The Best Shoot-em-up Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 4

Update : Zombies, Aliens and Guns added at rank #41.
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Super Hydorah (2017)

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PC Windows Xbox One Playstation 4 vita IOS iPhone Nintendo Switch

Super Hydorah is a nonlinear horizontal shoot’ em up designed to offer a challenging experience, sublimating the richness of traditional shmup classics. Face the menace of the Meroptians aboard the Delta Force, alone or with your friends in this game with direct action and nostalgic art.


  • retro
  • shoot-em-up
  • old-school
  • horizontal
  • shooter
  • arcade
  • card-play
  • dexterity
  • classic
  • action
  • campaign
  • bullet-hell
  • meditative
  • 2d
  • controller-support

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Horgihugh And Friends (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

HORGIHUGH is a horizontal side-scrolling shoot 'em up from Japanese developer PiXEL featuring vibrant retro graphics, intense boss battles, a unique power-up system, and an adorable roster of anthropomorphic characters.

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  • horizontal
  • boss
  • shoot-em-up
  • well-hidden
  • war
  • cute
  • old-school
  • retro
  • boss-fight
  • side-scrolling
  • grand
  • aliens
  • fight
  • challenging
  • alternate

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Armored Lab Force VULVEHICLES (2022)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Raze the road less traveled with your Vulvehicle, the ultimate all-purpose armored combat machine! Whether flying through the sky, or burrowing deep underground, these gals stop at nothing to blast through terrain and enemies alike in this comical action STG!

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  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • scroller
  • 1990s
  • 1980s
  • anime
  • cartoony
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • comedy
  • shooter
  • cute
  • humor
  • sci-fi
  • casual

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RedRaptor (2023)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Blast off for a retro arcade experience in RedRaptor, a vertical shoot’em up inspired by genre classics of the ’90s!

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  • vertical
  • retro
  • shoot-em-up
  • top-down
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • arcade
  • shoot
  • scrolling
  • 1990s
  • old-school
  • rhythm
  • pixel
  • 2d
  • action

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AngerForce: Reloaded (2017)

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Nintendo Switch Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

AngerForce: Reloaded is a hard disk scrolling fly-and-shoot game done in the 90’s arcade style. It's set against the backdrop of a human world that has seen the outbreak of a robot rebellion. The game also features a Local CO-OP Mode that will enable you to explore the story alongside your friend. The game includes leaderboard and video recording features. Players can look each other up on the leaderboard, share their gameplay videos with each other, and interact through comments.

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  • shoot-em-up
  • bullet-hell
  • shooter

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Hyper Meteor (2022)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

YOU ARE LOST IN SPACE! ALL WEAPONS ARE DOWN! Survive by ramming your ship into meteors and hostile forces.

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  • attack
  • score
  • shoot-em-up
  • minimalist
  • bullet-hell
  • local
  • cooperative
  • space
  • abstract
  • top-down
  • colourful
  • pixel
  • arcade
  • arena
  • shooter

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Nephenthesys (2024)

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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

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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.

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

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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

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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

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