>> 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%

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

[[ all tags · best games by genre · best games by year · most loved · most hated ]]