Shmadow
Inspired by “shmups” and shadows, Shmadow is a modern twin-stick side-scroller that nods to retro arcade gameplay.
79% of 151 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Games like SHOCKWAVE TRIGGERS
Want something that feels fast-paced and retro the way SHOCKWAVE TRIGGERS does? These games are a good place to start.
Shmadow
Inspired by “shmups” and shadows, Shmadow is a modern twin-stick side-scroller that nods to retro arcade gameplay. Use your light to blast through your enemies, unlock new powers, and defeat bosses before the darkness extinguishes you.
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
79% of 151 Steam reviews are positive$1.99RagingBlasters
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
99% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$14.99GanaBlade
This is a hot barrage shooting game. Destroy enemy planes with powerful firepower, shuttle and evade in the barrage. Various scenes with rich colors Planets, Fire Stars, Jupiter Stars, Water Stars, and huge battleships. It's time to drive a space fighter and show your strength! !
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
95% of 148 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Crisis Wing
Crisis Wing is 90's style vertically scrolling arcade shooter. Master 7 intense vertical stages, and take down massive bosses. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op. Get ready for pure, high-octane action.
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
89% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$7.99XIIZEAL
Enjoy a fast and frantic arcade shmup from Triangle Service! Attack in all directions and rack up the multipliers - do you have XIIZEAL?
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
89% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$2.39Waves
A neon twin-stick shooter about one thing: the score. Chain swift kills into a fat combo, drop well-timed bombs, and slow time when the screen gets too honest with you. Seven modes, online leaderboards, and runs short enough that "one more go" stops being a joke.
Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
95% of 1,576 Steam reviews are positiveFreeDELTAZEAL
Triangle Service presents the essential arcade experience! Power up your ship, evade enemy fire, and blast your way to the final boss in DeltaZeal!
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
72% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$2.39Q-YO Blaster
Q-YO Blaster is a shooting game, with peculiar characters, strange enemies, weapons and many explosions. Enter the miniature world and stop the threat
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
93% of 157 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Horizon Shift
Horizon Shift is an explosive wave based single screen shooter with a ton of new ideas and platformer elements. Do what it takes to protect your horizon from the ever encroaching enemy attack!
Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
88% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$4.99Trigonarium
Trigonarium is a hardcore twin-stick shooter for fans of challenging arcade gaming. Fight your way through multitudes of enemy formations in constantly shifting battle arenas to face the colossal level bosses.
Also in Co-op · Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
93% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$0.99Bot Vice
A frantic arcade gallery shooter with pixel art and a 90's synth-rock soundtrack. Erin Saver has a vendetta against the criminal Wildbots, and you have 25 short, brutal stages to carry it out: take cover, dodge, lock on and shoot everything that moves. One boss per stage, and a timer that never lets you breathe.
Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
93% of 1,350 Steam reviews are positive$9.99Sophstar
A vertical arcade shoot'em up with an inventive teleport system, lots of fast-blazing action and explosions, tons of boss fights, a risk/reward based score system and a proper challenge for both veteran and new players of the genre.
Fast-paced, Retro, Colorful
100% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
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GanaBlade
This is a hot barrage shooting game. Destroy enemy planes with powerful firepower, shuttle and evade in the barrage.
95% of 148 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Crisis Wing
Crisis Wing is 90's style vertically scrolling arcade shooter. Master 7 intense vertical stages, and take down massive bosses.
89% of 89 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
XIIZEAL
Enjoy a fast and frantic arcade shmup from Triangle Service! Attack in all directions and rack up the multipliers - do you have XIIZEAL?
89% of 61 Steam reviews are positive$2.39
DELTAZEAL
Triangle Service presents the essential arcade experience! Power up your ship, evade enemy fire, and blast your way to the final boss in DeltaZeal!
72% of 76 Steam reviews are positive$2.39
Trigonarium
Trigonarium is a hardcore twin-stick shooter for fans of challenging arcade gaming.
93% of 75 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Horizon Shift
Horizon Shift is an explosive wave based single screen shooter with a ton of new ideas and platformer elements.
88% of 25 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
TRIZEAL Remix
Transform or die. TRIZEAL Remix has classic shoot-’em-up style with a refined depth just below the surface.
80% of 35 Steam reviews are positive$2.39
Star Saviors
Fly humanity's last ship through 18 stages of bullets, bosses and hard choices about what to bolt onto it.
