Shooter

Description

Shooters are action games in which the player character shoots enemies.

The shooting is usually performed with firearms in these games; however, any weapon that dispatches projectiles qualifies, which makes many games (e.g. Heretic) that rely on medieval ranged weaponry or even magical projectiles shooters as well.

There are many shooter sub-genres, including fixed-screen shooters, scrolling shooters, rail shooters, and others.

Since the emergence of 3D graphics, 3D shooters, popularized by Wolfenstein 3D and Doom, have become the leading representatives of the genre. This sub-genre is sometimes referred to as first-person shooter, though this definition is not very precise, since the genre's distinguishing feature are 3D environments, not the perspective; some 3D shooters allow players to switch between perspectives, while others enforce a third-person view.

3D shooters may incorporate elements of other genres, most commonly role-playing (e.g. System Shock games and Deus Ex).

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Firo & Klawd Windows (1998), PlayStation (1997), Windows 3.x (1998) and DOS (1996) In the depths of New York City live two animal cop characters living out their own dreams (Firo, an orange...
Flak Warrior Windows (2004) Flak Warrior is simple arcade shooter. The player takes care of a flak cannon and kills every plane which crosses...
Flames of Freedom DOS (1991), Atari ST (1991) and Amiga (1991) This sequel to Midwinter takes place years after the events of the first game. The world has thawed and Midwinter...
Flame Zapper Kotsujin PC-98 (1996) Flame Zapper Kotsujin is a vertically-scrolling sci-fi-themed shoot-em-up. The player controls a fighter spacecraft, advancing through five large levels swarming...
Flashback: The Quest for Identity DOS (1993), SNES (1993), Genesis (1993), Jaguar (1995), Amiga (1992), SEGA CD (1994), 3DO (1993), CD-i (1994), Macintosh (1995), iPhone (2009), Acorn 32-bit (1994) and FM Towns (1994) The year is 2142. The player takes control of Conrad B. Hart, a man who has lost his memory. After...
Flash Gear Solid VR: The NIKITA Missions Browser (2008) Flash Gear Solid VR: The NIKITA Missions is an unofficial game based on Metal Gear Solid: VR Missions where there...
Flash Gordon Atari 2600 (1983), Atari 8-bit (1983) and VIC-20 (1983) You are Flash Gordon. Many spacemen have entered Spider City but never returned. Your job, Flash, is two fold. Rescue...
Flash Point Videopac+ G7400 (2004) Flash Point is inspired by the arcade game Robotron. The story is that an alien fleet landed in the capital...
Flash Splash MSX (1984) Flash Splash is a basic vertical shooter. In this game you don't have to protect the earth from an alien...
Fleet Sweep PC Booter (1983) Fleet Sweep is a space shoot'em-up. There are eight different aliens, each with a different attack pattern. When you clear...
Fleuch 2.0 Amiga (1993) Fleuch is a conservative version of Thrust, which was never ported to the Amiga. You fly your spaceship above a...
Flightmare DOS (1984) Fight off a band of vandals and punks with your airplane before they reach your city. One of the earliest...
Flight Simulator II Commodore 64 (1984), Amiga (1987), Apple II (1983), Atari ST (1987), Atari 8-bit (1984), TRS-80 CoCo (1987) and PC-98 (1986) This flight simulator simulates a real aircraft, the Piper PA-28-181 Archer II. For those with the knowledge, it offers practice...
flowers of error Windows (2008) flowers of error is an abstract shoot-em-up developed for the 2008 Toronto Game Jam. Players control a small white circle...
Flyer Fox Commodore 64 (1984) and ZX Spectrum (1986) In the world of Flyer Fox, civil aviation has become a highly dangerous endeavor. Aerial terrorists routinely shoot down commercial...
Fly Harder Amiga (1993), Amiga CD32 (1994) and Commodore 64 (1993) Your homeland's precious limited energy is being taken advantage of by the evil Thargoid Empire, and you and your spaceship...
Flying Heroes Windows (2000) Take your favorite air mount creature and do Air Battles against other sky pilots in this fantasy 3D shooter, which...
Flying Nightmares 3DO (1994) and Macintosh (1994) Flying Nightmares is a 3-D flight-sim game that has the player take to the controls of the Harrier jet, flying...
Flying Red Barrel ~Diary of a Little Aviator~ Windows (2012) Flying Red Barrel is a top-down, vertically-scrolling bullet hell shooter with planes. The story revolves around the Blue Sky Union,...
Flying Saucer Windows (1998) You are Boon, a military pilot, who lives together with Emily in a house somewhere in the USA. Your brother...
Flying Tigers DOS (1994) Flying Tigers is a simple overhead shooter in the spirit of Raiden and Raptor. In the year 2047, a terrorist...
Flying Tigers II DOS (1994) Obviously a sequel to Flying Tigers, this game makes us the pilot of a hi-tech ship, known as "Flying Tiger"....
Flyout Windows (2007) Flyout is a vertically-scrolling shoot-em-up written for the Shmup-Dev Autofire 2007 competition. The player controls a small ship flying up...
Forbes Corporate Warrior Windows (1997) Forbes Corporate Warrior uses the first person shooter genre as a metaphor for the cutthroat business world. The premise is...
Forbidden Planet Amstrad CPC (1986) and ZX Spectrum (1986) The Evil Lord has set up a system of defences on the Forbidden Planet, to help him return to power....