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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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Top-Down

A perspective where the camera is placed directly above the player. Common in 2D games, but can also be used in 3D games.

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Top Combat (mobile)
The essence of dogfighting!
lucas.ikeziri
Shooter
Scary-Go-Around (Demo)
Zombies at the playground? Good thing I have this slingshot.
noahaslan development
Action
Play in browser
One Man Patrol
Swat team top down shooter
Ducky79
Shooter
Quantum Javelin
A strategic shoot-em-up for Boss Rush Jam 2025
Josep Valls
Shooter
Play in browser
Party Foul
The Ultimate Test of Social Endurance!
Ghost Kitchen
Action
Escaping Circuit Prison
Escape from a deadly prison maze filled with traps and guards.
Shinobiverse
Action
Play in browser
Gastric Buster
a bullet hell where you play as an medicine tasked to cleanse the acidic bubbles
Spaghetti (Alex Mah)
Shooter
Play in browser
SnakeStar With A Gun
It's like SnakeStar - but with a gun!
CrimsoneArt
Action
Ultimate Goose
Fight against the waves of ducks and prove your the Ultimate Goose
Juno_Whut
Shooter
FireWiz v1
noahaslan development
Action
Play in browser
Alien terror: The last stand
Yngve Oliver Eriksen
Shooter
Crazy Kitchen
In Development for the Boss Rush Game Jam
BakenGamingStudios
Play in browser
Hensen Hopper
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A top-down shmup where you help a vigilante grasshopper battle villanous insects!
HappyMatt12345
Shooter
Mutiny in Fish Space
maymotothebone
Shooter
Play in browser
Shell Shock
A short wave shmup based on the Krystman/LazyDevs tutorial
AndyCampbellGG
Action
Play in browser
Lost Voyager: Asteroid Destroyer
An arcade game where you shoot and dodge your own problems.
Vaccaria
Action
Play in browser
Christmas Star
Fast-paced mix of 2D-Shmup and cooking -simulation!
Thomas Sauerzapf
Action
Clean Date
foxboll
Shooter
Play in browser
Chrono Inertia (demo)
A shoot'up where objects in motion stay in motion.
Capital Ex
Action
GODGUN
Top down arena shooter where one hit means death. Don't stop moving. Just keep shooting. Seek the G.O.D Gun.
DancingSoldier
Action
Play in browser
Burrow Blaster
Blast your way out of the burrow you were buried in!
gdmbenedict
Action
Rush Boss
20 Seconds to Beat the Boss!
calamitynolan
Action
Play in browser
NOT VERY CASH MONEY
Survive the onslaught while avoiding debt
DiamondDev
Shooter
Play in browser
Shoot Em Down With Fifty Rounds (V0.9.5)
improvement of 2020 project for game jam
CalicoDragonStudio
Shooter
Lost Flames
slowkit
Action
Play in browser
Garden Survivors - Minigame
A tiny shooter about tiny creatures!
Tchesco625
Shooter
Play in browser
Last Light
a arcade top down shooter
SnapGamesStudios
Shooter
Play in browser
Zurbi
Can you open that hatch?
icxon
Action
Play in browser
John Vegas
2D Top Down Shoot'em Up
YoloChrist
Shooter
SQART GUN
yars_div
Shooter
Bridgette and the Bugs
Shoot bugs and try to survive as long as you can!
PlankPower
Shooter
Byte Fight
A 2D retro, top down, wave based game about destroying computer viruses
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Action
Particle Wars: Survive - DEMO
A roguelite in early access, all feedback and suggestions are welcomed
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Action
Hollowshire
Anxiety inducing top-down shoot-em-up survivor!
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Survival
Managun Wizard
Play as a wizard with a magic shotgun and fight waves of enemies.
Valderson
Action
Play in browser
Galadest (Galactic Destroyer) Test 1.1
MasterCoding101
Shooter
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