Best Twin Stick Shooter Games on Steam
Shooters using one stick for movement and another for aiming.
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1Enter 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.
2ROUNDS - Rounds is a 1v1 rogue-lite shooter where each round gets more intense. The losing player of each round unlocks clever upgrades to create a better build to counter their opponent.
Apr 1, 2021
In this game, you can…
- steer a bullet with your cursor so it stays airborne, keeps scaling damage, and eventually wipes the screen.
- stack upgrades until you fire 50 bullets in under a second.
- teleport through a wall, then fire a shot that drills back through it to hit someone on the other side.
- stack cards until your shots drill through walls, home in, and ricochet into a maze of projectiles.
- lose a round, grab a new card, and turn that defeat into a comeback build that flips the match.
- turn the map into a weapon by pushing objects, cutting ropes, and collapsing floors onto opponents.
- chain effects so a single trigger pulls in poison clouds, explosions, and even saws spawning midair.
- mod the rules into a 16-player free-for-all where everyone's builds escalate into total mayhem.
3Bastion - Discover the secrets of the Calamity, a surreal catastrophe that shattered the world to pieces.
Aug 16, 2011
In this game, you can…
- walk forward and watch the ground assemble under your feet.
- fall off the edge and get roasted by a narrator who immediately rewinds your death into a joke.
- stack shrine challenges that make enemies nastier, then cash in the risk for extra experience and money.
- pick up a sledgehammer, flatten a giant enemy, then smash every breakable thing you can find.
- swap between two weapons mid-fight, mixing melee and ranged attacks with rolls and special moves.
- rebuild your hub piece by piece, unlocking a forge, shrines, a distillery, and an arsenal as you bring it back.
- jump into weapon trials and wave arenas that test you under limited healing and whatever challenges you've enabled.
- finish the story, keep all your gear, then replay in New Game Plus to see different endings and tougher modes.
4HELLDIVERS™ Dive Harder Edition - HELLDIVERS™ is a hardcore, cooperative, twin stick shooter. As part of the elite unit called the HELLDIVERS, players must work together to protect SUPER EARTH and defeat the enemies of mankind in an intense intergalactic war.
Dec 7, 2015
In this game, you can…
- have support pods land so hard they crush you, your teammate, or your tank if you called it in on the wrong spot.
- join a mission already in progress by dropping in from orbit and landing right into the fight with the squad.
- summon weapons, ammo, vehicles, orbital strikes, and reinforcements by entering direction-code combos while you can't shoot back.
- punch in a six-button revive code while you're being swarmed, get interrupted mid-input, and still throw the reinforcement beacon just before you die.
- drop a mech at the start of a mission, have it crush a teammate, then watch the reviver fall into a pit with their mech.
- turn one tiny scout spotting you into an instant reinforcement call that snowballs into a mission-wide swarm.
- fight an extraction where the shuttle is landing overhead but the entire zone is clogged with enemies and you have to revive and board anyway.
- wipe out a swarm with an orbital laser, artillery, or a literal nuke call-in that can also kill your own squad.
5Soulstone Survivors - Face the Lords of the Void and their endless minions, collect their Soulstones and become a god! In this Action Roguelite, unveil secret spells, craft mighty weapons, unlock multiple characters, discover game-breaking synergies and conquer the power of the void.
Jun 17, 2025
In this game, you can…
- stack 15 negative statuses onto enemies in half a second, then watch them trigger each other into a chain reaction.
- swap to a different weapon mid-run and keep all your progress.
- push into endless modes where new Lords spawn faster and harder, sometimes appearing the moment the last one dies.
- dash straight through enemies without taking touch damage.
- turn one debuff into 10+ effects in a row, so the whole screen becomes a self-feeding curse machine.
- hit the kill count to summon a Lord boss, clear five tiers, then choose to end the run or loop into endless scaling.
- get a mid-run class ascension that changes how your character plays, not just their stats.
- fight bosses through giant telegraphed danger zones and skill-shot patterns instead of getting chipped by random contact damage.
6Alien Swarm: Reactive Drop - Co-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.
Apr 20, 2017
In this game, you can…
- watch a teammate's hacking puzzle live, including their mouse cursor, while aliens try to break your defense.
- bring up to 8 bots, command them to hold positions or hack machines, and clear missions solo.
- blow yourself up to clear a face-parasite while your squad is in the blast radius.
