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Games like Space Cruiser

Looking for games like Space Cruiser? Here are top arcade shooter recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Xenoraid, Changeable Guardian Estique or Asuka & Asuka.

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  • 78%Game Brain Score
    gameplay, music
    story, graphics
    89% User Score Based on 69 reviews
    Critic Score 66%Based on 15 reviews

    "Xenoraid" is a Science Fiction shooter game that offers various gameplay modes, including single-player, co-op, and multi-player. The game features exciting vertical scrolling shoot'em up gameplay with modern mechanics, such as the ability to switch between four fighters during combat to optimize weapons. Upgrade, repair, and enhance your squadron between missions, and test your skills in three endless survival missions with online leaderboards.

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  • An original side-scrolling shoot 'em up game for Nintendo Entertainment System being developed by Cat Hoi Trading LLC set to release in the Summer of 2024. The game is set in 5 world cities and space, for a total of 6 stages. The moderate difficulty and play time, as well as a large number of visuals, will delight the eyes and minds of the player. A demo was sold at the Digigame Expo 2023.

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  • A mysterious invasion force known as the Galaxy Highters invades the Earth in the year 1996. With their abilities in space time manipulation, they are able to invade several time lines in Earth’s history and occupy each one simultaneously. In order to stop the Galaxy Highters, Earth’s militaries design the 'Flying Bird', a jet fighter capable of time travel, enabling it to fly into occupied time l…

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  • Omega Fighter is a vertical scrolling shooter developed for the arcades by UPL in 1989. While similar to most shooters, Omega Fighter was unique in its gameplay, level and enemy focus: rather than flying over multiple levels, the player faced up against an enormous space battle cruiser which contained every level. Taking place in the future, an enormous alien battle cruiser/space craft carrier ha…

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  • Blast off for a retro arcade experience in RedRaptor, a vertical shoot’em up inspired by genre classics of the ’90s!

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  • 43%Game Brain Score
    43% User Score Based on 11 reviews

    Truxton is a 1988 vertically scrolling, shoot 'em up arcade game developed by Toaplan, later ported to the Mega Drive (worldwide) and the PC Engine (Japan-only). Like many other scrolling shooters, the game is set in outer space, where the player takes control of a small spaceship across several planets. The game is played with an eight-way joystick and two buttons (a shot and a bomb button) throu…

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  • 84%Game Brain Score
    gameplay, atmosphere
    replayability
    84% User Score Based on 46 reviews
    Critic Score 85%Based on 6 reviews

    Ikaruga is a Science Fiction shooter game, where players control a ship that can switch polarity to destroy enemies of the opposite color and absorb their bullets for energy. Offering multiplayer for up to 2 players in local co-op and various difficulty settings, Ikaruga is the spiritual successor to Radiant Silvergun, with similar level design, bosses, and buddhism-inspired themes, all under the direction of Hiroshi Iuchi.

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  • Scion is a vertical scrolling shooter. Players have to shoot the alien space ships while destroying the ground structures. In order to continue on to the next scene, the ground structures need to be completely destroyed

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  • After 250 years of stable government, a military coup led by the Snukla star system's chief of military staff, General Bernelli, forces a junta upon the planets' peoples. A resistance group soon springs into action, sabotaging the new government's actions with less and less success. They soon resort to a desperate plan: capture three minimally guarded fighter space-jets and use them against Bernel…

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  • In Hell Bent, set in 3530, the player takes the role of Captain Drak Hellbent who has to drive off aliens which invaded his home planet Aldonicha. The goal is to destroy a set amount of ground targets in each of the ten vertically scrolling levels. To do so, the player has to change the altitude of the space ship - but flying low creates the danger of crashing into another building. Fuel and shiel…

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