The Best Top-down Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 5

Update : Blast Rush LS added at rank #41.
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Blast Rush LS (2025)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows j

Ever played a difficult shmup wishing for just one more bomb? Blast to your heart’s content in Blast Rush LS, a fresh explosive experience with infinite bombs, other powerful abilities, and extra challenges that demand more than just big booms. Escaping an exploding mothership isn't easy, after all!


  • top-down
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • attack
  • score
  • shooter
  • 1990s
  • destruction
  • pixel
  • aliens
  • arcade
  • bear
  • casual

42

Thunderflash (2020)

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PC Windows Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Xbox One Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Nintendo 3DS

Inspired by nostalgic retro games you know and love, Thunderflash will drop you into the combat zone top-down, and the intensity will never let up. Play a solo mission or with a partner, and choose from bad boy commandos Rock or Stan, and go up against an army of mercenaries, military weapons and more!The Kashmir is being occupied by a criminal organization known as Bloody Wolf, and your job is to make your country proud by taking them all down. Fight your way through waves of soldiers, explosives, vehicles and drones, and bosses, and collect more powerful weapons.Show that you have what it takes to be a hardcore warrior!Features* Intense top-down war zone action* Collect powerful weapons* Single player and two player mode* Boss rush mode

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  • top-down
  • football
  • shooter
  • arcade
  • rpg
  • retro
  • sport
  • 80s
  • war
  • military
  • assassin
  • maker
  • hardcore
  • team
  • action

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Chippy (2019)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows IOS iPhone

Your purpose is to eliminate all pixel-based lifeforms by breaking off their limbs and destroying their cores. Compete to be fastest on the leaderboards, watch replays from other players to learn their tricks, or team up with a friend in local co-op.

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  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • twin-stick
  • top-down
  • moddable
  • shoot-em-up
  • attack
  • score
  • destruction
  • abstract
  • arena
  • time-management
  • pixel
  • retro
  • space

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Battle Ball (2021)

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PC Windows Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch

Battle Ball is a goofy online multiplayer game. Play with your team in a 3 v 3 game of loose-rules dodgeball meets twin-stick shooter. Play with your friends or knock them out by teaming up with random players!


  • sport
  • pvp
  • top-down
  • 3d
  • casual
  • arcade
  • multiplayer

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Divine Dynamo Flamefrit (2024)

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

"Divine Dynamo Flamefrit" is bringing back classic 2D action! Play as the hero Yuto in top-down slashing adventure stages, and pilot the magical robot Flamefrit for first-person boss battles! Master both styles of gameplay to restore peace to the parallel world of Hologard!


  • mech
  • boss-fight
  • top-down
  • anime
  • first-person
  • free-flowing
  • dungeon
  • zelda-type
  • action-adventure
  • battle
  • fight
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • combo
  • adventure

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Taur (2020)

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Android Xbox One PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Taur is an action-strategy sci-fi game. Control the Prime Cannon and unlock all of its powerful weapons and abilities. Build turrets, droids, aircraft and more as you fight to protect the homeworld of the Tauron droids against a relentless invasion. Will your Taur stand against the Imperion warmachine?

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  • tower-defense
  • top-down
  • strategy
  • base-building
  • action-strategy
  • sci-fi
  • real-time
  • maze
  • tactical
  • destruction
  • replay-ability
  • automation
  • defense
  • futuristic
  • wave

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Xeno Crisis (2019)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch vita Playstation 4 Xbox One sega mega drive/genesis

Xeno Crisis is an arena shooter in which up to two players take control of battle-hardened marines embarking on a deadly mission to confront an alien menace! Run and gun your way through thousands of adversaries, searching for survivors, and ultimately facing the origin of the outpost's demise.

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  • shooter
  • top-down
  • twin-stick
  • arena
  • pixel
  • cooperative
  • aliens
  • battle-hardened
  • retro
  • 2d
  • procedural
  • local
  • sci-fi

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Memory Lost (2024)

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j Xbox Series X Playstation 5 Playstation 4 Xbox One Nintendo Switch

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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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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The Hong Kong Massacre (2019)

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

Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.

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  • top-down
  • shooter
  • crime-riddled
  • twin-stick
  • violent
  • bullet
  • gore
  • time
  • detective
  • blood
  • action
  • trading

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