81% of 1,537 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
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…
96% of 745 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
Switch 'N' Shoot
Endless arcade action with just ONE button - Switch directions whenever you shoot!
96% of 128 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
BULLET PARTY
The party co-op shoot ’em up! Become the king of the night club! Go alone or group your friends! Shoot the party crashers down!
95% of 73 Steam reviews are positive$0.49
Hidden gems like SHOCKWAVE TRIGGERS
BIRDCAGE
Shoot, slash and weave through bullets and enemies in this story-driven arcade shooter. The RADON Daughters have launched their ultimate weapon.
97% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.19
Truxton Extreme
Take down hordes of alien invaders with your Power Shot, Truxton Beam, Thunder Laser, Homing Shot, Star‑mine Shot, and more!
93% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
DEVIL BLADE REBOOT
An immersive pseudo-3D shoot 'em up experience that pushes the limits of pixel art.
98% of 834 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Angel at Dusk
A bullet hell shooter where you press in close, cancel bullets, and tear through a paradise of angels as the sun burns out.
98% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$7.49
Hazelnut Hex
Rescue breakfast in this arcade-style bullet hell shoot 'em up!
97% of 125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
GanaBlade
This is a hot barrage shooting game. Destroy enemy planes with powerful firepower, shuttle and evade in the barrage.
95% of 148 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
RagingBlasters
Raging Blasters is a vertical scroll shmup featuring high speed scrolling and the exhilaration of destruction.
99% of 113 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
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…
96% of 745 Steam reviews are positive$0.99
ZeroRanger
Fly a fighter against an alien invasion in a hard, fast shoot 'em up with a striking two-colour look and a soundtrack worth leaving on.
95% of 2,069 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 12$11.99
Neptunia Shooter
Armed to the teeth, players begin as Neptune in an unworldly 8-bit space dimension ravaged by creatures who burst endless waves of bullets.
89% of 581 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Devil Engine
A last ditch effort to destroy what was once to be our savior. A final mission to eliminate a disastrous future.
88% of 126 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
1982
1982 is a FREE retro inspired blasta-thon that will test your gaming skills to the max.
93% of 809 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Newest games like SHOCKWAVE TRIGGERS
Truxton Extreme
Take down hordes of alien invaders with your Power Shot, Truxton Beam, Thunder Laser, Homing Shot, Star‑mine Shot, and more!
93% of 102 Steam reviews are positive$24.99
BIRDCAGE
Shoot, slash and weave through bullets and enemies in this story-driven arcade shooter. The RADON Daughters have launched their ultimate weapon.
97% of 223 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$11.19
Lilac 0
The machine world of Molybdion has fallen into disarray. As Nidhogg eats the root of the planet, unending wars rage on the surface!
94% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$11.49
tranceWave NEO
tranceWave NEO is a classic arcade twin-stick shmup, inspired by others in the "trance shooter" genre. Move, shoot, survive, and aim for a high score!
88% of 8 Steam reviews are positiveFree
DEVIL BLADE REBOOT
An immersive pseudo-3D shoot 'em up experience that pushes the limits of pixel art.
98% of 834 Steam reviews are positive$15.99
Totally Shmup
Beginner friendly 2D vertical and horizontal retro-style little shoot 'em up.
97% of 33 Steam reviews are positiveFree
Angel at Dusk
A bullet hell shooter where you press in close, cancel bullets, and tear through a paradise of angels as the sun burns out.
98% of 1,694 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 5$7.49
Hazelnut Hex
Rescue breakfast in this arcade-style bullet hell shoot 'em up!
97% of 125 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 1$7.99
GanaBlade
This is a hot barrage shooting game. Destroy enemy planes with powerful firepower, shuttle and evade in the barrage.
95% of 148 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Schildmaid MX
Outnumbered and outgunned in deep space? No problem! Turn your enemies' attacks into pure bullet heaven with your shield tech and absorb projectiles…
91% of 33 Steam reviews are positive$14.99
Sophstar
A vertical arcade shoot'em up with an inventive teleport system, lots of fast-blazing action and explosions, tons of boss fights, a risk/reward…
100% of 96 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Cloud Cutter
Cloud Cutter brings you classic arcade shoot ‘em up gameplay in top notch graphics.
85% of 98 Steam reviews are positive$7.99