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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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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

97 %Match

2016PCPlayStation94 % 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.

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.

Gyruss

Shooting and gunplay

A classic Konami arcade shooter where you rotate your ship around the edge of the screen, blasting waves of enemies that swoop in from the center. Known for its tube-shooter design and its memorable Bach-based soundtrack.

Galaga

Shooting and gunplay

A classic arcade shooter where you pilot a fighter along the bottom of the screen and blast waves of insect-like aliens. The tractor beam that captures your ship, which you can rescue for double firepower, gives it its hook.

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.

Alpha Mission

Shooting and gunplay

A classic vertically scrolling arcade shooter in the vein of Xevious, where separate weapons for air and ground targets are used against waves of enemies. Short, demanding action with power-ups.

Truxton

Challenging difficulty

Truxton is a classic vertical shoot 'em up from the arcade era, where you pilot a small spaceship through five large levels packed with enemy waves. With just a shot and a bomb button, you fight through bosses that loop endlessly at higher difficulties.

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