>> best Shoot 'Em Up games on steam the full ranking

These are the best Shoot 'Em Up games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Shoot 'Em Up games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Shoot 'Em Up fans genuinely keep coming back to.

Furi

beats 75%

77 players

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

Games ranked by the share of a typical library they beat.
rk	game	players	beats
02	Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered	19 players	beats 75%
03	Cuphead	259 players	beats 72%
04	ODDCORE	3 players	beats 85%
05	Chippy	3 players	beats 84%
06	The Void Rains Upon Her Heart	8 players	beats 75%
07	Disney•Pixar Cars	7 players	beats 75%
08	BALL x PIT	126 players	beats 69%
09	Spell Disk	4 players	beats 78%
10	Touhou Fuujinroku ~ Mountain of Faith.	5 players	beats 75%
11	Star of Providence	12 players	beats 70%
12	Maiden and Spell	5 players	beats 73%
13	DEEP SPACE WAIFU: NEKOMIMI	4 players	beats 73%
14	Shark Attack Deathmatch 2	3 players	beats 75%
15	ZeroRanger	4 players	beats 73%
16	Panzer Dragoon: Remake	3 players	beats 75%
17	Sektori	3 players	beats 75%
18	Metro Awakening	7 players	beats 67%
19	Super Catboy	3 players	beats 71%
20	Assault Android Cactus+	7 players	beats 66%
21	Super Bit Blaster XL	8 players	beats 66%
22	TouHou Makuka Sai ~ Fantastic Danmaku Festival	3 players	beats 68%
23	CRUEL	4 players	beats 65%
24	POSTAL: Brain Damaged	38 players	beats 60%
25	Alien Hominid Invasion	4 players	beats 64%
26	Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef	6 players	beats 62%
27	Atari 50: The Anniversary Celebration	3 players	beats 65%
28	Crafty Survivors	4 players	beats 62%
29	Time Wasters	15 players	beats 58%
30	I Am Legion: Stand Survivors	12 players	beats 58%
31	Crysis 3 Remastered	29 players	beats 57%
32	Touhou Tenkuushou ~ Hidden Star in Four Seasons.	6 players	beats 58%
33	Runic Survivor	3 players	beats 58%
34	Journey To The Savage Planet	37 players	beats 55%
35	Voidigo	23 players	beats 54%
36	Epido	3 players	beats 55%
37	Deep Space Waifu: FANTASY	8 players	beats 54%
38	Rise & Shine	7 players	beats 54%
39	Void Scrappers	5 players	beats 54%
40	Subverse	10 players	beats 53%
41	20 Minutes Till Dawn	109 players	beats 52%
42	Turnip Boy Robs a Bank	10 players	beats 52%
43	Gundemonium Recollection	4 players	beats 53%
44	ARRIVAL: ZERO EARTH	3 players	beats 53%
45	Talented	17 players	beats 52%
46	Patch Quest	24 players	beats 52%
47	Demon Hunt	3 players	beats 53%
48	Whisker Squadron: Survivor	3 players	beats 53%
49	Super Galaxy Squadron EX Turbo	8 players	beats 52%
50	Nova Drift	33 players	beats 52%
51	Super Time Force Ultra	8 players	beats 52%
52	Evil Egg	3 players	beats 52%
53	Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot	21 players	beats 52%
54	Nebulock	5 players	beats 52%
55	The Knight Witch	5 players	beats 52%
56	Heckabomb	3 players	beats 52%
57	SNKRX	31 players	beats 51%
58	OTXO	18 players	beats 51%
59	RADical ROACH Remastered	9 players	beats 51%
60	Dead Estate	41 players	beats 51%
61	Bloodshed	5 players	beats 51%
62	METAL SLUG 3	35 players	beats 51%
63	Kill The Crows	14 players	beats 51%
