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The best Twin Stick Shooter games
Ranked on the Metacritic score where one exists, and on the number of Steam reviews where it doesn't — because a game judged by a hundred thousand players is not less known than one judged by twenty critics. Titles with neither are left out.
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Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop
2017
23,776 reviews
Twin Stick Shooter · Third-Person Shooter
Co-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.
Slapshot: Rebound
2024
14,100 reviews
Sports · Arcade
Slapshot: Rebound is a physics-based multiplayer game where you play an arcade style match of hockey. No shoot button, no puck glue, no RNG. It’s up to you and your team to take control of the puck, pass, shoot, outplay your opponents. Play with your friends or team up with other Slapshot players!
UBERMOSH
2015
8,676 reviews
Action · Indie
UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.
Rogue: Genesia
2025
8,086 reviews
Bullet Hell · Roguelite
Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
Bloody Hell
2023
6,963 reviews
Bullet Hell · Metroidvania
A short but sweet game about an Angel on a Bloody Bullet-hell mission to kill Satan! Dash, Double Dash, Grapple & Blast your way through Hell to fulfill your Holy Mission. Will you be able to kill Satan? Or will you fail to master your abilities and DIE in this BLOODY HELL?
Brigador: Up-Armored Edition
2016
4,568 reviews
Twin Stick Shooter · Action
Pilot a mech to hunt down and destroy the oppressive government of a cyberpunk autocracy. In this fast-paced, top-down shooter, use overwhelming firepower to destroy columns of tanks and level buildings. Unlock up to 56 unique vehicles and 40 weapons.
Nine Parchments
2017
4,110 reviews
Action RPG · Twin Stick Shooter
Nine Parchments is a co-operative blast'em up game of magic mayhem from Frozenbyte, creators of the Trine series!
Cleared Hot
2025
3,874 reviews
Flight · Action
CLEARED HOT is a nostalgic helicopter shooter with satisfying physics and light tactical elements. Shoot, dodge, move your squad around the battlefield, and pick up almost anything with your rope and magnet.
Voidigo
2023
3,752 reviews
Twin Stick Shooter · Roguelike
A vividly animated action roguelite focused on boss hunting. Unleash an array of diverse weapons and powerups to combat the corruption of the Void.
Metal Slug: Awakening
2024
3,658 reviews
Shoot 'Em Up · Arcade
Metal Slug: Awakening continues the classic gameplay loved by fans, with exciting new features like World Adventure, 3-player Team-up, and Roguelike challenges. Join forces with your friends online to take on powerful bosses anytime, anywhere!
RED HOT VENGEANCE
2019
3,600 reviews
Indie · Action
He had one rule: No killing women or children. When a hitman is double-crossed by his employer, he brings forth a night of carnage and bloodshed.
Hell Clock
2025
3,488 reviews
Dungeon Crawler · Indie
Forge powerful builds with endless loot in this relentless combination of Roguelike and ARPG. Blast through dungeons and unleash inhuman powers in a dark fantasy twist on Brazil’s War of Canudos.
Windowkill
2024
3,378 reviews
Indie · Action
Windowkill is a twin-stick shooter, but the game window itself is constantly closing in on you. Shoot the window edges to push it around your screen as you fight and dodge enemies and bosses in their own windows.
X-Morph: Defense
2017
3,213 reviews
Tower Defense · Strategy
Unique fusion of a top-down shooter and tower defense strategy. You are the invader! Use destructive weapons or lead your enemies into a maze of towers. Strategize in the build mode by carefully selecting various types of alien towers or throw yourself right into the heat of the battle.
SYNTHETIK 2
2021
3,187 reviews
Roguelite · Twin Stick Shooter
SYNTHETIK 2 is a unrelenting tactical-shooter rogue-lite. Play alone or with friends. Loot powerful tech. Experience the next level in gun-play. Upgrade your androids to rival the machine gods!
Marfusha:Sentinel Girls
2021
3,102 reviews
Twin Stick Shooter · Shooter
A high-tempo shooting game with simple controls! Upgrade your character with cards and defend the gates from your enemies.
Killsquad
2021
2,839 reviews
Action · Hack and Slash
Hack and slash? Check. Twin-stick-shooter? Check. 4 player coop to slay hordes of aliens & bosses with your friends? Check. Skills, upgrades, weapons, gears, talismans and more to make you stronger? Check. Wake up, bounty hunter. We have a mission for you. Time to clean up the scum of the galaxy.
Cyberhunt
2017
2,742 reviews
Indie · Action
Cyberhunt is a retro procedurally generated twin stick shooter, that takes you back to the sweet to the sweet arcade machines era!
Redeemer: Enhanced Edition
2017
2,631 reviews
Action · Beat 'em up
Redeemer: Enhanced Edition is a brutal close-quarters brawler. Punch, crush, shoot, and use the environment to destroy enemies. Master deep melee combat, execute savage finishers, and fight for redemption as Vasily, a former elite operative hunted by a cybernetic corporation.
Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & Teef
2022
2,574 reviews
Adventure · Shoot 'Em Up
From the developers of the Guns, Gore and Cannoli franchise comes a new 2D run & gun platformer: Warhammer 40,000: Shootas, Blood & TEEF! Spearhead an Ork invasion, destroy the hive city and kill your warboss! ‘Ere we go!
