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Shoot 'Em Up

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.

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Story Rich

Games with a heavy focus on storytelling and narrative.

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Toptagged Shoot 'Em Up and Story Rich (70 results)

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It's time for the invisible pandemic...
Action
A story driven vertical shmup.
Shooter
Change is Inevitable
Shooter
Tactical Bullet Hell RPG
Action
Escape confinement. Avenge your family.
Action
Play in browser
A story-driven shoot 'em up for Playdate
Shooter
Fight your way into deep space in this arcade-y adventure.
Action
Play in browser
Lost in Space... desperately trying to find my way back home... liberating Planets and felling Empires along the way!
Shooter
Blast through hordes of enemies while attempting to make friends with an ornery spellbook... Or not.
Role Playing
A run and gun game inspired by the mythos of the Halloween and the Day of the Dead.
Action
Shoot Advertisements!
Shooter
A Wholly Unique SHMUP
Shooter
A pizza-delivering vampire in his magical tank carriage on their quest to satisfy demon-customers in medieval Italy.
Action
A dour fixed shooter about regret
Action
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Take flight, Death God, and bring back the Lunar Queen!
Shooter
A Digital Frontier to Reshape the Gensokyo
Shooter
You can only revive, not kill. Will you make it out alive?
Adventure
It's you and your dog versus, well, you.
Shooter
Play in browser
A Vertical Shooter made for veterans and newcomers alike with an emphasis on story.
Shooter
Top down shooter with awesome music, art, and levels!
Shooter
Play in browser
Story driven shmup where every 10 seconds the player is changed between Firing Bullets and Absorbing Enemy Bullets.
Shooter
Play in browser
Retro 2D pixel art shooter
Shooter
A mid tier shitpost
Shooter
[Demo Version] A run and gun game inspired by the mythos of the Halloween and the Day of the Dead.
Action
Cloudship : save the clouds, save the world
Shooter
Follow Kinzo on his rampant quest to slay God!
Action
Become the ultimate apocalypse bringer!
Shooter
After a young girl is kidnapped by a human trafficking gang, an ex army officer with PTSD has to fight to rescue her.
Action
Can the wizard defeat Dumah?
Action
Play in browser
Nami é um jogo de Terror em pixel arte baseado no litoral brasileiro e nas obras de Junji Ito.
Adventure
E.L.S. Warfare project
Shooter
R-Type meets Gunstar Heros
Action
Play in browser
In a world where knowledge is power, no files or secrets are safe from Hakkur, the greatest hacker in the world.
Action
Lost in Space... desperately trying to find my way back home... liberating Planets and felling Empires along the way!
Shooter
My submission for the Robot Party Game Jam 2022. A pixel-art based on rails shoot 'em up, developed in OpenGL and C++.
Shooter
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