64	Sine Mora	6 players	beats 51%
65	Chicken Invaders 5	6 players	beats 51%
66	Starward Rogue	4 players	beats 51%
67	Geometry Wars™ 3: Dimensions Evolved	4 players	beats 51%
68	LUFTRAUSERS	27 players	beats 50%
69	Project Warlock	32 players	beats 50%
70	Deep Space Waifu: FLAT JUSTICE	6 players	beats 51%
71	Apocalypse Party	5 players	beats 51%
72	Surviv.io - 2D Battle Royale	16 players	beats 50%
73	Jets'n'Guns Gold	5 players	beats 50%
74	The Hong Kong Massacre	9 players	beats 50%
75	Squirrel with a Gun	18 players	beats 50%
76	QP Shooting - Dangerous!!	5 players	beats 50%
77	Ex-Zodiac	5 players	beats 50%
78	Gunlocked	3 players	beats 50%
79	REVOLVER360 RE:ACTOR	3 players	beats 50%
80	Double Kick Heroes	3 players	beats 50%
81	Raiden Legacy - Steam Edition	3 players	beats 50%
82	Downwell	49 players	beats 50%
83	METAL SLUG X	17 players	beats 50%
84	Naval Warfare	4 players	beats 50%
85	Danger Scavenger	3 players	beats 50%
86	Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved	3 players	beats 50%
87	Bullet Heaven 2	3 players	beats 50%
88	Beat Hazard 2	14 players	beats 50%
89	HUNTDOWN	11 players	beats 50%
90	Let Them Come	9 players	beats 50%
91	Crysis 2 Remastered	20 players	beats 50%
92	Valfaris	15 players	beats 50%
93	Swordship	3 players	beats 49%
94	Astebreed: Definitive Edition	10 players	beats 49%
95	METAL SLUG 2	4 players	beats 46%
96	Alien Hominid HD	6 players	beats 45%
97	Swarmlake	8 players	beats 45%
98	Guns, Gore and Cannoli 2	8 players	beats 45%
99	Syder Arcade	12 players	beats 45%
100	Beat Hazard	45 players	beats 45%
101	Beat Hazard 3	8 players	beats 44%
102	Spaceport Hope	4 players	beats 42%
103	ARCADE GAME SERIES: GALAGA	4 players	beats 42%
104	Furious Angels	3 players	beats 41%
105	Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion	3 players	beats 40%
106	Zombie Gunship Survival	4 players	beats 40%
107	Utopia Must Fall	4 players	beats 39%
108	Thunder Wolves	4 players	beats 39%
109	eXceed 3rd - Jade Penetrate Black Package	4 players	beats 38%
110	Duke of Alpha Centauri	4 players	beats 38%
111	1993 Space Machine	7 players	beats 40%
112	Pesticide Not Required	8 players	beats 40%
113	Chicken Invaders 2	4 players	beats 38%
114	Savant - Ascent REMIX	4 players	beats 38%
115	Orb Breaker	4 players	beats 37%
116	Zombie Rollerz: Pinball Heroes	4 players	beats 37%
117	Bot Vice	8 players	beats 40%
118	Zombotron	6 players	beats 39%
119	Steambirds Alliance	9 players	beats 39%
120	BLUE REVOLVER	3 players	beats 35%
121	Larva Mortus	4 players	beats 36%
122	Nux	6 players	beats 38%
123	Chicken Invaders Universe	27 players	beats 40%
124	Blazing Chrome	6 players	beats 38%
125	Ring Runner: Flight of the Sages	10 players	beats 39%
126	198X	6 players	beats 37%
127	After the Fall®	6 players	beats 37%
128	METAL SLUG	23 players	beats 39%
129	Sine Mora EX	8 players	beats 38%
130	Greedland	6 players	beats 37%
131	Alien Shooter 2: Reloaded	8 players	beats 37%
132	Paper Planet	6 players	beats 36%
133	Crimsonland	10 players	beats 37%
134	DEEP SPACE WAIFU: WORLD	3 players	beats 32%
135	Pixel Galaxy	3 players	beats 32%
136	Zombie Shooter	6 players	beats 36%
137	Ruzh Delta Z	3 players	beats 32%
