Twin Stick Shooter tag
Tag created in June 2017
Twin Stick Shooter's popularity amongst developers
This chart displays the games released over the years with the Twin Stick Shooter tag and the percentage of total Steam releases they represent. The releases count conveys the quantity of games published on Steam each year. It usually follows the increasing amount of Steam games released.
The percentage gives a better estimate of the tag's trend. It shows if the Twin Stick Shooter tag is getting more or less popular amongst developers. The Review chart will tell us if this trend is a good thing (i.e. players interest is increasing, tag is undercrowded) or if it's the opposite.
The Twin Stick Shooter tag has peaked in 2022, with 139 games released. The tag's popularity is in a range between 0.3% in 2010 and 0.05% in 2013.
Keep in mind that the current year is not over, so the number of games released will still increase. But the percentage is usually a good estimate.
Twin Stick Shooter's popularity amongst players
This graph displays the reviews for games associated with the Twin Stick Shooter tag, both as count and as a percentage of all Steam reviews, and the value for an average game. Note that if the chart is cluttered, you can always deactivate some lines by clicking on the legend.
While the review count clearly quantifies the reviews a tag receives, keep in mind that it also follows the popularity of Steam itself. The value normalized as a percentage of all Steam reviews is often more revealing, as it gives you the popularity trend for Twin Stick Shooter tag games.
A standard game associated with this tag received on average between 50 (2010) and 329 (2014) reviews. Keep in mind that it is the average and not the median, meaning it is heavily influenced by extreme values, like a very successful game with this tag.
The reviews per game as a percentage of the average show that games in the Twin Stick Shooter tag received between 28% (2020) and 177% (2011) reviews compared to other tags.
Price of games tagged with Twin Stick Shooter
This graph displays the evolution of the Twin Stick Shooter tag's games price in USD over the years, and the percentage of free to play games in this tag. Don't forget that a price should slowly increase year-on-year just to keep up with inflation.
The median game price was at its lowest in 2018 at 4.99$, and peaked in 2021 at 8.99$. The free to play ratio peaked in 2020 at 18%, and bottomed in 2022 at 1%.
Positive reviews ratio for Twin Stick Shooter, per language
This chart shows an aggregated Steam rating for all the Twin Stick Shooter tag games, classed by language. It gives an idea about how different audiences will judge a game with this tag. A lower rating doesn't always mean that the audience doesn't enjoy that particular tag, as some cultures tend to always give lower scores. But it will affect a game's rating nonetheless.
The highest rating for Twin Stick Shooter is 93% for the Swedish language, and the lowest is 81% for the Japanese language.
| Image | Name | Description | Price | Rating | Release Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
  | Nex Machina | Nex Machina is an intense arcade style twin-stick shooter from Housemarque. Taking hints from both Robotron and Smash TV, Nex Machina focuses on pure action, voxel destruction and competition in the distant, cablepunk themed future. | 19.99 | 89.6% | Jun 20, 2017 |
  | UTOPIA 9 - A Volatile Vacation | A fast moving, rogue-like 3D twin-stick shooter set on a tragicomic future world. Described as “the ultimate holiday, where nothing is as it seems”, Utopia 9 takes you to the worst possible vacation destination imaginable. Utopia 9 is the absolute definition of false advertising. | 6.99 | 74.4% | May 5, 2016 |
  | ROGUE SHIFT | ROGUE SHIFT is a high-intensity top-down shooter, set on a harsh planet that will test your will to survive. To stay alive, you will pit yourself against hordes of relentless enemies in an unforgiving, hostile environment. | 14.99 | 87.5% | Feb 9, 2023 |
  | BULLET PARTY | The party co-op shoot ’em up! Become the king of the night club! Go alone or group your friends! Shoot the party crashers down! | 0.99 | 96.6% | Jul 31, 2017 |
  | Vostok Inc. | Do you love money? You’re the newly appointed CEO of Vostok Inc. As a greedy, space-capitalist your ultimate goal is to make as much as you can. | 14.99 | 57.7% | Jul 26, 2017 |
  | Neckbeards: Basement Arena | Based on classic arcade games like Robotron 2084, Neckbeards is non-stop action for one or two players with an epic soundtrack and a taste for psychedelia. NEW in 2023: THE FIFTH ANNIVERSARY UPDATE! | 2.99 | N/A | Aug 28, 2017 |
