Bullet Hell Hidden Gems on Steam

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Astroflux Play Astroflux - a retro styled, action packed MMO space shooter.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.8
Release 27 Sep 2016
RIVE This 360-degree shooter/platformer hybrid lets you choreograph a ‘dance of destruction’ in insanely spectacular battles and set-pieces. RIVE feels like the explosive games of yore, pumping megapixels in true 21st century style.

Price -35% 9.68€
Rating 8.0
Release 13 Sep 2016
Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble An enormous Boss Tower has sprung from the ground, lifting entire towns up with it. Now, the people living on the tower are starting to contract all sorts of mysterious illnesses. Princess Remedy, still in Saturnian healing school, must use her powers to heal everyone and defeat the Boss Tower!

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.5
Release 08 Sep 2016
Atomik: RunGunJumpGun Atomik: RunGunJumpGun is a tough as nails game that puts a gravity-defying weapon in your hands. One button lets you fly, the other blasts obstacles out of the way. With a cast of crazed characters, challenging gameplay, and a pulsing musical score, it delivers twitchy platforming goodness.

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 31 Aug 2016
NeuroVoider NeuroVoider is a twin-stick shooter RPG set in a cyber futuristic world about brains shooting around evil robots with nuclear rocket launchers. Battle through the horde of vigilant robots, boost your character with the smoking remains of your victims, and defeat the master NeuroVoider.

Price -97% 0.43€
Rating 7.3
Release 31 Aug 2016
INVERSUS Deluxe INVERSUS is is a competitive and cooperative arcade shooter for 1 to 4 players online or on the couch. Fight for territory in a dynamic negative-space map where open paths for your team are the walls of your opponent's team. Strategize and trap the enemy to win!

Price -97% 0.55€
Rating 8.2
Release 16 Aug 2016
#KILLALLZOMBIES #KILLALLZOMBIES is an insane twin-stick zombie shooter with Twitch streaming interactions, where you survive hordes of zombies on a dynamically changing arena and spectators may affect gameplay via special Twitch chat commands.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 10 Aug 2016
Spikit Spikit is a bullet hell game developed by a single developer, Igor Petrović. With a soundtrack composed by Dario Malešević. In this game, the player will have to dodge a constant barrage of spikes coming from the side of the screen.

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 09 Aug 2016
Headlander Launch into the ultimate head trip as you blast through psychotic robots in a retro 70's sci-fi action adventure from Double Fine Productions. It is a world of automation, a utopia gone wrong in which all of humanity have transferred their minds into robotic imposter bodies and are ruled by a computer.

Price -98% 0.46€
Rating 8.5
Release 25 Jul 2016
SWARMRIDERS SWARMRIDERS is a FREE "endless runner"+"twin stick shooter" ARCADE mashup. A "machine gun swarm surfing minigame" made as a bonus content for the UBERMOSH community.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.3
Release 15 Jun 2016
Zombie Party Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!

Price -95% 0.48€
Rating 8.0
Release 10 Jun 2016
Project Starship Project Starship is an arcade bullet-hell with random mechanics. No match will ever be the same. Who will you be? Garret or Gwen? Will you save the world from the mighty cthulhu?

Price 2.39€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Apr 2016
FORCED SHOWDOWN 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.

Price -96% 0.98€
Rating 7.8
Release 29 Mar 2016
Beat Da Beat Hurrican-like Bullet Hell. Avoid the rain of bullets to the rhythms of "dubstep". Help the hero to defeat the aliens and to take revenge on the interstellar aggressor!

Price 1.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 10 Mar 2016
Deathsmiles Deathsmiles is CAVE's bullet-hell shoot-'em-up where you take the role of one of five Angels to defend the magical land of Gilverado from an invasion by Hell itself! Eradicate this devilish assault!

Price -50% 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 10 Mar 2016
Starward Rogue Starward Rogue is a bullet hell twin-stick shooter. Blast your way through the Megalith, a rogue-lite labyrinth lodged in the side of a star. Customize your mech with a huge variety of weapons, perks, and upgrades. Steel yourself for the dangers that lurk in the depths of the dungeon.

Price -91% 1.15€
Rating 8.4
Release 20 Jan 2016
Shooting Stars! This game is the answer to one of the most important questions in life: “I can haz lazer kitty?“ Yes you can!

Price -92% 0.41€
Rating 7.8
Release 19 Jan 2016
Sora From Orange Juice comes a shoot'em'up starring the lone enhanced human, Sora. The sequel of the high-speed shoot'em'up "Suguri", with improved game system and graphics.

