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Action and shooters

Shoot 'em up

Fast scrolling shooters where you pilot a ship through dense patterns of enemy fire.

Also called: shmup, bullet hell, space shooter

Well-known shoot 'em up games

Curated by hand. Games in the Gamedexy library come first, with their screens and flows; the rest follow A to Z. This is not a ranking and says nothing about sales or player counts.

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