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PayPalReady for the pew pew pew? Steam is hosting their very own SHMUP Fest, so keep an eye out for stray bullets heading towards your wallet.
Live now until October 2nd 10AM PT / 5PM UTC there's discounts and demos across many different games that in some way get classed as a shoot-em-up. As we know, Steam is often quite generous on what it allows to be tagged so you might find some rather odd picks in there.
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To get you going here's a few picks of games I think are quality and discounted right now:
- MOTHERGUNSHIP - 80% off - Deck Verified
- Tower of Guns - 75% off - Linux Native
- Assault Android Cactus+ - 75% off - Linux Native - Deck Verified
- Enter the Gungeon - 70% off - Linux Native - Deck Verified
- Brigador: Up-Armored Edition - 64% off - Linux Native - Deck Playable
- Soulstone Survivors - 25% off - Linux Native - Deck Playable
- Brotato - 20% off - Deck Verified
- 20 Minutes Till Dawn - 20% off - Deck Verified
- Roto Force - 20% off - Linux Native - Deck Verified
Check out the SHMUP Fest here.
If you do find anything particularly entertaining, do come back and give us a comment with your thoughts. Help out your fellow GOL readers to find their next SHMUP to kill some time with.
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You guys make me feel like an old nerd or something... I've never seen "SHMUP" before lol
(I had to see the list of games to clue in that it was a contraction of "shoot em up"... rather than some new kind of RPG acronym or something)
(I had to see the list of games to clue in that it was a contraction of "shoot em up"... rather than some new kind of RPG acronym or something)
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You guys make me feel like an old nerd or something... I've never seen "SHMUP" before lol
The term "shmup" is believed to have been coined in 1985 by the British Commodore 64 magazine Zzap!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shoot_%27em_up
The term might be older than you in fact.
Last edited by Julius on 25 September 2023 at 7:06 pm UTC
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The term might be older than you in fact.
Older than my gaming/computing days, 1985 Commodore. Other than some poky-stabby use of a pharmacy dispensary computer, I wasn't using computers pre-1985.
I think it was about 1987 or so when we got a DOS computer at home. I had a few silly games on 5.25 inch floppy that I got from others. Back then you'd sys the disk and configure DOS for the game and boot with it :-)
My first exposure to Unix was around then too, the university campus I went to had a Unix environment. "The genuine AT&T Unix" as boasted by profs lol
Last edited by Grogan on 25 September 2023 at 7:30 pm UTC
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Linux_Rocks Sep 25, 2023
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Woodlandor Sep 25, 2023
You guys make me feel like an old nerd or something... I've never seen "SHMUP" before lol
(I had to see the list of games to clue in that it was a contraction of "shoot em up"... rather than some new kind of RPG acronym or something)
At first I read Shrimp Fest 😋
I had to read it again, but now I’m hungry.
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There are a fair few games in this genre that I've enjoyed over the years, so off I go to take a look - and possibly to make my wallet wince. 
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Everyday you get a free sticker by going to the shmup sale page and claiming it......... The same as if it was a major sale.......
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Mushihimesama by Cave.This gives me so much anxiety.
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Everyday you get a free sticker by going to the shmup sale page and claiming it......... The same as if it was a major sale.......Thanks for the tip! I didn't notice that.
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I recommend Assault Android Cactus, great game
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fenglengshun Sep 26, 2023
>Me: "Oh, hey, that's nice, maybe Touhou finally..."
>Checks Mountain of Faith's Steam page
>No discount
Haha, ZUN really is not into discount. You buy it full price (which tbf is pretty low all things considered), or you buy it never.
>Checks Mountain of Faith's Steam page
>No discount
Haha, ZUN really is not into discount. You buy it full price (which tbf is pretty low all things considered), or you buy it never.
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I'm on the verge of buying Atomicrops which is on 80% discount at the moment. Just watched a Wanderbots video of gameplay, and as quite a fan of Nuclear Throne and the various Vampire Survivors clones, I think it'd be up my alley.
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Linux_Rocks Sep 26, 2023
It's actually not as hard as it looks. Once you figure out the movements, you can make it through a lot of that without dying. lolMushihimesama by Cave.This gives me so much anxiety.
I originally bought Mushihimesama on Steam when it released cause it wasn't region free on the 360 like Mushihimesama Futari. But when it dropped on the Switch I got Mushihimesama on there too. Cause I'd rather play it on there, and I also got the physical copy from Limited Run Games. I'm really surprised that Mushihimesama Futari hasn't had a Steam release though.
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