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Featuring fast-paced gameplay, combat mechanics, and challenges that test reflexes and coordination. Often involving physical confrontations, weapon usage, and strategic maneuvers to overcome opponents or obstacles.

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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 Action$15 or less tagged Shoot 'Em Up Page 2 (193 results)

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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
A cute, bullet-hell shoot-em-up. Dodge hundreds of bullets per second!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Shooter
RHEUM
$2.99
Shoot baddies with your eyeball water. Clear projectiles with cornea crushing blasts!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Shooter
A horizontal SHMUP for the C64
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Shooter
Boss rush game with bullet hell and platforming elements.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
A twin-stick shooter where your music is your weapon
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Action
Glitchskier is a cyber-action shmuERROR 0x0000006c4
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
A Short Arcade-Style Shmup
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
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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
Play in browser
A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves.
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Action
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
Blast through the demon hordes!
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Shooter
⚠MORE CHAOS INCOMING⚠
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Action
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
Crush the forces of hell and get a high score in this addictive, action-packed, arcade-inspired twin-stick shooter!
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Zombotron
$14.99
Fight to survive on a mysterious alien planet, outwit its vicious inhabitants, and find a way off that wretched rock.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Action
A roguelite bullet hell playable also in local multiplayer!
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Adventure
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Stick figure armies battling in a notebook, just like you used to draw in class instead of paying attention!
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Action
Procedural and sleek bullet hell.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
Destruction Of The Year
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Cat Ace
$4.99
An aerial combat arcade shooter.
Rated 3.8 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Shooter
Build rad spaceships and save the solar system
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Action
Lovecraftian Space Harrier meets Ikaruga action game!
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Drive the enemy to madness and blow them to nothingness!
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Shooter
Single-player auto-attacking 'monster'-hell shoot-em-up survival game
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Use all your wits, cunning and blasting skills to escape from the prison ship!
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Action
A sprawling flip-screen exploratory sci-fi shmup developed for the 1983 Commodore 64 home computer!
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Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Action
The first smhup breaker in the world.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Action
Kill as many humans as possible in 60 seconds!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
A cookie fights for survival!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Turnip Boy is back! He’s teaming up with the fearsome Pickled Gang to plan and execute the weirdest heist of all time.
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Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Action
A fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as shmup veterans
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Action
The immersive and humorous Sci-Fi Shooter is back!
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
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