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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 down shooter

Shooter games with a top down, birds eye view of the characters surroundings.

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torcado
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(607 total ratings)
Action
WOWOWOW KORONE BOX
Top-down arcade shoot 'em up ft. Inugami Korone
tian nya
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(204 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
satryn
a chaotic, infinite twin stick shooty ✨
maybell🌻
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(155 total ratings)
Action
Project Landsword
Tactical stealth meets top-down mecha combat and excessive destruction
MezzSoft
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(58 total ratings)
Action
GIF
NIMRODS - Demo
Slay hordes of aliens in this survival roguelite shooter. As NIMRODS the mission is to Test Weaponry
Fiveamp
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(104 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Cherry Bomb
$3.50
Short Shwave Shmup
Krystman
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
NEKOTOSAKANA
Top-down shmups
nizakashii
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Talented
Roguelite with Procedural Skill Trees
TurtleFox Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(78 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
GIF
Break The Sky
Fleet command shoot-em-up. Hold out against the Martians. AI and Games Jam 2021.
Sam Bigos
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Play in browser
Bot Vice
$9.99
Top-Down Gallery Shooter Arcade!
DYA Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(34 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
Neutron (C64)
$2.99
A challenging 16k SHMUP for the C64
SarahJaneAvory
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
Summer Carnival '22: CrossGunr D+
- Pico 8 Bullet Hell Caravan -
Aktane
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
The.Green.Legion
Blast off and strike the evil green legion of mutating ships from outer-space!
GuerraGames
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(64 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Junkraft
Chaos then dust
Axel Malherbe
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Shooter
Super Ledgehop: Double Laser
$1
Cheese it up with Chizuru and SHOOT TO THE BEAT OF THE SONG in this top down bullet hell shooter!
ChairGTables
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(33 total ratings)
Rhythm
Dragon's Playground
$3
Take control of the dragon Azron and embark on a fiery reign of terror.
Extar
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
OUT OF AMMO
ZeroRanger-inspired Breakout-'em-up
CURSED BOOTLEG INC
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(43 total ratings)
Action
DEAD PETALS BLISS
a fractal-trance bullet-trip 🌸
bandaloo
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Action
Xeno Fighters R
Shmup fangame inspired by the Raiden Fighters series by Seibu Kaihatsu.
Team XF
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Shooter
Hearts Ablaze
Western shoot-em-up where your hearts are your everything
Jon Topielski
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(58 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
Riftwalker
An explosive fast-paced arcade space shooter.
Plan B
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(15 total ratings)
Shooter
Macrophage
Join the fight!
RoyalSkies
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Action
GIF
PARTICLE MACE
$4
A space game about swinging trash into things and dying
AndyMakes
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(36 total ratings)
Action
GIF
skulldude
top-down dungeon crawler bullet-hell shmup
GuerraGames
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(42 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Antecrypt⚡
$6
In bundle
single-stick arena shooter on mankind's last hard drive
PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Shooter
Crimson Fantasia
Twin-stick youkai-busting action!
CROW'S NEST
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Spice Evaders
The Extra Hot Shooting Challenge
100 Credit Clear
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Shooter
Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons
Bullet Hell Shoot 'em up
Emad
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(44 total ratings)
Shooter
THE GAMBLER
A bullethell roguelike where you're a cowboy lizard shooting frogs with a magic dice revolver.
lamedeveloper
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Shooter
ULTRA HELL
Ultra fast paced shooter
mustardbucket
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
Queen
A demake of Splatoon for Kronbits Demake Jam
Kyle O
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Starblast
$9.99
Massively multiplayer arcade space shooter
Neuronality
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(27 total ratings)
Shooter
Santron (C64)
A Christmas version of Neutron, a challenging SHMUP for the C64
SarahJaneAvory
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Shooter
Twin Tiger Shark
Shmup!
Wide Pixel Games
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(25 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
4 GIGA BOSS FIGHTS
Fight your way through an onslaught of more than 4 billion boss fights in top-down arcade action
GuerraGames
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(24 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
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