Article category: Twin-stick shooter

Steam Bullet Heaven Festival 2.0 is live to show off the explosive growth of the genre

By Liam Dawe, Dec 5

Bullet Heavens are all the rage right now from Vampire Survivors to Brotato and everything in between them, so Valve launched have a little mini festival to celebrate them all.

Hotloop is a twin-stick shooter where you fling yourself around using gravity from planets

By Liam Dawe, Nov 19

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Need some fresh twin-stick shooting fun? Hotloop looks like a nice one, with an interesting gravity mechanic to throw your ship around using gravity from various planets.

Yawnoc is chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata

By Liam Dawe, Nov 13

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With the source code available along with the game, Yawnoc is a chaotic top-down shooter rogue-lite inspired by Conway's Game of Life and other cellular automata that's out now.

Create completely ridiculous weapons in survive-em-up roguelite shooter NIMRODS: GunCraft Survivor

By Liam Dawe, Oct 28

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NIMRODS: GunCraft Survivor on the surface may look just like yet another survivor-like, but it has captured my total attention in a way not many have been able to. It's just thoroughly great.

That's the weekend sorted! Brotato adds 4 player local co-op and Abyssal Terrors DLC out now

By Liam Dawe, Oct 25

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My favourite top-down arena shooter rogue-lite, Brotato, has a free update and big new DLC out now with Brotato: Abyssal Terrors.

Cleared Hot looks like the nostalgic helicopter shooter I need

By Liam Dawe, Oct 21

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With fond memories of playing the likes of Desert Strike for endless hours, Cleared Hot looks exactly what I've been wanting in a modern take on it.

Get some quality twin-stick shooters in the latest Humble Bundle

By Liam Dawe, Oct 5

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Want some quality twin-stick shooters? Check out the new Twin Stick 'Em Up Humble Bundle that's now live.

Minishoot' Adventures developers rebuilt their UI to get it Steam Deck Verified

By Liam Dawe, Aug 13

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Well, SoulGame Studio certainly have my attention for their effort on getting Minishoot' Adventures up to Steam Deck Verified. Plus, the game looks really entertaining.

Codename: Ocean Keeper takes Dome Keeper and puts you in an underwater twin-stick mech

By Liam Dawe, Jul 23

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Take the mining and defense idea from Dome Keeper, stick you in an underwater mech with exploration and twin-stick shooting and you've got Codename: Ocean Keeper.

The ridiculously fun Windowkill gets modding support with a source code release

By Liam Dawe, Apr 8

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Windowkill is a fantastic twin-stick shooter, where the game window is constantly shrinking on you and enemies spawn across multiple windows. It's truly clever and now it has full customization available via the newly introduced modding support.

Rightfully, Beary Arms is an incredibly bizarre bullet-hell shooter

By Liam Dawe, Jul 31, 2023

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Rightfully, Beary Arms is a weird and wonderfully whacky twin-stick shooter rogue-lite that's now in Early Access with Native Linux support and it works on the Steam Deck too.

Roto Force is a rotating twin-stick bullet-hell and it's glorious

By Liam Dawe, Jul 19, 2023

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If you're in the need for a new game to pick up and play I can happily recommend Roto Force to you. A high-energy 2D twin-stick bullet-hell where you rotate around little arenas and it's just chaos.

Brotato 1.0 is out now and it's a damn good time

By Liam Dawe, Jun 25, 2023

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Brotato is something just a little bit special isn't it? Blobfish have managed to craft something that really stands out in a sea of twin-stick bullet-hell vampire survivor-likes that keep flowing.

Beat Hazard 3 gets a "Huge" optimization for Steam Deck

By Liam Dawe, Feb 27, 2023

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Beat Hazard 3 is a music-driven twin-stick shooter currently in Early Access, and it should now play a whole lot better on Steam Deck.

Brotato is going to be my next horde-survival arena-shooter obsession

By Liam Dawe, Sep 30, 2022

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If you don't hear from me much over the next week it's because I've discovered Brotato. Another in the list of wave-based horde survival games and it's honestly great.

Don't Shit On My #!$@& Roof is the latest 2D horde shooter out now

By Liam Dawe, Sep 27, 2022

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You know me by now, I'm going to play everything I can that in some way resembles Vampire Survivors and this new influx of horde games and Don't Shit On My #!$@& Roof is the latest.

This Vampire Survivors styled game has you defend against pigeons pooping on your house

By Liam Dawe, Sep 13, 2022

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Pigeons, they can be a menace flying around pooping everywhere and this developer decided to make a game styled like Vampire Survivors about it.

Waves and Waves 2: Notorious are now free after developer passed away

By Liam Dawe, Aug 24, 2022

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Waves and Waves 2: Notorious are two rather good twin-stick shooters and sadly, the developer died after a battle with Cancer and so now both games are free to keep for everyone.

Twin-stick shooter Titan Shell looks intense and will be supported on Linux

By Liam Dawe, Aug 16, 2022

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Titan Shell is an in-development twin-stick shooter from Meatbag Studio that blends in features from roguelikes / rogue-lites to offer a pretty interesting experience not many such shooters give you.

Modern twin-stick cave-flyer 'Gravity Ace' is out now and it's great

By Liam Dawe, May 27, 2022

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Remember the days when games were a lot simpler, and you had various attempts at cave-flying? Well, I do and the new release Gravity Ace brings back some fun memories while making a modern spin.

Category: Twin-stick shooter