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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Glorkian Warrior: The Trials Of Glork A comic-styled mashup of Galaga-style shoot-em-up, simple platforming action, and Saturday morning cartoon. In collaboration with Eisner-award-winning cartoonist James Kochalka!

Price -79% 0.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 24 Mar 2015
Chicken Invaders 5 Chicken Invaders puts you at the forefront of a battle against invading intergalactic chickens, bent on revenge for our oppression of Earth chickens. This time, the chickens have hatched a devious plan to block out sunlight and freeze Earth to death!

Price -70% 1.80€
Rating 9.1
Release 13 Mar 2015
Heckabomb Explosive twin stick shooter. Lots of upgrades. Full controller support. Awesome soundtrack.

Price -93% 0.38€
Rating 6.1
Release 27 Feb 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
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
METAL SLUG X “METAL SLUG X”, one of the most highly praised titles in the series among Metal Slug fans for its refined balance and game volume, heads out to the Steam gaming platform!

Price -92% 0.66€
Rating 8.5
Release 02 Oct 2014
Iron Fisticle A modern take on the classic arcade arena shooter. Taking inspiration from an entire generation of action games, Iron Fisticle builds on classic titles like Gauntlet and Robotron while adding over 100 collectible items, an RPG style upgrade system and local multiplayer.

Price -96% 0.39€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Sep 2014
Super Time Force Ultra Super Time Force Ultra is an insane platformer filled with robots and dinosaurs and fun and time travel... sometimes all at the same time!

Price -95% 0.67€
Rating 8.4
Release 25 Aug 2014
Platypus The vast continent-spanning city of Collosatropolis has finally reached the limits of its expansion. Tall buildings cover every available space. The air is thick with smoke and poisonous chemicals. Parking is a nightmare

Price -59% 2.09€
Rating 8.5
Release 15 Aug 2014
Crimsonland Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.

Price -96% 0.56€
Rating 8.9
Release 11 Jun 2014
Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION Prepare yourself for an insatiable rain of bullets, bombs, and beams in Crimzon Clover. From Japanese indie developer Yotsubane, this retro top-down shooter is a wild ride you won't want to miss out on.

Price -67% 3.78€
Rating 8.9
Release 06 Jun 2014
Astebreed: Definitive Edition Climb into the cockpit of an otherworldly war machine and fly into battle against a horrifying alien race bent on eradicating humanity to preserve their own civilization.

Price -96% 0.85€
Rating 8.4
Release 30 May 2014
Danmaku Unlimited 2 Classic Japanese style vertical manic shooting action! Shoot, dodge and explode your way through the second entry in the critically acclaimed Danmaku Unlimited series. Battle through nail-biting bullet patterns and compete for dominance on the global leaderboard!

Price -27% 3.67€
Rating 8.6
Release 18 Mar 2014
LUFTRAUSERS The skies are aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Take to the skies in customized fighter planes to battle battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

Price -95% 0.53€
Rating 8.8
Release 18 Mar 2014
GIGANTIC ARMY Side-scrolling mech-shooting bad-assery is BACK!GIGANTIC ARMY is a heartfelt homage to 16-bit era mech shooters such as Cybernator / Assault Suits Valken, Metal Warriors, and Front Mission: Gun Hazard, developed by the studio behind the acclaimed shooter SATAZIUS.

Price -61% 2.34€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Mar 2014
Tower of Guns Tower of Guns is a fast paced first-person-shooter for the twitch gamer... with a few randomized elements to keep it fresh with each playthrough. It's a short burst "Lunch Break FPS"... not unlike Binding of Isaac mixed with Doom 2. Tower of Guns was made by a guy named Joe (with his brother Mike composing the music).

Price -97% 0.47€
Rating 7.7
Release 04 Mar 2014
Ultionus: A Tale of Petty Revenge Ultionus is a love-letter to the home computer arcade games of the late 80s and early 90s, with colorful 2D visuals, catchy chiptune music by the legendary Jake 'Virt' Kaufman, and 7 stages of hard-as-nails gameplay.

Price -51% 3.49€
Rating 6.5
Release 25 Feb 2014
METAL SLUG 3 “METAL SLUG 3”, the masterpiece in SNK’s emblematic 2D run & gun action shooting game series, still continues to fascinate millions of fans worldwide to this day for its intricate dot-pixel graphics, and simple and intuitive game controls, heads out to the Steam gaming platform!

Price -89% 0.81€
Rating 8.7
Release 14 Feb 2014
Super Killer Hornet: Resurrection 'Things will explode, things will die, you will dodge, you will do maths...Yes maths!' Super Killer Hornet Resurrection is an intense vertical shooter with a brain train twist. Through the chaos and explosion try to answer the falling math problems to increase your multiplier and power up your ship.

