The Best Top-down shooter horror Games

Update : Hero Survival added at rank #5.
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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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Android Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One IOS iPhone

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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Lumencraft (2022)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Lumencraft is an addictive and action-packed game that combines mining, strategy, and tower defense elements. You play as a survivor in a post-apocalyptic world, where you need to mine resources, build structures, and defend against swarms of enemies to find the Lumen crystal, the last hope of mankind. With its destructible environments and multiple game modes, Lumencraft offers a unique and challenging gaming experience that will keep you coming back for more.


What we like:
  • Fun and engaging gameplay with a unique combination of genres
  • Destructible environments add a realistic and immersive touch to the game
  • Multiple game modes and custom maps add replayability
  • Good value for the price
  • Devs are responsive and supportive.
What could be improved:
  • Lack of online multiplayer co-op
  • Limited variety in enemy types and traps
  • Lack of guidance on achievable goals can be frustrating
  • Visuals could use more flair
  • Translation is not perfect.

  • top-down
  • tower-defense
  • shooter
  • base-building
  • sandbox
  • thriller
  • wave
  • mining
  • rpg
  • twin-stick
  • rogue-like
  • survival
  • cooperative
  • horror
  • action

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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!


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

5

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

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Alien Shooter (2003)

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PC Windows Playstation 3 Playstation 4 vita IOS iPhone Android

Your mission is simple: clear the base at all costs. You will be provided with explosives to help you gain access to the teleports from where thousands of pitiless creatures pour.


  • shooter
  • aliens
  • isometric
  • top-down
  • rpg
  • gore
  • blood
  • cooperative
  • action
  • horror

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Alien Shooter TD (2017)

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Android IOS iPhone PC Windows vita

Innovative Tower Defense inspired by legendary Alien Shooter series! The game was created in keeping with the best traditions of Sigma`s games, no concessions of any kind - everything is just like in real life!


  • shooter
  • aliens
  • isometric
  • blood
  • gore
  • rpg
  • top-down
  • tower-defense
  • survival
  • action
  • sci-fi
  • inventory
  • horror
  • military
  • tactical

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D'LIRIUM (2017)

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PC Windows

An experimental 2D-shooter with the elements of a horror game. D'lirium brings together some mechanics back from 90s classics. Non-linear levels, search for the keys, violence and a lot of other things. Including the colourful ponies.

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  • horror
  • editor
  • experimental
  • level
  • gore
  • shooter
  • dark
  • survival-horror
  • violent
  • short
  • top-down
  • psychological
  • multiple-endings
  • surreal
  • atmospheric

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BDSM: Big Drunk Satanic Massacre (2019)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows

Get some milk, kill the traitors, save Hell and rescue the hottest demoness from the clutches of those nasty people and mega-corporations!Big Drunk Satanic Massacre is basically a shooter with strong RPG elements - not that rocket propelled gun, though. The game itself takes place in Hell where the main hero, Lou, is to find milk and rescue the hottest Mistress from the clutches of a fat clown. The game consists of four levels / chapters representing different areas of Hell, such as the hellish Big Wac fast food café, Skeleton Slums and the Red Light District.


  • shooter
  • addictive
  • protagonist
  • satire
  • violent
  • music
  • twin-stick
  • dark
  • demons
  • top-down
  • atmospheric
  • villain
  • sci-fi
  • horror
  • historical

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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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