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Games in which the player shoots things to progress, usually with a variety of guns, and other times with bows and arrows.

Shoot 'Em Up or shmup games are a subset of shooter games where the player continually moves forward while waves of enemies enter the screen. Both shooting and dodging are critical to advancing. See also Bullet Hell.

Shambling undead humans who died after being infected by some sort of virus and are now "alive" again, commonly known for the desire to kill living human beings. Commonly paired with the (post-)apocalyptic genre.