The Best Twin-stick Games

Update : Shapefighter added at rank #1.
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Shapefighter (2025)

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Shapefighter is an arcade-style, twin-stick shooter where you blast through 5 stages of pure shape onslaught. Shoot and dodge shapes that will swarm you in a ever-changing formations. Defeat all 5 bosses and take down the shape invasion!

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  • twin-stick
  • shoot-em-up
  • perma-death
  • attack
  • score
  • bullet-hell
  • space
  • arcade
  • shooter
  • colourful
  • retro

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Look Mum No Computer (2025)

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Music meets mayhem in this twin-stick shooter action-RPG! Craft synthesizer modules to gain new weapons and experiment with the original music of Look Mum No Computer. Meet quirky NPCs, complete quests and battle huge bosses.

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  • twin-stick
  • music
  • gun
  • collectathon
  • shooter
  • action-adventure
  • retro
  • shoot-em-up
  • customization
  • isometric
  • arcade
  • casual
  • 2d
  • action
  • pixel

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GAT RAT (2025)

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A rat with a massive arsenal. Cook up your favorite combination of guns, spells, and perks to casually annihilate your enemies throughout the realms.

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  • scroller
  • twin-stick
  • shoot-em-up
  • attack
  • score
  • shooter
  • pve
  • magic
  • pixel
  • post-apocalyptic
  • arcade
  • atmospheric
  • fantasy
  • platform
  • retro

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Journey Through The Nightmare Realm II (2025)

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Retro pixel-art bullet hell meets arcade action. Collect cards, spin slots, and blast through enemies in this nostalgic roguelite with local co-op

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  • cooperative
  • bullet-hell
  • twin-stick
  • pve
  • rogue-like
  • shooter
  • local
  • procedural
  • arcade
  • pixel
  • top-down
  • attack
  • score
  • 2d
  • 1980s

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Galaxy Highways (2025)

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PC Windows Mac OS

An indie story-driven space shooter with intense battles, escalating enemy waves, and massive boss fights. Choose and upgrade ships, unlock powerful weapons, and protect your allies. Upgrade your base and construct a battleship to take on even stronger enemies. All set to a rock & synth soundtrack.

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  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • twin-stick
  • top-down
  • space
  • action-adventure
  • pixel
  • colourful
  • sci-fi
  • shoot-em-up
  • narration
  • 2d
  • exploration
  • flight
  • choices

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Colossal Kickoff (2025)

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Colossal Kickoff is a blood-pumping, monster-mashing, 1-versus-3 soccer party game! Dominate as a terrifying monster of legend, or team up as humans to take down the big boss!

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  • soccer
  • football
  • twin-stick
  • mythology
  • 2.5d
  • class
  • party
  • cartoony
  • character
  • pixel
  • sport
  • pvp
  • controller-support
  • third-person
  • funny

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Data Drift (2025)

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Fight through a neon cyberpunk city in this fast-paced top-down action game! Hack, upgrade, and battle high-tech enemies with a stylish cartoon look and an electrifying synthwave soundtrack.

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  • twin-stick
  • linear
  • action-adventure
  • futuristic
  • high-adrenaline
  • shooter
  • colourful
  • action
  • strategy

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Space Defender (2025)

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early access apple ii PC Windows Android

Space Defender is a top-down 2D arcade space shooter with some RPG elements.


  • fixed
  • twin-stick
  • space
  • 2d
  • shoot-em-up
  • shooter
  • flight
  • arcade
  • top-down
  • exploration
  • relaxing
  • open-world
  • management
  • single-player
  • fight

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CHROMA+ELEKTRON (2025)

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CHROMA+ELEKTRON is a 2D twin-stick shooter. Increasingly difficult waves of enemies. Collect their energy and unleash powerful weapons and abilities. Return all chromatic energy to its proper state. Your speed and power will know no equal.

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  • twin-stick
  • shoot-em-up
  • attack
  • score
  • abstract
  • 2.5d
  • shooter
  • atmospheric
  • colourful
  • 2d
  • difficult
  • platform
  • pve

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Electro Havoc (2025)

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early access j PC Windows

Electro Havoc: A retro twin-stick shooter set in a neon-charged battleground where you'll face waves of geometric foes. Lure more enemies into debris fields to trigger chain reactions, and grab power-ups to boost your multipliers.

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  • twin-stick
  • shooter
  • bullet-hell
  • shoot-em-up
  • cyberpunk
  • minimalist
  • beat-em-up
  • space
  • abstract
  • arena
  • 2d
  • top-down
  • casual
  • colourful
  • retro

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