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Kestrel $4.99
Shoot'em up with an emphasis on progression and growth through upgrades. Fly, shoot, die, upgrade, repeat.
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Path to purge$5.99
When the demon is a lovely little girl, will you still give her a wide berth? In the face of increasingly hard fighting, Play the Demon to purge the Human beings that corrupted by the Holy Spirit. Dealing with the angel's difficulties, let's see how far you can go

Battle Star Asteroids$0.99
You have a very important mission. Be a hero who saved humanity from extinction. Fight intense battles, use all your skills and destroy all the threats that are coming to our planet. Remember, we don't know exactly what we are dealing with, be careful. You are our hope.

Wings Of Bluestar$7.99
This is an arcade horizontal shoot'em up, that combines solid arcade controls with modern elements like bullet hell phases, tiny hitboxes, different types of gameplay and scoring, collectibles, trophies and many other features, which makes Wings Of Bluestar a fun shmup for both casuals and regulars.

Opalescence$2.99
The colorful top-down shooter/bullet-hell

Endocrisis$9.99
Combat against big bosses and increase the power of your ship through levels and secrets. Absorb or use your armor against enemy bullets is the key defense strategy

The Pulse of EvilFREE
Find yourself on a mission exploring the depth of an ominous forgotten mine. You arrive barehanded but quickly find the tools needed to go deeper. Destroy the infected living parts of the mine and face the final threat and complete your mission.

Dark Old Sun II: Unspace$14.99
In Dark Old Sun II: UNSPACE, embark on an epic journey through a decaying universe. This exploratory roguelike features the looming threat of UNSPACE, as the mighty sun fades and humanity weakens. Equip various weapons that grow increasingly powerful.

Kira Kira Magical Stars$5.99
The Monster Queen has invaded town and captured your friends! Pick your stage, explore, fight monsters, save your friends, and play as them in this top-down shooter inspired by classic handheld gaming!

Grave Space$3.99
Pilot through 10 progressive levels in this SNES/SEGA style 90's retro side scroller/bullet hell.

Void Gore$4.99
Void Gore casts you as an ace pilot descending through the levels of hell and getting rich in the process.

Endline$4.99
Endline is a 2.5D psychedelic bullet hell experience, combining rhythm and bright colours.

Iron SkysFREE
Iron Skys is a top down bullet hell shooter with rouge like elements. As a lone pilot in an untested prototype vessel, you must defend the empire against a seemingly endless fleet of rebel ships.

Bad Chicken$9.99
Bad Chicken is a retro styled sideway scrolling shoot-em-up inspired by the retro classics. It takes place in 8 locations in the Ferus system, each one with different challenges, and dangers.

Return Of The Zombie King$4.99
Return of the Zombie King is a 2D-RUNNER, with a 1-BUTTON control system. Start with a dead king who can't jump, see, or hear anything. COLLECT as much gold as you can and UPGRADE him by buying back all his body parts. Then buy magic upgrades such as double jump and protection spells

Ploc$1.99
This is Ploc, brave, agile, fast, and with a super special power, controlling gravity! Walk on the floor, ceiling, or wall and help Ploc get through all the dangers in this frantic and challenging platform puzzle.

Beater: Apocal Undone$9.99
Apocals have taken over the earth. Fight through hordes of Darklings in this roguelite/survival setup to cleanse the world of these apocalyptic creatures. Beater not only allows you to choose powers for your character but for the enemies as well.

Dextram$5.99
This arcade shoot 'em up has no shooting and you can only turn right. Avoid waves of enemies and get points as they crash into each other. Pick up power-ups, such as a large laser or a force field to destroy the enemies. Die, get a score and repeat to get a higher score the next run.

Switch 'N' Shoot$3.99
Endless arcade action with just ONE button - Switch directions whenever you shoot!

1-Bit Revival: The Residuals of Null$3.99
Four arcade games that pit the player against swarms of enemies inside a deadly matrix system that is programmed to destroy you.

Laser Droplets$1.99
Laser Droplets is a mixture of shoot ‘em up, bullet-hell, arcade styled, 2D game. It consists of 16 mini stages, each with a unique stage boss.

RagingBlasters$14.99
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.

RHYUP$14.99
RHYUP is a challenging, 5 button rhythm game with shmup elements. Defend your home planet as you take control of a spaceship and move and shoot to the beat of the music while weaving through an onslaught of eye catching, enemy fire all set to an amazing sound track of 20 unique songs.

Arrest of a stone Buddha$14.99
Hitman is searching for an answer in France 70-s.

HyperNova$3.99
A 2D side-scrolling shooter in which you advance by defeating enemies in a world where everything is made of voxels. Defeat enemies, collect reinforcement items, and take on powerful enemies that appear one after another!

Vektor Z$6.99
Vektor Z brings fast and furious retro space blasting action to Steam! Blast your way through endless waves of asteroids and enemies to write your name among the stars! Vektor Z offers a rogue-like arcade action game where you'll improve your progress every time you play!

