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A short, difficult side-scrolling space shooter with six arcade-style levels, marred by technical issues and punishing no-checkpoint design.

Project X: Light Years
A demanding 2D horizontal shoot-'em-up with punishing-but-fair combat, local co-op split-screen play, and a short campaign clocking in at around 5.5 hours for reviewers.
2025-08-15
- Action
- Science fiction

Indie

Side view

Arcade

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Super Hydorah

A retro-styled nonlinear shmup with co-op and branching paths, but reviewers find its slow ship and unfair damage frustrating.

2017-09-20

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Indie
Side view
Arcade

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Space Warpster

A fast-paced, single-player 2D side-scrolling shoot 'em up with pixel art and old-school reflex play, praised by reviewers as a short but enjoyable arcade run.

2026-06-11

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Survival
Indie
Side view
Arcade

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1917 - The Alien Invasion DX

A short bullet hell shooter where a WW1 female pilot uses alien technology to fight memorized waves of invaders across Earth and space.

2016-06-10

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Bird view / Isometric
Indie
Arcade

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Starr Mazer: DSP

A single-player, side-scrolling shoot 'em up where you pilot experimental fighters against a quirky G'ell invasion; it's hard, retro-styled, with short sessions (median ~80 minutes).

2016-08-26

Action
Science fiction
Indie

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NEONSKY

A punishing futuristic aerial-combat arcade game where you pilot a glass-like fighter, upgrade it, and survive enemy waves and bosses in short, reflex-driven sessions.

2026-04-17

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Amaranthine

A single-player horizontal scrolling shooter with procedural generation and warp travel to a frozen planet, delivering fast-paced mouse-controlled combat in a short ~85-minute arcade experience.

2016-04-06

Action
Indie

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Tameshi

Tameshi is a single-player side-scrolling shmup with pixel-art visuals and power-up-driven combat, offering intense but potentially repetitive shooting, with a brief playtime among reviewers.

2023-12-14

Shooter
Action
Arcade

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Infinos Gaiden

A single-player, indie side-scrolling shooter with 7 stages, a retro 90s arcade feel, and punishing difficulty, lasting roughly 5 hours.

2018-01-19

Shooter
Action
Science fiction
Indie
Side view
Arcade

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Promethium

A demanding retro side-scrolling shoot-'em-up with one-hit deaths and levels that escalate in difficulty.

2017-08-18

Action
Indie

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Starshot

A challenging single-player space shoot-em-up with rogue-like runs, random levels, and ship upgrades in an automated facility; hard, addictive, and rewarding, with reviewers typically playing about two hours.

2020-08-16

Action

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Absolute Blue

A single-player, fast-paced sidescrolling space shooter with a 90s retro look and unforgiving wall collisions.

2018-04-21

Shooter
Action
Indie
Side view