- weld doors shut, drop turrets and mines, and hold a choke point while someone hacks the objective.
- trigger endless alien spawns by staying too long, then get forced to abandon the fight and push forward.
- hit a perk that slows the whole world down while the music speeds up, and keep fighting in that stretched-out moment.
- carry a 70-shell automatic shotgun, or swap to miniguns, flamethrowers, rail guns, and other heavy weapons mid-mission.
- play custom Workshop campaigns that swap everyone into total conversions like Halo marines or 40k marines.
7Nuclear Throne - Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Dec 5, 2015
In this game, you can…
- beat the throne, destroy the side generators, and trigger a hidden surprise that changes what comes after that fight.
- survive a fatal hit and keep fighting for a few seconds as a headless chicken.
- pull enemies toward you while pushing bullets away with telekinesis.
- loop the entire game after beating the final boss, with enemies and hazards ramping up into a harsher second run.
- roll to dodge danger as Fish.
- encase yourself in a crystal shell that reflects bullets.
- dual-wield two weapons at once as Steroids.
- do the daily challenge on the same run seed as everyone else and race for score or time.
- play local co-op, revive each other by grabbing health drops, and keep the run alive together in the same chaos.
8SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising - SYNTHETIK is an unforgiving tactical shooter rogue-lite where freedom and experimentation is key. Fight in a world overrun by the Machine Legion and their Gods. Experience the next level in gun-play and dive into unparalleled build options and Android upgrades. Can you defeat the Heart of Armageddon?
Mar 15, 2018
In this game, you can…
- fire shots that ricochet dozens of times off walls and end up killing you or one-shotting a teammate behind cover.
- turn a marksman rifle into a monster that fires 10 bullets in 1 second while keeping marksman-rifle damage.
- land headshots in a top-down shooter, with critical damage depending on how close your aim is to the enemy's head.
- manually eject a magazine, lose the remaining rounds, reload it, then nail an active reload timing on the follow-up press.
- stack item effects until explosions trigger more explosions, which can trigger even more explosions, washing rooms in chain reactions.
- build so hard into speed or fire rate that you can stand in the open, because enemies can't hit you fast enough to kill you.
- play co-op with friendly fire, accidentally incinerating friends with a satellite laser or catching them in your bullets.
- go stealth, teleporter-rush, or turret-up instead of clearing rooms, and let weird gadgets become your whole plan.
9Rogue: Genesia - Walk upon a new world and slay foes endangering it. Rogue : Genesia is an action rogue-lite game, where you fight relentless hordes consisting of hundreds and thousands of monsters, make your build, break the balance, defeat bosses and save one of the many worlds.
Mar 7, 2025
In this game, you can…
- fight hundreds or even thousands of monsters on screen at once.
- expand your inventory mid-run, delete and replace gear on the fly, then recycle items to learn effects and reapply them to other gear up to SSS rank.
- take challenge runs that rewrite the rules, like not being able to move or being stuck with one weapon.
- pick routes on a branching map, clear quick zones, hit shops and events, then roll straight into the next world's boss.
- crank corruption to make enemies stronger for better rewards, until they're rushing in from offscreen and still getting erased.
- build around 300+ passive upgrades, 50+ weapons, and 80+ artifacts, using rerolls and banishes to force a specific plan.
- max out a weapon and watch it evolve into a new version mid-run with a fresh moveset.
- save and resume a long run mid-campaign, then come back later to continue the same branching map climb.
10UBERMOSH - UBERMOSH is an arcade game about cutting bullets with a sword, in a gun-filled cyberpunk mosh pit.
Aug 13, 2015
In this game, you can…
- slice incoming shots in half and send them straight back into the enemies who fired them.
- deflect a burst, kill the shooter, grab their dropped gun, then turn the same attack into a counterattack until the timer runs out.
- start runs with strict loadouts: sword-only bullet reflection, full-auto guns with no sword, or a top-tier gun with only a few lives.
- swat bullets out of the air with a laser sword.
- survive exactly 90 seconds in a tiny arena as bullets fly from every direction.
- scavenge guns off corpses mid-fight, constantly swapping between different firing patterns like shotguns, charged shots, and cone sprays.
- carve through "bullet armageddon" moments and rack up kills using enemies' own shots redirected back into the mob.
- restart instantly after a run to chase higher scores in a fast 90-second loop.
