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289 games like Shmup!

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01 Pawarumi Cover

2018 · Linux, Mac, Switch

Pawarumi

80%

Pawarumi is a modern shoot’em up set in a retro futuristic sci-fi pre-Columbian universe. You’ll take control of the almighty ship Chukaru and its three unique weapons! Shoot wisely to either do double damage, heal yourself or charge your Super Attack!

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80% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

02 Rico Cover

2019 · Switch, PC, PS4

Rico

79%

Rico is an arcade-style, first-person shooter inspired by modern action cinema. In the game you and a friend play as a pair of loose-cannon police partners, given twenty-four hours to crack a case as part of an elite organised crime taskforce. Planning is tac...

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79% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

03 Assault Android Cactus Cover

2015 · Linux, Mac, PC

Assault Android Cactus

70%

"Assault Android Cactus is a manic twin stick arena shooter for the PC with screens full of enemies, buckets of bullets and high scoring combo chains! Take on the role of Cactus, an enthusiastic police android, who responds to a stranded space freighter only t...

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70% Sehr nah dran
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

04 1941: Counter Attack Cover

1990 · Arcade, supergrafx

1941: Counter Attack

66%

The year: 1941. The place: 20,000 feet in the air over the North Atlantic. Lightning flashes across the skies of war-torn Europe. Your mission: beat back the imperial forces before they can use their new weapon! In 1941: Counter Attack, the goal is to shoot d...

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66% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Warfare Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

05 Touhou Eiyashou: Imperishable Night Cover

This game features eight playable characters, with four starting preset teams of two and unlockable individual character modes. When playing with the character pairs, one character fires when unfocused, while the other switches in and fires when focused, with...

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65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

06 Touhou Youyoumu: Perfect Cherry Blossom Cover

Perfect Cherry Blossom features three playable characters to choose from, and each character has two different sets of skills. Reimu Hakurei is relatively balanced in all areas. Marisa Kirisame moves faster, and uses more powerful attacks with less range. Saku...

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Shmup!

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

07 Touhou Kaeizuka: Phantasmagoria of Flower View Cover

This game is a split-screen vertical danmaku shooting game where two characters engage in the normal Touhou-esque gameplay, while unleashing attacks and character-specific spell cards onto the other player, similar to that of Phantasmagoria of Dim.Dream. When...

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Shmup!

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

08 Left Alive Cover

2019 · PC, PS4

Left Alive

65%

Left Alive is a brand-new survival action shooter released on the PlayStation4 computer entertainment system and STEAM in 2019. Veteran developers, Toshifumi Nabeshima (director, Armored Core series), Yoji Shinkawa (character designer, METAL GEAR series), and...

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65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Warfare Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

09 The Bug Butcher Cover

2016 · Android, Linux, Mac

The Bug Butcher

65%

The Bug Butcher is an action-packed 2D side scrolling shoot em up game where peril comes from above. The core mechanics hold old ties from the classic arcade shooter "Super Pang" where you shoot vertically, but with modern day twists. You are Harry, a brash an...

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Shmup!

65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

10 Touhou Fuujinroku: Mountain of Faith Cover

Mountain of Faith features two playable characters, each with three weapon types, but no personalized spell card bombs. Collecting power items results in an increase in "option" satellites around the character (for a total of four), which behave differently ac...

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65% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
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Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

11 Hotline Miami Cover

2012 · Android, Stadia, Linux

Hotline Miami

64%

A top-down slasher/shooter with unlockable gameplay-altering masks and weapons, featuring a neon-flavoured electronic aesthetic, in which a hitman receives anonymous calls ordering him to travel to certain residences and crime dens and massacre those within, a...

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Shmup!

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

12 Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number Cover

2015 · Stadia, Linux, Mac

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number

64%

Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number is the brutal conclusion to the Hotline Miami saga, set against a backdrop of escalating violence and retribution over spilled blood in the original game. Follow the paths of several distinct factions – each with their own questio...

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64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

13 Ball x Pit Cover

2025 · Android, Mac, Switch

Ball x Pit

64%

BALL x PIT is a brick-breaking, ball-fusing, base-building survival roguelite where you battle hordes of monstrous enemies with your arsenal of ricocheting balls.

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Shmup!

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

14 Rebel Galaxy Outlaw Cover

2020 · Switch, PC, PS4

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw

64%

Rebel Galaxy Outlaw is an open-world space combat adventure game, spread across the nearly 40 systems of the Dodge Sector. Play as a mercenary, a trader, a pirate, or whatever mix of the three you feel fits you best. With an engaging storyline and a full conve...

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Shmup!

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

15 Gene Rain Cover

2018 · PC, PS4, XONE

Gene Rain

64%

Gene Rain is a next-gen 3D third person shooter game. The story is set in a futuristic world, with a linear narrative structure, and uses shocking visual effects to present a brand new world for the players ' enjoyment.

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Shmup!

64% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

16 Ikaruga Cover

2001 · Arcade

Ikaruga

63%

In this vertical scrolling spaceship shooter, you control a ship that can change its polarity at will. As blue/white, the ship can easily destroy red/black enemies, and vice versa. Bullets of your polarity can be collected to fuel your energy gauge, but those...

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Shmup!

63% Spannender Match
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Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
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17 Beat Hazard Cover

2009 · Linux, Mac, PC

Beat Hazard

62%

Experience your music collection as never before with this intense music driven arcade shooter. Each of your songs will have its own unique ebb and flow based on the music. Power up your spaceship and watch as the music boosts your firepower. Unleash hell on...

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Shmup!

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

18 Mega Force Cover

1984 · Arcade, MSX, sg1000

Mega Force

62%

In the game, the player pilots a starship called the Final Star, while shooting various enemies and destroying enemy structures for points. Unlike later vertical scrolling shooters, like Toaplan's Twin Cobra, the Final Star had only two levels of weapon power...

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Shmup!

62% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

19 Synthetik: Legion Rising Cover
61%

Synthetik: Legion Rising is an unforgiving shooter rogue-lite set in a world overrun by machines. Battle from floor to floor, defeating an array of robotic forces using powerful weapons, upgrades, and quick reflexes in this gun-play focused fun-fest!

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Shmup!

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Indie Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

20 Raiden Cover

1990 · Arcade, Jaguar, Lynx

Raiden

61%

Raiden consists of eight vertical scrolling missions where the player maneuvers the Raiden craft dodging and destroying enemy robots, buildings, ground targets, and aircraft. There are bombs and missile powerups as well as collectable medals which add to the s...

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Shmup!

61% Spannender Match
Shared DNA
Arcade Genre Shooter Genre Action Theme Science fiction Theme Single player Mode Bird view / Isometric Perspective Combat-focused Game feel
Trade-offs

Weltdesign in IGDB nicht eindeutig klassifiziert · Keine Beschreibung von IGDB verfügbar

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