Games like Zero Wing
Looking for games like Zero Wing? Here are top arcade shooter recommendations with a science fiction focus, selected from player-similarity data — start with Zero Wing, Truxton or Gunstar Heroes.
1 86%Game Brain Scoremusic, atmospheregameplay, graphics88% User Score 49 reviewsZero Wing is a side-scrolling shoot 'em up arcade game, notable for a poorly translated English version for Sega Mega Drive (Genesis) that spawned the "All your base are belong to us" Internet meme. Gameplay includes novel features such as being able to 'tractor' enemy ships, using them to shield your own.
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97%Game Brain Scoregameplaymusic, graphics97% User Score 59 reviewsTruxton 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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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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39%Game Brain Scoremusic, stability39% User Score 7 reviewsThe game features a 2D side-scrolling shoot 'em up style of gameplay and the character chosen by the player can be moved in 8 directions by the D-Pad. The player can move, shoot, dodge, and block. To block an enemy projectile, the player must place the power star in the path of the projectile. There is also an array of different weapons at the ships' disposal.
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97%Game Brain Scorestory, humormusic, stability97% User Score 52 reviewsVicious predators from the far ends of the universe are invading our planet! They’re mean and wicked, creating havoc everywhere they go! Time for the aptly named “Alien Busters” to take control, get nasty and kick some serious martian butt!
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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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40%Game Brain Scoremusicstability, story40% User Score 5 reviewsThe peaceful and prosperous solar system Junos was located at the end of the Milky Way. Those who called its five planets home had no idea what was about to happen... Halcyon, ruler of the Fourth Empire, had Junos marked as its final target in the galactic massacre, and had sent the bulk of his attacking force in with a single purpose – the elimination of all life forms in the system, and the cons…
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76%Game Brain Scoregameplay, graphicsstory, optimization77% User Score 86 reviewsCritic Score 75%7 reviewsFor the very first time, highly acclaimed Japanese Arcade Shoot’em Ups: Vasara and Vasara 2 are made available to the whole world via this package: Vasara Collection! Science Fiction meets History in these arcade classics which take place in an alternate timeline Feudal Japan where technologically advanced weaponry and equipment are a reality, and heroes use flying motorcycles with amazing firepo…
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The game takes place in 2215. Suddenly terrible news has come from the outskirts of the solar system: our civilization was attacked by the alien armies. A terrible war begins, humanity is surrounded, enemy space ships press the earth's army. The module in a body of the best robot-ship is sent to the space base of newcomers near the satellite of Saturn where main enemy forces are concentrated...
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50%Game Brain Score50% User Score 11 reviewsCritic Score 80%1 reviewsPolicenauts is an interactive movie/graphic novel/adventure game with a hard science fiction storyline, written and directed by Hideo Kojima, and published by Konami. It was initially released for the PC-9821 computer platform in 1994, followed by remade versions for the 3DO in 1995, and the PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1996. The game has never been officially released outside Japan, despite pla…
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