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
202 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Kero Blaster
Side-scrolling platformer about a frog clearing monsters from teleporters
94% positive
1,551 reviews
Jets'n'Guns Gold
Side-scrolling space shooter with customizable ships and crowded enemy waves
87% positive
1,530 reviews
Talented
Arcade roguelite shooter with randomized skill trees each run
92% positive
1,507 reviews
Contra Anniversary Collection
Classic side-scrolling shooters collected for solo or local co-op
76% positive
1,493 reviews
METAL SLUG 2
Side-scrolling arcade shooter with six missions and local co-op
89% positive
1,445 reviews
Utopia Must Fall
Arcade shooter defending a city with automatic fire and upgrades
95% positive
1,368 reviews
Octogeddon
2D shoot-'em-up where an octopus spins animal-weapon tentacles
93% positive
1,358 reviews
Zombie Shooter
Top-down zombie shooter with large hordes and upgradeable weapons
83% positive
1,346 reviews
Capcom Arcade 2nd Stadium
Classic arcade collection with rewind and online scoreboards
68% positive
Free
Jet Lancer
Fast-paced 2D aerial shooter with dogfights and giant robots
92% positive
1,249 reviews
METAL SLUG XX
Side-scrolling arcade shooter with branching missions and local co-op
53% positive
1,243 reviews
Touhou Juuouen 〜 Unfinished Dream of All Living Ghost.
Competitive bullet-hell shooter with split-screen duels and solo stories
93% positive
1,240 reviews
Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer
Open-world vehicular combat with custom-built trucks and crew management
79% positive
1,234 reviews
Intergalactic Bubbles
3D bubble-matching puzzle game with combinable powers in space
79% positive
1,191 reviews
Alien Shooter 2 - The Legend
Sci-fi action RPG shooter with alien hordes and character upgrades
53% positive
1,171 reviews
Darwinia
Real-time strategy and action against viruses in a digital world
80% positive
1,133 reviews
RADical ROACH Remastered
Side-scrolling shooter about a radioactive cockroach fighting armies of fleas
56% positive
Free
Chicken Invaders 5
2D arcade shooter about fighting space chickens bent on freezing Earth
96% positive
1,120 reviews
Starblast
Top-down multiplayer space shooter with mining and ship upgrades
81% positive
1,117 reviews
Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
2D twin-stick arcade shooter about surviving waves for high scores
91% positive
1,114 reviews
Iron Meat
Side-scrolling run-and-gun shooter against mutants and multi-phase bosses
97% positive
1,111 reviews
Twilight Survivors
3D survival roguelite with timed runs and character-specific upgrades
89% positive
1,103 reviews
Ex-Zodiac
Retro 3D rail shooter with colorful worlds and boss fights
94% positive
1,095 reviews
DoDonPachi Resurrection
Top-down bullet-hell shooter with bullet-canceling and laser clashes
96% positive
1,080 reviews