Prolly 80% of the stuff on my steam deck is shmups bc it's the only gender of games I can really stick with bc scrolling shooter shit in a spaceship is timeless and quick to jump into. Idk care if it's anime horse shit like mushihimesama since its cave., most shmups own. I'm trying to find new stuff I haven't played before since I got this thing again. I got rtype final 2, all of the cave games, dariusburst, that fantastic crimson clover and a few others including shit on mame but I need more recs
What's the deal with those tofu or whatever games. I don't care about the neurodivergent weeb fandom, are the games actually good shooters and what are the good ones to get
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Most of them stink but because they're hardcore weebshit, still get a lot of attention and praise simply because of that.
There's a lot of good western/indie made shmups but because so many shooter fans are weeb-adjacent, they largely get ignored.
The Steam store lists over 6000 games with that tag
https://store.steampowered.com/search/?sort_by=Name_ASC&tags=4255&category1=998%2C21&ndl=1
But even when you throw out 25% of them for being straight up garbage, scams, or mis-tags, that's still a lot.
I own and have played many of them, so if you have any specific games you want to know about, let me know. Looking through my recent plays, Void Gore was a fun one that uses a roguelike mechanic. Batsugun is one of my all-times, as is Donpachi (not on Steam) and DoDonpachi. Sky Force Anniversary and Reloaded are great western shooters. Etc etc. Don't know where to begin, there's probably 500-1000 games in that list that are good.
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Oh wtf Batsugun is on steam? Impressive.
Even tho mame makes up for it I'd love to see battle garegga, psy ra de and batrider get updated versions
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