Top-down shooter games
Walk around and shoot things. You see the shooter from the top.
List of Top-down shooter games[edit]
This is a list of free/libre top-down shooter games:
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Bloodmasters | ![]() |
2007-05-02 | Top-down shooter, Arcade |
Bloodmasters is a top-down Arcade shooter written by Pascal vd Heiden. The latest version of the game is 1.2 released on May 2nd, 2007. In February 26th, 2008, the game was released under GPL. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Donut Quest | ![]() |
2006-10-30 | Arcade, Top-down shooter |
Donut Quest is free software game for Microsoft Windows made by Piga Software for the Brogo web comic strip released on October 30th 2006. It features the Brogo character Ed Donut (Michelle the mechanic's lazy, dim-witted, and donut obsessed assistant who is also known to have confrontations with spiders), as he fights his way against spiders in a donut factory. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Flukz | ![]() |
2014-02-23 | Top-down shooter |
Flukz is a shoot them up game, with levels that can be edited in the same way as a wiki. The latest version of the game is 0.4, released in February 2014. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Endless Sky | ![]() |
2021-07-11 | Space |
Endless Sky is a space exploration, trading and combat game inspired by the old proprietary game Escape Velocity. Players can earn money by trading, carrying passengers, and completing missions. It is also possible to go pirate hunting and participate in a civil-war. Or one can go exploring, leave human space behind, and hope to find some friendly aliens whose culture is more civilized than your own...[3] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pacewar | ![]() |
2020-05-17 | Action |
Pacewar is a simple fighting game between two teams of ships. A team wins when it defeats the opposing team a certain number of times more than it is defeated by the opposing team. As a team gets closer to winning, it loses ships.
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HeXon | ![]() |
2020-01-22 | Action, Arcade |
heXon is an arcade twin-stick-shooter created by LucKey Productions using Dry and other open source software. Binaries and source code are available through GitLab. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Naev | ![]() |
2021-12-23 | Space, Shooting |
Naev is a 2D space top-down shooting and trading game primarily developed by Edgar "Bobbens" Simo.[9] It requires SDL, OpenGL, and OpenAL. The source code is licensed under the GPLv3.[4] The project was inspired by the proprietary game Escape Velocity. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
M.A.R.S. | ![]() |
2012-06-29 | Top-down shooter |
M.A.R.S., a ridiculous shooter. In a far-future colonised galaxy, a GREAT WAR is raging between nameless adversaries. In one of several game modes, two opposing teams are fighting in a gravitational 2D space with a few planets, including their homes. Translations, numerous weapons and AI bots are implemented. Two players can join in the game on the same computer, network play was planned for a later version. The game's visuals provide ample effects and jarring colours, including pink. Initially, the game contained some non-free media. Hans de Goede provided a fully free version by replacing sounds and fonts, while the Hungarian symphonic metal band Obsidian Shell gave their permission to distribute the music tracks they contributed under CC-BY-SA 3.0, instead of the original CC-BY-NC-ND 3.0.[11]
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Azimuth | ![]() |
2018-06-25 | Top-down shooter, Adventure |
Azimuth is an action-adventure game, combining 2D top-down shooter action with exploration of a large map. The gameplay involves piloting a freely rotating forwards-thrusting ship through a variety of environments, shooting and dodging the attacks of various enemies, solving environmental puzzles, and the gradual revelation of a science-fiction plot. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
C-Dogs SDL | ![]() |
2021-12-03 | top-down shooter |
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Excellent Bifurcation | ![]() |
2007-10-15 | Top-down shooter |
Excellent Bifurcation is an abstract vertical shooter with two sides to play on. It was made as an entry to a 2007 game jam.[17] | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bring Them On | ![]() |
2021-08-06 | Top-down shooter, arcade |
Bring Them On is a game made by Piga Software for the August 2021 LibreJam. It is a top-down shooter game with a science fiction theme. Upon developing a teleportation device, the player is pursued by monsters from another plane of reality. It was written in Gambas 3.15.2 and uses Qt 5 for windowing and SDL 2 for audio. Created in six days, it features a new revision of the Gambas Arcade Engine. Graphics are sourced from the CC0 libraries from Openclipart and OpenGameArt.org with sounds from the public domain portion of Freesound. Development tools used include the Gambas IDE, Inkscape, Audacity, GIMP and KolourPaint on top of Fedora GNU/Linux. |
- ↑ Copyright file accessed on November 14th, 2015
- ↑ Copyright file accessed on November 14th, 2015
- ↑ Description of game on the Endless Sky website accessed on November 14th, 2015
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pacewar.git/tree/COPYING Invalid
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tag; name "lic" defined multiple times with different content - ↑ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pacewar.git/tree/data/images/LICENSES
- ↑ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pacewar.git/tree/data/sounds/LICENSES
- ↑ http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/pacewar.git/tree/data/music/LICENSES
- ↑ https://github.com/naev/naev/blob/master/dat/gfx/ARTWORK_LICENSE
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Copyright file of the Debian package
- ↑ E-mail from Obsidian Shell's Csató Henrik
- ↑ 12.0 12.1 Copyright file accessed on Nov 27th, 2018
- ↑ https://github.com/cxong/cdogs-sdl/blob/master/README.md#License
- ↑ https://github.com/cxong/cdogs-sdl/blob/master/README.md
- ↑ https://sources.debian.org/src/excellent-bifurcation/0.0.20071015-8/license/#L17
- ↑ https://sources.debian.org/src/excellent-bifurcation/0.0.20071015-8/src/
- ↑ https://archive.org/details/ExcellentFix