The Best Shoot-em-up Games for Playstation 4

Update 11 August 2025: Ra Ra Boom added at rank #5.

Here are our 10 Best Shoot-em-up Games for Playstation 4, position 31 to 40:

Nephenthesys
Blazing Trail
Zombies, Aliens and Guns
Turret Rampage
Speedollama
Herodes
WARZONE
Tiger-Heli
Rick Henderson
Hoodie Survivor

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Nephenthesys (2024)

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

Blast off on a treacherous mission to recover an unidentified energy source amidst an alien onslaught! Nephenthesys is a vertical scrolling shoot’em up presented in widescreen top-down 3D style.

top-down
shoot-em-up
shoot
2.5d
shooter
space
scrolling
arcade
vertical
vertical-scrolling

Blazing Trail (2025)

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

Escape failed! All we have left is our will to survive, the endless hordes of enemies, and enough bullets to rip them all to shreds. Blazing trail. Vertical co-op shooter, offering accessible, action-packed gameplay.

top-down
shoot-em-up
shooter
isometric
racing
action-adventure
1990s
combat
pixel
team
family-friendly
arcade
controller-support
cooperative

Zombies, Aliens and Guns (2024)

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

Earth’s last hope against an invasion is a band of military rebels Zombies! Aliens! Guns! Enough said.

2.5d
zombies
twin-stick
aliens
shoot-em-up
tps
shooter
voxel
pixel
action-adventure
military
2d
arcade
controller-support

Turret Rampage (2023)

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

Defend humanity from underground monsters as the last standing turret! Force burrowers out of the ground with an artificial earthquake, capture elusive ghosts with silver shackles, and shatter alien bugs into pieces using powerful rockets!

tower-defense
shoot-em-up
underground
attack
score
pixel
fast-paced
robots
post-apocalyptic
arcade
quick-thinking
futuristic

Speedollama (2024)

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j Xbox Series X Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One

Speedollama is a fast platformer shooter that sets a new benchmark for speed in the genre. Bursting with quirky humor and vibrant pixelated carnage, this game is not for the faint of heart. Are you ready to embrace the chaos and prove your skills?

shoot-em-up
metroidvania
retro-arcade
collectathon
platform
scroller
2d
pixel
procedural
parody
funny
arcade
action
shooter
single-player

Herodes (2023)

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Playstation 4 PC Windows Android Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Herodes is an exhilarating shoot 'em up game set in a future where cutting-edge technology meets the depths of the human body. Step into the role of a courageous agent tasked with the ultimate mission: saving humanity from a mysterious and deadly virus that defies all known cures.

bullet-hell
shoot-em-up
scroller
pixel
psychedelic
futuristic
arcade
adventure
shooter
action
sci-fi
privacy-policy
vehicle

WARZONE (2023)

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PC Windows j2me blackberry Xbox Series X/s Xbox 360 xbox wii u wii vita ps1 portable Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Playstation 3 ps2 nokia n-gage gamecube ds Mac OS

A tough soldier has been send to infiltrate an enenmy base and destroy it.

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top-down
multiplayer
shoot-em-up
bullet-hell
shooter
tps
mmo
modern
1990s
third-person
3d
first-person
single-player
military
action

Tiger-Heli (2024)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows nes Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 ps1 nintendo entertainment system arcade

Take off on a classic arcade journey with Tiger-Heli, Toaplan's pioneering vertical shooter that set the stage for an entire genre. Now available on PC with a host of modern upgrades!

shoot-em-up
vertically
attack
score
2d
controller-support
arcade
scrolling
bomb
retro
1980s
old-school
pixel

Rick Henderson (2020)

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PC Windows ps2 xbox Xbox 360 Playstation 3 Xbox Series X Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

Rick Henderson is an endless horizontal-scrolling shoot 'em up with infinite replayability, a true homage to 16-bit shooters wrapped in graphics we all loved. Twitch your fingers through five enemy factions and their bosses, upgrade your ship and try to survive through unpredictable space events.

perma-death
scroller
shoot-em-up
arcade
procedural
choices
space
boss
shooter
2d
artillery
pixel
retro
multiball
sniper

Hoodie Survivor (2023)

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j Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Auto shooter score attack survival game where your character moves forward continuously and you control the direction of travel by rotating left and right