Ranged weapons
Tools theme
11
games
6platforms
Notable people involved: Matthias Totz, Wendell Hicken, Miguel Angel Blanch Lardin, Anders Asplund and Steve Ierodiaconou
Games by year
Daylight Studios, Prismic Studios, Randomnine and 8 Bit Weapon published most of these games.
Most common companies
Child groups
| Artillery | Includes cannons and other indirect fire weapons. | 1979 / 2020 | 99 games | |
| Auto-cannons | A cross between tank gun and a heavy machine gun. | 2003 / 2016 | 21 games | |
| Bows | 1977 / 2023 | 680 games | ||
| Crossbows | 1980 / 2023 | 312 games | ||
| Direct-fire cannons | Large-caliber direct-fire guns. | 1980 / 2024 | 148 games | |
| Firearms | Player can use projectile weapons that use a controlled explosion to propel a bullet at the intended target. | 1975 / 2024 | 2501 games | |
| Gunblades | Weapons that are primarily designed for melee combat but have functionality of a gun or are otherwise capable of being used as projectile weapons (such as through magic). Commonly appear as swords, but can be anything. | 1981 / 2021 | 52 games | |
| Guns | Any projectile weapons or devices that propel their payload via non-mechanical method (e.g. no sling or bow sending it flying). | 1983 / 2009 | 2 games | |
| Machine guns | Large full-auto support weapons with medium to large caliber bullets and high capacity magazines or belts. Some machine guns also have burst and semi-auto options. Larger varieties are vehicle mounted and too bulky for humans to carry alone. | 1984 / 2022 | 381 games | |
| Mortars | A type of indirect fire infantry weapon. | 2005 / 2017 | 24 games | |
| Nailguns | Includes a weapon that shoots nails, short spikes or similar projectiles. | 1996 / 2016 | 60 games | |
| Siege weapons | Large weapons designed to circumvent or break fortifications. | 1982 / 2021 | 30 games | |
| Slings | An archaic hunting weapon used to propel small objects - usually specifically shaped rocks - at game animals. | 1983 / 2023 | 61 games | |
| Spearguns | Includes weapons that launch a long-ish spear or similar projectile at their target, normally used for fishing in form of harpoon guns. | 2000 / 2016 | 46 games | |
| Superguns | Extremely large cannons with range and firepower to match. Rather unconventional due to their size. | 1992 / 2024 | 21 games | |
| Thrown weapons | 1979 / 2022 | 492 games |