The Best Top-down shooter horror Games for Xbox One

Update : Deep Deep Deep Nightmare added at rank #7.
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Tesla Force (2020)

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Android Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

With science as your super power, charge up your coils and zap into action! Tesla Force is a rogue-lite top-down shooter featuring endless procedural gameplay with tentacle splitting action. Play as Tesla, Curie, Lovecraft and Shelley and blast the cosmic horror back into the galactic abyss!


  • top-down
  • lovecraftian
  • mech
  • procedural
  • rogue-like
  • science
  • destruction
  • shooter
  • local
  • twin-stick
  • replay-value
  • cooperative
  • horror
  • gauntlet
  • sci-fi

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Tesla vs Lovecraft (2018)

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Tesla vs Lovecraft is a classic twin-stick shooter with an intriguingly zany premise that pits horror against science. Play as the celebrated inventor and futurist Nikola Tesla and battle hordes of undead monsters using a suite of perks and abilities like jetpack teleportation, increased health and a mech suit.


What we like:
  • Responsive and tight gameplay
  • Constant sense of empowerment
  • Varied areas perfect for short-burst play
  • Three difficulties to choose from
  • Emphasis on constant movement
What could be improved:
  • Enemies come at you from all angles
  • Story doesn't take itself too seriously

  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • top-down
  • mech

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Dead (2018)

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IOS iPhone PC Windows Xbox 360 Xbox One

The universe wants you dead. Take on the ten great spirits of the universe in this intense boss fighting shooter!

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  • action-adventure
  • horror
  • silent
  • bullet-hell
  • suspense
  • protagonist
  • manner
  • survivor
  • cult
  • top-down
  • souls
  • shooter
  • shoot-em-up
  • action
  • multiplayer

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Hero Survival (2023)

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PC Windows Xbox One Android

Hero Survival is an action-roguelite where you have to shoot down hordes of monsters from classic horror movies one by one to please the Mad Time God. Choose from a variety of skills, weapons, and items to create a unique build for every bizarre character.


  • rogue-like
  • werewolves
  • top-down
  • wave
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • horror
  • rpg
  • action
  • arena
  • auto
  • skill
  • shoot-em-up
  • fast-paced
  • classic

5

Whacking Hell (2024)

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

The gates of hell have opened: whack all the monsters before they whack you! Collect their souls, ramp up your weapons and your spells, and become a slaughtering machine in this frantic roguelite top-down 2D shooter!


  • top-down
  • bullet-hell
  • shooter
  • boss
  • rogue-like
  • vampire
  • thriller
  • action
  • cartoony
  • cooperative
  • 2d

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Ritual: Crown of Horns (2019)

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PC Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

Ritual: Crown of Horns is a violent, horde mode, top-down fast-paced action game set in an alternate Wild West, an absurd, acid-fueled vision of hellish frontier.


  • top-down
  • dark
  • illuminati
  • western
  • shooter
  • twin-stick
  • psychedelic
  • surreal
  • demons
  • america
  • historical
  • supernatural
  • alternate
  • horror
  • violent

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Deep Deep Deep Nightmare (2025)

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

Deep Deep Deep Nightmare is a 2D Top Down Shooter. Survive by facing monsters in the nightmare of a little boy who didn’t heed his mother’s warnings that eating too much before bed can cause nightmares.


  • shooter
  • top-down
  • bullet-hell
  • twin-stick
  • arena
  • linear
  • action-adventure
  • dark
  • controller-support
  • 2d
  • arcade
  • horror
  • cartoony

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Dead End Job (2019)

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Dead End Job merges the frantic, addictive, highly replayable gameplay of a procedurally generated twin-stick shooter with the iconic look of a 90s cartoon. You take on the role of a worker at Ghoul-B-Gone – the #1 experts in paranormal pest control. Ghosts are captured using a tug-of-war mechanic and every ghost you catch, citizen rescued, and job completed is added to the client’s bill. Every week in-game you’re competing against the company golden boy to be named “Employee of the Week" based on the amount of money you earned the company. Have you got what it takes to be the best at putting pests to rest?


  • cooperative
  • top-down
  • horror
  • action
  • racing
  • shooter
  • twin-stick
  • local
  • driving
  • couch
  • perma-death
  • single-player

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