138	Pixel Boy and the Ever Expanding Dungeon	5 players	beats 34%
139	PixelJunk™ Shooter	10 players	beats 36%
140	Raiden V: Director's Cut \| 雷電 V Director's Cut \| 雷電V:導演剪輯版	4 players	beats 32%
141	Glorkian Warrior: The Trials Of Glork	6 players	beats 34%
142	Battle Ranch: Pigs vs Plants	4 players	beats 31%
143	TeraBlaster	5 players	beats 32%
144	I Hate Running Backwards	5 players	beats 32%
145	UBERMOSH Vol.5	10 players	beats 34%
146	Waves	11 players	beats 34%
147	DEEP SPACE WAIFU	16 players	beats 35%
148	Jigoku Kisetsukan: Sense of the Seasons	5 players	beats 31%
149	Steredenn: Binary Stars	7 players	beats 32%
150	Chicken Invaders 3	4 players	beats 29%
151	Phoenix Force	7 players	beats 32%
152	Retrograde Arena	4 players	beats 29%
153	Death Ray Manta SE	3 players	beats 26%
154	Acceleration of SUGURI 2	17 players	beats 34%
155	The Braves	3 players	beats 26%
156	Spooky Station	3 players	beats 25%
157	Sexy Mystic Survivors	3 players	beats 25%
158	Horizon Shift	3 players	beats 25%
159	Shooty Skies	3 players	beats 25%
160	Scoregasm	3 players	beats 25%
161	Bullet Candy	3 players	beats 25%
162	WOWOWOW KORONE BOX	3 players	beats 25%
163	Castle Of Alchemists	3 players	beats 25%
164	ShipLord	10 players	beats 32%
165	Velocity 2X	3 players	beats 25%
166	Spaceship Looter	3 players	beats 25%
167	Mushihimesama	3 players	beats 25%
168	ETHER VAPOR Remaster	3 players	beats 25%
169	The Odyssey: Winds of Athena	4 players	beats 27%
170	10 Minutes Till Dawn	17 players	beats 33%
171	Outshine	3 players	beats 24%
172	Don't Stop, Girlypop!	3 players	beats 24%
173	Gridrunner Revolution	3 players	beats 23%
174	Enemy Mind	15 players	beats 32%
175	Altitude	16 players	beats 32%
176	CortexGear: AngryDroids	3 players	beats 23%
177	Polygoneer	6 players	beats 28%
178	God's Trigger	13 players	beats 31%
179	ButtKnight	3 players	beats 23%
180	Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime	27 players	beats 33%
181	Octogeddon	3 players	beats 23%
182	Sun Blast: Star Fighter	3 players	beats 23%
183	Super Turbo Demon Busters!	3 players	beats 23%
184	Bit Blaster XL	23 players	beats 32%
185	The Crackpet Show: Prologue	3 players	beats 22%
186	Atomik: RunGunJumpGun	3 players	beats 22%
187	Tiny Bridge: Ratventure	4 players	beats 25%
188	Princess Remedy 2: In A Heap of Trouble	4 players	beats 24%
189	Who's That Flying?!	4 players	beats 24%
190	Intergalactic Bubbles	4 players	beats 24%
191	Shooting Stars!	4 players	beats 24%
192	A grande bagunça espacial - The big space mess	3 players	beats 21%
193	Iron Fisticle	4 players	beats 23%
194	Aqua Kitty - Milk Mine Defender	5 players	beats 25%
195	Ion Assault	8 players	beats 27%
196	AHEGAL	4 players	beats 23%
197	Clickdraw Clicker	4 players	beats 23%
198	Toast Time	3 players	beats 19%
199	Shutshimi	3 players	beats 19%
200	eXceed - Gun Bullet Children	6 players	beats 25%
201	SEX with HITLER	14 players	beats 29%
202	Ballpoint Universe - Infinite	6 players	beats 25%
203	Drones, The Human Condition	6 players	beats 25%
204	Knightmare Tower	6 players	beats 25%
205	Ultratron	6 players	beats 25%
206	Super Killer Hornet: Resurrection	12 players	beats 28%
