List of video games, filtered by genre(s): Shoot 'Em Up
Touhou 18 - Unconnected Marketeers
May 4, 2021
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★ 4.0
The eighteenth main entry in the Touhou Project series of vertical danmaku shooters.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
LAZA KNITEZ!!
Oct 17, 2014
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★ 2.5
LAZA KNITEZ!! is a fast-paced jousting deathmatch game for up to 4 players. Teleport to the neon-lit ALL CAPS technofuture and challenge your friends to mind-blowing hypercombat. Fire your laser-lance …
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Darius Burst: Another Chronicle EX
Dec 17, 2010
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★ 4.5
An enhanced version of the Darius Burst: Another Chronicle, which in turn was an enhanced port of the PSP game Darius Burst.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Cotton Fantasy
May 20, 2022
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★ 3.3
Cotton Fantasy is a shoot 'em up featuring six playable characters.
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 4
Parodius
Apr 28, 1988
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★ 2.4
A comedic side-scrolling shoot-'em-up for the MSX and a parody of the studio's Gradius series.
MSX
Wii Shop
Wii U
Touhou 17.5 - Gouyoku Ibun
Oct 24, 2021
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★ 4.0
An upcoming spin-off to the Touhou Project franchise, focused on horizontal danmaku combat.
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Cho Aniki: Kyuukyoku Muteki Ginga Saikyou Otoko
1995
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No ratings
The bizarre, homo-erotic Cho Aniki series makes its way to the PlayStation.
Metori
Oct 19, 2016
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★ 2.0
Metori is a strategy sandbox game reminiscent of older arcade games. Control many ships, and use tactics to outmaneuver and outnumber everyone else. Build a fleet. Capture territory. Defeat your …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Sonar Smash
Apr 8, 2020
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★ 2.0
A shoot 'em up where players controls a dolphin.
Android
PC (Microsoft Windows)
iPhone
Biomechanical Toy
1995
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★ 3.7
A scrolling shoot 'em up released by Gaelco in 1995 for arcades.
Arcade
TwinBee Yahhō! Fushigi no Kuni de Dai Abare!!
Apr 19, 1995
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★ 3.0
An entry in the TwinBee series, unique in that while it did appear in compilations, it is the only arcade title in the franchise to not get an individual home …
Arcade
Star Fighter
Oct 8, 1996
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★ 2.3
Is a 3D flight based shoot-em-up for the Sega Saturn, PS1 and others
PlayStation
Sega Saturn
Fantastic Danmaku Festival Part II
Mar 18, 2019
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★ 5.0
The sequel to a Touhou Project fangame, retelling the events of Perfect Cherry Blossom. It was later the first arcade entry in the entire series.
Arcade
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Super Space Fortress Macross
Q3 1992
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★ 3.0
Super Space Fortress Macross is a vertical SHMUP released in arcades in 1992.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Miss Kobayashi’s Dragon Maid: Burst Forth!! Choro-gon☆Breath
Mar 24, 2022
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★ 2.5
An Anime Shoot 'Em Up game where the characters must escape from the inside of a cursed PC.
Nintendo Switch
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 4
Superlative Night Dreams: Cotton Rock 'n' Roll
Sep 27, 2021
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★ 4.0
Also known as "Cotton Fantasy", Cotton Rock 'n' Roll is the sixth installment and a revival of Success's cute-'em-up series.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Fish Fly Fever
Dec 21, 2016
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★ 3.0
The Fish Fly is back in a brand new, chaotic cute-em-up.
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
IPM Invader
1979
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★ 2.3
An official clone of Space Invaders created by IPM, the company founded by the man who will go on to found Irem and Capcom.
Arcade
World Wars
1987
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★ 2.0
The 1987 sequel to Bermuda Triangle, World Wars is a vertical scrolling shoot 'em up that uses SNKs Loop Lever joystick.
Arcade
Cotton/Guardian Force Saturn Tribute
Sep 30, 2021
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★ 2.0
A collection of the Sega Saturn versions of two Cotton titles plus Guardian Force.
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Macross: Shooting Insight
Jan 25, 2024
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No ratings
Macross: Shooting Insight is a shoot-'em-up title based on the Macross anime series.
Nitro Ball
1992
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★ 4.0
Futuristic, fast, and furious vertical action game released for arcades in 1992. It's a sort of "Smash T.V." in a pinball environment. In Japan it was called "Gun Ball."
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
Grid Seeker: Project Storm Hammer
1992
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★ 3.5
A vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up set in a near-future Middle East, in which players can choose from a fighter jet, attack chopper, or stealth bomber, each equipped with "Grid" satellite units that …
Arcade
Kyuukyoku Tiger
TBA
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★ 3.5
A vertical-scrolling helicopter shoot-'em-up from Toaplan, originally released on the PC Engine.
