Top-Down Shooter Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated top-down shooter games.

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ANNIE:Last Hope “ANNIE:Last Hope” is a HD Voxel top-down shooting game. The story began in 1990s. There was an outbreak of an unknown creature invasion and a couple got separated when escaping. Annie went on her difficult journey in search of her fiance.

Price 8.19€
Rating 8.6
Release 06 Apr 2020
God's Trigger Slay enemies with speed and precision in an over-the-top show of blood and explosions. Play solo or with others, make split-second decisions, dodge bullets, and use weapons and abilities to inflict violence in the most graphic way possible.

Price -97% 0.59€
Rating 7.1
Release 18 Apr 2019
Metaverse Keeper / 元能失控 Metaverse Keeper is a dungeon crawler with roguelike elements where four heroes join forces to save the “Metaverse" – created when a cosmic event tangled space-time. Explore randomly-generated worlds, customize your weapons, and fight crazy monsters – in solo or co-op mode!

Price -3% 12.18€
Rating 7.4
Release 10 Apr 2019
Castle Break Breakout game + physics + shooting + building. Use your mouse like in air hockey to kick enemy bombs back into the evil Black Castle! Destroy enemy towers rockets and lasers. Build your base to protect your little dudes - you need them to win

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 19 Feb 2019
Hyper Jam Battle it out local and online in this neon-soaked arena brawler full of lethal weapons, stackable perks, furious combat and a killer synthwave soundtrack.

Price 12.79€
Rating 8.7
Release 12 Feb 2019
Super Ledgehop: Double Laser Cutie anime girl realizes her cool big bro is missing?? Cheese it up with Chizuru and SHOOT TO THE BEAT OF THE SONG in this top down bullet hell shooter! Absorb enemy bullets using your waveshines to utilize their bullets as your own! Show those cheeseheads that you're better!

Price 0.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Nov 2018
Mini-Dead 144 FPS boss battle action with a devilishly creative game mechanic.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.9
Release 04 May 2018
Diabolic The game is set in a dark pixel fantasy world. Destroy hordes of monsters ruling over what once was a prosperous land. 10 levels filled with various enemies await, you, each requiring a different approach to defeat. Like in any RPG, leveling up is the core element of the game

Price -94% 0.51€
Rating 7.8
Release 26 Mar 2018
Tasty Planet Control a tiny ball of grey goo with the ability to eat anything smaller than itself. The more it eats, the bigger it gets! Soon you'll be able to eat the entire planet!

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 02 Nov 2017
Gangs of Space Gangs of Space is a massively-multiplayer Rogue Shmup where Gangs of players compete for the conquest of the galaxy.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 10 Aug 2017
Solstice Chronicles: MIA In this 2-player twin-stick shooter, use a friendly drone for a game-changing abilities. Survive waves, upgrade, and uncover the mystery in this cooperative, action-packed experience.

Price -88% 1.57€
Rating 7.0
Release 26 Jul 2017
Serious Sam's Bogus Detour Serious Sam’s Bogus Detour is an all-new action-adventure in the legendary Serious Sam saga from Hammerwatch developer Crackshell.

Price -94% 0.68€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Jun 2017
Tormentor❌Punisher Everything in Tormentor❌Punisher can be killed in one hit, from bosses to yourself. Bosses conjure traps to make the arena hellish. Demons adjust to your play style and punish you. Perform combos on enemies and gain cool upgrades. Reload your machine gun by firing your shotgun. Let's do this!

Price 7.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 02 Jun 2017
ATOMINE Atomine is a twin stick procedural shooter rogue-lite set in a virtual world with minimalist design, where the player recounts on the screen the real events of STUXNET, the first weapon ever created in the form of computer virus.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 May 2017
Battle Bruise Stay atop a mountain of corpses! Fight numerous swarms of enemies, while dealing with the changing terrain.This game isn't messy. It's MESS ITSELF!

Price 0.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 03 May 2017
State of Anarchy: Master of Mayhem Prepare for bullet hell action and crazy driving! Your town is on fire, anarchy reigns the streets, aliens rampage in the sky! Grab your gun and join the fun!

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 31 Mar 2017
Grass Cutter - Mutated Lawns Challenge lawn monsters!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 24 Mar 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
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
VERSUS SQUAD Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

Price -68% 2.56€
Rating 7.5
Release 26 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
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
Grand Pigeon's Duty Pigeons organized resistance, which aims to attract people's attention to the problem of hunger and restore bakery companies for their bait.

Price -20% 2.66€
Rating 7.3
Release 05 Aug 2016
Death Goat Death Goat is a bloody arcade shooter featuring hordes of brutal enemies & eardrum destroying Heavy Metal.

Price 0.61€
Rating 7.1
Release 07 Jun 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
Razenroth Razenroth is an action shooter with a dark atmosphere, enriched with the elements of roguelike and RPG. All the levels, weather conditions, distribution and quantity of key elements are generated randomly. Thanks to this fact, a single game is different each time.

Price -70% 1.53€
Rating 7.6
Release 28 Aug 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 -92% 0.40€
Rating 7.7
Release 22 Jun 2015
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 -18% 0.82€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 Nov 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% 0.41€
Rating 7.9
Release 16 Sep 2014
Meltdown Meltdown is a tactical arcade shooter featuring both singleplayer and intense online multiplayer. Become the most skilled soldier, choose your weapons, get the best upgrades, buckle up and start your mission. Be careful, each enemy has it’s own combat style, special AI and gear. Adapt to them to survive!

Price -29% 5.00€
Rating 8.0
Release 05 Jun 2014
OMG Zombies! OMG! Alert! Alert! The City of Redfield has been hit by an outbreak of exploding zombies! For cool and unimportant reasons these suckers literally explode when shot, showering their zombie brethren with gore and causing chain reactions of showering zombie gibs with just a single bullet!

Price -11% 4.45€
Rating 7.6
Release 13 Feb 2014
Droid Assault Play Droid Assault and experience running blaster battles with hordes of rampaging killer robots! Discover a unique tactical arcade shooter, with the fun addictive gameplay of 8-bit classics. You'll need your wits and the help of your acquired droid squad to stay alive in this fast-paced retro actionfest.

Price -72% 2.81€
Rating 7.7
Release 09 Jan 2013
Alien Shooter 2 Conscription The Great War has begun! The world population capable of functioning is mobilized to serve in the army and the outcome depends on you!

Price -82% 1.79€
Rating 7.7
Release 18 May 2012
Titan Attacks! As the last surviving tank commander on Earth, single-handedly turn back the evil invading alien army, drive back the Titans across the Solar System, and defeat them on their homeworld... Titan Attacks has the same easy-to-learn and addictive gameplay of the classic arcade shoot 'em up, but is packed full of extras - new features, new...

Price -89% 1.12€
Rating 8.6
Release 03 Feb 2012
Zombie Shooter 2 Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.

Price -79% 2.10€
Rating 7.5
Release 18 Nov 2009

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128 players

28,441
3,078
Rating 8.9

86 players

2,028
411
Rating 8

42 players

3,708
1,363
Rating 7.1

39 players

2,436
330
Rating 8.5

39 players

3,162
1,573
Rating 6.6

27 players

483
27
Rating 8.8

20 players

805
404
Rating 6.5

17 players

2,277
180
Rating 8.9

17 players

1,251
168
Rating 8.4

17 players

398
87
Rating 7.7