Outline
Overwhelmingly bizarre beauty.
Shoot, dodge, and destroy!
A shmup where an apocalyptic world awakens to primal desires!

The newest answer to shmups. A game which is "uncompromisingly skeletal".
That is, a game in which every last ounce of excess has been cut away, and only its framework quintessence remains.

Bones free themselves of flesh, laying waste to needless entrails!
Revealing a skeleton of extraordinarily strenght.

Popcorn Rocket is a silly food based old-school arcade space shooter. Pilot the Popcorn Rocket as you blast through hordes of food spaceships in order to save the galaxy from the evil Nebula Empire! With a wacky cast of heroes and villains, Popcorn Rocket will leave your stomach wanting more!

The legendary vertical scrolling shooter "Raiden" is reborn as a thrilling twin-stick 2D shooter! Freely aim and shoot with dual sticks, dodging bullets from every direction.
Level up to unlock a variety of weapons and enhancements, and upgrade your ship to fight your way through epic battles.

Data East's sci-fi shooting game 'Fang' series is now available as a 2-in-1 title!

◆ Build your own Armored Cavalry and deploy! 'Wolf Fang'
As a member of the Rohga Team, the player pilots a robotic weapon known as an 'Armored Cavalry' and heads into battle.
Combine three parts—'Body (sub-weapon)', 'Arms (melee attack)', and 'Legs (mobility)'—to build your own custom machine.
Defeat the numerous enemies using a combination of shots, melee attacks, stomping attacks, and sub-weapons.
Even if your mech is destroyed, the pilot can continue fighting. Gather items through valiant efforts, and you can repair your robot and return to the battlefield.
The Saturn version includes exclusive character voices, new actions, and a boss rush mode. Challenge the battlefield as many times as you want!

◆A chase shooting game where you soar across the battlefield with acceleration, deceleration, and command techniques! 'Skull Fang'
As a member of the Gaiga Team, the player pilots a fighter jet and heads out to intercept enemy weapons approaching the defense line.
Select from four pilots, each with different special abilities, and four fighter jets with varying performance.
Controlling the speed of your fighter jet is crucial on the battlefield. Will you take the risk and fly at high speed to

Arise, fallen hero! Enter Keeper's Toll, an action-packed roguelite set within a retro-infused dark fantasy world that demands skill and courage. Every moment could be your last, but with each setback, you grow stronger. Seize the challenge, overcome daunting foes, and purge a callous world through a methodical genre-bending experience.

Keeper’s Toll places a heavy focus on skill-based gameplay with ARPG elements. Each run allows you to study your enemies and hone your skills while progressing through the main quest. Once you have mastered the basics, Keeper’s Toll introduces unique enemy archetypes, intricate bosses, and fresh mechanics that will challenge any worthy hero.

Speedollama is a fast platformer shooter that sets a new benchmark for speed in the genre. Bursting with quirky humor and vibrant pixelated carnage, this game is not for the faint of heart. Are you ready to embrace the chaos and prove your skills?

Help Aki the alligator find his way home in Beyond Border! Navigate through four challenging stages – from the mysterious Forest to the spooky Cemetery. Each stage brings new enemies and obstacles, such as sticky slimes and giant spiders, that will test your survival skills.
In Beyond Border, you won't be unarmed. Choose from a variety of powerful weapons and turret cards to build an impenetrable defense. Buy your favorite weapons and turrets using coins and jewels collected from defeated monsters. Each turret has unique functionalities, perfect for decimating waves of enemies and protecting Aki.
Beyond Border offers an engaging and action-packed gaming experience you won't want to miss. Get ready to face monsters, conquer territories, and help Aki find his way home.

In Farmer Survivors, the excitement of arcade blends with the unpredictability of roguelike games. Each playthrough is unique, with elements of randomness for items and abilities. With each Wave, you will face increasingly stronger and larger quantities of enemies, testing your survival skills to the limit.

A standout feature of the game is the auto-aim, which automatically focuses on the nearest enemy. This allows you to concentrate on strategy and movement, as character control is limited to movement and dashing.

In Farmer Survivors, at the end of each Wave, you will have the opportunity to choose an item from various options. These items can be essential for your survival, offering bonuses and unique abilities. Every three Waves, you will also have the chance to choose a passive ability, adding more depth to your gameplay style.

