Best Shoot 'Em Up Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated shoot 'em up games.

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Furious Angels Furious Angels is a brutal score attack shooter with different waves each day. Compete on the leaderboards, transform into a flying tank and shred the skies to pieces!

Price -65% 1.78€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 Feb 2017
Dogolrax You awake on an unknown planet with amnesia. What are those horrific monsters? Who are these mysterious priestesses? Inspired by cult classics such as "Another World", "Flashback" and others, Dogolrax aims to surprise you in ways few games have.

Price 4.99€
Rating 6.6
Release 24 Feb 2017
CPU Invaders Invaders are living inside your computer. You shouldn't let that happen! Interact with your desktop while playing, watch Youtube videos, chat with your friends and more! CPU Invaders overlaps the game itself with your computer screen.

Price -99% 0.47€
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Feb 2017
Bleed 2 Bleed 2 is a relentless arcade action game featuring air-dodging, bullet-reflecting, and tons of bosses. Now with randomly-generated levels and daily challenges, too!

Price -88% 1.21€
Rating 9.0
Release 08 Feb 2017
Rise & Shine Welcome to Gamearth, a once peaceful planet now threatened by the warmongering Space grunts of Nexgen. In the aftermath of their devastating first strike a child named Rise is forced to take on the sacred gun Shine - and with it the fate of his world.

Price -65% 3.43€
Rating 6.7
Release 13 Jan 2017
Caladrius Blaze An epic tale that begins from shooting missiles! The newest work of the Caladrius series with lots of new features that exceeds the original story!

Price -95% 0.88€
Rating 7.8
Release 11 Jan 2017
Duke of Alpha Centauri Duke of Alpha Centuri is a space shooter with amazing graphics. The main goal of our game is to have a lot of fun while blowing up hordes of different types of enemies. Engage in boss fights, upgrade your ship and ship systems until you are able to show off in an endless mode.

Price -99% 0.28€
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Dec 2016
Distant Space Distant Space are present the arcade game of cosmic fights in arcade style of the 80's, this is a game where you can control the spaceship and forced to destroy extraterrestrials, which are moving in the certain order.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 20 Dec 2016
Planes, Bullets and Vodka Fly through danger filled procedurally generated tunnels, avoiding thousands of enemies, on this throwback to the golden age of arcade games.

Price -90% 0.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 13 Dec 2016
Kick Ass Commandos Lock and Load! It's time to Kick-Ass. Grab your machine gun, flamethrower, rocket launcher, and grenades. Assault the enemy base and free commandos to join your team while you destroy everything in sight. Make your way through enemy bunkers to rescue your comrades, and kill everyone you encounter!

Price -70% 2.16€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 2016
Ghost Town Mine Ride & Shootin' Gallery Explore an abandoned tourist attraction, test your shot at the Shootin' Gallery, then board the mine cart ride for a descent into Hell! A thrilling new horror experience for the HTC Vive. Can you make it out Alive?

Price 8.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 28 Oct 2016
DoDonPachi Resurrection The legendary bullet-hell shoot-’em-up series has come to Steam! DoDonPachi is ressurected after a Blissful Death with enough modes to satisfy the beginner and the expert player alike. Tonight we dine in bullet hell!

Price -42% 16.98€
Rating 9.0
Release 13 Oct 2016
BLUE REVOLVER Fight, fly, flourish! BLUE REVOLVER is a manic arcade-style shoot-em-up built for newcomers and psychos alike. Powerful special weapons cut through tough areas, while an adaptive difficulty system tailors the game to your skill level as you evade and counter a maniac environmental force!

Price 14.99€
Rating 9.2
Release 11 Oct 2016
Zombo Buster Rising Shoot zombies from terrace like a boss! Zombo Buster Rising Remastered brings you a nostalgic experience of classic 2D side shooting-defense in enhanced build right from your Steam library!

Price -72% 0.57€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Oct 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
Starship Annihilator A classic style vertical scrolling-shooter. Includes 10 levels and 10 boss enemies. You will have several power-ups for weapon modification. Within each level, you will face different enemies, among which will vary from low to extreme levels of threat!

Price -77% 0.23€
Rating 6.2
Release 02 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
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
Bot Vice Show off your skills & reflexes in this frantic gallery shooter action arcade, filled with bullets, bots and explosions! You play as Erin Saver, carrying out her personal vendetta against the criminal Wildbots.

Price -89% 1.16€
Rating 8.8
Release 11 Jul 2016
NOT A HERO Professional assassin turned amateur campaign manager Steve is charged with cleaning up the city by an anthropomorphic rabbit and mayoral candidate from the future named BunnyLord.

Price -86% 2.87€
Rating 8.3
Release 08 Jul 2016
Furi The jailer is the key, kill him and you’ll be free. Fight your way free in this ultra-responsive, fast-paced sword-fighting and dual-stick shooting game.

Price -96% 0.82€
Rating 8.9
Release 05 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

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