Price -55% 4.02€
Rating 8.6
Release 05 Jan 2016
Waves 2: Notorious Waves 2: Notorious is an arcade twin-stick shooter set in Cyberspace. Build Combos, earn Adrenaline and unleash powerful Burst attacks as you Dive into the Net and do battle against an AI that adapts to your weaknesses!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.5
Release 16 Dec 2015
Gun Wings A mysterious meteorite from deep space was detected approaching the Solar System, before the meteorite is due to hit the Earth, three of the girls who had their bodies modified as weapons are sent, along with all the hopes of humanity, to destroy the meteorite and save mankind...

Price 3.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 08 Dec 2015
Bullet Heaven 2 Bullet Heaven 2 is a bullet-hell shoot-em-up inspired by games like Touhou and Jamestown. It's all about shooting every cute thing that moves, while dodging hundreds of shiny bullets per second!

Price 13.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 07 Dec 2015
DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours is the latest installment in Taito's DARIUS series of arcade-style shooting games. Blast hordes of alien sea-monsters, and blaze your own trail through branching environments.

Price -65% 17.48€
Rating 7.8
Release 03 Dec 2015
Deathstate: Abyssal Edition Deathstate is a roguelike bullet hell adventure set in a bizarre world of dimensional exploration. Play as a number of unique characters trying to discover the fate of Professor Elinberg who opened a portal to the void. Are you ready to venture deep into the abyss?

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Oct 2015
Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition is a hardcore, uncompromising vertical scrolling bullet hell/invader hell shooter (shmup) that doubles as a techno-based lightsynth, triggering bursts of funky invaders at the pulse of a relentless beat.

Price -91% 0.39€
Rating 7.6
Release 04 Sep 2015
Super Star Path Classic color match puzzle meets space shoot'em up action! Hop into your spaceship, open a path through huge waves of aliens and other hazards, and face intense boss battles!

Price -91% 0.48€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Jun 2015
NEO AQUARIUM - The King of Crustaceans - YOU GET TO CONTROL UNIQUE CREATURES LIKE LOBSTERS, CRABS AND BARNACLES, IN A WILD WATER WORLD THAT EXCEEDS ALL HUMAN SENSE.

Price 8.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 08 Jun 2015
Supercharged Robot VULKAISER 70s giant robot anime-inspired side-scrolling shooting from the creators of SATAZIUS and GIGANTIC ARMY!

Price -83% 0.86€
Rating 8.6
Release 04 Jun 2015
Horizon Shift Horizon Shift is an explosive wave based single screen shooter with a ton of new ideas and platformer elements. Do what it takes to protect your horizon from the ever encroaching enemy attack!

Price -91% 0.47€
Rating 7.2
Release 29 May 2015
Raptor: Call of The Shadows - 2015 Edition The great action-crazed, guns blazing, shoot ‘em up game comes back straight out of the ‘90s. Raptor: Call of the Shadows and its futuristic world are ready to challenge your flying skills.

Price -9% 4.56€
Rating 6.9
Release 13 Feb 2015
Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo Super Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as SHMUP veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and SEVENTEEN playable ships.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 7.9
Release 23 Jan 2015
Echoes+ Echoes+ is an intense retro action space shooter that will test your reaction and concentration levels to the max!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Jan 2015
Wings of Vi Wings of Vi is a challenging 2D platformer in which the player controls the angel Vi, tasked with defeating the Demon Lord Jeh’oul after he is freed from captivity. While inspired by masochistic retro platformers, Wings of Vi aims to cut out arbitrary difficulty in favor of skill based gameplay.

Price -84% 2.40€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Nov 2014
QP Shooting - Dangerous!! QP Shooting - Dangerous!! is a bullet hell type shoot’em’up starring the pudding-loving dog girl QP seen in 100% Orange Juice. Nothing can stand between QP and her pudding - not even difficulty options to reduce the experienced gamer to tears!

Price -54% 3.59€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Nov 2014
Phoenix Force Phoenix Force is a shoot 'em up about a group of phoenixes that fight big and strong mythological creatures in over 100 levels. It takes the boss battle as the foundation for every level, creating engaging and challenging fast battles that will require your best strategies and reflexes.

Price -17% 0.83€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Nov 2014
REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR The world really does revolve around you in this mind-bending shooter where changing your perspective could save your life.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 24 Oct 2014
Disney•Pixar Cars 2: The Video Game Inspired by the Disney•Pixar animated film, Cars 2: The Video Game lets players jump into the Cars 2 universe with some of their favorite Cars personalities in exotic locations around the globe.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.3
Release 06 Oct 2014

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