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394 Shooter games reviewed and scored, best first.
394 reviews
Freedoom's free, original-content second episode, played through the unofficial Dwasm WebAssembly port of PrBoom+/PrBoomX - confirmed working correctly on both desktop (keyboard) and phone, with a genuinely functional on-screen touch control layer, one of the only fully touch-native FPS control schemes found in a wide sweep of similar games.
7.8 / 10
A Robotron 2084-style twin-stick shooter built on the LittleJS engine - save fleeing family members from red robots across escalating waves - shipped here with a real, verified fix for a missing viewport tag that was shrinking its virtual joysticks to a near-unusable size on real phones.
7.8 / 10
A faithful, well-executed Centipede clone with a real segment-splitting centipede, damageable multi-hit mushrooms, and a mid-field spider - confirmed genuinely working with real mouse/keyboard control on desktop and real touch-drag-plus-hold control on phone.
7.7 / 10
A genuinely substantial side-scrolling shoot-em-up built on Andy Balaam's Smolpxl engine - real enemy variety, projectiles, and a scrolling city backdrop, confirmed working via a real scored kill on desktop and a real fired bullet on phone.
7.7 / 10
Solo developer doekuramori's retro shooter sequel pairs genuinely unmatched manual-reload gunplay with extremely graphic, sexualised horror-gore content that will define who this game is for before the first level ends.
7.6 / 10
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A well-built bubble shooter (Bust-a-Move/Puzzle Bobble style) with real match-3+ popping and disconnected-cluster drop physics - confirmed genuinely working with real point-and-click aiming on desktop and real drag-to-aim, release-to-fire touch controls on phone.
7.6 / 10
Resident Evil on Rails, With a Furry Cast Fright Train's pitch sounds like a mashup that shouldn't work: take the resource-scarce, over-the-shoulder survival horror of the
7.6 / 10
A top-down chase-driving shooter built on the LittleJS engine - confirmed working correctly on both touch (a real stick drag drove and steered the car, and a real button press fired) and keyboard, shipped with the same missing-viewport fix as its stablemates.
7.6 / 10
A horror-themed survivor-like that adds active, twin-stick-style aiming to the Vampire Survivors formula, widely credited as the genre's first genuine evolution — held back by a persistent, heavily-reported visibility complaint over its monochrome palette and flashing effects, and a build-variety complaint the developer began addressing but appears to have folded into a separate, newer game instead.
7.5 / 10
AI.VI is an FPS/tower-defense hybrid from debut studio Out of Time about a retired mining robot forced back into "incredible violence" against a planet-conquering corporation, and this review's sample finds a genuinely novel, deep hybrid combat loop backed by an unusually responsive developer working through real launch-week bugs and a steep difficulty curve.
7.5 / 10
A gorgeous, brilliantly-made extraction shooter that sold 16 million copies and then spent nine months watching its own community turn hostile — with the developers now matchmaking players by how likely they are to shoot you.
7.5 / 10
Irrational Games' 2013 spiritual successor to BioShock trades Rapture for the floating city of Columbia, delivering a story reviewers still call unforgettable more than a decade on — while a genuinely huge, well-documented reviewer backlash targets a mandatory third-party launcher 2K added years after release, a real anti-consumer controversy this review takes seriously rather than dismisses.
7.5 / 10
A neon-drenched, psychedelic retro arcade shoot-'em-up roguelite that pairs a genuinely novel "start your next run fully stacked" power-up system with old-school Robotron-style difficulty, backed by an early review pool that is unanimous but still small enough to treat with some caution.
7.5 / 10
A Decade-Later Sequel to a Beloved Free Mod Codename CURE II launched on Steam on July 24, 2026, from a two-person team, developer Raptor Byte and publisher indie.io, and like its
7.5 / 10
A 35th-anniversary cute-em-up that swaps the Cotton series' usual magical kingdom for a Japanese festival backdrop, brings back the well-received Cotton Rock'n'Roll team, and stacks ten wildly different playable ships — several borrowed wholesale from other cult shmups — on top of a launch corpus too small to confirm anything beyond the pedigree.
7.5 / 10
Its store page says 86% positive across 9.7 million reviews and a 2012 release date — both belong to a different game. Valve replaced CS:GO in place, inherited its decade of praise, and the most-upvoted negative review is about exactly that.
7.5 / 10
A Love Letter to Zero Tolerance Cyberscape entered Early Access March 23, 2026 from AtomicTorch Studio, the small team previously known for the survival-crafting game Cyrofall, bef
7.5 / 10
A js13k 2022 top-down survival shooter, in the vein of Vampire Survivors, that ships a genuine dual-virtual-stick mobile control scheme alongside WASD-and-mouse — both tested here and both work exactly as the developers' own instructions describe.
7.5 / 10
A Corporate Gas Leak, a Lot of Zombies, and Something Much Older Underneath Deep Sheol drops you into the boots of Special Agent Seth, sent to investigate why a corporate mining fa
7.5 / 10
DUSK helped kickstart the retro "boomer shooter" revival, channeling Quake and Blood through three fast, blood-soaked campaign episodes. Its atmosphere and gunplay earn overwhelming praise, while a specific, recurring set of complaints targets particular enemies, a difficulty spike late in its second episode, and a save system some reviewers call genuinely frustrating.
7.5 / 10
A Robot-Cowboy Co-Op Shooter That Became an Overnight Phenomenon Far Far West entered Early Access on April 28, 2026 from eight-person Spanish studio Evil Raptor, and within days i
7.5 / 10
Galactic Vault is a movement-shooter roguelike from solo-turned-full-time studio MeepMeep Games that pairs fast, fluid traversal with a deep weapon-building system, and this review's sample finds a game with an exceptional post-launch support record and a fanbase that overwhelmingly prefers its movement to genre touchstone Deadzone Rogue, held back only slightly by UI clarity and content-variety gripes even among its biggest fans.
7.5 / 10
A "Risk of Rain, Dead Cells and Borderlands had a baby" FPS roguelite RPG that reviewers overwhelmingly praise for its gunplay and build variety, held back years after launch by stagnant level variety, an unpopular EULA change, and a server relocation that badly hurt latency for large parts of its audience.
7.5 / 10
The best co-op shooter of its generation and one of the most argued-about games on Steam. Its top negative review has thirty-four thousand helpful votes, its second has twenty-two thousand, and neither is about the shooting — which is superb.
7.5 / 10
