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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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Latest free featuredtagged Shoot 'Em Up (60 results)

Explore featured games tagged Shoot 'Em Up on itch.io. Shoot 'Em Up or shmup games are a subset of shooter games where the player continually moves forward while waves of enem · Upload your featured games to itch.io to have them show up here.

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Action
MSX/SG-1000 inspired shmup
Shooter
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Pico8 bullet hell shmup with aliens
Shooter
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Escape from your pursuers with only your diving gear and some help from local hooligans!
Action
Take on waves of enemies and upgrade weapons as the pilot of a Cyberlancer!
Action
Roguelite broken build simulator. Shoot down hordes of monsters to stay alive for 10 minutes.
Action
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Stave off your nightmares in this unique shmup/platformer hybrid!
Action
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Spooky Stylish Mercenary Force
Shooter
a chaotic, infinite twin stick shooty ✨
Action
Intense 80s style 2D shooter with a cyber psychedelic aesthetic
Action
A tiny 2D Hand-drawn "Clean 'Em Up" game about a tadpole cleaning rivers and fighting pollution.
Action
Action-packed cube-collecting excitement!
Shooter
Competitive Multiplayer Top Down Arena Hero Shooter
Shooter
ZeroRanger-inspired Breakout-'em-up
Action
Shoot 'em up in which you use your life point to buy upgrades
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Shooter
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Dodge magical bullets in an imaginary sonicscape.
Shooter
Action Shoot Em Up - Save the universe one bark at a time!
Action
An organic and dark Shoot 'em up experience.
Simulation
The original 8-bit twin-stick space shooter about brotherly love, available to play for free.
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Action
Enhanced Amiga port of the 2014 Commodore 64 run-n-gun smash!
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Platformer
This is the story of a fighter who wanted to become...
Shooter
Defend the Omikron System in this stunning polygon-based 3D shoot 'em up!
Shooter
Ultra fast paced shooter
Shooter
Apocryph is an old-school fantasy shooter inspired by Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and Strife.
Shooter
The official C64 conversion of the 2014 indie classic LUFTRAUSERS.
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Shooter
top-down dungeon crawler bullet-hell shmup
Shooter
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Hunt them down, keep them out!
Action
Vertical scroll 2D Shmup
Shooter
Fight through endless waves of aliens (+ asteroids), and become first on the leaderboard!
Action
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a pico-8 voxel shmup
Shooter
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Vertical scroll 2D Shmup
Shooter
Profit off the apocalypse
Shooter
STANDBY is an intensely action-packed neon lit platformer that will push you to the limits!
Platformer
Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!
Shooter
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