A shoot em up playable directly in the browser made by Daniel Duh.

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Tags: arcade, BROWSER, shmup, shoot, unity

SideLine is a 2D side-scrolling shooter for DOS computers, created in the mid-90’s by a Taiwanese group called EMAG (Electronic Music and Animated Graphics, also GAME backwards). In October of 2013 a group of fans received permission from the game’s producer Jiun-Ming “Jimmy” Hwang to distribute SideLine’s original version.

Since the game requires DOSbox to run, this game is available for Windows, Linux and Mac.

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Tags: dos, gradius, r-type, RETRO, shmup, shooter, sideline

TinyXEVIVOS is a remake based on the classic arcade shooter Xevious.

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Tags: arcade, japan, RETRO, shmup, Tiny, xevious, xevivos, zakichi

Towering Skies is a side-scrolling shoot-emup that takes place in the land of Solis. As the mercenary pilot of the Skytanic, you’re tasked with fighting off the invading alien forces of Xentera. You will shoot your machine, missiles, and overcharge laser through swarms of corrupted enemies to collect powerups and save your home world.

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Tags: arcade, shmup, shoot, shooter, skies, towering

Project Root is a new shoot’em up, mix of Desert Strike,R-Type and Axelay with a free camera mode.

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Tags: Opqam, project, Project Root, RETRO, root, shmup, shoot

Sloth Patrol is a 100% realistic sloth simulator. The game is based on years of painstaking research by Dr Jacques Girardeau, the world’s preeminent sloth behavioral expert. Dr Girardeau spent 18 months living in the trees of Central America studying a sloth clan for the purposes of designing this game. The clan of sloths slowly attacked him each day for invading its territory. In Sloth Patrol, you play Julio Treewalker, a top fighter pilot enlisted to protect the sloth homeworld of Slothonia. Opposing you is the evil Possum Empire, which is intent on galactic domination. Possum forces are led by the evil Colonel Hisser, the sworn enemy of Julio Treewalker. With the help of your commanding officer, Admiral Leafchewer, you will join Julio in his battles against the Possum Empire. Help Julio rid the galaxy of Possum tyranny!

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Tags: patrol, shmup, shooter, sloth, TraxmasterSoftware

Death Sky is a old school arcade top down airplane shooter. You must survive wave after wave of opposing forces while you collect air crates that will provide you random arsenal of weapons (inspired by vlambeer’s Super Crate Box mechanics). You level up and gain points, get stronger or faster, or sacrifice points for more life. Its all up to you. Can you survive the death sky?

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Tags: death, KillAllBotz, shmup, sky

Gaurodan, the bird of thunder is reborn is a brand new game from Locomalito. Fly around the Canary Islands as Gaurodan, and destroy cities, armies and colossal creatures in your path throught this frantic shmup, Guarodan is inspired by early titles like Defender, Choplifter or Sky Kid in terms of gameplay, and has a similar production style to other arcade games like Commando, Gyrodine or 1942.

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Tags: birf, Gaurodan, locomalito, RETRO, shmup, thunder

BROFORCE is being developed at Free Lives, a small South African studio. The game is inspired by the games developers have played, Contra, Metal Slug, and the work of Derek Yu (Spelunky) and Vlambeer (Infinite Swat, Super Crate Box). They are trying to make this game for everyone who loves 90s action movies (or just hilarious tactical platformer violence).

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Tags: arcade, broforce, metal, pixel, shmup, shooter, slug

Legendary Wings is a game inspired by the saga Thunder Force created by Technosoft.

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Tags: Force, japan, legendary, RETRO, shmup, Technosoft, thunder, Wings