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CLUSTER ARCADE-GAME-PILOT · 13 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2016-07-28

Arcade space shooter games

This cluster comprises 2D arcade space shooters where players pilot a ship, shoot waves of enemies, upgrade weapons, and often battle bosses. Dated entries appear irregularly in 2016, 2020, 2023, and 2025, with single creations in each of those months, so the timeline shows no clear trend. The traction leaders, each with zero stars as the highest activity signal, are Galaxy Attack: Alien Shooter, Galaxiga: Classic Arcade Game, and Space_Invaders.

Entry timeline

ENTRY TIMELINE

JUL 2016: 1SEP 2016: 1NOV 2016: 1SEP 2020: 1DEC 2020: 1JUN 2023: 1FEB 2025: 1MAY 2025: 1FEB 2026: 1AUG 2026: 4
JUL 2016AUG 2026

Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.

Members by activity

Activity signals, not revenue.

Build origin · 2 ai-built · 3 hand-coded · 8 unlabelled

Operator · 1 hobby · 2 commercial · 1 enterprise · 6 open source · 3 unlabelled

Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 13 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.

  1. 01Galaxy Attack: Alien Shooter0★18 daysliveenterpriseMobile space shooter where players pilot a spaceship through alien swarms across many levels, upgrading weapons and battling bosses.
  2. 02Galaxiga: Classic Arcade Game0★7 dayslivecommercialArcade space shooter game where players pilot starships, fight alien invaders, upgrade weapons, and complete missions.
  3. 03Phoenix 20★21 dayslivecommercialArcade space shooter in which players pilot one of many ships to blast invaders, upgrade their fleet, and complete daily missions.
  4. 04Cat a shooter 😼0★4 moliveopen sourceMobile arcade game where players pilot a cat-themed spaceship to shoot down enemies and earn the highest score possible.
  5. 05Chromium B.S.U.0★10 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceTop-scrolling space shooter where players control robotic fighters to defend a cargo ship from waves of enemy ships.
  6. 06Space_Invaders0★1 yrabandoned—A game where the player controls a spaceship and shoots down waves of alien invaders.
  7. 07Cosmic Expansion0★1 yrabandonedliveopen source2D arcade space shooter game where players pilot a ship through enemy waves and boss battles to earn weapon upgrades.
  8. 08Porta War0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceArcade shooter game where players pilot one of several ships across multiple levels to defeat rogue handheld devices and a final boss.
  9. 09Project: Starfighter0★5 yrabandonedlivehand-codedopen sourceSide-scrolling arcade shooter in which a pilot battles a weapons corporation that has enslaved the galaxy across a series of levels.
  10. 10opentyrian0★unknownlivehand-codedopen sourceVertical scrolling arcade shooter game where a pilot battles enemy forces across space to save the galaxy.
  11. 112D Shooter Game0★unknownliveai-builthobbyTwo-dimensional arcade game where players pilot a ship and shoot waves of enemies to survive and score points.
  12. 12Retro Space Shooter0★unknownliveRetro space shooter game where players pilot a ship through space, dodge obstacles, and shoot enemies.
  13. 13Cosmic Defender0★unknownliveai-builtArcade space shooter in which the player pilots a starfighter against waves of alien enemies.

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