While you are Downloading$0.99
A quick and action paced retro styled arcade shooter, or shoot 'em up (shmup) if you like. Perfect to play in short chunks, like when you are waiting for big games to download.

Break Through The Illusion$0.99
"Break Through The Illusion" is a dungeon barrage shooting game. The protagonist Mick needs to try to pass one room after another, make full use of the specific weapons and limited bullets in his hand to kill the monsters in these rooms, in order to reach the boss room for the final battle.

Rutabaga Desert Storm$0.99
Lead the vegetable revolution alone or with a friend in the side-scrolling shoot ‘em up Rutabaga Desert Storm! Take down wave after wave of enemies, dodge their projectiles, and grab power-ups to boost your destruction! Can you defeat the oppressive humans and free the proletariat vegetable masses?

FORCED SHOWDOWN$19.99
Deckbuilding empowers this challenging bullet hell adventure! Each character is a unique experience: Choose a deck of unlockable cards to boost you in new ways every battle - "My whirlwind shoots fireballs!?". Battle hordes of brutal foes to become a superstar in C-SAR’s ever-changing game show.

Binarystar Infinity$4.99
Binarystar Infinity is a 1-Bit Shoot ‘Em Up with a challenging experience reminding of the traditional Arcade Shmup classics, that can be experienced alone or with a friend, and with the particularity of being playable in vertical or horizontal scrolling mode.

Zone of Lacryma$8.99
Zone of Lacryma is a story driven vertical shmup with 11 levels, highscores, speedrunning, upgrades and more.

Thundering Skies$0.99
A shoot'em up inspired by the 16-bit classics of the genre.

Spaceship for Newbies$4.99
Fly a spaceship made of scrap through obstacles in outer space - using only one button!

Space Pirates and Zombies$9.99
Explore a randomly generated Galaxy populated with factions, enemies, missions, and items providing you with a unique experience each time you play.

Treasure Hunter Man 2$1.99
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Cakefoot$2.99
Fork it up! Cakefoot is a challenging, single-button dodge ’em up on rails. Pilot a walking cake – hold to accelerate, let go to drift back – and survive against all odds. Featuring 22 epic levels, arcade mode, unlockables, and high scores, Cakefoot is endlessly replayable, and impossible to defeat.

Beekyr Reloaded$9.99
The giant hornets have destroyed your hive and taken the pollen. Fight the swarms alone or with a friend and destroy the dangerous hornet queen! The insect world is very dangerous but... what are you waiting for to get your revenge?

SPINGUN$1.99
SPINGUN is a "manic two-button arcade shooter". Two buttons. One spaceship. Zero chance to survive.

Garlic$14.99
You are Garlic, an onion-headed boy and you want to climb the Sacred Tower to meet the Cyber Goddess to seduce her...

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This is the biggest news title of 2024. A cute bullet-hell shooter is now available. The game features cool and futuristic visuals and active gameplay.

BLUE WISH DESIRE$9.99
BLUW WISH DESIRE is 2D veritically scrolling shmup. Go through the barrage and destroy the oncoming enemies. In addition, this game is equipped with an auto guard system that automatically prevents mistakes. So even those who are not good at barrage STG are safe.

Atomic City$1.99
Mouse-only for super simple gameplay, but the challenge ramps up. Survive waves of enemies bombing your city. Shoot 'em up!

AquaNimble$9.99
AquaNimble is about crazy intense shooter action with big quirky guns against underwater snake dragons, cybernetic sharks, swirling skeletons, submarines and so much more. It's a dynamic game that makes every play through different and lets you set your own challenge beyond a difficulty setting.

Offendron Warrior$0.99
Offendron Warrior is a retro arcade that combines shooting and defense. Your objective is saving Offendron civilians in the planets from the group of enemies, who are trying to spread a virus that turns Offendrons into mindless killing machines and eventually destroy the whole planet.

Astro Combat$2.99
Astro Combat is a Pixel Space Shooter, with Action-RPG elements.

Sky Force Reloaded$9.99
Sky Force Reloaded is a classic shoot ‘em up experience packed in gorgeous visuals and excellent gameplay. Enjoy flashy explosions, beautiful scenery and massive bosses in single player or local cooperative modes.

WITCH-BOT MEGLILO$5.99
Stop time and project yourself through space with “Time-stop warp” magic, pass through physical obstacles, dodge incoming bullets and shoot down your enemies! A satisfying shooter, filled with dark humor!

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Who are you fighting for? My usual job turns into a big mission. An easy-to-understand system reminiscent of the old barrage STG. Pave the way with powerful PowerShots!

Little Ninja$0.99
You are a young 8 year old boy named Liam, you recently got a ninja mask for a birthday present! You must protect the house from evil doers! You must be sneaky, and make sure to not get caught!

Manic Archers$14.99
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Dash Fleet$3.99
Dash Fleet is a simple and fun dashing action game.