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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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Games that can be played alone

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Top rated$5 or less tagged Shoot 'Em Up and Singleplayer (60 results)

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A vertical SHMUP for the C64
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(82 total ratings)
Shooter
👾 An arcade shoot-em-up played entirely with a single button.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(149 total ratings)
Action
A challenging 16k SHMUP for the C64
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Shooter
A vertical SHMUP for the C64
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Shooter
Meditate in bullet heaven (Soundtrack & Steam key included, free demo)
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(42 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
An Xmas SHMUP for the C64
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Shooter
Classic helicopter shoot 'em up.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Action
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
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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⚠MORE CHAOS INCOMING⚠
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Action
A retro, 8-bit style run-and-gun inspired by Saturday morning cartoons of the 80s!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Shooter
A rhythm-synchronised, old-school score-chasing arcade game that plays like some alien coin-op from another dimension.
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Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
Bullet Purgatory
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
Live out your fantasy of delivering pizza as you embark into a strange new world
Rated 3.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Adventure
Vertical scrolling shoot'em up with ship upgrades
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(5 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
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
A cookie fights for survival!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
You are struck by the urge to visit a bathroom, start a trip and face your greatest fears in a fight to the last splash!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Shooter
Retro splat 'em up!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Shooter
Classic arcade game with campaign through Solar system and retro-style action.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Shooter
Tactical Environmentalist Action
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Money worth nothing when out of ammo!
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
Zzap!
$1.99
Twin-stick twitching, high-score chasing, particle-exploding, 2600 futurism!
Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
A cute vertical shoot 'em up
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Action
A space shooter for helping less experienced players get better.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Shooter
Oldschool based Shoot'em'up with simple graphics
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Shooter
The new brick-breaker experience.
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Be the coolest pizza delivery shop in the Jovian system!
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(3 total ratings)
Shooter
The Fruggle is real!
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(2 total ratings)
Action
In this shooter you play as a dragon, trying to burn down the entire land.
Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars
(4 total ratings)
Shooter
Rated 2.9 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Action
Farming Adventure on top of Sky!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Adventure
WINNER OF RETRO PLATFORM JAM #4!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Shooter
Don’Yoku is a Shmup, fast, technical, hard and rewarding.
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(1 total ratings)
Action
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