TurboGrafx-16/PC Engine
Space Cruiser
1981
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★ 3.5
Space Cruiser was one of many space shoot-'em-ups from Taito.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Starfighter R&D
Feb 1, 2017
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No ratings
Congratulations on your promotion to head of Research and Development for StarFighter Incorporated! We make the best Starfighters in the galaxy! Or at least we used to make the best …
Linux
Mac
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Turbo Force
1991
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★ 3.0
A vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up by Video System and a predecessor to the Aero Fighters series, with the choice of aircraft being super-powered flying sports cars.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Clouds of Fire: Blazing Skies
May 20, 2019
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★ 1.0
Complete Chaos in this Shoot-em up meets Rouge-like with Physics!
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Fantastic Danmaku Festival
Aug 17, 2018
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★ 5.0
A Touhou Project fanfiction shooter.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Black Heart
1991
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★ 3.0
Black Heart (stylized in the logo as "BLACK HEⱯRT"), is a fantasy-based side-scrolling shooter from UPL.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Fire Barrel
1993
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★ 3.0
Fire Barrel is a vertical SHMUP released in arcades in 1993 by Irem.
Arcade
Markham
Q4 1983
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★ 3.0
A 1983 horizontal shoot-'em-up from Sun Electronics.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Sky Kid Deluxe
Q1 1986
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★ 2.0
Alternatively labeled Sky Kid DX, this is the sequel to Namco's seminal "birds-in-planes" shoot-'em-up.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
CORPSE REVIVER
Jan 6, 2020
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No ratings
CORPSE REVIVER is a fast-paced vertical scrolling shoot-em-up where you play as a skull in a world made of trash and shoot things.
PC (Microsoft Windows)
Megablast
Q4 1989
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★ 3.0
A side-scrolling shoot-'em-up where each player's ship attacks in all four directions using satellite units. Along with its unconventional story involving the disappearance of Earth's women, it also features Taito …
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Suicide Express
1984
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★ 3.0
A action game where the player is an android called Scih-Parg who guides on the planet Nilmerg a nuclear train along a speeding monorail with the aim to clear the …
Commodore C64/128/MAX
YUKI
Jul 22, 2021
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★ 3.0
Bullet Hell VR game with a mix of rogue-like elements.
Meta Quest
PC (Microsoft Windows)
PlayStation 4
Aurail
1990
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★ 3.0
Aurail is an overhead run and gun with a walking tank called a Transom. It was developed by Westone and released in arcades by Sega in 1990.
Arcade
Fighting Hawk
1988
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★ 3.0
A vertical-scrolling military-themed shoot-'em-up by Taito.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Hacha Mecha Fighter
1991
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★ 3.7
A 1991 animal-themed arcade cute-'em-up from NMK.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Mobile Suit Gundam: Luna II no Tatakai
Q3 1983
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★ 1.5
A Gundam shoot-'em-up for multiple Japanese computers, including, fittingly enough, Bandai RX-78 Gundam.
Sengeki Striker
Feb 18, 1997
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★ 3.0
A vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up by Warashi and Kaneko.
Arcade
Omega Fighter
Q3 1989
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★ 3.0
A vertical-scrolling shoot-'em-up by UPL, pitting one lone starfighter against a massive space cruiser.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Storm Blade
1996
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★ 3.0
Storm Blade is an arcade vertical SHMUP which was released in arcades in 1996 by Visco.
Arcade
Ailment
May 1, 2019
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★ 3.0
Ailment is a pixel-art action game which takes place on a spaceship in a far far galaxy. The main character wakes up in a spaceship after being unconscious for three …
Moon Base
1979
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★ 3.0
A licensed clone of Taito's Space Invaders, although the marketing and cabinet art definitely isn't....
Arcade
Sea Fighter Poseidon
1984
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★ 2.0
A side-scrolling undersea shoot-'em-up from Taito.
Arcade
Nintendo Switch
PlayStation 4
Escape from Doomworld
1986
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★ 1.5
A cross genre game where the player is tasked to rescue as many Scientists from the planet Helcara in the Brithya Sector who are stranded.
Atari 8-bit
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Herobotix
1987
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★ 3.0
A mixture of puzzle plus shoot 'em up action written by Steven Collins.
Amstrad CPC
Commodore C64/128/MAX
Kim Kim Dan Dan
1982
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No ratings
Kim Kim Dan Dan was a shoot-'em-up released by dB-Soft for Sharp X1, Bandai Gundam RX-78, and Mitsubishi Multi-8.
Bandai RX-78
Mitsubishi Multi 8
Sharp X1