Games like Shmup Arena

Bezier: Second Edition is a single-player shooter featuring a compelling plot, engaging gameplay, and impressive graphics. Accompanied by a phenomenal soundtrack blending orchestral, synthesizer, vocal, and solo instruments, it elevates the immersive experience. The game's atmosphere is enhanced by a rich, expertly produced musical score spanning over 70 minutes.

"Waves" is a comedy shooter game with splendid gameplay and stellar graphics, despite its poor storyline. As a single-player, you must defend your system in a neo-cyberspace arena against bugs, errors, and viruses, using a variety of weapons and special abilities like time buffer and bombs. With its phenomenal soundtrack, multiple modes including Survival, Challenge, Chase, and Hold, and online leaderboards, Waves offers a high skill threshold and intense action that will keep any shooter fan entertained.

Rhythm Storm is a roguelike bullet heaven with strong rhythmic elements where your vehicle moves to the beat as you control movement and special powers. Choose your vehicle and its abilities, then survive waves of enemies across unique worlds and songs. The game features crisp vector graphics with action synced tightly to music.

PARTICLE MACE is an arcade-style game with a physics-based mechanic, where you defend yourself in a hostile universe by swinging particles into enemies. It features 3 endless modes, 150 missions, local multiplayer deathmatch and co-op, ship unlocks, and leaderboards. The game has intense flashing lights and rapid movement, which may affect players with photosensitivity.

"Minishoot' Adventures" is a top-down shooter game with open-world exploration. Players control a spaceship, battling enemies and bosses in intense bullet hell combat, while venturing through a handcrafted world filled with hidden treasures, challenges, and secrets. The game features improving combat and exploration abilities as players reclaim stolen powers.

"Chippy" is a twin-stick bullet-hell shooter with exceptional mechanics, fabulous graphics, and spectacular music. Play solo or with a friend in local co-op, challenging 14 bosses in a race for the fastest time. With power-ups, leaderboards, replays, and Workshop support, this game offers a variety of ways to experience its pixel-by-pixel destruction system. New Easy and Nightmare modes provide additional difficulties to master.

"Beat Hazard" is an arcade-style shooter game where your music drives the gameplay experience. Each song in your collection creates a unique ebb and flow, affecting the enemies and your ship's firepower. The game offers various modes, including Survival, local 2-player versus, and co-op. Your performance can earn you 25 Steam achievements and a spot on the leaderboards. Workshop DLC is required for creating and accessing workshop content.

"Fabric of Reality" is a top-down rogue lite, where you must survive 100 waves of enemies, collecting and upgrading attack cards along the way. With over 100 enemies, 100 attack cards, and 45 modifiers, each run offers new challenges. Use your earned gold to unlock new content in the tech tree, including upgrades, characters, and gamemodes, with over 700 unlocks available.

"Nova Drift" is an action-packed space combat game where you control a rapidly evolving bio-mechanical ship. With over 250 weapons and mods, you can create a unique build every run, chaining upgrade modules for powerful synergies. Games are quick, allowing for rapid experimentation and advancement, making it a great choice for players who want to enjoy a challenging and rewarding experience in a single game session.

"Stellar Interface" is a rogue-like space shooter with ever-changing space battles and a synergistic perk system. Explore the randomly-generated galaxy, collect over 100 perks and consumables, and complete over 100 missions for the StellarNET Entertainment System lottery. Your journey will be unique each time, as no two plays are the same. The goal is to find the most outrageous perk combination to defeat the Last Overlord.