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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

A perspective where the camera is placed directly above the player. Common in 2D games, but can also be used in 3D games.

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3030 Deathwar
The Space Adventure the 80s never made!
Crunchy Leaf Games
Role Playing
Antecrypt⚡
$6
In bundle
single-stick arena shooter on mankind's last hard drive
PUNKCAKE Délicieux 🥞
Shooter
Tadpole Tales
A tiny 2D Hand-drawn "Clean 'Em Up" game about a tadpole cleaning rivers and fighting pollution.
Andrei Zi Zhen
Action
Awaken: Underwater Odyssey
Tryzna
Shooter
GIF
SturmFront - The Mutant War
SturmFront - The Mutant War is a classic action game in the tradition of Mercs, Shock Troopers and Commando.
Andrade-Games
Shooter
GUNSTAR
£1.99
Top-down, multi-directional shooter
Stevie G
Shooter
C-Dogs SDL
Classic overhead run-and-gun game
congusbongus
Shooter
GIF
1917 - The Alien Invasion DX
$4.99
Memorization shooter meets frantic bullet hell action.
Andrade-Games
Shooter
Feral Fury
$6.99
Fast-paced twin stick shooter rogue-lite action
Skandivania Games
Action
The Darkness
Fight the Darkness.
Unibear Studio
Action
REVO
$14.99
High speed, neon drenched space shoot ‘em up.
Cosmic Misfit Studio
Action
Cat Ace
$4.99
An aerial combat arcade shooter.
Misc. Labs
Shooter
Red Crusade
2€
Space Roguelike in a dark universe
Thibaud.Matras
Action
Enlightenment
$9.99
Rogue-like top-down shooter
Coconut Island Games
Shooter
GIF
Deep Space Survivor
$3.99
Survive massive amount of enemies in space
Risse
Action
Diversion-A
An intense SHMUP within a pseudo-"bullet hell" vein
Tadpole Interactive
Shooter
Caelus Trident
Caelus Trident is the debut game from Fractured Rogue Studios LLC. Can you defend Earth until the threat is vanquished?
Fractured Rogue Studios LLC
Shooter
IlloScape - "Into the Illoverse"
IlloJam 2024
REKIEX
Action
Play in browser
FIGHTERWALL: ARCADE - updated FEB 8
ARCADE-STYLE ORBITAL SHOOTER vs. VIRUSES
bunbijou
Shooter
GIF
桑之巫韻 Song of Morus
A expermentation game for looking glass portrait
SunnyChowTheGuy
Shooter
GIF
AcceleNation
​Build and expand your mobile city and fight against hordes of evil, inter-dimensional crystalback apes.
Reaktori
Action
Play in browser
Space Liberator
a 2D top down space shooter
Etuorb
Shooter
GIF
(((Sonic Bloom)))
Top-down Music-generated Shoot-em-up
ModalModule
Shooter
GIF
Star Controller
The game where you have to control the controller
HatCatGames
Shooter
Play in browser
Survive 10
Reach the highest scores in this Bullet-Hell SHMUP!
KP
Shooter
Play in browser
Mouse Quest
A hand-built retro shmup
Les Miskin
Action
Mythdragon
A Dream of Hunting
Safety Stoat Studios
Action
Vulture
$9.99
A vertical shooter with a block building twist.
Cubic Timeline Productions
Shooter
Spaceship Standoff: Space Combat Arena
A fairly space themed, top-down shooter inspired by various classic games from the '80s & '90s..
UchronianGameDev
Action
Huldra
Norwegian folklore themed rogue-like focused on deforestation
John Hauge
Action
Ultra Bug Blaster MAX
An infinite survival shooter with lots of juice. Let's see how long YOU can last!!
hazulu
Shooter
Starkiller
A true hardcore retro shoot 'em up experience!
Marcos92
Shooter
GIF
Space Ranger
A short coffee-break top-down shmup in space!
Dumenglume
Shooter
Play in browser
Touhou And Bullet Hell Monday : Another Monday Incident
2 Sides 1 Incident.
Squarey
Shooter
GIF
Death From Space
Save the planet from killer asteroids
Jeff Ballinger
Action
Gunmancer
$8.99
Science fantasy action roguelike top-down shooter
Štěpán Meister
Action
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