Best Shoot 'Em Up games on PC
Action games centered on shooting enemies, often in arcade-style stages or arenas where movement and projectile dodging are important.
- Projectile-heavy combat
- Fast-paced action
- Frequent enemy encounters
Related: Bullet Hell, Shooter, Arcade, Twin Stick Shooter
1,134 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Darwin's Demons
Arcade space shooter where enemies evolve to counter your tactics
89% positive
Free
Space Smash
Twin-stick arcade shooter set in a constantly shrinking space arena
91% positive
57 reviews
Spidersaurs
Side-scrolling run-and-gun action against escaped hybrids of dinosaurs and spiders
72% positive
57 reviews
I, AI
A scrolling space shooter with an upgradeable ship and superweapons
65% positive
57 reviews
HOUSE OF GOD
A top-down roguelite shooter where collected items work together
88% positive
57 reviews
Super Retro Fighter
An old-school shoot-'em-up where battles fund permanent aircraft upgrades
77% positive
57 reviews
Akka Arrh
A turret-based arcade shooter that switches perspective when enemies break through
91% positive
57 reviews
Truxton 2
A vertical arcade shooter with enemy-tracking lasers and local co-op
84% positive
57 reviews
Demo Gundroid
A retro run-and-gun platformer with hand-drawn pixel art
96% positive
57 reviews
CPU Invaders - Aim Hero
An arcade aim trainer played directly over your desktop
100% positive
57 reviews
Reign of Bullets
Side-scrolling shooter built around collecting loot and upgrading your jet
82% positive
56 reviews
SturmFront - The Mutant War: Übel Edition
Top-down arcade shooting where a flamethrower turns bullets into gems
86% positive
56 reviews
Vectorium
Top-down arcade shooter built around bosses and dense bullet patterns
73% positive
56 reviews
Infernal Radiation
Action RPG with demon battles tackled in your chosen order
79% positive
56 reviews
Hyper Echelon
Top-down space shooter with wingmen and time-slowing special abilities
84% positive
56 reviews
Crome: Before Purgatory
Retro space shooter with a boss that gains new attacks
89% positive
Free
FleurBirdShoot
Free-to-play shooter with changing weather and time of day
70% positive
Free
Mirror War - Reincarnation of Holiness SA
A fantasy shooting RPG with jump dodges and equipment upgrades
46% positive
56 reviews
东方希莲船 ~ Ultimate Fatal Octopus
Touhou bullet hell with a simplified UFO collection system
91% positive
56 reviews
cyber_serpent
A twin-stick shooter combining Snake-style movement with wave-based score attacks
93% positive
Free
Demo Radiant Exodus
First-person horror shooter about a soldier surviving a city's collapse
82% positive
Free
Sky Mercenaries
A bullet hell shooter where matching colors lets you absorb shots
71% positive
55 reviews
Wish Project
A bullet hell shooter for solo play or local co-op
93% positive
55 reviews
Ghost Blade HD
Bullet-hell spaceship combat with combo scoring and local co-op
85% positive
55 reviews