Get ready to face challenging enemies, some of whom can launch projectiles in your direction. Master the game mechanics, explore the farm, and find the boundaries of the map to stay safe.

Venture into this thrilling world of Farmer Survivors! Discover the thrill of survival, the unpredictability of roguelikes, and the challenge of facing increasingly powerful enemies. Are you ready to become the hero of the farm? Play Farmer Survivors now and prove your worth as a true survivor!

Gameplay
Son of a Gun is an intense action packed top down shooter full of bullets, blood and explosions. Collect and manage your guns and grenades to fight swarming bugs, gigantic robots, slimy monsters and even space ghosts. Select one of 6 characters and upgrade them while progressing through the single player campaign. Overwhelming enemies can be sometimes dealt with by the prototype time-bending device.

Action-packed single-player campaign
You are Son of a Gun - an interplanetary mercenary working for the Sons of a Gun organization. You’re called always when firepower matters and something needs to be solved by force. While being on a vacation on a tropical planet you’re just received a phone call from the SOAG Command Center…

Hundreds of weapons
You'll have plenty of guns in 7 different classes at your disposal. Grab pistols, shotguns, SMG's, rifles, plasma guns, sniper rifles, or rocket launchers - you're defining your own playstyle. Don't forget about grenades - gear up with your favorite grenade type - cluster, force, explosive, implosive…

Exotic planets
You'll fight in the heart of the distant planets with versatile biomes. Each with their own unique environment and challenges - reach a target area, unlock base gates, download data from data-pylons or survive the horde's attack.

Deadly enemies
Face over 20 different enemy types with swarming bugs, zombie-like creatures, auto-turrets, gigantic robots, horrific degenerations, slimy monsters and even space ghosts.

Brew up some action in this coffee-powered sequel to the hit musical shooter!

PopSlinger Vol. 2: Loveless takes you on a thrilling new adventure where Agent Cooper McLaren of the Juncture Against Various Anomalies (JAVA) teams up with Akane 2.0, a reformed digital idol, to rescue Ria, the heroine of the first game, who has mysteriously vanished. 

As they navigate the bizarre Purple District, Cooper’s coffee-fueled weapons and Akane’s digital powers will be put to the test against the formidable Loveless Sisters and a variety of new enemies.

You are a sentry droid, part of the robotic legion that nearly wiped out mankind and seized control of civilization, but you’ve gone rogue and now represent humanity’s last hope for survival! Rogue Sentry is a hardcore twin-stick adventure shoot’em up where you’ll navigate the complex inner workings of a gigantic prison fortress, face gun and laser wielding machines, pick up human survivors along the way and attempt to escape to safety before it’s too late!

Presented in 1-bit pixel art style and set to a retro chiptune soundtrack, Rogue Sentry is a minimalistic and nostalgic journey with an epic finale and multiple endings. What fate will humanity meet on your watch?

Into the Fray is a fast action-shooter in the vein of Doom and Dark Messiah; using fast combat, reactive environments, and traps. Blast, kick, and dash your way through Rebels and Eldritch creatures to liberate the Isle of Portland; as it becomes consumed by Fog and the horrors therein.

KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.

"BLAST OFF" is a shooter released by NAMCO (Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.) in 1989.
Use the four selectable types of equipment to defeat the resurrected NEO BOSCONIAN.
In addition, you can fire a piercing bullet by holding down the shot.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

Go Mecha Ball is an acrobatic action roguelite where you shoot, roll and boost your way through a futuristic wonderland in pursuit of an ever more glitched-out rogue AI. Augment your ball mechs using an increasingly ludicrous arsenal of weapons, abilities and upgrades to shut the glitch portals!

Iron Meat is a run-and-gun arcade shooter that immerses players in an apocalyptic future overrun by "The Meat," an iron-ravenous mass mutating everything in its path. Blast your way through retro-inspired stages and bosses to uncover the shocking horrors behind secret experiments on the Moon.

With the construction of the interstellar warp device "Gravity Catapult" for space exploration, humanity ventured into three neighboring star systems. However, due to the rapid and extensive nature of this colonization, law enforcement from the Federal Patrol couldn't keep up, leading to deteriorating security in some regions. To counter this situation, the federal headquarters put bounties on notorious criminals and began recruiting individuals to become hunters to take them down... Ten years later, one day, A-class hunter Brian Wright infiltrated a criminal organization's secret base alone but found himself in a dire situation when his starship was destroyed.