207	Velocity®Ultra	5 players	beats 23%
208	Sven Co-op	140 players	beats 30%
209	Platypus	7 players	beats 25%
210	The Blue Flamingo	7 players	beats 25%
211	Humanity Asset	7 players	beats 25%
212	NEXT JUMP: Shmup Tactics	9 players	beats 26%
213	Raw Data	8 players	beats 25%
214	Platypus II	8 players	beats 25%
215	Weapon of Choice DX	8 players	beats 25%
216	Super Amazing Wagon Adventure	7 players	beats 24%
217	Action Agents	4 players	beats 19%
218	Ikaruga	9 players	beats 25%
219	Labyronia RPG 2	9 players	beats 25%
220	GALAK-Z	9 players	beats 25%
221	Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition	10 players	beats 25%
222	Waveform	15 players	beats 27%
223	Symphony	10 players	beats 25%
224	Intrusion 2	11 players	beats 25%
225	Airscape - The Fall of Gravity	19 players	beats 27%
226	Kero Blaster	10 players	beats 24%
227	SWARMRIDER OMEGA	3 players	beats 14%
228	DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon	4 players	beats 18%
229	BEEP	26 players	beats 27%
230	Clownfield 2042	8 players	beats 23%
231	Desert Child	4 players	beats 17%
232	Heli Heroes	6 players	beats 21%
233	Bleed	11 players	beats 24%
234	Revolution Ace	16 players	beats 25%
235	Savant - Ascent	17 players	beats 25%
236	The Chaos Engine	3 players	beats 13%
237	Pang Adventures	3 players	beats 13%
238	Ellipsis	3 players	beats 13%
239	Zomborg	18 players	beats 25%
240	BIT.TRIP FATE	3 players	beats 13%
241	Retro/Grade	7 players	beats 21%
242	Star Drifter	3 players	beats 13%
243	Star Saviors	14 players	beats 24%
244	Touhou Endless Dream	3 players	beats 13%
245	Bounty of One	18 players	beats 25%
246	DETOUR	15 players	beats 24%
247	Secret Of Magia	8 players	beats 22%
248	SAMOLIOTIK	10 players	beats 23%
249	Guns, Gore & Cannoli	4 players	beats 16%
250	Cube Destroyer	5 players	beats 18%
251	GIGANTIC ARMY	6 players	beats 19%
252	Renegade Ops	23 players	beats 25%
253	Nex Machina	18 players	beats 24%
254	Really Big Sky	30 players	beats 25%
255	Bleed 2	12 players	beats 23%
256	Jamestown	28 players	beats 25%
257	Planes, Bullets and Vodka	13 players	beats 23%
258	Distant Space 2	18 players	beats 24%
259	1982	6 players	beats 18%
260	Steel Storm: Burning Retribution	19 players	beats 24%
261	Titan Attacks!	12 players	beats 22%
262	Legend of Mysteria RPG	16 players	beats 23%
263	PARTICLE MACE	11 players	beats 21%
264	Distant Space	25 players	beats 23%
265	Cyberhunt	11 players	beats 20%
266	Shadowgrounds	19 players	beats 21%
267	RIVE	11 players	beats 19%
268	Deadswitch 3	9 players	beats 18%
269	Princess Remedy in a World of Hurt	10 players	beats 19%
270	Super Space Pug	4 players	beats 11%
271	INVERSUS Deluxe	5 players	beats 13%
272	Project Starship	5 players	beats 12%
273	eXceed 2nd - Vampire REX	6 players	beats 13%
274	UBERMOSH:WRAITH	10 players	beats 16%
275	RIP - Trilogy™	5 players	beats 10%
276	Destiny Warriors RPG	7 players	beats 12%
277	Asteroid Bounty Hunter	7 players	beats 12%
278	Crimzon Clover WORLD IGNITION	5 players	beats 8%
279	DR LIVESEY ROM AND DEATH EDITION	22 players	beats 17%
280	Stellar 2D	8 players	beats 11%
281	Mad Bullets	4 players	beats 2%

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