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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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from 2017 tagged Shoot 'Em Up (238 results)

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Bot Vice
$9.99
Top-Down Gallery Shooter Arcade!
DYA Games
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(34 total ratings)
Action
[FULL] REDPULSE
An arcade game about blowing up robots
boghog
Rated 4.9 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Shooter
Galencia for the C64
$4.99
A brand new SHMUP for the C64!
Jason Aldred
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Shooter
The Void Rains Upon Her Heart (Demo)
Love those monsters
Veyerals
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Action
GIF
skulldude
top-down dungeon crawler bullet-hell shmup
GuerraGames
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
GIF
BLAST FLOCK
2D Dogfighting with an Army
R茅my 馃崿 Devaux
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(22 total ratings)
Action
GIF
ZEPTON
a pico-8 voxel shmup
REZ
Rated 4.4 out of 5 stars
(71 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
ULTRA HELL
Ultra fast paced shooter
mustardbucket
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
Eternal Danmaku Uchusen Challenge
Infinite Procedurally Generated Bullet Hell Boss Fights
TaTooKa
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(16 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
Kikai
An irregularly scrolling shoot-em-up.
Far Away Times
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Shooter
Shotgun Angelic
Short Touhou-but-backwards shooter for the 48 Secret Jam
Toffee
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Shooter
Project Home
A hack-n-slash/bullet-hell shooter
AnukeVerified Account
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(23 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Slay.one Desktop
Multiplayer survival top-down shooter
slayoneapp
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(20 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
Omega Enforcer X
Fight through endless waves of aliens (+ asteroids), and become first on the leaderboard!
fartenko
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(32 total ratings)
Action
Play in browser
Monochrome Ace
A 1-bit style sidescrolling shoot-em-up
jSi
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
MoonStriker
Vertical scroll 2D Shmup
terarin
Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars
(10 total ratings)
Shooter
NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics
$3.99
NEXT JUMP is a turn-based, tactics Shoot 'em up for people who are bad at SHMUPs, but love them.
Post Mortem Pixels
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(37 total ratings)
Strategy
Witch 'Em Up!
Cute witch shoot 'em up
Tinchetsu
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
LuftrauserZ
The official C64 conversion of the 2014 indie classic LUFTRAUSERS.
RGCD.DEVVerified Account
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(28 total ratings)
Shooter
Apocryph: an old-school shooter
Apocryph is an old-school fantasy shooter inspired by Hexen, Heretic, Painkiller and Strife.
Bigzur
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(41 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
Gob!
Turn based shoot-em-up for 7DRL 2017
st33d
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(18 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Vallation (ZX Spectrum)
Slick shoot 'em up action for the Sinclair ZX Spectrum
Psytronik Software
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(9 total ratings)
Shooter
NECROCOSMOS - There is no god up here
hebilee
Rated 4.3 out of 5 stars
(12 total ratings)
Adventure
Glitchskier
$1.99
Glitchskier is a cyber-action shmuERROR 0x0000006c4
Shelly Alon
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Action
GIF
Captain Alexia
$5
if only you could read to the monsters
Ludonaut
Rated 4.2 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
Shooter
Play in browser
Running VoltGun
Game made in under 72 hours for Ludum Dare 39. (Theme Running Out Of Power)
SinclairStrange
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(8 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
how not to sink
$3
write bad stuff down & then smash it
RicoAlbe
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(14 total ratings)
GIF
Splodey Vaders
$1
An explosive twist on an arcade classic.
Scared Square Games
Rated 4.1 out of 5 stars
(19 total ratings)
Shooter
ImageStriker2
Vertical scroll 2D Shmup
terarin
Rated 4.7 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Shooter
Kiwii: A New Adventure
Cedric Stoquer
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(30 total ratings)
Platformer
Play in browser
Enlightenment
$9.99
Rogue-like top-down shooter
Coconut Island Games
Rated 5.0 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
GIF
Don't Let Them In
Hunt them down, keep them out!
NPJarcade
Rated 4.0 out of 5 stars
(21 total ratings)
Action
1999: Megallennium 6-in-1 Mega Cart
6.5 brilliant and surreal games rescued from the vaults of 1989.
Willy Elektrix
Rated 4.6 out of 5 stars
(7 total ratings)
Super Star Path
$4.99
Color Match Puzzle x Shoot'em up!
DYA Games
Rated 3.9 out of 5 stars
(16 total ratings)
Puzzle
Danmaku Unlimited 3
$9.99
Classic Bullet Hell Action
sunnytam
Rated 4.8 out of 5 stars
(6 total ratings)
Shooter
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