shoot em up

Game Type DX is a horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Nathan Fouts, the solo-ish developer behind Mommy’s Best Games. We’ve covered his work before, reviewing the sensational Shoot1UP DX as well as Weapon of Choice DX and Explosionade DX. If you’re not familiar with Fouts’ work, he tends to specialise in […]

Game Type DX – PS5 Review

November 20, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged game type dx / mommy's best games / nathan fouts / shoot em up by Richie

Sophstar is a vertically-scrolling shoot ’em up in the classic ’90s style and it was put together by Brazilian studio Banana Bytes. It’s kind of old school, as evidenced by the 2D sprites and simple backdrops but comes with a lot of options and ways to play that give it maybe […]

Sophstar – PS5 Review

October 25, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / coin-op / never 'shmup' / shoot em up / sophstar / vertically scrolling by Richie

Missile Command: Recharged is an updated remake of Atari’s classic 1980 arcade game. Essentially a shoot ’em up of sorts, Missile Command was a single screen blaster where you defended your city from incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles using missiles of your own. It was a brilliant game, probably Atari’s best in […]

Missile Command: Recharged (2022) – PS5 Review

October 22, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged arcade / atari / coin-op / missile command / recharged / shoot em up / single screen by Richie

Originally released on PC in 2019, Rick Henderson is the latest porting effort from EastAsiaSoft. Described as an ‘endless horizontal-scrolling shoot ’em up’ the game combines 16-bit visuals and classic shoot ’em up gameplay in a package that is kind of traditional but not entirely lacking in its own ideas. You […]

Rick Henderson – PS5 Review

August 31, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged horizontally-scrolling / retro / rick henderson / shoot em up by Richie

Following on from Turrican Anthology Vol 1 (well, actually coming at exactly the same time), Turrican Anthology Vol 2 is, as you’d expect, a compilation of more Turrican games and if you’ve not read our previous review, the Turrican games are some classic 16-bit run and gun titles with plenty of shooting, platforming and exploration. The […]

Turrican Anthology Vol 2 – PS4 Review

August 12, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 90s / compilation / run and gun / shoot em up / turrican by Richie

Now, this is a tricky one. Thunderbolt Collection is another retro-collection from QuByte. They previously brought us the Humans Collection and have now dug even further into the archives to pull out this collection of two little-known shoot ’em ups. What you get with this collection are Thunderbolt Fighting Plane and Thunderbolt II. Now you’d […]

Thunderbolt Collection – PS4 Review

August 5, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged console / megadrive / NES / retro / shoot em up / thunderbolt collection / vertically scrolling by Richie

Aniquilation is a twin-stick shooter from Colombian coders R-Next that offers over thirty levels of 3D shooting action with a similar viewpoint to Nano Assault and Super Stardust Ultra in that each level is a small sphere, essentially a mini-planet. As you traverse the level, your ship appears to stay in place as […]

Aniquilation – PS5 Review

August 5, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged aniquilation / or 'annihilation' according to every auto-corrector out there / planetoid / shoot em up / twin stick by Richie

Ultra Mission is a top-down shoot ’em up from State-side indie studio, Gumbo Machine (which is mainly just Benjamin Hapferer who handles programming and graphics duties on this game). On the face of it, this is a fairly unremarkable game. We’ve seen plenty of top-down shooters on PSN (we seem to […]

Ultra Mission – PS5 Review

July 21, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged last vita game / shoot em up / top down / ultra mission by Richie

Japan can be pretty odd. Some of the strangest games we’ve played have come from there and yet they still have a way of surprising us. However, Yurukill does it in an entirely different way. Instead of being just inherently weird, the developers, IzanagiGames, have squished together two genres that on paper […]

Yurukill: The Calumniation Games – PS5 Review

July 4, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged Murder mystery / point and click / shoot em up / visual novel / yurukill by Richie

Pocky & Rocky Reshrined is a top-down, multi-directional shoot ’em up based on a 1992 SNES game that was itself a sequel to an arcade game called Kiki Kaikai from Taito. The game has been given the remake treatment by Tengo Project who developed Wild Guns Reloaded and The Ninja Saviors for modern consoles […]

Pocky & Rocky Reshrined – PS5 Review

June 24, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged arcade / pocky & rocky / retro / run and gun / shoot em up / SNES / top down by Richie

Remote Life is a 2D horizontally-scrolling shoot ’em up from Italian one-man studio Next Game Level. Now, we’re on quite a run of shoot ’em up reviews at the moment but this one is probably the most unique of the bunch. Taking its cues from R-Type, this game sees you battling a […]

Remote Life – PS5 Review

May 30, 2022 in PS5 / Reviews tagged horror / ratalaika games / remote life / sci fi / shoot em up by Richie

Rolling Gunner is a horizontally-scrolling bullet-hell shoot ’em up from Japanese developers Mebius. Originally a 2018 Windows release, this version combines a port of the game along with its Overpower DLC that came out a year or so later. It’s also out for the Switch and there are physical editions […]

Rolling Gunner + Overpower – PS4 Review

May 22, 2022 in PS4 / Reviews tagged 2d / arcade / bullet-hell / rolling gunner / shoot em up by Richie