Best Bullet Hell Games on Steam
Games about dodging dense projectile patterns with tiny margins and sharp focus.
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1Risk of Rain 2 - Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Aug 11, 2020
In this game, you can…
- turn a minigun build so toxic that a teleporter spawns four bosses, one dies in seconds, and the chain explosions wipe the entire map.
- reach a point where normal enemies are bosses, and teleporter bosses stop spawning because everything on the map already counts as a boss.
- interrupt a wedding, kill the bride and groom, steal their rings, and then use those rings to kill more enemies.
- activate a giant teleporter, hold its circle against nonstop spawns, and watch a boss erupt before you're allowed to leave.
- stack damage boosts, crit bursts, and on-hit effects until one kill triggers explosions, lightning, fireworks, and orbital lasers across the whole area.
- loop a run until the game starts spawning hundreds of enemies that immediately die, flooding the screen with coins, missiles, and chained effects.
- feed a boss-killing item to equipment drones and grind boss loot until the payoff becomes "Ahoy!" over and over.
- go from a crash survivor to firing hundreds of homing missiles and calling orbital bombardments within ten minutes.
- fight on the moon to end a run, or keep looping until even a godlike build can still collapse during the final test.
2Undertale - UNDERTALE! The RPG game where you don't have to destroy anyone.
Sep 15, 2015
In this game, you can…
- decide whether to spare or kill every single character, and watch the dialogue, music, endings, and even boss behavior change.
- murder everyone on purpose and have the game treat it like a moral catastrophe that it remembers even when you try to play nice later.
- pet a dog over and over until the game reacts, then get carried across a river by a duck that picks you up and flies you over.
- talk enemies down and end fights without killing anyone.
- dodge enemy attacks in real time while you pick dialogue options to change what the enemy does next.
- accidentally kill one monster and end up on a different route, then reset and unlock a completely new pacifist path by sparing everyone.
- go on a date with a skeleton and build friendships that unlock new scenes and outcomes instead of just giving you stats.
- finish what feels like the ending, get pushed to rethink your choices, then replay and see huge route-specific scenes you missed.
3Vampire Survivors - Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Oct 20, 2022
In this game, you can…
- fight a giant praying mantis while 10,000 skeletons pack the screen around you.
- turn into the bullet hell: you only move while your weapons auto-fire until the screen is pure lasers and explosions.
- stack golden eggs to turn even the weakest character into a ridiculous monster.
- start with a whip and end up an immobile tree that kills by radiating garlic.
- open a chest and instantly level up multiple weapons at once, plus grab a big cash payout mid-run.
- combine the right weapon and passive to evolve them into dramatically stronger versions.
- use a shield and a time-freeze as panic buttons, then calmly reposition while everything else is stuck.
4Cuphead - Cuphead is a classic run and gun action game heavily focused on boss battles. Inspired by cartoons of the 1930s, the visuals and audio are painstakingly created with the same techniques of the era, i.e. traditional hand drawn cel animation, watercolor backgrounds, and original jazz recordings.
Sep 29, 2017
In this game, you can…
- watch a boss go from two battletoads into a slot machine, then keep warping into stranger cartoon forms as you keep landing hits.
- bounce off pink bullets in midair to charge your super meter, then cash it in for weapon specials or a full super.
- run local co-op where one player can parry to revive the other mid-fight, turning near-deaths into sudden comebacks.
- fight bosses that transform mid-battle into new forms, sometimes with no health bar, until the next phase suddenly takes over.
- equip two weapons and swap instantly, changing your plan for a boss—or even a single phase—on the fly.
- thread through tiny safe zones while two or three attacks overlap, with timings that shift enough that you have to react in the moment.
- play brief run-and-gun levels that end fast and restart instantly, turning retries into a rapid-fire loop of experimenting and improving.
5DELTARUNE - Dive into the parallel story to UNDERTALE! Fight or spare your way through action-packed battles as you explore a mysterious world alongside an endearing cast of new and familiar characters. Chapters 1-5 are available now, with more planned as free updates!
Jun 4, 2025
In this game, you can…
- play a funny skeleton fight song on piano, then get run over by a dog driving a golf cart
- shop for a new TV by debating "groovy vs glooby" with the janitor, pulling out a diagram, buying it, and learning it's glooby
- fight battles that suddenly turn into punch-out against a giant robot, then switch into wario-ware-style minigames the next chapter
- keep picking "hug ralsei" in battle until it becomes your whole strategy
- heal yourself with a hammer, flirt with a watercooler, and swim through an acid lake
- stumble into secret bosses and a hidden route that changes the tone into something genuinely eerie
- graze bullets on purpose to build power faster while the battle box shifts and moves around you
- return to town and see the game acknowledge whether you chose to act kindly or fight
6Brotato - Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Jun 23, 2023
In this game, you can…
- wield six weapons at once.
