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2018PC4.99 €

A classic space shooter with an unusual one-button control scheme: every shot knocks you backward, so you must balance firing and thrust. Once it clicks, you glide through space with style.

  • Sci-fi setting
  • Shooting and gunplay
  • Timing and reflexes matter (parrying, dodging)
  • Action-packed real-time combat

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In short: Games like R-Coil

Each of these 10 games shares something of what makes R-Coil special. The reasons are listed right on each game.

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Space Pirate Trainer

95 %Match

2016PC, PlayStation94 % positive14.99 €

Brings what grabs you about R-Coil: a sci-fi setting, good gunplay and combat with precise timing.

A VR arcade shooter where you dual-wield blasters and a shield against waves of drones and robots, physically dodging and aiming. Fast, intense and built around chasing high scores.

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Syder Arcade

Shooting and gunplay

An uncompromising retro shoot 'em up inspired by 90s Amiga classics, with free-scrolling, multi-directional shooting. Only your skill counts against hordes of alien invaders.

Major Stryker

Sci-fi setting

A classic early-90s PC vertical-scrolling space shooter where you play Major Stryker fending off the alien Kreton invaders. Fast arcade action with power-ups and waves of enemies is the focus.

Rigid Force Alpha

Fast pace

You pilot through a three-dimensional space battle against swarms of infected aliens and machines in this indie shooter. It keeps the classic shoot'em up rush at its core and brings it into a modern 3D look.

Waves

Fast pace

A fast arcade twin-stick shooter where you clear arenas of enemy waves by chaining combos and well-timed bombs. A time-slowing buffer and seven modes with online leaderboards add depth and replay value.

Raiden

Shooting and gunplay

A classic vertical arcade shooter where you dodge enemy fire across eight missions, blast targets and collect power-ups. Built around score chasing and replays, with a steep challenge.

Xevious

Shooting and gunplay

A 1982 arcade classic in which you pilot the Solvalou fighter through vertically scrolling waves of alien enemies, shooting air targets and bombing ground ones at once. It was a pioneering title for the shoot-'em-up genre.

Sky Force Reloaded

Shooting and gunplay

A vertical arcade shoot 'em up with frantic bullet-dodging action, where you upgrade your plane between missions and replay stages to hit every objective and earn all the stars.

Ion Assault

Action-packed real-time combat

An arcade space shooter where you control thousands of ion particles using a fluid and particle physics system to destroy obstacles and enemies. Intensity scales dynamically: the faster you clear things, the more enemies appear.

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