Any other modern Shoot-Em-Ups for PC you can recommend?

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

After playing this game a fire has ignited in my heart and I have a burning desire to find more Shoot-Em-Up games, like this one.

Can anyone recommend some. I am looking for ones particularlty withe either HD 2D, or 3d modelled modern ones. top-down and side scroilling are fine. It also doesn't matter to me if they are on Steam, or other PC platforms as long as they are on the PC format.

I really want to find a real graphic powerhouse that would make great use of a GTX1080, but haven;t found one of those to date. (Oh boy I wish for a 30+ Gb Shoot-Em-Up with amazing intricate detail, typically reserved for FPS and RPG games. Hopefully some dev can heed that call)

[VJFranzK]

"Shmups" ; - ) remember to search the obvious

[Spectrum Legacy]

Sorry guys, I know not much about facebook/discord groups and this kind of stuff.

Anyway Boofette, I totally forgot one another recommendation for vertical shmup, and it's a classic one + freebie too. Tyrian 2000 over at gog.com or perhaps available also elsewhere (or maybe it's diffferent/modded version, I dunno honestly).

Not the easiest game for sure and the screen can get cluttered easily, but it won't hurt to give it a try.

https://www.gog.com/game/tyrian_2000

Gog also has the Stargunner as freebie, but that's a horizontal shmup. I've liked it back in the day.

[Spectrum Legacy]

Aye it's pretty oldschool game but packs a lot of extras, modes and goodies (like there is a tool to draw your own ship for use ingame etc). Anyway, I just did a fresh install of Tyrian 2000 via gog and with default preset it ran right away using the mouse for menu navigation and both ship movement and shooting. Only thing is that I had to unplug gamepad and flightstick prior to launching the game, since it kept picking up interference from gamepad.

Also game ran in fullscreen but it was the original low-res, so gameplay area was tiny, with black bars. Gotta check the dosbox settings, because the gog version runs using dosbox and you can tweak the output somewhat. Although I think it allows only normal x3 scaler as the largest one out of the box (or you can play in window I imagine).

[Spectrum Legacy]

No probs really! I got reminded about the game since gogcom did twitch-stream the other day featuring Tyrian and I realized that I completely forgot to mention it. Download itself is rather tiny by contemporary standards, around 20-25Mb only. The gog version is already pre-set, so you can just hop in and play. However launching the dosbox setup utility first is pretty easy and would get you a bigger/better picture I imagine...there are only a couple of options to go through anyway, very simple imo.

I imagine you have gog.com account already and either downloaded tyrian installer or used gog galaxy client for downloads/installs (it's client similar to simplified steam). After you install Tyrian 2000, head to its folder (e.g. c:/GOG/Tyrian 2000), locate "DOSBox configuration" shortcut and launch it. Alternatively you can find it in Start menu under gog.com/tyrian 2000 I reckon.

My personal settings would be as follows:

Basic settings
Graphic mode: surface / fullscreen on

Advanced settings
Keep aspect ratio off / double buffering off / scaling engine: normal3x / mouse sensitivity 100 / window resolution: original

Save settings and then launch the game.

This way you get fullscreen with nice square pixels. Although if you wish to run it in windowed mode instead, go with fullscreen off etc - pretty simple to check what's what. Just don't forget to save your settings/changes first. Also if you want different scaling look, try other scaling filters (I don't like them much as they blur out those pixels, but some people like those effects).

Then you have some ingame options, but they are simple too (like visual quality settings: pentium is the best/highest one) and you can change the speed of the game and some other interesting things there too.

It's oldschool but a nice freebie, well worth a try. Besides, your ship can be upgraded into a giant flying carrot shooting hot-dogs! And I don't see that everyday

P.S. There are more freebies on gog https://www.gog.com/games?page=1&sort=release_asc&price=free Some really good games hidden among demos and free dlcs.

