The Best Twin-stick Games for Nintendo Switch - Page 3

Update : Zombies, Aliens and Guns added at rank #25.
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Trifox (2022)

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

Trifox is a colourful and cartoonish twin stick action-adventure featuring a phenomenal fox with a multitude of talents! Choose from a trio of classes – Warrior, Mage, Engineer – or mix-and-match abilities to create a tailor-made hero! Inspired by the golden age of 3D platformers.


  • platform
  • twin-stick
  • 3d
  • action-adventure
  • top-down
  • boss-fight
  • colourful
  • danger
  • shooter

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Godstrike (2021)

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Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch PC Windows Xbox One

Godstrike is a time based twin-stick shooter where you must face ruthless bosses in intense 1v1’s. Play as Talaal, the last Herald, hunted by her sibling. Time is your currency and health, use it to create ability combos and fight for glory on the highscores!

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  • bullet-hell
  • boss
  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • rogue-like
  • rush
  • boss-fight
  • boss-rush
  • battle

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Breakpoint (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows

Breakpoint is an arcade-style space shooter with neon explosions, unique enemies, and a variety of melee weapons that you can use to dispatch your adversaries. You can level up your weapons and build up a "breakpoint" meter to unleash powerful attacks that clear the screen efficiently. Compete in high score challenges and aim to best your own personal record.

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What we like:
  • Unique spin on classic arcade trope
  • Variety of melee weapons with unique light/heavy attacks
  • Fast restarts and pick-up-and-play addictiveness
  • Catchy electronica dance track intensifies with each passing enemy
  • High score leaderboards both local and global
What could be improved:
  • Single game mode - no set level mode
  • More game modes would be nice

  • top-down
  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • space
  • attack
  • score
  • shoot-em-up
  • hack-and-slash
  • fast-paced
  • arcade
  • futuristic
  • colourful
  • retro
  • sci-fi
  • 2d

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Riddled Corpses EX (2018)

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Xbox One Playstation 4 vita Nintendo Switch

Choose your character wisely and make good use of their abilities and the special items (clock, dynamite and turrets) to progress and destroy the root of evil! - 60 FPS fast-paced action - 2 player local coop - 6 characters with varying stats and abilities - Arcade, story and survival modes - Combo system - Quality chiptune music - Register your best scores on the online leaderboard! Online features require an account and are subject to terms of service and applicable privacy policy (playstationnetwork.com/terms-of-service & playstationnetwork.com/privacy-policy).


  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • zombies
  • modes
  • arcade
  • survival

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Zombies, Aliens and Guns (2024)

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

Earth’s last hope against an invasion is a band of military rebels Zombies! Aliens! Guns! Enough said.


  • 2.5d
  • zombies
  • twin-stick
  • aliens
  • shoot-em-up
  • tps
  • shooter
  • voxel
  • pixel
  • action-adventure
  • military
  • 2d
  • arcade
  • controller-support

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Out of Space: Couch Edition (2020)

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Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One

You and your friends are about to move into a house in space, where you will have to deal with a deadly alien infestation and face the challenges of building a sustainable spaceship, all to make your new place feel as cozy as home!COUCH FUN MEETS STRATEGYEach match starts in a procedurally generated spaceship house that will demand your best planning and teamwork skills to become clean and comfy. You and your friends will need to generate resources, recycle trash and alien goo, buy and build new technologies, and take care of one another, if you ever want to call home the mess that you got into.As a COUCH-FUN game, Out of Space has short matches and is easy for everyone to grab a controller and play. At the same time also as a STRATEGY game, it will require short and long-term decisions, expanding and conquering new rooms and building technology to automate tasks.FEATURES- Buy, build and place your new technology, while keeping your systems efficient and sustainable.- Power up your spaceship by recycling alien goo and producing energy batteries.- Harvest and take care of your fruitful gardens to keep everyone fed.- Clean rooms with mops and water, while containing the deadly alien menace.- Take a nap on your sofa, while your friends desperately claim for help.- Automate cleaning and harvesting with the help of robots.- Adopt Dogs, they will love you for it and help you in any way they can!OTHER FUN STUFF- Procedural spaceship generator: different challenge everytime you play.- Missions to guide the player's progression that never leave out what couch-fun is about.- Unlock new content when completing achievements.- Play single-player or local multiplayer- No weapons of any kind.

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  • cooperative
  • aliens
  • local
  • twin-stick
  • couch
  • strategy
  • colourful
  • casual
  • multiplayer
  • platform
  • cute
  • controller-support
  • robots
  • skill
  • stealth

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Berzerk: Recharged (2023)

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Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X l Playstation 4 Nintendo Switch Playstation 5 Xbox Series X/s

Blast your way through an endless maze inhabited by deadly robots and their invulnerable, menacing master Evil Otto. Tag in a friend in local co-op to help you survive this twin-stick revival of an arcade classic.


  • shooter
  • twin-stick
  • rogue-like
  • maze
  • stealth
  • robots
  • dmz
  • arcade
  • classic
  • local-cooperative
  • multiplayer
  • open
  • first-person
  • narrative
  • military

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Slaycation Paradise (2022)

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Are you tired of the same boring old vacations? Then boy have we got the tonic for you! Slaycation Paradise offers the ultimate in multi-dimensional apocalyptic tours. Slay away your worries with Twin-Stick action mixed with Tower Defence as you visit the end-of-world scenarios of your dreams!


  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • tower-defense
  • zombies
  • rogue-like
  • alternate
  • humor
  • base-building
  • top-down
  • dark

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Guntech 2 (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Linux Mac OS PC Windows Xbox Series X Xbox One

Guntech 2 is a return of the good old “cave flyer” shoot ’em ups genre. It’s a twin-stick shooter influenced by such classics as Thrust, Oids, Geometry Wars, and Asteroids. You can play in single-player, or couch co-op with up to 4 players!


  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • shoot-em-up
  • 1990s
  • scroller
  • dragon
  • retro
  • space
  • gun
  • futuristic
  • 3d
  • arcade
  • old-school
  • 2d
  • sci-fi

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Xatrom Command (2024)

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

Team up and shoot down waves of invading aliens. Single player or multiplayer top-down shooting action


  • voxel
  • cooperative
  • aliens
  • twin-stick
  • tps
  • shoot-em-up
  • local
  • shooter
  • third-person
  • 3d
  • colourful
  • sci-fi
  • casual
  • arcade
  • multiplayer

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