Best Shoot 'Em Up Steam Games on Sale

Unlike generic lists, our 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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CounterAttack: Uprising CounterAttack: Uprising is a side scrolling space shooter (shmup). Team up or fight solo, 1 - 4 player local or up to 8 players online coop, unlock upgrades, use powerful ultimate abilities, enhance your ship the way you want, and save the Earth from annihilation.

Price -82% 2.66€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Mar 2019
The Hong Kong Massacre Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.

Price -97% 0.72€
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Jan 2019
Project Warlock Project Warlock is a first-person shooter that fans of Doom, Hexen, and Wolfenstein cannot miss. It serves you an exploding cocktail of bullets, spells, and monsters. Battle through 60 levels of non-stop action, packed with bloodthirsty enemies and challenging bosses.

Price -90% 1.10€
Rating 8.4
Release 06 Dec 2018
Ninjin: Clash of Carrots Ninjin: Clash of Carrots is an anime-inspired beat-em-up with varied enemies and deep customization. Play as the rabbit Ninjin, or Akai, the ninja fox, and fight to retrieve the carrots stolen by Shogun Moe! Redeem carrots for weapons, upgrades and more! Supports 2-player online or local co-op.

Price -90% 1.02€
Rating 8.5
Release 04 Sep 2018
Juicy Realm Juicy Realm is a roguelike game in which players must square off against bizarre fruits all across the world. The line between the animal and the plant world has become blurred, and the food chain has been completely disrupted.

Price -81% 1.91€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 May 2018
Swarmlake Swarmlake is an ultra-intense first-person shooter ballet about fighting a record-breaking swarm.

Price -90% 0.49€
Rating 9.1
Release 12 Mar 2018
Acceleration of SUGURI 2 Acceleration of SUGURI 2 is a lightning-paced duel-style shoot'em'up from Orange Juice, featuring all favorite characters from the SUGURI universe.

Price -95% 0.45€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Mar 2018
Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2 Guns, Gore & Cannoli 2 revives the good, old, action platform run & gun genre, but this time with a bunch of humor and buckets of blown off body parts. In this sequel to Guns, Gore & Cannoli, Vinnie Cannoli’s story continues and this time it’s personal.

Price -92% 1.16€
Rating 9.1
Release 02 Mar 2018
Tesla vs Lovecraft Tesla vs Lovecraft is an intense top-down twin stick arena shooter from the creators of Crimsonland and Neon Chrome. Play as the enigmatic inventor Nikola Tesla harnessing the static energy to power up Tesla-Mech and give the lovecraftian nightmares a lesson in horror!

Price -93% 1.13€
Rating 8.5
Release 26 Jan 2018
Starblast Fun, fast paced online multiplayer arcade space shooter. Take control of your spaceship, mine asteroids, increase your stats, upgrade to different types of spaceships with improved stats and weapons. Fight against other players and collect their gems.

Price -58% 4.20€
Rating 7.8
Release 08 Nov 2017
Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition Blackout Z' is a super fast top-down view shooter where you face ZOMBIES, SAWS and the DARK. Do you have what it takes to have what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse with only your gun and an old flashlight?

Price -93% 0.35€
Rating 7.9
Release 20 Oct 2017
弹幕音乐绘 ~风雷幻奏曲~ / Barrage Musical ~A Fantasy of Tempest~ This is a music rhythm STG where stages with highly BGM synchronization will show you a barrage musical;   A shop system with dozens of items available offers you infinite possibility;   An AI based auto dodging system benefits beginners.

Price -75% 2.49€
Rating 8.8
Release 07 Oct 2017
Raw Data Built from the ground up for VR, Raw Data’s action gameplay, intuitive controls, challenging enemies, and sci-fi atmosphere will completely immerse you within the surreal world of Eden Corp. Go solo or team up and become the adrenaline-charged heroes of your own futuristic technothriller.

Price -95% 2.02€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Oct 2017
Let Them Come Let Them Come is a fast paced pixel art shoot ‘em up. Twitchy trigger fingers and focused battle tactics are the order of the day as wave after wave of alien-like creatures try to take you down.

Price -95% 0.41€
Rating 8.1
Release 03 Oct 2017
ARMORED KITTEN Awesome side scroll action about Cute and Deadly Kitten with a double shotgun!

Price -92% 0.42€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Sep 2017
Cuphead Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.

Price -53% 9.46€
Rating 9.5
Release 29 Sep 2017
AngerForce: Reloaded AngerForce: Reloaded is an action-packed vertically scrolling shoot'em up game that pays homage to the classics of 90’s arcades. This high octane experience is set against the backdrop of a 19th century human world that has seen the outbreak of a robot rebellion.

Price -52% 4.83€
Rating 8.4
Release 14 Sep 2017
Polygoneer Test your reflexes in POLYGONEER, defend yourself from prolygonal shapes taht comes from everywhere, just hitting is not enough you need to match the right color shot to the polygon too! Are you ready for the challenge?

Price -93% 0.35€
Rating 7.6
Release 24 Aug 2017
Sine Mora EX Sine Mora EX 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 EX is a gorgeous shoot'em up offering both a Story Mode that weaves an excessive tale and an Arcade Mode.

Price -94% 0.64€
Rating 6.3
Release 08 Aug 2017
Wild Guns Reloaded Wild Guns Reloaded is a fast-paced arcade-style shooter, mixing the Wild West with steampunk. Play as Clint, Annie, Doris, or Bullet the dog with his sentry drone. Grab some friends and play together for some four player action!

Price -28% 9.08€
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Jul 2017
Nex Machina Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future.

Price -95% 1.13€
Rating 8.3
Release 20 Jun 2017
UBERMOSH Vol.5 The fifth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.

Price -51% 0.49€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 May 2017
Cyberhunt Cyberhunt is a retro procedurally generated twin stick shooter, that takes you back to the sweet to the sweet arcade machines era!

Price -94% 0.30€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 May 2017
GIBZ Shoot, slice and surf on zombies by yourself or with friends. Fight overwhelming amounts of zombies and other monsters summoned by an evil wizard (ooOooOOOo spooky) in an early 1900s London.

Price -68% 1.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 07 Apr 2017
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 -64% 1.84€
Rating 8.1
Release 27 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 -92% 0.83€
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 -66% 3.32€
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% 0.93€
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 -78% 0.22€
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 -93% 0.35€
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 -92% 0.56€
Rating 8.6
Release 17 Nov 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 -69% 0.62€
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
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 -79% 0.21€
Rating 6.2
Release 02 Sep 2016

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