[Lone Wolfe (Hoover1979)]

Boofette a écrit :

Ok, Spectrum....I went to GOG and d/l Tyrian 2000. I played a little bit, and went into the DOSbox, which like you said.....was very easy & straightforward. Playing with a mouse is going to take a lot of adjusting, cuz the response lags and there's no sensitivity setting....that I saw. But overall, you're right....it is quite fun. I like the upgradable ships & weapons too. But....I've got it now, so I can take my time to get better. Thanks for nudging me to get it. :)

You can also try OpenTyrian which doesn't use DOSBox. It's a source port that you can download for free here:
https://bitbucket.org/opentyrian/opentyrian/wiki/Home

[Spectrum Legacy]

Sweet, glad to hear you got it up and running!
I have to agree that there is some lag and floaty feel present when you use mouse for controls in Tyrian (or it's the ship's inertia effect modelled in on top of it) and I don't think there is much we can do here with actual lag, except to play it in fullscreen mode (which you are already doing I believe). Input lag in general is worse in windowed modes.
Mouse settings in Windows has this feature called "enhance pointer precision" that can have negative effect on mouse control in games (it's pretty much built-in acceleration that can throw you off if you are not used to it). I have it always off since ever, but haven't tried how much it affect certain games or whether it even has that great of an effect in dosbox games. Better safe than sorry though...

Mouse sensitivity can be changed however in the dosbox config utility. I've tried to lower it to 50 from 100 and it seemed considerably less wild to control. But it all depends on your mouse, dpi and its settings in windows. But on the other hand, I haven't played many shmups with mouse nor touch controls, so I'm not an expert in this regard. Still, for 1995 game re-released in 99-2000 it's not a bad performer and can get you going in the genre.

Second option is to try the opensource version as Hoover mentioned, which runs natively on your OS without emulation (dosbox) and thus perform better on wider range of contemporary hardware. Probably comes in with some gameplay changes and/or fixes too.

Third option is to get something newer, like those Skyforce games - if you haven't played them on mobile already that is.

Anyway, whether you play vanilla version, sourceport or some other shump, enjoy and have fun!

[VJFranzK]

on iOS, you may be amused by Phoenix 2.
https://youtu.be/yYsEyxaPDDk

[VanAlphen]

Nice Bullet Hell Shmup:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/650780/

[Ninja Savior]

just realized, today is this thread 2nd anniversary.

[MrLunk]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/389650/Stardust_Galaxy_Warriors_Stellar_Climax/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/404540/Nex_Machina/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/618740/Beat_Hazard_2/?curator_clanid=33303587

[Spectrum Legacy]

Since nobody posted anything in more than a year, I'll add a couple of decent Shmups. There were quite some good releases, mostly smaller indie/doujin titles (e.g. games from Astro port, Triangle service, etc). Ports of classics like the Psikyo collection made it to steam (thanks to City connection), however they were rather barebone releases sold for a hefty premium here. Capcom arcade stadium featuring a good couple of shmups is supposed to get released here later on, so there is something to look forward to among other things.

Horizontal goodness:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/771070/Infinos_Gaiden/

Something vertical for a change:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/654500/Super_XYX/

I wonder how will this one turn out - found it among upcoming releases:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574750/Super_Retro_Fighter/

I should also mention Vasara collection, Steel empire, RagingBlasters or smaller titles like Space moth dx, Beekyr reloaded, etc. The rest skips my mind for now.

[Ikagura]

Spectrum Legacy a écrit :

Since nobody posted anything in more than a year, I'll add a couple of decent Shmups. There were quite some good releases, mostly smaller indie/doujin titles (e.g. games from Astro port, Triangle service, etc). Ports of classics like the Psikyo collection made it to steam (thanks to City connection), however they were rather barebone releases sold for a hefty premium here. Capcom arcade stadium featuring a good couple of shmups is supposed to get released here later on, so there is something to look forward to among other things.

Horizontal goodness:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/771070/Infinos_Gaiden/

Something vertical for a change:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/654500/Super_XYX/

I wonder how will this one turn out - found it among upcoming releases:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/1574750/Super_Retro_Fighter/

I should also mention Vasara collection, Steel empire, RagingBlasters or smaller titles like Space moth dx, Beekyr reloaded, etc. The rest skips my mind for now.

I've wishlisted the last one.

[sora's 青かった星]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/390730/Sora/

[Fry McFly]

On Steam? None at all! Because there is no game of the caliber of SWIV here.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U06qKApT0aA