Top-Down Shooter is a type of Shooting genre of video games, in which the player manipulates the environment where the game takes place from a top-down perspective, often in flying spaceship or aircraft. The main objective of the player to shoot the waves of enemies while dodging challenging obstacles. Alien Swarm is the best example of Top-down Shooter video games, in which the player commands the hero who explores the environment to take down the hordes of aliens who are invaded the environment. These games use the level-based system, means there are several levels available with increasing difficulty and the player needs to complete each one by achieving the objectives to move forward. During the game, the player finds several power-ups, item, and boosters which he can use to increase his power. Weapons can be upgraded in some games to improve the performance.
#1 Tiny Troopers
Tiny Troopers is an Action, Zombies, Strategy, and Top-down Shooter video game created by Kukouri and published by Iceberg Interactive. The game supports Single-player mode only and offers squad-based gameplay with multi-directional shooting elements. It takes place in the zombie-apocalypse and puts you in command of a team, which are controlled through various missions in thirty levels of increasing difficulty. You must control your troopers throughout levels and destroying enemies and their building by tapping on the screen. The game uses a drag and drop mechanism to activate weapons like grenades, airstrikes, and bazookas. In each level, you’ll face different challenges and require a completion of certain objectives such as protecting journalists, freeing hostages, eliminating enemies and more. The game rewards you with command points as you complete the mission and can use these points to unlock further content in the game to progress. Each trooper in the game equips with weapons that can use to kill enemies. Explore the world and collect medals to raise your rank on leaderboards. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.
#2 Crimsonland
Crimsonland is a Superbly Action-Packed, Fast-paced Thriller, RPG and Top-Down Shooter video game by 10Tons LTD. The game takes you to a Futuristic and Sci-Fi world of Crimsonland and allows you to fight against the Hordes of Aliens, Mutants, Giant Spiders and Zombies and assesses your abilities of staying alive in a world where everything wants to kill you. Acording to the storyline, the game spawns you right in the middle of an enemies infested world where they attac you from all directions. Your task is to simply keep your self at a distance from the enemies and continue to fry them, while keeping in view your own health. On every enemy kill, Crimsonland rewards you with experience points and that helps you get to the higher levels of experience. Once you are at the advanced levels of the game, you can have all the fantastic Perks that help you reload faster, shoot faster and react faster. Furthermore the dead enemies keep on dropping the bonus packs that you can pick and have some extra points, temp invulnerability, slow time and kill multiple enemies with one shot etc. Crimsonland offers a number of action packed game modes such as Quest Mode, Rush Mode, Survival Mode and Type ‘o’ Shooter Mode. With an amazing Top-Down perspective, Futuristic weaponry, amazing Quests, Epic Battles, great perks, multiple engaging gaming modes, great visuals and a totally addictive gameplay, Crimsonland is a blast.
#3 Spy Chameleon
Spy Chameleon is an Action-Adventure, Top-down, and Single-player video game developed and published by Unfinished Pixel for cross-platform. The game comes with challenging arcade-type puzzle gameplay where you as an agent needs to being spotted. There are more than five crazy missions consist of seventy-five levels with increasing difficulty. During the gameplay, you will discover different enemies and mechanics at each level and must accomplish super-secret tasks. In the game, you must take the pics of celebrity with her lover at her bedroom or steal secret formula of the famous cold drink. To survive in the game, you have to observe the moment of the enemies, select safe path and start running to the next piece of the level without being detected. The game looks easy but hard to master. It mixes the reflexes, strategy and timing elements. It has five different enemies each with unique mechanics. Spy Chameleon offers core features such as Change colour with the Environment, Seventy-five Levels, 3 Challenges in Each Level, 5 Enemy Types, and more.
#4 Tesla vs Lovecraft
Tesla vs Lovecraft is an Action-Adventure, Top-Down Shooter, Sci-fi Horror, Single-player and Multiplayer video game developed and published by 10Tons Ltd for Cross-platform. The game offers an intense top-down twin-stick shooter gameplay from the creators of Neon and Crimsonland. During the gameplay, the player assumes the role of the protagonist named as Nikola Tesla, an enigmatic inventor, who harness the energy to power-up and give the nightmares a lesson. The player acts as the famous inventor, whose laboratory has burned down by an evil author named as H.P. Lovecraft that claims that the actions of the player have put the world in peril. With the assistance of the book and a massive army of monsters, the antagonist has stolen the most precious inventions. There are several levels, and each level is full of challenging enemies and bosses. Tesla vs Lovecraft includes core features such as Gadgets, Lovecraftian Horrors, Quantum Teleportation, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.
#5 Centipede and Millipede
Centipede and Millipede is an Arcade, Fixed Shooter and Single-player video game serves as the sequel to Centipede, developed and published by Atari. It offers the classic environment where the player must shoot from a fixed position to destroy enemies while struggling to score as many points as possible to move to the next level. It comes with new enemies and elements such as Earwig, Bee, Spider, Inchworm, and more. In the game, the player has to smash millipede from a top-down perspective and traverse horizontally until it either reaches the edge of screen or hits an obstacle. There are dozens of stages available and the player must complete each one to score the best points and can challenging his friends to beat the best score record. At the beginning of the game, the player has four lives and he must clear the level from enemies within limited loves. The game rewards the player with points for each killed spider or other enemy. Centipede and Millipede offers an addictive gameplay and takes place in the classic environment. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#6 Neon Chrome
Neon Chrome is an Action, Top-down Twin Stick Shooter, Single-player and Multiplayer video game with emphasis on Dungeon Crawling, Rogue-like and Rogue-lite elements developed and published by 10tons Ltd. The game takes place in the cyberpunk-themed and offers a fully destructible and procedurally generated environment. There are various characters available from which you have to select your favorite one with unique skills and abilities. You can explore the land from a top-down perspective, shoot enemies your way through randomly generated levels to progress and obtain upgrades to enhance the ability of your weaponry. The game looks easy to play, but as the player progress it becomes tough to master. It has multiple levels each level is full of tasks, brutal enemies, and bosses. You can destroy anything with cybernetic abilities and weapons. During the gameplay, you can shoot through walls, obliterate floors, and make rooms explode while destroying your way through huge buildings. Neon Chrome offers exciting features such as Perk System, Destructible Environment, Dozens of Weapons, Unlockable (Weapons, Abilities, Enhancements, etc.), Level Editor, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.
