The Best Shoot-em-up Games for Xbox Series X

Update 11 August 2025: Ra Ra Boom added at rank #2.

Here are our 10 Best Shoot-em-up Games for Xbox Series X, position 41 to 50:

Devil Engine
Sniper Elite 5: Landing Force
Spacewing War
Galactic Wars EX
StarLightRiders: HyperJump

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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

Sniper Elite 5: Landing Force (2022)

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Xbox One PC Windows Playstation 4 Playstation 5 Xbox Series X

are you ready? Soldiers, take up your weapons and let your footprints cover the harvest battlefield! This is a very hard core game, independently developed by sun Shen game studio

3d
shoot-em-up
shooter
first-person
tps
pvp
fps
platform
stealth
story

Spacewing War (2022)

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Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One

Blast off for a retro shoot’em up experience filled with clever twists and secrets!

scroller
shoot-em-up
1990s
2d
pixel
arcade
shooter
fantasy
old-school

Galactic Wars EX (2022)

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

Galactic Wars EX is a pixel perfect co-op retro arcade shmup retrogaming experience for modern pcs

top-down
shoot-em-up
cooperative
retro
local
aliens
pixel
pve
shooter
arcade
chiptune
2d
bug
team

StarLightRiders: HyperJump (2024)

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

StarLightRiders: HyperJump is a fast paced and frantic multiplayer arcade shoot em up. Protect the solar system from the alien invasion and stop them from eliminating all life on Earth! Take control of the powerful HyperJump ships and blast the hell out of everything that moves.