shoot-em-up games

Nine games in which the shooting largely looks after itself, so the difficulty lives in where you put yourself.

1945 Air Force Space Shooter is the clearest case. Your plane fires from the first second, which leaves the whole game to reading bullet patterns and finding the gap between them.

The Kulka takes that somewhere stranger, with flapping as your only movement and a single starting shot that mutates as you collect experience. Zombie Rush is the ground-level version, weaving between trees while each wave arrives faster than the last.