- play a character that can't use weapons at all and instead explodes on contact with enemies.
- lock shop items you can't afford, reroll the rest, then merge matching weapons into stronger versions.
- survive 20–90 second waves, then sprint into a shop to buy gear before the next swarm hits.
- start with a weapon type and see the shop start nudging more of that same style at you.
- pick from dozens of potatoes with big bonuses and penalties that force totally different runs.
- switch between manual aim to focus fire and auto-aim that sprays your guns in every direction.
- turn enemy drops into both money and XP, so every wave becomes a choice between staying alive and grabbing loot.
7Megabonk - Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
Sep 18, 2025
In this game, you can…
- bunny hop, slide down cliffs, use enemy knockback as a boost, and chain so much speed you're basically flying around the map.
- roll boulders into enemies, knock over towers, and use ramps and cliffs as part of the fight.
- push a movement build so fast the game can crash from the speed.
- chain sprinting, jumping, and sliding while you auto-bonk everything nearby and loot and XP gems explode across the map.
- unlock Monke, climb walls, and stack orbiting axes until your build snowballs into a totally different run.
- play as a skateboarding skeleton, launch off hills for big air, and throw bones at slimes while you keep comboing movement.
- assemble weird item synergies run by run, like crit and knockback setups or pistols plus poison flasks plus a sword for boss fights.
8Enter the Gungeon - Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Apr 5, 2016
In this game, you can…
- use a gun that's a bullet that shoots guns that shoot bullets — and even get shotguns that fire other shotguns.
- fight a giant mech rat boss, then immediately settle it in a Punch-Out-style fistfight.
- open a chest that suddenly glitches out and warps you straight into a hidden boss fight.
- dodge-roll through bullet patterns and flip tables into instant cover mid-fight.
- kick a barrel across the room, shoot it to explode enemies, then hit a switch to drop a chandelier on the survivors.
- find a rainbow chest that spits out a huge pile of guns and items at once.
- free NPCs during runs so they move into your hub and open new shops, quests, and gear for future runs.
- take a cursed run where a witch makes your gun change into a different one every five seconds.
- carry a slow little pig companion for most of a run, then watch it sprint in front of you and take a fatal shot meant for you.
9The Binding of Isaac - Now 20% More Evil with the Free Halloween update!
Sep 28, 2011
In this game, you can…
- take a dead cat that gives you 9 lives, but each life comes back with only one heart.
- trade your heart containers to the Devil for power after a boss, or refuse and try for an Angel offer later.
- pick up a treasure item and have your body and attacks mutate, like homing shots or poisonous explosions.
- escape into a basement after your mom hears God demand a sacrifice, then fight through floors of monsters to face her.
- walk into a room, get locked in, and either clear every enemy or spend a bomb to blast a way out.
- stack item combos that suddenly turn a miserable run into an absurd, screen-filling death machine.
- use bombs to uncover secret rooms and hidden paths tucked into the floor's layout.
- start seeing new characters, floors, bosses, and items unlock after wins, so the game keeps expanding instead of ending.
10HoloCure - Save the Fans! - Play as your favorite Vtubers from Hololive! Fight, explore, and clear your way through armies of fans and save them from their mind-control in this unofficial free fan-game.
Aug 16, 2023
In this game, you can…
- find a Golden Hammer once per run, then fuse specific collabs and items into a super collab.
- step into a side mode where you fish, farm, cook, mine, woodcut, manage workers, and bring meals back as combat buffs.
- discover a full Jump King-style tower area hidden alongside the main roguelike mode.
- pick a character whose weapon and skills completely change how you fight.
- use a gold anvil to fuse two maxed weapons into one new super weapon.
- aim certain attacks with the mouse while dodging enemy projectiles and telegraphed strikes.
- max Halu early so the screen floods with faster enemies, then ride the chaos to level faster and earn more currency.
- pull characters from free gacha banners using in-game currency, then roll duplicates to upgrade them.
- walk into a casino, lose rock-paper-scissors to an NPC, then blow your coins on slots and casino-only items.
