Games like The Rush
Looking for games like The Rush? Here are top action recommendations, selected from player-similarity data — start with The Blue Flamingo, Bit Blaster XL or R-Type Final 2.
1 40%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, replayability40% User Score 370 reviewsShoot your way through intense levels with a swiftly increasing difficulty, in a world completely built with handcrafted models. Invest your score in upgrades, or save it to gain interest with the risk of losing it all. Use your greed wisely to beat your friends and climb up the score table.
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97%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaystory, grinding97% User Score 3,051 reviewsA throwback to the classic quarter eating arcade games of the 80's. Bit Blaster XL is a retro styled, addictive, and fast paced arcade shoot 'em up! (shmup).
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77%Game Brain Scoregraphics, gameplaystory, grinding77% User Score 526 reviewsCritic Score 64%2 reviewsR-Type has returned! The legendary side-scroller is back and better than ever with beautifully rendered 3D graphics, exhilarating shoot-'em-up gameplay, and a multitude of stages, ships, and weapons that will allow you to conduct a symphony of destruction upon your foes.
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89%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsstory, grinding89% User Score 727 reviewsSTEREDENN: BINARY STARS is an award-winning mashup of a classic shmup and a rogue-like, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Fly solo or co-op with a friend, fighting off the worst scourges of space in a never-ending struggle for survival. STEREDENN: BINARY STARS is the hugely expanded version of the acclaimed Steredenn. Enjoy infinite replayability and unforgiving gamep…
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88%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, monetization93% User Score 1,944 reviewsCritic Score 83%13 reviewsFight’N Rage is a brand new old-school side-scroller beat’em up. Inspired by the classics from the “golden age”, and with an art style that mimics the aesthetic from the 90's arcade gems, this game pays homage to all classic gameplay features that makes this genre one of the best from its time!
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35%Game Brain Scoregraphics, musicgameplay, optimization35% User Score 98 reviewsStar Drifter is a super hard and hectic space shooter, inspired by classics such as R Type, Xenon, Galaxian, Moon Cresta and Gradius.
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81%Game Brain Scoremusic, gameplaygrinding, stability81% User Score 456 reviewsSuper Galaxy Squadron is a fast-paced vertical shooter designed for human beings as well as shmup veterans. Featuring multiple game modes, a challenging but merciful difficulty curve, forgiving health system, and seventeen playable ships.
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60%Game Brain Scoregameplay, storymusic, replayability61% User Score 119 reviewsCritic Score 59%8 reviewsGodstrike is a time based twin-stick shooter where you must face ruthless bosses in intense 1v1’s. Play as Talaal, the last Herald, hunted by her sibling. Time is your currency and health, use it to create ability combos and fight for glory on the highscores!
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95%Game Brain Scoremusic, graphicsoptimization, character development95% User Score 555 reviewsA fast-paced low-poly 3D rail shooter heavily inspired by classics of the early 90's. Join protagonist Kyuu as she fights to free the worlds of the Sanzaru Star System, overrun by the intergalactic terrorist organization known as Zodiac.
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96%Game Brain Scoregameplay, musicgrinding, optimization97% User Score 2,774 reviewsCritic Score 90%1 reviewsStar of Providence is a consolidated version of Monolith that integrates the DLC, Relics of the Past, into the base game. Star of Providence is a top down action shooter with procedurally generated elements. Explore a progression of floors as you make your way into the depths of the facility, encountering increasingly deadly enemies, fantastic weapons, upgrades, choices and revelations as you ven…
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