. Think. Shoot. Live.
Jim Lessels
Action
ZeroRanger (Demo)
This is the story of a fighter who wanted to become...
system_erasure
Shooter
Cat Cheese
:3 Nyah!~
TheSleepyKoala
Shooter
Play in browser
C-Dogs SDL
Classic overhead run-and-gun game
congusbongus
Shooter
SPITFIRE Paradise
A blazing fast caravan shmup!
CROW'S NEST
Shooter
GIF
Death Strike
Old school SHMUP
darkbits
Shooter
GIF
Double Kick Heroes : Demo
Double Kick Heroes the best and only rhythm METAL shoot'em up!
Headbang Club
Rhythm
StarFighter R&D HD Edition
Research - Design - Test
Gord Games
Action
CLOCKING OUT
Endless bullet hell arena shooter!
CROW'S NEST
Shooter
Play in browser
MoonStriker
Vertical scroll 2D Shmup
terarin
Shooter
GIF
Eternal Danmaku Uchusen Challenge
Infinite Procedurally Generated Bullet Hell Boss Fights
TaTooKa
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Summer Carnival '22: CrossGunr D+
- Pico 8 Bullet Hell Caravan -
Aktane
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
The.Green.Legion
Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!
GuerraGames
Shooter
Play in browser
The Void Rains Upon Her Heart (Demo)
Love those monsters
Veyerals
Action
Bandit RIP: Smackdown [BETA]
Online fighting and shooting brawler in the browser!
Zetoman77
Fighting
Play in browser
Honey Guardian
Shoot invaders out of your hive in 2 minutes
IoriBranford
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Heat Death
Difficult dual stick shoot 'em up arcade game
gate
Action
Play in browser
The 95% Threshold
Un juego de probabilidad y acción para la Guinxu Jam 2019
Vanesa Mayonesa
Action
High Tide
Short action game made for the "My First Game Jam Summer '21"
Brett_Messy
Action
Play in browser
GIF
They Started It
Juicy shoot-em-up
fistfulofsquid
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
ProtoCorgi - Demo
Action Shoot Em Up - Save the universe one bark at a time!
Kemono Games
Action
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