Warning Forever

"Warning Forever is a shoot 'em up game that pits you against a constant stream of battles against a singular foe that gets stronger as you progress, its evolution steered by how you choose to attack it. Because of its bold central theme and intense gameplay, it's considered to be one of the canonical indie shooters and a great addition to the genre overall."

This game is simple at heart, and executes its sole gameplay mechanic well, worth checking out if your into shmups.

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Rating:7
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Cyclops

Cyclops is a simple defense style game, couldn't find much info, as its all in Japanese.
But check it out!

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Rating:6
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Rainbow Wars

Yet another Geo Wars clone!

"A side project from Volition designer Luke Schneider, part of the team responsible for the development of the Descent series. The background is practically empty, but destroying enemy ships will cause glowing particles to appear on screen. Bombs only appear as a power-up item, and is activated on the spot when collected. A power-up item will appear for every five thousand points earned which includes a black hole that only sucks in enemy ships.

Your ship is equipped with three layers of shield, and you lose one whenever an enemy ship touches yours. Destroying each wave of enemies will increase the level number by one, also replenishing your shields automatically. Losing all your shields ends the game, but you can continue from the last level attempted by selecting it at the main menu. Note that the easy difficulty will only allow access to the first ten waves.

Your ship also has the ability to warp and charge it's shot. Tap the left shoulder button on your gamepad to teleport, and hold the right shoulder button to prepare for a special attack. It's interesting to note that Rainbow Wars is an effort made with Game Maker in only thirty hours."

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Rating: 7
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Grid Wars 2

Grid Wars 2 is a geometry wars clone.
There is a great descripton of it here
Note that this title infringes on Geometry Wars copyright
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Rating:9
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Tumiki Fighters

Tumiki Fighters is another freeware shooter made by ABA Games and this one is pure genius.




In fact, its so good, its being brought to the Wii! But the PC version is still full of high caliber fun, and its very simple.

The basic idea of the game is to kill the enemies on screen, and to not get hit. But the catch is that every enemy you kill can be added to yourself. Not only that but they also still fire whatever they fired at you. To allow to get through tight spaces, you can draw them back with a push of a button. The game is a bit tricky to get used to, but this is a game that will keep you drawn in for hours.

There is no excuse for not downloading this, as after all, its free!

How to play

Control your ship and destroy enemies. The ship is destroyed when it is hit by a bullet. The body of the enemy has no collision damage.

You can catch the enemy's broken piece. Pieces are stuck to your ship and counterattack to enemies. You can also earn the bonus score by keeping many pieces stuck. Stuck pieces are destroyed when they touch a enemy's bullet.

While holding a slow key, the ship becomes slow and the ship direction is fixed. Stuck pieces are pulled in and you can prevent a crash of them, but the bonus score reduces to one fifth. Enemy's pieces are not stuck while holding this key.

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Rating:9.0
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Mu-cade

Mu-cade is a freeware shooter made by ABA Games which is an overall high quality, addicting game.



ABA games is a respectable devoper of cool, small free games. Mu-cade hits Geo-Wars vets with instant familiarity, but thats when similarities ends. The idea of the game is to not get knocked out, and if your first few games will teach you, that isn't always easy.

For a freeware game, Mu-cade is good enough to take up the measily 6mb it needs on your HDD, and will keep you entertained for a least an hour, and is a great thing to play while waiting for _____ to get to _______.

Developer Notes

How to play

Keep your ship from falling down and push enemies out of the way.
Controls
Move - Arrow / Num / [WASD] / Stick 1

Move your ship.
Fire shots / Hold direction - [Z][L-Ctrl][R-Ctrl][.] / Trigger 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11

Hold a key to open automatic fire and hold the direction of a ship.Tap a key to take a turn while firing.
Fire shots - [IJKL] / Stick 2

You can also fire shots with the second stick.
Cut off the tail - [X][L-Alt][R-Alt][L-Shift][R-Shift][/][Return][Space] / Trigger 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12

Cut off the tail of your ship. This action also wipes out all bullets andyou obtain powerful shots for a while.
Tail multiplier

The tail of your ship becomes longer when you push an enemy out and you get a score multiplier.
Extra ship

You earn an extra ship 50,000 and every 200,000 points.

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Rating:6.5
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Games:Shooters

This is a list of freeware Shooters games.
As always I try to keep links updated but if they are broken, pass me a message.

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Mu-cade(6.5)
Tumiki Fighters(9.0)