The Best Bullet-hell Games - Page 2

Update : Prank! added at rank #1.
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Monospaced Lovers (2024)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 PC Windows Mac OS Linux j

Monospaced Lovers is an exploration-driven platformer about closeness and distance. Journey through a metafictional, fantasy-filled land and find the truth of your fragile world before it disintegrates.


  • collectathon
  • platform
  • bullet-hell
  • romance
  • 2d
  • hand-drawn
  • anime
  • exploration
  • emotional
  • story
  • cute
  • mystery
  • colourful
  • exploration-driven
  • action-adventure

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Smoking Gun (2024)

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PC Windows Xbox 360

Smoking Gun is a single player, western themed, vertical scroller, shoot 'em up arcade game. Step into the boots of an Arizona Ranger and fight for justice as ruthless bandits descend upon Hickstown, convinced the lawmen are behind their gang's mysterious disappearances.

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  • bullet-hell
  • western
  • action-adventure
  • top-down
  • casual
  • arcade
  • violent
  • action

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Utopia Must Fall (2024)

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early access Mac OS PC Windows

Defend humanity's last surviving metropolis from mysterious alien machinations in this challenging base-defense arcade shooter. Featuring rapid upgrade progression, procedurally generated attack waves, dark humor and laser-sharp aesthetics.

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  • dark
  • arcade
  • rogue-like
  • shoot-em-up
  • base-building
  • humor
  • tower-defense
  • bullet-hell
  • procedural
  • perma-death
  • comedy
  • abstract
  • sci-fi
  • minimalist
  • shooter

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Mirage Feathers (2024)

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PC Windows

「Maybe one day, I won't have to fight when I fly.」

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  • on-rails
  • harrier
  • shooter
  • anime
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • cute
  • rail
  • pixel
  • tps
  • nostalgia
  • drama
  • story
  • top-tier

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Cygni: All Guns Blazing (2024)

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PC Windows j Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One

An unrelenting onslaught of eye-popping visuals, ear bursting soundscapes and mind-melting action makes CYGNI the vanguard for the next generation of shoot-em ups. Outgunned, outmanned and out on your own, plunge into a sky full of hell in a last-ditch battle for survival.

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  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • twin-stick
  • boss
  • mind-melting
  • arcade
  • boss-fight
  • orchestral
  • shoot-em-up
  • vertical
  • top-down
  • scrolling
  • sci-fi

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Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy (2024)

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PC Windows

Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy is an indie game developed by GAMEPULSE.Step into the shoes of Cirno, the Hero of Ice, as she embarks on a journey against evil, liberating Gensokyo and saving her dear princess.

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  • japanese
  • bullet-hell
  • rpg
  • scroller
  • jrpg
  • anime
  • rogue-like
  • replay-value
  • cute
  • 2d
  • story

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Scarlet Tower (2024)

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PC Windows

In Scarlet Tower, experience the thrill of being the hunter during the day and the hunted during the night while collecting relics and familiars to strengthen your hero. With a unique day and night cycle, and weather events, plus seven characters each with exclusive passives, this game promises an unforgettable experience. Resembling Vampire Survivors with beautiful 2D art, tons of stats, unlocks, and talents, Scarlet Tower is a must-try.

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What we like:
  • Resembles Vampire Survivors with unique features
  • Beautiful 2D art
  • Tons of stats, unlocks, and talents
  • Enjoyable gameplay with potential to exceed other games in the genre
  • Gratifying upgrades with short game loop
What could be improved:
  • Early game is too hard and grindy
  • Lack of variety in weapons, enemies, and stages
  • Graphics can be too shiny, making it hard to see what's going on

  • rogue-like
  • gothic
  • vampire
  • bullet-hell
  • dark
  • hand-drawn
  • demons
  • pixel
  • survival
  • medieval
  • fantasy
  • vs
  • rpg
  • action
  • zombies

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Shogun (2024)

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Android Linux PC Windows Xbox 360

SHOGUN is an arcade style shooter that emphasizes running and gunning to stay alive. Rip through waves of increasingly difficult enemies hell-bent on your doom by shooting, looting, and eluding a bullet hell of cartoonish horror. Refuse death, explode with burning rage and tear asunder!!!


  • bullet-hell
  • shooter
  • boomer
  • arcade
  • cartoony
  • shoot-em-up
  • first-person
  • 1990s
  • end-boss-fight
  • humor

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Kona & Snowrabbit (2024)

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PC Windows

Kona, an ice artist with a reputation for mischief, and Snowrabbit, a white-furred snow rabbit full of desire. After hearing the story of Aquus, the mermaid goddess, the two down-on-their-luck artists break into the monastery of Aquus, nicknamed "the sea on land," to make a statue of a goddess.

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  • top-down
  • detective
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • first-person
  • walking-simulator
  • survival
  • inventory
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • mystery
  • quebec
  • humor
  • casual
  • massively

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Tevi (2023)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox One Xbox Series X PC Windows

Embark on an epic action-adventure as you slash, dash, and combo your way through a vast, vibrant world. Explore and uncover hidden secrets. Customize your build to triumph in spectacular boss battles. Experience a tale of mystery, magic, and mayhem in TEVI, a bullet hell metroidvania!


  • bullet-hell
  • metroidvania
  • boss-fight
  • anime
  • combo
  • exploration

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