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Arcade

Simple, fast-paced games with colorful graphics and catchy audio, that require few or no explanations, can be played in short bursts, and usually require a lot of skill. Similar in style and spirit with the arcade game cabinets of the 80s and 90s.

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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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May you attain enlightenment.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(168 total ratings)
Shooter
Bleed 2
$9.99
A relentless arcade action game with air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(159 total ratings)
Action
Dodge bullets and fight the militarized police force defending a corporate toxic sludge pipeline.
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(45 total ratings)
Shooter
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White-knuckle speed-Pac-Man.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Action
👾 An arcade shoot-em-up played entirely with a single button.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(149 total ratings)
Action
Short Shwave Shmup
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Rescue breakfast in this action-packed arcade style shoot -em-up!
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Action
Arcade co-op old-school retro shmup
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Shooter
Awesome run & gun action adventure for the C64 from the author of Hessian!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Action
Cellular Minesweeper Shooter 🔬
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Puzzle
An original one-screen action game for NES&FC-compatible hardware, realized in the style of '80s arcade games.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Action
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
Play in browser
Shoot'em up arcade with crazy characters and explosions everywhere!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Shooter
High speed kinetic action. Danger is the best offense!
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(56 total ratings)
Action
Neutral. Shield. Danger.
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Shooter
Lock and Release! A PICO-8 caravan shmup. Reach the core. Defend the Earth!
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Action
Turn hateful humans into lovable demons in this 90s arcade style shooter
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(70 total ratings)
Shooter
single-stick arena shooter on mankind's last hard drive
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Shooter
Bleed
$4.99
Air-dodge, slow-time and blast baddies in this twin-skick action-platformer!
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(139 total ratings)
Action
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 short but challanging horizontal shmup game.
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(11 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Massively multiplayer arcade space shooter
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Shooter
Colorful shoot 'em up with varied and diverse gameplay beyond the familiar shooting and dodging
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Action
A classic shoot em' up on steroids.
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(80 total ratings)
Shooter
Hyperkinetic shooter designed to make your eyes bleed
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(65 total ratings)
Shooter
ZX Spectrum Game inspired in Aliens Movies.
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Action
A horizontal SHMUP for the line of classic Commodore Amiga computers.
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(29 total ratings)
Shooter
Classic helicopter shoot 'em up.
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Action
Arcade air combat game, 20 missions with different targets
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 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 twin-stick shooter where your music is your weapon
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Action
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Shooter
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