Yet Another Zombie Defense HD
2017
2,560 reviews
Tower Defense · Strategy
Top-down zombie shooter with tower defense elements featuring up to 4 players local and online co-op. Build your base by day, defend it by night, put your skills to the test to stay alive as long as possible! Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?
Time Wasters
2023
2,546 reviews
Bullet Hell · Twin Stick Shooter
Time Wasters is a space shooter bullet heaven roguelite. Equip and upgrade weapons, destroy swarms of enemies, and collect Time & Space Cubes to bend the timeline to your advantage.
Temtem: Swarm
2026
2,478 reviews
Roguelite · Twin Stick Shooter
Can you Survive the Swarm? Unlock mighty abilities and upgrades, find and collect Tems to evolve and become stronger, discover overpowered strategies, and battle massive bosses in this survivor-like bullet heaven! Play solo or online co-op with up to 3 players, building the wildest synergies.
Insect Swarm
2024
2,453 reviews
Shooter · Shoot 'Em Up
The insect swarm is a swarm consists of millions of alien insects, and you, as the only survival on this barren planet, will have to fight against them dauntlessly. Good luck!
Snezhinka:Sentinel Girls2
2024
2,414 reviews
Twin Stick Shooter · Bullet Hell
A fast-paced shooter with simple controls. Enhance your character by purchasing cards and hold the line against waves of hostile mechs as an employee of a private military company.
Nation Red
2009
2,204 reviews
Action · Indie
Crimsonland
2003
2,108 reviews
Action · Shooter
Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes. Crimsonland also has up to four player local co-op.
Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now
2014
2,092 reviews
Action · Indie
You like top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against zombies and monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments? Fight your way through an apocalyptic city in the single player story mode, and test your skills in the survival mode.
Patch Quest
2023
2,056 reviews
Adventure · Roguelite
In a labyrinth surrounded by vicious monsters, Explorers must rely on their Lasso to survive! Capture and tame ANY monster to leap, glide, surf, tunnel and websling through a treacherous, patchwork maze. This roguelike/metroidvania seems cute, but it’s a deceptively difficult bullet-hell challenge!
Blazing Beaks
2019
2,041 reviews
Twin Stick Shooter · Roguelite
Roguelite - where too much greediness can be fatal. A colorful world with armed birds blazing their way through piles of mutants, monsters and creepy creatures. Lots of mysteries to unravel, secrets to discover and levels to explore.
Anvil
2023
1,899 reviews
Roguelike · Action
Take on the role of a Vault Breaker in search of alien artifacts called “Vaults” and fight against monsters and powerful bosses. You can strengthen your Breakers to explore far-away galaxies that no one has ever reached!
Turnip Boy Robs a Bank
2024
1,878 reviews
Shoot 'Em Up · Roguelite
Turnip Boy is back! This time he’s teaming up with the fearsome Pickled Gang to plan and execute the weirdest heist of all time. Shake down hostages, steal precious valuables, battle the fuzz, and use wacky tools bought off the dark web to move further into the vaults of the Botanical Bank.
I MAED A GAM3 W1TH Z0MB1ES 1N IT!!!1
2021
1,830 reviews
Twin Stick Shooter · Shoot 'Em Up
A top down twin stick zombie slaying shooter that you are sure to play again and again!
KILL KNIGHT
2024
1,795 reviews
Bullet Hell · Arcade
KILL KNIGHT is an ultra-responsive arcade-inspired isometric action shooter. Condemned to eternal sufferance, deep within the voids of an eldritch arena, you must wield an arsenal of devastating weaponry to obliterate swarms of otherworldly horrors - and MASTER THE DEMON WITHIN.
Revita
2022
1,730 reviews
Twin Stick Shooter · Dungeon Crawler
In this fast paced twin-stick roguelite platformer, you play as an unnamed child ascending an ominous clocktower in pursuit of their lost memories. Harvest and sacrifice souls to grow your power in order to challenge procedural encounter rooms and intimidating bosses!
UBERMOSH:BLACK
2016
1,719 reviews
Action · Indie
UBERMOSH:BLACK is the second volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH. Cut bullets with your sword, shoot with heavy guns and splatter enemies with a rage fueled psionic wave.
The Hong Kong Massacre
2019
1,693 reviews
Action · Indie
Blast your way through the streets of Hong Kong in a fast-paced, top-down shooter. Inspired by classic action movies, The Hong Kong Massacre places you at the center of a hard-boiled revenge story, filled with brutal, cinematic shootouts and vivid underworld locations.
Super Amazing Wagon Adventure
2013
1,638 reviews
Shoot 'Em Up · Twin Stick Shooter
UBERMOSH:WRAITH
2017
1,614 reviews
Action · Indie
UBERMOSH:WRAITH is the fourth volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.
UBERMOSH Vol.3
2016
1,573 reviews
Action · Indie
The third volume of the arcade series UBERMOSH.
The best Twin Stick Shooter games · Ludixa
Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop201723,776 reviewsTwin Stick Shooter · Third-Person ShooterCo-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.
