shoot em up

RPM – Road Punk Mayhem is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Panda Indie Studio who, along with publisher eastasiasoft, have been responsible for a few shoot ’em ups in recent times. They’ve had mixed results though with Z-Warp and the Project Starship games being okay but with Feeble Light and Excessive […]

RPM – Road Punk Mayhem – PS5 Review

July 21, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged road punk mayhem / RPM / shoot em up / vehicle / vertically-scrolling shoot em up by Richie

Retaliate is a twist on the classic wave-based vertically-scrolling shooter and it comes from Austin Sojka, otherwise known as Romans I XVI Gaming. In researching the game we found an older version for the Roku TV platform and even a Commodore 64 (*spit!*) demake, so the idea for this game has […]

Retaliate – PS5 Review

July 10, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged retaliate / shoot em up by Richie

Shinorubi is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from Parisian studio Last Boss 88 and it’s in the modern ‘Danmaku’ style which means it’s a bullet-hell affair so expect barrages of bullets to weave through and just a lot of stuff going on on-screen when you fire this one up. Now we […]

Shinorubi – PS5 Review

January 1, 2024 in PS5 / Reviews tagged danmaku / last boss 88 / shinorubi / shoot em up / vertically scrolling by Richie

Jets’n’Guns 2 is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Czech coders Rake in Grass. They’re a three-person crew who aren’t the most prolific studio we’ve ever seen, with less than twenty games in almost twenty years, which is evidenced a little by the fact that this sequel came 16 years after […]

Jets’n’Guns 2 – PS5 Review

August 30, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged amiga / horizontally-scrolling / jets'n'guns 2 / retro / shoot em up by Richie

Nova Strike is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up from French/Thai developers Sanuk Games. We last encountered their work when we reviewed their Tetris clone, Tetraminos, but now they’ve switched gears entirely with this rogue-like shooter. That said, they’ve dabbled in a lot of genres in the past since making Gameboy Advance games in 2006. This […]

Nova Strike – PS5 Review

August 5, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 16-bit / horizontally-scrolling / nova strike / retro / shoot em up / upgrades by Richie

Akai Katana Shin is a collection of three versions of Akai Katana, a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up that debuted in arcades back in 2010 before receiving pretty much this port on the Xbox 360 in 2011. Akai Katana is one of four horizontal shooters from the legendary developer Cave, best known for their […]

Akai Katana Shin – PS4 Review

August 3, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged akai katana shin / cave / horizontally-scrolling / retro / shoot em up by Richie

Laserpitium is a 2D horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em that comes to us from one of the more prolific publishers in the genre, eastasiasoft, and was created by French studio, The ReeTeam. They have a long record of making low budget indie shooters that mostly ended up on Steam but this appears […]

Laserpitium – PS5 Review

May 31, 2023 in PS5 tagged 2d / eastasiasoft / horizontally-scrolling / laserpitium / shoot em up by Richie

Herodes is a 2D horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Brazilian indie studio TecnoloGils. It does the old bit of putting you into a microscopic ship and injecting you into a human who is suffering from some sort of deadly disease. We’ve seen the concept before in games like Viva Ex Vivo […]

Herodes – PS4 Review

May 24, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged herodes / indie / retro / shoot em up by Richie

It’s confusing enough when a game with ‘Final’ in the title gets a sequel and 2021’s R-Type Final 2 certainly was an unexpected turn for the series, especially as it arrived some eighteen years after the previous Final title. But this release is stranger still. R-Type Final 3 may have […]

R-Type Final 3: Evolved – PS5 Review

April 23, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged final / horizontally-scrolling / r-type / shoot em up by Richie

Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story (not to be confused with Dogfight) is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from casual North Carolina coders, Katsu Games that, unusually for the genre, supports up to four players in local co-op and sees you, and your buddies, taking up the roles of bomber pilots who are […]

Dogfight: A Sausage Bomber Story – PS4 Review

April 13, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged dogfight / horizontally-scrolling / sausage bomber / shoot em up by Richie

Hyper-5 is a side-scrolling shoot ’em up which comes to us from the mysterious Hyper Productions (well, mysterious in that they don’t seem to have a website) and prolific publishers eastasiasoft (their lack of capitalisation, not ours). In terms of getting us down to a sub-genre, this is very much a […]

Hyper-5 – PS5 Review

April 12, 2023 in PS5 / Reviews tagged 2d / 90s / horizontally-scrolling / hyper-5 / shoot em up by Richie

The fiftieth anniversary celebrations continue for Atari with Caverns of Mars: Recharged, a remake of their 1981 vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up (ish) of the same name (minus the Recharged bit, of course). The original game which was one of their home-only titles, rather than a coin-op, saw you making your way […]

Caverns of Mars: Recharged – PS4 Review

March 8, 2023 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 1980s / atari / caverns of mars / recharged / remake / shoot em up by Richie