#7 JYDGE
JYDGE serves as the spin-off to Neon Chrome and revolves around Twin-stick Shooter elements developed and published by 10tons. In the game, the player takes on the role of the protagonist named as JYDGE, law enforce, whose ultimate task is to clean the dystopic and cyberpunk-themed city of crime. The player explores the environment from a top-down perspective with a task to eliminate the enemies and save the hostages around twenty challenging levels of increasing difficulty. The game takes place in the dystopian city of Edenbyrg, where the player acts as the enforcer. It offers destructible environments that let the player breach the room by smashing down a wall. During the gameplay, the player can customize and upgrade the protagonist using points obtained while playing through the stages. New power-ups and upgrades are unlocked by getting medals from accomplishing the tasks and objectives of each level. The player can play alone or with friends in two-player co-op mode. With addictive gameplay, smooth controls, and lush environment, JYDGE is the best game to play and enjoy.
#8 Time Recoil
Time Recoil is an Action and Shooter video game played from the top-down perspective developed and published by 10tons Ltd for multiple platforms. The game puts you in the experience of slow motion gunfights and enable you to learn new and special moves to take down enemies in slow time. You takes on the protagonist’s role with a task to kill enemies throughout different levels using your unique moves and a variety of advanced weapons. When time slows down, you corrects you aim to satisfaction of punching and hit enemies to kill. It takes place in the destructive environment and puts you in the experience of slow motion gameplay. Become a hero, save the world from devastation, and go against slow time to immerse yourself in fun-filled activities. Unlock further weapons and tools using your points and enhance your abilities to become the master. It offers a thrilling story based on a mad scientist, trying to use a time based weapon of mass destruction. The ultimate goal is to fend off the mad scientist, destroy the unholy plans in past or lose your future. Awesome game with lots of prominent features, immersive gameplay, and exciting story. You must try it out and have fun.
#9 Neighborhorde
Neighborhorde is an Action-Adventure, Local Co-op, Survival, and Single-player video game with Twin Stick Shooter and Beat ‘em up twist created and published by Fermenter Games. It offers a thrilling plot, in which you as the protagonist goes outside with your friends to play games. Suddenly a portal opens up from another dimension, and bad guys like robots, dragons, evils, zombies, and wizards come in your world to threaten the environment. They start attacking the world and kill the innocent people. You have to do something before they demolish your land and left nothing alive. The world needs a hero, and it’s your responsibility to rescue your home, world and your friends from being destroyed. Grab multiple weapons and participate in the battlefield against evils, kill them all through a variety of levels and score the highest points to unlock hi-tech weapons. There are more than forty toys available to include in your arsenal and become powerful allies by selecting more than forty superpowers. Tons of Spooky enemies, Survival Action, over 80 Weapons, a Bumpin Soundtracks, etc. are prominent features to enjoy.
#10 Butcher
Butcher is an Action, Arcade, 2D Fast-paced Shooter, and Single-player video game developed by Transhuman Design and published by Crunching Koalas. The game takes place in the terrifying land invaded by enemies, and monsters. You have a chance to become the hero by saving the people and the world. To kill the enemies, you have to grab your weapon of choice from grenade launcher, shotgun to chainsaw. Explore the post-apocalyptic environment from a side-scroll perspective and kill enemies your way through jungles, cities, underground hideouts and more. There are multiple ways to take down enemies such as lava pits, hooks, saws, and more. It has up to twenty levels with increasing difficulties and each level has a set of objectives that you have complete at any cost. During the gameplay, you can run, shoot, and jump your way through challenging levels to dominate the world. Butcher offers prominent features such as Unleash your Inner Artist, use the Environment to Slay enemies, huge variety of Weapons, over 20 Levels, and more. Check it out, and have fun.
#11 Halo Wars
Halo Wars is a Single and Multiplayer Sci-Fi Real-time Strategy video game by Ensemble Studios. The game is set in a Sci-Fi environment of Halo Universe and takes the players to the futuristic world of 2525. The game kicks off with a huge attack by the Covenant, an advanced Alien race on humans and declaring them as the Forerunners. Humans have no other choice to start a mega oppressive against the enemies and that’s when the players get into the play. The game allows te player to be the protagonist named as Captain James Cutter and go investigate about the Covenant Activity on a Planet named as Harvest. During the investigation, Cutter finds out that the Covenant has set a mining post on the Northren Pole of the planet and they have discovered a Forerunner facility. The primary objective of the game is to repel the Covenant from the Facility and take control, defeat the enemies and save the Human Colony of Arcadia. After that the game offers more missions against the Covenant and allows the players to act according to the storyline and enjoy the game. Because of being a fantastic RTS video game, Halo Wars offers loads of fantastic options to the players and allows them to enjoy the gameplay even more by using the advanced weaponry, and tactics as well as explore the world. With plenty of room for the gameplay, brilliant mechanics and clean 3D graphics, Halo Wars offers a great RTS experience for all the fans of this specific genre.