  | Trident's Wake | Trident's Wake is an intense co-operative twin-stick shooter in an unforgiving sci-fi setting. Join up to three other players to take back humanity's last hope - the colony ship code-named Trident – from an unknown race of alien invaders! | 14.99 | 47.4% | Jun 4, 2019 |
  | Vectorium | Vectorium is a classical, yet intense arcade shooting game. Can you survive those dreadful enemies and barrage of gunfire? | 4.99 | 73.5% | May 2, 2018 |
  | Kill the Superweapon | 3D Twin-Stick Action game where bosses can roam from room to room in pursuit of the player. Samantha Kill is on a mission to take down Abaddon Inc. and their Bio-Mechanical Supersoldiers. | 7.99 | 78.6% | Mar 5, 2018 |
  | HyperParasite | A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race. | 17.99 | 83.8% | Apr 3, 2020 |
  | Retromancer | What happens when nostalgia and necromancy mix? A Retromancer happens! Grab a few friends, choose your champions, and battle your way through 6 brutal zones filled with screeching bats, burrowing worms, deranged cultists, and giant ants. | 2.99 | N/A | Jun 6, 2019 |
  | Rogue Star Rescue | Bullet Hell Insanity + Tower Defense Strategy. Rogue Star Rescue is a quirky new type of rogue-like shooter. Blast your way through diverse planets while rescuing your teammates and gathering traps for your defense strategy. Play solo or online to stop the Rogue Star before it annihilates everything! | 14.99 | 93.8% | Feb 4, 2021 |
  | Twin Ruin | Switch bullet hell into bullet heaven. Jump into a world filled with enemies and powerups, race to harvest all the power you can before the area is consumed by a engulfing fire storm. Try Survival and try and last 3 mins, and top the leaderboard. | 6.99 | 87.5% | Dec 22, 2021 |
  | The Lost and The Wicked | The Lost and The Wicked is a Brutal Twin-Stick Psycho-Thriller. After a shipwreck you wake up in a wicked world with no memory of who you are. Fight through hectic gameplay with a unique grunge art style and original 2+ hour soundtrack as you discover your past and what you did to end up here. | 9.99 | 88.2% | Mar 24, 2022 |
  | The Ambassador: Fractured Timelines | Freeze time, outsmart your enemies and reverse the annihilation of your home in The Ambassador: Fractured timelines, a twin-stick fantasy shooter. | 14.99 | 87% | Aug 13, 2020 |
  | Doomsday Hunters | Shoot stuff in a perfect pixel world, combine items, build guns, die every time! Roguelite twin-stick shooter where magic and post-apocalyptic future technologies collide. Defeat evil lord Dracula and save everyone! | 15.99 | 90.2% | Jul 20, 2023 |
  | Blue Flame | Blue Flame is a fast paced top-down action game set in a medieval fantasy world. Take the role of the last pyromancer and restore order to a kingdom in which fires only emit cold. | 4.99 | N/A | Jan 29, 2021 |
  | Plato Shoot 柏拉图激射 | This is a shooting game, where nobody dies. Use your gun to help enmies find their lover, at the same time, find your own lover. | 1.99 | N/A | Sep 30, 2020 |
  | Gravitators | Gravitators is a twin stick shooter game where you pilot ships and complete mission objectives to secure the future of humankind. Defend the Earth and travel through the galaxy to repel a relentless alien invasion. | 9.99 | N/A | Nov 12, 2021 |
  | Twin Stick Heroes | Twin Stick Heroes is a top down arena fighting game for two to four players. Enjoy a wide variety of weaponry and characters, as you fight your friends across the galaxy! Using either local multiplayer or Steam's Remote Play Together. | 14.99 | N/A | Feb 25, 2021 |
  | Space Bandit | Brutal (one hit kill) twin stick shooter with hilariously fun and clever enemies. Also has roguelite and Sci-Fi stuff. | 5.99 | 98.4% | Sep 18, 2022 |
  | KosmoSquad | KosmoSquad is a twin-stick arena shooter where you survive as long as you can against an ever-increasing hoard of enemies. Fight alone or with up to three friends and collect star multipliers to maximize your high score. Use your score points to purchase upgrades for your ship and try again! | 3.99 | N/A | Nov 10, 2020 |
  | Devastator | Devastator is a retro-modern arcade twin-stick shooter. Featuring spectacular, fluid visuals (with 4k and 120hz+ support), heart-pounding music and sound, and intuitive, intense, and varied gameplay, Devastator is the ultimate twin-stick shooter for people who love twin-stick shooters! | 6.99 | 69.2% | Mar 25, 2022 |
  | Godstrike | Godstrike is a twin-stick shooter where time is your health and currency. Face off against ruthless bosses in tense, 1v1 showdowns as Talaal, the last Herald. | 14.99 | 70.6% | Apr 15, 2021 |