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[DEMO] MECHANICAL STAR ASTRA

Action-packed cube-collecting excitement!

boghog

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(39 total ratings)

Shooter

GIF

ProtoCorgi - Demo

Action Shoot Em Up - Save the universe one bark at a time!

Kemono Games

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(41 total ratings)

Action

Vacant Kingdom

A hybrid of bullet hell and action-RPG.

shru

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Action

[FULL] REDPULSE

An arcade game about blowing up robots

boghog

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(19 total ratings)

Shooter

C-Dogs SDL

Classic overhead run-and-gun game

congusbongus

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(25 total ratings)

Shooter

Star Apprentice: Magical Murder Mystery

Blast away deductions and solve the magical mystery in this danmaku-detective game!

Will-o-Works

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(51 total ratings)

Visual Novel

Play in browser

The Void Rains Upon Her Heart (Demo)

Love those monsters

Veyerals

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Action

ZeroRanger (Demo)

This is the story of a fighter who wanted to become...

system_erasure

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(30 total ratings)

Shooter

SILICON SCRAMBLE

Self-destruct your way to victory!

CROW'S NEST

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Shooter

Play in browser

Spice Evaders

The Extra Hot Shooting Challenge

100 Credit Clear

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Shooter

SPITFIRE Paradise

A blazing fast caravan shmup!

CROW'S NEST

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(17 total ratings)

Shooter

GIF

BLUE REVOLVER [v0.51 demo]

woof

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(28 total ratings)

Shooter

GIF

Heat Death

Difficult dual stick shoot 'em up arcade game

gate

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Action

Play in browser

To the hell

To the hell is a single-screen action platformer.

Singlecore Games

Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars

(13 total ratings)

Action

Play in browser

KARASU MELTDOWN!

FRENETIC BULLET HELL CARAVAN

CROW'S NEST

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(29 total ratings)

Shooter

Play in browser

Plague Survival

Mow down waves of enemies and survive until dawn!

ShaiGames

Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars

(15 total ratings)

Action

Play in browser

GIF

Dragon Bros Demo

2D Pixel art run and gun

spacelizardstudio

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(18 total ratings)

Shooter

GIF

Arena of the Mad King

Rise to victory in this tough-as-nails bullet hell boss rush arena. Touhou meets Realm of the Mad God.

naniloit

Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Action

Polychoron

Simple but challenging 3D arcade shoot'em up where you fight against hostile drones in an endless series of unique mazes

FRACTiLE Games

Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Action

GIF

Vector Zero Online

Multiplayer Online Fps fast Pase Gameplay

VZGames

Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Shooter

Play in browser

Super Mario: Untold Stories

a Mario-style 2D platformer game featuring shooting and action mechanics and hardcore gameplay. Download the Demo now!

EM Productions

Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars

(14 total ratings)

Platformer

Space Outlaw Alice

Hissatsu Studios

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Platformer

Signal Boosters

Use your grapple ship to hook enemies to turn them against each other or to boost the wifi signals of your planet!

SpaceMyFriend

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Shooter

Play in browser

Project V1 - Space Vampire Thriller

A bullet hell shoot-em-up about sexy vampires and dumb space dudes. Coincidentally, a better love story than Twilight.

Aru

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Shooter

PONGslaught (Original Demo)

Explosions and Lasers. But with Pong.

Ivory Lion Studio

Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars

(6 total ratings)

Action

Jimmy's Lost Fruits Journey 2: Veggocalypse (SAGE '23)

Travel through dimensions to stop Dr. Vegg and Mr. Plot's mischief!

swackyGCF

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Platformer

Crumble Corp.

Run, Gun, and Dash!

MarinoDev

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Action

Typhoon Unit ~ Butterfly Requiem (Demo)

Squad up! Dodge, shoot, and swap heroes on the fly!

GhostlyFeline

Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars

(7 total ratings)

Shooter

Love Defender

Vertical Shmup/Platformer, it's too hardcore

iololoi

Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars

(5 total ratings)

Platformer

Play in browser

Protostriker M

8-Bit Shooter

Burbs

Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars

(8 total ratings)

Shooter

ShootUp.io

The Online Zombies Survival Game - Shoot'Em All !

LapaMauve

Rated 3.7 out of 5 stars

(11 total ratings)

Shooter

Play in browser

D-FENCER VS THE ORB

A short, experimental vertical STG for LÖVE Jam 2023. Fly, D-FENCER!

danbo

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Shooter

Taisei Project

Open-source Touhou fangame

Akari

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Shooter

Second Legacy

A top-down 90s style arcade shoot'em up

CarboHydroM

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(4 total ratings)

Shooter

StarFighter R&D HD Edition

Research - Design - Test

Gord Games

Rated 3.3 out of 5 stars

(29 total ratings)

Action

Invader

Missiles & auto-cannons.

Anarchy R&D

Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars

(3 total ratings)

Shooter

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