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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 rated$15 or less that last a few minutes tagged Shoot 'Em Up (110 results)

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Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(165 total ratings)
Shooter
Dodge bullets and fight the militarized police force defending a corporate toxic sludge pipeline.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Shooter
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Short Caravan Shmup - Alpha Release
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Action
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👾 An arcade shoot-em-up played entirely with a single button.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(149 total ratings)
Action
Fast paced, turn-based shooter with a cute attitude!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(114 total ratings)
Shooter
Top-Down Gallery Shooter Arcade!
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Action
a 8bit Space shooter in Pico 8
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(104 total ratings)
Shooter
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High speed kinetic action. Danger is the best offense!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Action
Lock and Release! A PICO-8 caravan shmup. Reach the core. Defend the Earth!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Take control of the dragon Azron and embark on a fiery reign of terror.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
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single-stick arena shooter on mankind's last hard drive
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Shooter
Fast-paced river racing!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
A space game about swinging trash into things and dying
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(35 total ratings)
Action
👻 Wrangle endless waves of ghosts in a post-apocalyptic clean-up mission.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Action
A shoot-em-up with rogue-lite elements and beautiful hand-drawn graphics
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Shooter
A classic shoot em' up on steroids.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(79 total ratings)
Shooter
The classic C64 shoot 'em up - remastered.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Shooter
ZX Spectrum Game inspired in Aliens Movies.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Action
Classic helicopter shoot 'em up.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Action
Zap polygon baddies in a neon, geometric glitch world.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Action
Arcade air combat game, 20 missions with different targets
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Shooter
Boiling Bolt is a 2D scrolling shooter with breath-taking 3D graphics and stunning PopcornFx effects.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Shooter
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Shoot baddies with your eyeball water. Clear projectiles with cornea crushing blasts!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Shooter
NEXT JUMP is a turn-based, tactics Shoot 'em up for people who are bad at SHMUPs, but love them.
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Strategy
A horizontal SHMUP for the C64
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Shooter
A story-driven shoot 'em up for Playdate
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Shooter
An arcade shooter where enemies learn behaviours from those that went before • WebGL Demo • Win/Mac/Linux Versions
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Shooter
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if only you could read to the monsters
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Shooter
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tiny petscii arcadey shooty
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Shooter
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This intense space shoot ’em up challenges you to fight across two battlefields on one splitscreen.
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Action
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Action
Hop into your spaceship and battle waves of opponents to find the legendary space pizza! Now 100% more Deluxe than ever!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
A story driven vertical shmup.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Shooter
A magical bullet hell shooter
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
Dr. Spacezoo is an arcade style time-attack twin-stick shoot-em-up packed full of gibs and grease for 1-4 players.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Action
A space-shooter meets a rogue-like.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Shooter
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