Games like Midnight Resistance
Looking for games like Midnight Resistance? Here are top arcade shooter recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Gunstar Heroes, Stargunner or Battle Wings.
1 85%Game Brain Scoregraphics85% User Score 54 reviewsCritic Score 60%1 reviewsThe Gunstar family are the protectors of the planet Gunstar 9. After many years of peace, vicious dictator Colonel Red kidnapped the Gunstar twins’ older brother and used mind control to make him his slave.
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2 78%Game Brain Scoregameplay, atmospherestory, graphics78% User Score 77 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsIn the far distant future, an epic war for survival takes place... Deep within the Andromeda galaxy, the people of Zile grow restless and greedy. The Zilions secretly prepare for a massive strike against the nearby planet Ytima. Fearing such an attack, the Ytimians train an elite squad of "Stargunners." Their mission: To strike the planet Zile and cripple the Zilions’ three strongholds, where the…
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3 Battle Wings, known in Japan either as B-Wing (ビー・ウィング) or B-Wings (ビー・ウィングズ), is a vertically scrolling shooter first released as an arcade game by Data East in 1984. The game was ported by Data East to the Family Computer in 1986, and was Data East's very first home release for this platform. The game consists of 45 levels (30 in the Family Computer version), and no background story or plot is …
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4 34%Game Brain Score34% User Score 14 reviewsDarius is a two-dimensional horizontally scrolling shoot 'em up set in a fictional future. Uniquely among shoot 'em ups, the game's screen is three times wider than conventional size, and the arcade cabinet uses an arrangement of three screens to accommodate it. The player controls an ornate fighter spacecraft, named the Silver Hawk, and must navigate through scrolling terrain while battling a var…
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5 83%Game Brain Scorestory, musicgrinding, monetization86% User Score 678 reviewsCritic Score 68%1 reviewsDiscover and purchase Terminator 2D: No Fate for PS4 and PS5 at the official PlayStation website. Relive iconic moments from the classic movie and mix things up with different game modes, all displayed in beautiful pixel art.
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6 67%Game Brain Scoremusic, humorgraphics75% User Score 40 reviewsJIm Power: The Lost Dimension in 3-D utilizes the revolutionary Nuoptix 3D graphics, allowing you to experience the thrill of virtual reality without a virtual reality system. 3D glasses facilitate the incredible depth experience, but the thrill and the horror of "The Lost Dimension" may be fully experienced with or without 3D glasses.
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7 94%Game Brain Scorestory, humorgameplay, music94% User Score 62 reviewsThe planet Sierra is being attacked by Scarlet, a terrorist group lead by a vicious creature named Xi-Tiger who is plotting to destroy the human race. With vengeance, our hero Epsilon-Eagle will fight against Xi-Tiger as well as the terrorist organization that he formerly led.
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8 84%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystability90% User Score 852 reviewsCritic Score 82%3 reviewsBlazing Chrome is a classic co-op run 'n gun with an original arcade feel. Players can choose between Mavra, the badass human resistance, soldier or Doyle, the groovy rebel robot, to kick some metal ass.
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9 71%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicstory, replayability71% User Score 150 reviewsSixteen levels (in four groups of four) await you in this long-developed Bitmap Brothers title. The basic gameplay is similar to Gauntlet, but in an open air setting, with bridges across rivers and such in the maps. The visuals are in the 'metallic and blue' style the Bitmaps appeared to favor.
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10 78%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicgameplay, story92% User Score 36 reviewsZ-Exemplar is a side-scrolling shooter in the tradition of R-Type, Gradius, Nemesis and other classic arcade games from the past. Borrowing its aesthetic from the computers of yesteryear (specifically the Sinclair ZX Spectrum) Z-Exemplar combines bright, bold, 8-bit pixel art with frantic action and an epic mission to conquer a galaxy of almost 1000 planets.
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