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Strategy

Focusing on tactical decision-making, resource management, and long-term planning to achieve victory. Often involving elements like building, defending, and conquering within a structured set of rules and objectives.

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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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​Build and expand your mobile city and fight against hordes of evil, inter-dimensional crystalback apes.
Action
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Mecha roguelike-deckbuilding tactical shoot-em-up!
Card Game
Unique team fighting
Fighting
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Local-multiplayer Strategy x Bullet Hell - build up defenses, then try to take down your foe's constructions
Action
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Create the best set of magic scrolls to defeat waves of enemies.
Action
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Tower defense rogue-like.
Strategy
Asymmetrical 1v1 shoot'em'up and tower defence game!
Shooter
Destroy evil foes - The sneaky way!
Action
tower defense lumines and space invaders
Strategy
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A fast-paced retro shoot 'em up game
Shooter
Sci-fi roguelite: pick heroes, weaponize with cards, battle aliens, and counter the game's deck against you!
Action
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The game is janky and broken but the jank makes it a fun and challenging experience
Simulation
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A top-down dungeon shooter roguelike with a twist - you build the dungeon!
Survival
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Protect your cell from evil viruses with the use of lil' gun cells!
Strategy
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Hoard-clearing tower defense. Build automatas and defend your crystal.
Strategy
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In LAB 7: Cold Nights - wise foresight decides on the outcome of your fate. GET OUT!
Survival
Turn based procedurally generated shmup without continues
Strategy
Arcade Action Tower Shooter, Defend yourself against incoming Waves of Enemies and Upgrade your Towers.
Action
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The origin of Sierra Ops
Strategy
Reverse Shoot 'Em Up strategy game where you fight to defend your base from the enemy human ship.
Shooter
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A short shmup pixelated game.
Strategy
Version 1.5 Demo
Shooter
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Shoot'em up Card Game
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A twin-stick shooter with RPG elements
Shooter
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So basically I thought a bullethell was hard so I made a bullethell where the more you die the easier it gets.
Shooter
Unlock upgrades for your weapon and kill them faster than they can kill you.
Action
A two buttons turn based shoot em up
Shooter
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Space themed turn-based strategy game with real-time combat
Strategy
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Tank war themed strategy game
Action
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Why do flies kill spiders? It's a game. Don't stress about it.
Action
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A top-down rougelike shooter with a twist - you build the dungeon!
Shooter
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Action
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