I Got Isekai’d into a Shmup is a vertical shoot’em up game inspired by the best games of the 90s genre, while adding exciting features and local co-op for up to 4 players.

Cleanse this earth. It is infected, you must save it.
LUMbA: REDUX is the enhanced version of LUMbA, a game you definitely haven't played. Follow the orders of Pal, your leader. Together you will take back what was lost and save the world from its destined downfall.

Take a deep dive into the twisted minds of Lumba and Pal as they embark on their crusade, both with the shared goal of uprooting the evil that has plagued their world for too long.

"VS. BATTLE CITY" is a shooter released by NAMCO (Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc.) in 1985.
Take control of a tank and face down your enemies while defending your own HQ!
The key to victory is to break down walls, create your own routes, lead enemies to fight where you have the advantage, and use the terrain tactically.

The "Arcade Archives" series has faithfully reproduced many classic Arcade masterpieces.
Players can change various game settings such as game difficulty, and also reproduce the atmosphere of arcade display settings at that time. Players can also compete against each other from all over the world with their high scores.
Please enjoy the masterpiece that built a generation for video games.

"Everything was perfect... until then."

Faust, the protagonist, had a successful life due to his dealings with the devil, but now he suffers from terrible dreams each night. To find what lies at the end of those dreams—to end it all—he decides to plunge into those nightmares and face the monsters that lie within...

Downfall is a roguelike hack-and-slash game where you develop your character by stylishly defeating the endless waves of enemies within your nightmare.

Collect various relics and skills to create your build, strengthen the items you've acquired, or create new items to upgrade and empower your character!

An arcade shoot 'em up with a twist! Pop increasingly intense hordes of balloons, unlock characters with unique abilities, and go on an adventure spanning multiple worlds! Complete a variety of challenges along the way, unlocking various levels which provide unique obstacles.

Shifting Domains Await

With each new run, delve into the ever-shifting domains across Planet Ekis’s gorgeous neon-drenched pixelated biomes. Each environment has its own set of challenges with unique enemies to overcome as you learn attack patterns and weaknesses.
Augmented Action

Embrace the chaos of continually changing opportunities, making decisions about character upgrades, skills and weapons that will drastically change the feel of each run. Experiment with different playstyles and create synergies for devastating potential.
Critical Control

Experience the evolution of classic run and gun gameplay tightly tuned into a bullet hell ballet. Dash, dive and shoot across stages full or dynamic enemies whilst performing perfectly timed precision parrying.

HOLYHUNT is a roguelike shooter game that unites the nostalgic and fun 8-bit aesthetic with modern and complex shooting mechanics.
Make your way into the church hall to shoot and dash through different species of demons and bosses with unique mechanics that keep challenging your abilities each run.
Buy improvements and different bullets suited to your enemy's weakness and receive blessings from angels as you keep fighting to get even stronger. Trust in your faith and keep shooting to save the world from the doomsday prophecy.

Survivors Heroes is an engaging survival game that offers an intense experience in a post-apocalyptic world. You will explore devastated locations, fight for resources, and survive under constant threat, facing mutants, wild animals, and brutal gangs of survivors. With unique heroes, dynamic gameplay, and a world full of dangers, this game offers an intense and captivating experience. Survive, evolve, and face the final boss to prove you can handle any challenge.

Best Nintendo Switch Shoot 'em Up Games - Page 3

Angel at Dusk

Popcorn Rocket

Raiden NOVA

WolfFang SkullFang Saturn Tribute Boosted

Keeper's Toll

Speedollama

Beyond Border

Farmer Survivors

Son of a Gun

PopSlinger Vol. 2: Loveless

Rogue Sentry

Skautfold: Into the Fray

KILL KNIGHT

Arcade Archives BLAST OFF

Go Mecha Ball

Iron Meat

EGGCONSOLE STAR CRUISER PC-8801mkIISR

I Got Isekai'd Into a Shmup

LUMbA: REDUX

Arcade Archives VS. BATTLE CITY

Downfall

GoobnBalloonsDX

Elsie

HOLYHUNT

SURVIVOR HEROES