The Best Shoot-em-up Games for Playstation 5 - Page 4

Update : Strike Mission added at rank #18.
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Project Tower (2025)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows

Dive in Project Tower, a third-person shooter mixing intense bullet hell combat with a unique morphing ability. Imprisoned by the "Hiks", fight to the top of their deadly tower for freedom. Will you outsmart them and make your way out ?


  • tps
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • sci-fi
  • linear
  • aliens
  • third-person
  • lovecraftian
  • atmospheric
  • realistic
  • shooter
  • mystery
  • action-adventure

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After Dark (2025)

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After Dark is a horror adventure game filled with monsters, oddities, and more! Traverse a strange, other-worldly forest to rescue your sister and bring her back home! There will be many dangers along the way, can you survive?


  • shooter
  • walking-simulator
  • loot
  • horror
  • hidden-object
  • first-person
  • linear
  • surreal
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • multiple-endings
  • atmospheric
  • fps
  • zombies
  • dark

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Jetpack Kiwi (2023)

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

Jetpack Kiwi is a classic 2D side scrolling shoot em up game featuring 20 levels, 5 bosses, hordes of enemies spaceships, with multiple characters to choose from; each one with an unique special attack. Complete the game in single player or with a friend in local co-op!


  • jet
  • scroller
  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • 1990s
  • aliens
  • action-adventure
  • 2d
  • comedy
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • flight
  • arcade
  • cute
  • retro

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Glitch Blaster's Waifu (2024)

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PC Windows Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Welcome to 'Glitch Blaster's Waifu,' the ultimate retro-style shoot 'em up adventure! As an intrepid hacker, you find yourself pitted against a malevolent AI that has kidnapped innocent girls.


  • shoot-em-up
  • top-down
  • anime
  • aliens
  • bullet-hell
  • shooter
  • colourful

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Memory Lost (2024)

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Memory Lost is a story-driven action shooter, the battles in which are built around the mechanics of mind capturing and moving into the enemy's body. First-aid kits were not delivered, there is only one magazine in the weapon - change the bodies to survive!


  • top-down
  • cyberpunk
  • shooter
  • beat-em-up
  • lore
  • twin-stick
  • shoot-em-up
  • hack-and-slash
  • soundtrack
  • isometric
  • sci-fi
  • 3d
  • atmospheric
  • violent
  • narrative

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Syder Reloaded (2020)

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Playstation 4 Playstation 5 j Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Syder Reloaded revives the Syder series in this love-letter to 90s Amiga shmups with upgraded graphics and refined gameplay. Challenging levels, a fleet of ships and a motherload of alien invaders. Get back to your roots and curse at your monitor in this skills-first shooter.


  • shooter
  • retro
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • old-school
  • arcade
  • scroller
  • space
  • 2d
  • free-scrolling
  • defender
  • super-fun
  • action
  • action-intense
  • sci-fi

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Devil Engine (2019)

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

A last ditch effort to destroy what was once to be our savior. A final mission to eliminate a disastrous future. A single ship against Earth’s entire military. The Andraste is the only hope to defeat...the Devil Engine.


  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • scrolling
  • horizontal
  • combo
  • shooter-the
  • boss
  • pixel
  • classic
  • shooter
  • arcade

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Ricky Recharge (2022)

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One day Ricky wakes up all alone in a Robot apocalypse. Little did they know that this was exactly what he had been waiting for :) Charge, Zapp, Blast and Recharge your way trough an ever growing army of bots in this "easy to pick up, hard to master" highscore focussed chaos!


  • shoot-em-up
  • 2.5d
  • attack
  • score
  • 1980s
  • arcade
  • robots
  • cartoony
  • shooter
  • atmospheric
  • stylized
  • physics
  • funny
  • old-school
  • family-friendly

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PigShip and the Giant Wolf (2022)

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Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Pig Ship and the Giant Wolf is a classic Shoot'em Up with a 8btis monochrome aesthetic. Cross the 6 worlds full of enemies and defeat the Giant Wolf to save your brothers.


  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • scroller
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • cartoony
  • retro
  • pixel
  • shooter
  • arcade
  • robots
  • 2d
  • old-school
  • arena
  • aliens

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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.


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

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