Games like Starexcess
Looking for games like Starexcess? Here are top arcade shooter recommendations with a anime focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Saviors, Donuts'n'Justice or SPACESHEEP.
1 80%Game Brain Scoremusic, storycharacter development, grinding80% User Score 1,245 reviewsSaviors brings the best bullet hell experience you can find on Steam. Play through 18 challenging stages in this ultimate test of tactics and reflexes.
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74%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsreplayability, grinding72% User Score 138 reviewsCritic Score 78%3 reviewsDonuts 'N' Justice is a fast-paced 2d horizontal shoot-'em-up wherein you take the role of one of two Super Cops in the 1980s to defend their city against gangs, violence and corruption.
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57%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicstory, grinding92% User Score 13 reviewsYour spaceship may be busted, but that’s not stopping you! Travel through bizarre alien planets, each with its own dangers, weird creatures, and strange landscapes. Who knows what secrets (or trouble) you’ll find? Lost in space? Bring a buddy along! Play solo or with a friend in 2-player co-op and work together to solve challenges, escape enemies, and (hopefully) not get lost in space forever. …
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54%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, optimization54% User Score 261 reviewsArcade hit Raiden first left its mark on the shooting genre 25 years ago. The easy to learn, hard to master series comes to the PC in its most modern and advanced form yet! Join the war for Earth's future-where the tide of battle holds constant surprises.
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87%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsstory, grinding88% User Score 609 reviewsCritic Score 82%1 reviewsSteredenn is a frenetic and chaotic space shooter, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Embark in your ship and engage the fight against dreadful space pirates in a never-ending combat for your survival. Steredenn is at the crossroads between a shmup and a rogue-like. Enjoy the infinite replayability of the game with its unforgiving gameplay, intense boss fights, (almost) ran…
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92%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, monetization95% User Score 1,542 reviewsCritic Score 84%2 reviews"Assault Android Cactus is a manic twin stick arena shooter for the PC with screens full of enemies, buckets of bullets and high scoring combo chains! Take on the role of Cactus, an enthusiastic police android, who responds to a stranded space freighter only to discover it under siege by its malfunctioning robot workers. Cut off from the outside and in over her head, Cactus and the androids she re…
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92%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, grinding92% User Score 1,158 reviewsChippy is a twin-stick bullet-hell shooter. Chip apart destructible bosses pixel-by-pixel.
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54%Game Brain Scoremusic, optimizationgraphics, gameplay54% User Score 167 reviewsRuzh Delta Z is a frenzied shoot-em-up which draws inspiration from classics such as Gradius, DoDonPachi, and R-Type. Shoot your way through perilous stages and wreck thousands of rogue vessels in your quest to become the ultimate pilot.
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93%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storygrinding, stability93% User Score 788 reviewsA tribute to the Legend of Zelda, with a shotgun!
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85%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaygrinding, stability90% User Score 648 reviewsCritic Score 81%17 reviewsThe Bug Butcher is an action-packed 2D side scrolling shoot em up game where peril comes from above. So in a nutshell, pest control with machine guns in space. The core mechanics hold old ties from the classic arcade shooter “Super Pang” where you shoot vertically, but with modern day twists. You are Harry, a brash and tenacious exterminator who has a knack for decimating bugs.
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