Shooter
Game genre theme
Informal group for finding shooter sub-genres.
22
games
9platforms
Parent groups
Games by year
Mosoft and Milwaukee Coin Industries published most of these games.
This is a container group; its children are:
Arena FPS/TPS | Arena-style first/third-person shooters that have fast-paced, twitch/skill-based gameplay in fairly small locations with powerups strewn across them. Equipment is only gained as pickups within the levels themselves. Commonly PvP oriented. | 1999 / 2017 | 59 games |
Corridor Shooter | A shooter sub-genre where player follows narrow paths with little to no choice where to go. (too short) | 1982 / 2015 | 22 games |
First-person shooter | A shooter from first-person perspective with fairly free movement (not locked to a grid, rails, or autoscrolling) and view direction. As such, despite the name, simply being from 1st person perspective and being a shooter is not enough to qualify. | 1973 / 2023 | 1986 games |
Fixed shooter | A shooter sub-genre where each level fits within a single screen and the main character movement is fixed to a single axis of motion (commonly left and right along the bottom) or no movement at all. | 1973 / 2024 | 1483 games |
Gallery shooter | A type of shooter where player control is limited to a reticle across a screen or a light gun where any movement is out of player's control. Generally mimics shooting gallery games found in carnivals. | 1977 / 2016 | 30 games |
Hero Shooter | A class-based (the heroes) PvP multiplayer shooter game where classes are distinct characters. Usually from first person perspective but is not necessarily so. | 0 game | |
Rail shooter | A shooter sub-genre where the player is stuck on a relatively linear path with few or no branches, can't stray far from it and viewing angles are limited (usually none but what the virtual "rails" dictate). | 1982 / 2020 | 130 games |
Run and Gun | Shoot 'em up sub-genre, with both horizontal or vertical scrolling and may feature multidirectional movement. | 1972 / 2023 | 1145 games |
Shoot 'em up | Informal group for finding shmup sub-genres. (too short) | container group | |
Third-person shooter | A derivative genre of first-person shooters with same restrictive qualifiers, but from third-person perspective instead. | 1995 / 2000 | 5 games |
Twin-stick shooter | A shooter sub-genre characterized by two (joy)stick control with no buttons needed to shoot, one stick controls movement while the other stick controls shooting (both direction and the action). | 1980 / 2021 | 117 games |