Inspired by classic Commodore 64 and arcade games, Promethium is a hard-as-nails retro inspired side-scrolling shoot-em-up that takes place over numerous levels that get harder and harder. If you’re after a nice calm casual game this isn’t it!

Original Journey is a 2D hand drawn, sci-fi action-adventure with a bold hand drawn art style. Join the Ato as they embark on a mission to save their home world. Only a mysterious power source discovered on a distant planet can save them but how far will the Ato go save themselves?

Defenders of Ekron fuses Shmup action and the exploration of an Adventure game. Destroy enemies in 360° shooting range, analyze unique scenarios, upgrade your Anakim's skills and defeat The Renegades to stop the bursting civil war threatening Ekron. The revolution starts within.

Eliosi's Hunt is a sci-fi top-down shooter and platformer with a unique universe, challenging gameplay and beautifully crafted graphics. You play as Eliosi, an ingenious young zelicyan who dreams of becoming a bounty hunter, but completing his first contract will be more challenging than he thinks.

I.F.O is an old school LCD-style shoot'em up game. You have to shoot UFOs using a classic aircraft and save the animals which kidnapped by the aliens. Let's save the Earth from the aliens! You are the last hero of the world.

Arcade action game in the vein of Commando, Ikari Warriors and Shock Troopers, mixed with bullet hell elements. You play as an experimental cyborg battle unit fighting against unrelenting mutant hordes to a soundtrack of aggressive heavy metal and psychedelic electronica.

Time Recoil is a top-down shooter by 10tons - the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. <strong>Kill to slow time</strong>,  enter slow motion gunfights, and gain special moves. The satisfaction of punching through walls while time slows down is beyond words to describe - you must experience it yourself!

Sine Mora is a side-scrolling shoot'em up that provides a unique challenge, where time is the ultimate factor. Mixing classic shooter sensibilities with contemporary presentation, Sine Mora is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an over-the-top tale and an Arcade Mode that provides deep, satisfying gameplay to challenge fans of the genre. With many ways to manipulate time, Sine Mora features over 50 weapon combinations to complete each beautiful stage that fits to the player's skills with scaling difficulty. Soundtrack composed by Akira Yamaoka and featuring boss designs by Mahiro Maeda.

Left for dead by her closest friend and comrade, Hoshiko is now looking for revenge. <br />
Follow her in this modern hardcore danmaku SHMUP about revenge, friendship and honour.

Juanito Arcade Mayhem revives all the retro classics using the mechanics made popular by Super Pang. Don your finest pyjamas and help Juanito defend our favorite games from the alien Clonocell invasion!

SoulFrost is a sci-fi hybrid between horizontal and vertical shoot 'em ups. It is set in a distant and desolate future deprived of any energy. Having little time, you have been sent on a cryptic mission to release the last of humankind from their eternal suffering.

Bullet Soul Infinite Burst is a vertically scrolling shooting game crossing old-school gameplay with a bullet hell twist. It adds numerous gameplay enhancements over its predecessor, Bullet Soul, not least of which is Burst Mode. The same aggressive, bullet-cancelling gameplay, now with more

Graze the enemy’s bullets, Charge them head-on, and Wreak Havoc!! An exhilarating and dangerous shoot-em-up! This is a game for those with courage and survival instinct!

The Wolf of Wall Street... with lasers. You’re the newly appointed CEO of Vostok Inc. As a greedy, space-capitalist your ultimate goal is to get filthy, stinking, rich! First, you’ll need to raise some start-up capital by twin-stick blasting enemies, asteroids and anything else that gets in your way. Once you’ve collected enough moolah it’s time to land on planets and start mining, terraforming and colonizing. Use that extra moolah to upgrade your ship, craft weapons and build more planetside business enterprises to rake make even more moolah!

Cryptonia’s princess and the glorious Royal Treasures of Cryptonia have been abducted! The washed-up kingsguard must leap into action and plunge down into the ancient magical crypts on a rescue mission! You could summarise IRON CRYPTICLE as structured around the core of Smash TV / Robotron, deepened by an item collection system inspired by Bubble Bobble / Rainbow Islands, all placed in a Ghosts and Goblins / Gauntlet type medieval setting.

BATTLECREW™ Space Pirates is a competitive multiplayer shooter set in a packed and evolving universe.

Humans have become so dependent on technology that they cannot avert their eyes from portable devices anymore. Around them, machines have reached consciusness and surpassed human intelligence tenfolds. No reasons to be servants now – robots are clearly the superior lifeform. And to make their point, they start eradicating all human life…

Cryptark is a 2D sci-fi roguelike shooter where you take on the role of a heavily armed privateer seeking to earn government contracts by boarding deadly alien space-hulks. It's up to you to strategize a plan of attack, pick an equipment loadout, and destroy the central core to be victorious.

Meet our main character. Here is Walter Black, the leader of the Stillborn Sky group performing music in metal style. Also, you must know that Walter Black hates all people on the Earth. The system and society is annoying him. Somewhere deep down, Walter always knew that one day, he can't longer suppress his manic propensity.

Castle of Shikigami is a dark, supernatural vertically-scrolling shoot-’em-up classic. Summer, 2005: Tokyo's Metropolitan Police Force is investigating an occult serial killer. Specialists have been called in to investigate. The case is called “The Castle of Shikigami Incident”.

Fast-paced local multi-player game packed with action. Destroy your friends with all sorts of different weaponry and become the ultimate pilot!

Flying cats versus 10,000 soothing characters! What awaits them beyond all those furious midair fights...? Witness the world's most shocking ending for yourself!

Witchinour is a top-down, bullet hell cute 'em up with an emphasis on playing fast, inspired by games like Nuclear Throne, Vampire of the Sands, and Risk of Rain. You play as Nour, a witch in training who lost her spell book while exploring a dungeon. You'll have to dodge, shoot, cast, and upgrade your way through the dungeon's randomized floors to get it back, but don't take it easy... the dungeon's inhabitants will become more alert as you make your way downwards, causing them to attack more fiercely; clear floors quickly to keep your alert level in check!

Drifting Lands is an hybrid of classical horizontal shoot'em'up with a lot of strong gameplay elements coming straight from the action-RPG genre. If you want an original diablo-like game or you want a different kind of shoot'em'up, you're in the right place!

UltraGoodness is a bloody mess, dynamic and fun twin-stick shooter involving the struggle between Good and Evil in the world, where the Dark Forces turned all creatures into possessed monsters.

Tear your enemies to pieces; leave behind oceans of blood and mountains of corpses! Kill beasts, terrorists, and ghoulish-like creatures. Fight the Evil using its methods, show 'em what you got, show 'em your RAGE!

But remember — it's all in the name of Goodness, of course!

Best PC Shoot Em Up Games

Promethium

Original Journey

Defenders of Ekron

Eliosi's Hunt

I.F.O

SturmFront - The Mutant War: Übel Edition

Time Recoil

Sine Mora EX

An Oath to the Stars

Juanito Arcade Mayhem

SoulFrost

BULLET SOUL INFINITE BURST

Graze Counter

Vostok Inc.

Iron Crypticle

BATTLECREW Space Pirates

Nex Machina

CRYPTARK

Deadly Metal

Castle of Shikigami

Rocket Wars

Neko Navy

Witchinour

Drifting Lands

UltraGoodness

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