IAMNOTAMACHINE (Colin Horgan)
"hyper violence tone poem by colin horgan" - Author's description
Author's note: photosensitivity warning for flashing images and colors.
Play/Download on Game Jolt (Browser, Windows, Mac)
tagged : top-down
Jim's Grim Story (DaedalusGames)
"Jim’s Grim Story is a topdown psychological pet collection game by Daedalus Games." - Author's description
Play on Newgrounds (Browser)
Super Space Angles (Dattorz)
"This is a seemingly simple shmup, except that your shots bounce off of everything! Argh! The shots can even bounce off each other! Try not to get hit with your own shots!" - Author's description
Download here (Windows)
Resignation (Barnaque)
"Navigate through abrasive geometrical debris in an accelerating landscape with alternating controls." - Author's description
Download on itch.io (Windows)
Maze (Pixelfan Games)
"Dont look back and escape from THE MAZE! but first you have to find the key if you want to be free.." - Author's description
Download on Game Jolt (Windows)
NCD (Pixel Rebirth)
"NCD is a a short and crude horror game, which was created over the course of October 2014.
I deem it best to go into the game without knowing much about it beforehand. " - Author's description
Download on Game Jolt (Windows)
Boxcar Brats (Kenneth Yeung, Mike Nguyen, Vic Nguyen, Carmen Szeto)
"do everything you can do stay in last place! Swerve, skid and smash everything in sight to build up your brake meter and spin out your opponents" - Author's description
Download on itch.io (Windows)
What Could Possibly Go Wrong? (Andrew Shouldice)
"This game uses the arrow keys (or WASD) and the mouse." - Author's description
Author's note: Warning: some flashing images.
Play here (Browser)
Technicolour Rain (Sleepy Studios)
"Technicolour Rain is a top-down shooter where you're given the ability to possess and control your enemies. Using "copies", you're able to perform a variety of skills including creating distractions and killing enemies within a certain radius." - Author's description
Download the demo on itch.io (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Polarity (Sam Batty)
"Polarity is an arcade style, top down shooter where the player not only controls the Magnet Ship, but they also control the Polarity of the ship and the game." - Author's description
Download on Game Jolt (Windows)
Download on itch.io (Windows)
SubRay (Team Atmos)
"An abstract, underwater exploration game with a focus on survival in an alien world." - Author's description
Download the demo here (Windows)
The Black Tome (JTR)
"The difficulty balance is most likely way off right now, so besides general feedback, I'm also interested in your 'Demo Cleared'-screens." - Author's description
Download on Game Jolt (Windows)
Download on Game Maker Community (Windows)
Zenzizenzic (Ruud Koorevaar)
"Zenzizenzic is a high paced, adrenaline infused, abstract, challenging and addictive twin stick shoot 'em up bullet hell game for Windows, Mac and Linux! It features a beautiful, cohesive and abstract art style combined with thrilling, addictive one and two player gameplay along with a soundtrack that is sure to get the adrenaline pumping!" - Author's description
Download the beta on the official website (Windows, Mac, Linux)
Psychosomatica Optima (Darkwalker247)
"Steer Yuuki between deadly bullets.
Epilepsy warning!!" - Author's description
Why play it? Psychosomatica Optima is, gameplay-wise, a simple top-down shooter. Though aesthetically, it manages to shine for its psychedelical visual effects as well the great electronic soundtrack that seems to dictate also the enemies' moves. Even with the difficulty set to easy I've had a lot of troubles to go past the level 2. However, I sense that it's just been the obvious result of my tremendously poor skills at such games. -Luca
Download on Game Jolt (Windows)
Alien Disaster (Doc Geraud)
"Buy some time for the human forces by killing as many aliens as you can" - Author's description
Why play it? I found it quite hard, as it requires good reflexes and even better timing. I think of Alien Disaster as a combination of Super Hexagon and your average top-down shooter, which results in a challenge as hard as that sounds. - Luca
Play on Game Jolt (Browser)