The Best Shoot-em-up Games for Linux - Page 5

Update : Cube Shooter added at rank #43.
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Battle AirForce (2025)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Three years after Battle Marine a new battle is about to begin! Battle AirForce is the first orthodox style vertical scrolling bullet hell STG since NOKOGI Rider by SUZUKI PLAN. It was created in Z80 full assembly language, aiming at a level close to the limit of VGS-Zero.

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  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • pve
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • attack
  • score
  • vertical
  • 1980s
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • 1990s
  • 2d
  • controller-support

42

Exoblast (2020)

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PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Exoblast is a mix of shoot’em up and arcade game, pimped with synthwave and pixelart. Choose your pilot, your ship and join the arena to confront other players in nervous and punitive matches. Impose your gameplay and reach the top of the tower!

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  • esport
  • top-down
  • shoot-em-up
  • 2d
  • pve
  • shooter
  • pvp
  • cyberpunk
  • competitive
  • arena
  • multiplayer
  • sport
  • arcade
  • local

43

Cube Shooter (2025)

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Cube Shooter is a top down arena shooter where players need to dodge and shoot back to pass each level. Shoot your way through levels of 'cube' like enemies who have their own unique abilities to stop you passing each level. 

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  • shooter
  • top-down
  • arena
  • shoot-em-up
  • pve
  • casual
  • arcade
  • relaxing
  • difficult

44

The Acorn Bounty (2024)

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Help Samson the Squirrel battle his way through peril, as he tracks down what was ruthlessly stolen from him. Adventure through the forest battling your way through a variety of critters, unlocking cosmetic hats, completing the beastiary, and claiming what's rightfully yours.

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  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • action-adventure
  • nature
  • runner
  • platform
  • multiple-endings
  • pixel
  • retro
  • difficult
  • controller-support
  • fantasy
  • single-player
  • rpg
  • casual

45

Mike and the Zombies (2023)

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The gas runned out and you're in the middle of nowhere! Now it's time to kick, shoot, fire and rip apart zombies and monsters in this 80's thriller platform game.

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  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • action-adventure
  • 2d
  • runner
  • zombies
  • 1980s
  • arcade
  • adventure
  • thriller
  • platform
  • demons
  • pixel
  • action
  • linear

46

Battle Tracks (2023)

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ps1 PC Windows Mac OS Linux

Unleash mayhem in Battle Tracks, a top-down action-adventure game. Confront waves of enemies, play with or challenge friends, explore six unique worlds, and earn stars to advance through uncharted territories.

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  • top-down
  • shoot-em-up
  • action-adventure
  • stylized
  • tanks
  • shooter
  • arena
  • sandbox
  • single-player
  • controller-support
  • strategy

47

Idol Hell (2023)

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🎀Idol Hell is the beginner friendly bullet hell game!🎀Play as Medli and fight through hoards of enemies and meet vibrant cute bosses! Play at your pace and choose from 4 difficulties!

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  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • anime
  • arcade
  • colourful
  • futuristic
  • 2d
  • strategy
  • robots
  • cute
  • shooter
  • adventure
  • sci-fi

48

Aurora's Journey and the Pitiful Lackey (2023)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Linux PC Windows

Join Aurora and the Lackey in this side-scroller adventure with Run and gun and platformer mechanics, mini-games and lots of enemies. In 1927, Aurora, a young astronomer, receives the journal of her father who disappeared four years earlier and embarks on a journey to find him.

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  • minigame
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • 2.5d
  • comedy
  • 3d
  • historical
  • alternate
  • platform
  • robots
  • funny
  • story
  • single-player

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Demonic Supremacy (2023)

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Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox One

Demonic Supremacy is an old school 3D shooter with a certain nostalgic flavour and few gamer-friendly features. It offers several hours of hurricane gameplay rocking through memorable levels with the explosive heavy metal soundtrack!

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  • spectacle
  • 1990s
  • shooter
  • psychedelic
  • old-school
  • shoot-em-up
  • first-person
  • demons
  • character
  • retro
  • fps
  • arena
  • supernatural
  • stylized
  • dark

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ElbmarKs (2024)

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A tribute to the magnificent side-scrolling Arcade shoot’-em-up games with a modern look, physics-based movement, and some challenging twists that will test your speed, reflexes, accuracy, patience, and memory at the same time.

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  • shoot-em-up
  • scroller
  • gun
  • arcade
  • 2d
  • pixel
  • physics
  • old-school
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • customization
  • controller-support
  • action

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