Price -84% 0.50€
Rating 6.1
Release 05 Feb 2014
Jets'n'Guns Gold Jets'n'Guns is a heavy piece of ground shaking rock blasting action with graphics and special effects that will blow you eyes out! Enjoy yourself in almost-insane action adventure of saving the universe from the deadly threat of more than 270 unique monsters in the campaign of 43 levels.

Price -94% 0.54€
Rating 8.3
Release 05 Feb 2014
Ballpoint Universe - Infinite Ballpoint Universe Infinite is a shoot-em-up adventure game featuring artwork entirely drawn in ballpoint pen. Explore immaculate worlds, discover the secrets of the doodles, and customize your Ink-Ship for battle! Press"Ballpoint Universe Infinite is too exuberant to ignore.

Price -89% 0.34€
Rating 7.4
Release 17 Dec 2013
Savant - Ascent A malicious orb has cast Savant out of his tower and transformed his surroundings into dangerous enemies!Dodge and shoot your way back up the tower, and blast down waves of enemies as you make your way towards the top! As you progress, you unlock CDs that not only give you new tracks to play to, but also grant you powerful new abilities!

Price -60% 0.81€
Rating 8.8
Release 04 Dec 2013
Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages Ring Runner combines the fast-paced action of space combat with the rich story and skill variety of an RPG.Trek across the universe in a 30 hour long story-driven campaign based on a companion Sci Fi novel, or challenge 6 scenarios alone, cooperatively, or competitively through local or online multiplayer.

Price -80% 0.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 19 Nov 2013
PixelJunk™ Shooter In PixelJunk™ Shooter, you must pilot your spacecraft through a range of cavernous environments in a bid to save the scientists trapped underground. Making your way through the game will rely on your keen sense of observation and the ability to manipulate your surroundings.

Price -89% 0.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Nov 2013
Syder Arcade Killing zombies never gets old, but sometimes you just need a break. Get back to some serious old-school gaming with Syder Arcade! Syder Arcade is a love letter to Amiga games of the ‘90s, no coins, no upgrade grinding, just your tenacity and a motherload of alien invaders.

Price -93% 0.79€
Rating 7.9
Release 24 Oct 2013
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure Super Amazing Wagon Adventure is a fast-paced 2d shooting game with a random story. You control a group of three migrants traveling west along a wagon trail. The game consists of short scenes that are sequenced together in a semi-random way to tell a crazy adventure story.

Price -20% 2.42€
Rating 9.1
Release 17 Oct 2013
Soundodger+ Dodge the music and dance through a mesmerizing ballet of choreographed bullets, each synced to music from over a dozen international artists. Push your creativity and skills with the fully-featured Level Editor and never run out of things to dodge.

Price -18% 6.56€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Oct 2013
The Chaos Engine Prepare for the dark world of The Chaos Engine, a steampunk Victorian age in which one or two players must fight the hostile creations of the Chaos Engine across four dynamic landscapes and take part in the ultimate battle.Choose from six hard-nailed mercenaries each with their own unique weapons and skills.

Price -70% 3.02€
Rating 6.5
Release 29 Aug 2013
Bleed Wryn is a girl with a big arsenal and big dreams -- she wants to be the ultimate videogame hero! Help her take down the Greatest Heroes of All Time in an action-packed bid to claim the title for herself and show the world what a true hero looks like!

Price -48% 2.62€
Rating 8.8
Release 03 Jul 2013
Thunder Wolves When this “wolf pack” strikes, you hear the thunder roll. The Thunder Wolves attack from the air. They are mercenaries, and the best helicopter pilots in the world. Every one of them is ready for action at all times—and ready to fight evil, wherever it lurks.

Price -89% 1.11€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 May 2013
Retro/Grade Play a classic Shoot 'Em Up... in reverse!

Price -86% 1.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 20 Mar 2013
Sine Mora Sine Mora is a horizontal shoot'em up that provides a unique take on challenge, where time is the ultimate factor.

Price -92% 2.17€
Rating 7.8
Release 09 Nov 2012
ETHER VAPOR Remaster Ether Vapor Remaster is a cinematic 3D arcade shooter and visual treat from developer Edelweiss.

Price -53% 3.81€
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Sep 2012
Intrusion 2 "This is some of the most fun I've had with a game so far this year, and it will go down as one of the best side-scrolling shooters of all time." - 9/10, Destructoid

Price -69% 2.51€
Rating 8.5
Release 11 Sep 2012

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