Category: Top-down shooter

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Lead a team of mercenaries in the tactical top-down shooter Regulators out now

By Liam Dawe, 21 May 2025

Originally called Regulator City and now just Regulators, it's the latest action game from indie developer Orangepixel known for the likes of Gunslugs, Heroes of Loot, Residual and more.

Metal Thunder puts you in a the gunner seat of an AC-130 with progression popularised by Vampire Survivors

By Liam Dawe, 7 May 2025

This is quite a unique experience. Merging the progression system made popular by Vampire Survivors, with the aerial combat of Call of Duty's AC-130 missions. Metal Thunder definitely has a fun idea to it.

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Frontline Crisis is a tough but engaging mix of tower defense and top-down shooting with a big mech

By Liam Dawe, 28 Aug 2024

Developer BCQT released Frontline Crisis earlier in August, and like a lot of smaller games it seems to have flown under the radar but if you love tower defense and top down shooting you need to play this.

Glyphica: Typing Survival brings typing games into the survivor-like era

By Liam Dawe, 13 May 2024

Survivor-likes, bullet-heaven horde-games are everywhere after Vampire Survivors showed up and now one developer is attempting to do the same with a typing game in Glyphica: Typing Survival.

Brotato: Abyssal Terrors is going to ruin my free time, especially with co-op

By Liam Dawe, 11 Apr 2024

Oh no, please no more, I have so little time as it is. Brotato: Abyssal Terrors has been announced as the first DLC for the excellent top-down arena shooter roguelite Brotato and it's full of goodies.

Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess releases in June, inspired by classic Desert Strike

By Liam Dawe, 1 Mar 2024

Anyone remember Desert Strike? Jungle Strike? Urban Strike? Well, Megacopter: Blades of the Goddess is for you! Built like the classics, although it looks a lot more wild, like something out of a fever dream.

Check out the awesome demo of Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor

By Liam Dawe, 28 Sep 2023

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor is an upcoming spin-off of the very popular online co-op mining action game Deep Rock Galactic, and now a public demo is up so you can try it too and you really should try this one.

Base-building, tower defense and digging — Lumencraft has it all

By Liam Dawe, 6 Mar 2023

Lumencraft is a pretty gorgeous top-down blending of base-building, where you need to set up defensive towers and a whole lot of digging.

Tower-defense base-building mining game Lumencraft adds procedural maps

By Liam Dawe, 24 Nov 2022

Lumencraft is a really interesting game that blends together elements of tower-defense, base-building, mining and a little Deep Rock Galactic in a top-down view. A big new release is out now and it's Steam Deck Verified with Native Linux support.

Space Bandit is a top-down shooter with slick tunes and a Hotline Miami vibe

By Liam Dawe, 3 Aug 2022

Space Bandit is a new Native Linux top-down shooter where you're running through cramped corridors on some space ship. It's got a whole lot of style and some great tunes too.

Check out the demo for Space Bandit, a shoot 'em up roguelite with 'annoyingly clever AI'

By Liam Dawe, 5 May 2022

Love a twin-stick shooter? How about one that features apparently clever AI? Check out Space Bandit, which has a demo available right now.

Lumencraft blends top-down shooting, Tower Defense and a destructible environment

By Liam Dawe, 13 Apr 2022

Lumencraft is a brand new release from developer 2Dynamic Games that is going to suck up far too much of my time, and might be a new favourite run blast through on my Steam Deck.

Action-shooter The Ascent is Steam Deck Verified, adds a little tweak for Deck players

By Liam Dawe, 15 Mar 2022

The Ascent is a solo and co-op top-down looter-shooter from Neon Giant and Curve Games. It got Steam Deck Verified, and so the developer made a fun little tweak for players on Deck.

Death Carnival shows off the absolutely insane PvP mode

By Liam Dawe, 16 Dec 2021

Death Carnival (previously known as BulletRage) is still in progress and a new trailer has just been shown off giving a little look into the PvP mode it will have.

Incredible top-down-shooter Brigador gets a huge free enhancement

By Liam Dawe, 8 Jun 2021

Brigador: Up-Armored Edition, a beautiful cyberpunk top-down shooter with awesome city-wide destruction has a big free upgrade out now for all players.

Star Drifters talk their Linux sales for titles like Danger Scavenger, plus a key giveaway

By Liam Dawe, 2 Jun 2021

Star Drifters recently did their first native Linux release with Danger Scavenger, so their Community & PR Manager got in touch to mention how it all went.

Top-down tactical shooter RUNNING WITH RIFLES had a massive surge in players recently

By Liam Dawe, 17 May 2021

After being available in some form since 2012, RUNNING WITH RIFLES seems to be finally hitting it big with a sudden surge of thousands flocking to the top-down tactical shooter.

Death Carnival to have full cross-platform online play, developer very positive on Linux

By Liam Dawe, 20 Apr 2021

Death Carnival, originally called BulletRage, is an upcoming fast-paced top-down shooter with extreme weapons & online multiplayer mayhem.

Sky Fleet will bring together base-building, tower defense and a shooter in the skies

By Liam Dawe, 16 Apr 2021

Building a city in the skies and defending it with towers, while you also ride an airship - Sky Fleet definitely blends a number of things together and it sounds great.