Shoot 'Em Up Games

Point, fire, survive. This shelf holds the games where the screen pushes back: gems that split into shards, bees that dive in pairs, missiles that chain, bubbles that pop and pop-up windows that pile up. Each one runs on a simple control and a score you can chase. Rules take a minute to read and a good while longer to master.

18 shooters games, oldest first

Chevron Descent 1978 Forty-five chevrons march down and step faster as they thin. Shoot, hide behind the barriers, catch the comet.
Phosphor Parry 1979 Spin a shield arc around your reactor and bounce shards back. What they hit explodes, and the blast spreads.
Splinter Storm 1979 Faceted gems split into smaller gems. Chain the breaks inside a second to push the multiplier to x4.
Domewatch 1980 Three silos, six domes and a sky of splitting warheads. Chain your blasts for big points.
Beam Lanes 1981 Five glowing rails, one ship that hops between them. Shoot the raiders sliding down, watch the hoppers flash before they switch rails, and fire the lane-clear beam when the meter fills.
Aphid Assault 1983 A line of cartoon aphids winds down the garden, turning at every mushroom. Hit one and the line splits in two. Keep them out of your patch at the bottom.
Skyline Salvage 1986 Wear raider wreckage as a shield or fling it as a piercing lance. A boss arrives every fifth wave.
Swarm Sortie 1986 Bees swirl in, hold formation, then peel off in pairs to dive. A diver is worth five times as much.
Sum Comet 1998 A sum hangs in the sky and comets fall carrying numbers. Shoot the one with the answer. Pick adding, subtracting or times tables, how big the numbers are and how fast the comets fall.
Bubblewrap Blitz 2000 Pump coloured bubbles into the wrap. Match three to pop and anything left dangling drops for a bonus.
Banner Blaster 2002 Pop-up windows split when shot and pile up on your desktop. Golden FREE windows give triple shot.
Margin Marauders 2008 Doodle invaders march down a notebook page. Draw pencil ramps to slide them off the edge.
Gourdwatch 2013 Five pumpkins, one lantern and a long spooky-cute night. Tap to flash lantern light: it shoos mischievous crows, hushes tumbling vines into flowers and gathers fireflies. Keep the patch glowing until dawn.
Hoop Havoc 2013 Fly a little tri-blade through a big dark arena and pop wave after wave of glowing rings before they pop you. Thirteen ring types, five powerups.
Ringkeep 2014 Draw lines of light to cut down the red ones racing for your base. Keep the ring growing, grab coins, and buy upgrades between levels.
Wardstone Quartet 2014 Earth, Water, Air and Fire towers hold a winding road, and each element hits one other for half again as much. Twenty waves, four bosses, thirteen lives.
Hexhold 2022 Hold the hearth on a small hex map. Before each of 15 waves you are dealt build cards (towers, walls, upgrades, a mend) and place them; gloom critters take the shortest open road from three gates, so your walls bend their path. Pick a relic after waves 5 and 10. Score is waves cleared plus hearth left.
Marrowmancer 2022 A grumpy cartoon necromancer holds his crypt against the angry villagers. Lob spells, raise the fallen as skeletons, and trade souls for rituals.