The best run and gun games

Run and gun games - sometimes called scrolling shooters - are a mix of platform games and shoot 'em ups. The player is in control of a character - usually a soldier loaded with guns - who walks and shoots in real gravity environments. Contra, Rambo 3, Alien Breed are three of the most popular run and gun games.

Most popular run and gun games

Mega Man X4

shooterWindows XP/98/95

Mega Man

shooterDOS

Mega Man X3

shooterWindows XP/98/95

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Earthworm Jim 2

DOS1996protected4.4/5 Shiny Entertainment

Bio Menace Episode 3: Master Cain

DOS1993freeware4.3/5 Apogee Software

Alien Syndrome

DOS19894.3/5 Sega

Bio Menace Episode 2: The Hidden Lab

DOS1993freeware4.3/5 Apogee Software

Alien Breed: Tower Assault

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Team 17

Mega Man X3

Windows XP/98/9519984.2/5 Capcom

Halloween Harry

DOS1993freeware4.2/5 Interactive Binary Illusions

Halloween Harry is a DOS science fiction multi-directional scroller shooter game. Halloween Harry - later renamed Alien Carnage - was published by Apogee, developed by Interactive Binary Illusions and designed by John Passfield and Robert Crane.

The Chaos Engine

DOS1994protected4.2/5 Bitmap Brothers

Duke Nukem 2

DOS19934.2/5 Apogee Software

Jackal

DOS19894.1/5 Konami

Earthworm Jim

DOS1995protected4.1/5 Shiny Entertainment

Mega Man X4

Windows XP/98/9519984.1/5 Capcom

Mega Man X4 is an abandoned side scrolling action-platform video game that was released for Windows, the Sony PlayStation and Sega Saturn in 1997 and 1998. Mega Man X4 is part of the Mega Man X series, which is a spin-off of the original Mega Man series, and it was developed by Capcom. Mega Man X4 is set in a dystopian future where h...

Duke Nukem

DOS19914.1/5 Apogee Software

Duke Nukem 1 was released in 1991 by Apogee Software for MS-DOS, and it marked the beginning of the Duke Nukem franchise. Duke Nukem is a side-scrolling action platformer game with a sci-fi theme. In this original game, players control Duke Nukem, a muscular action hero tasked with saving the world from the evil Dr. Proton. Dr. Proton has taken con...

Ghosts 'n Goblins remake

Windows2004freewareremake4.1/5

Alien Rampage

DOS19964.1/5

Robocop

DOS19894/5 Data East

Robocop is an abandoned beat 'em up / run and gun shooter game developed and released by Data East in 1989 for a number of platforms, including DOS. Robocop is a conversion from an arcade game released by Data East in 1988 and it was based on the movie of the same name, Robocop, by Paul Verhoeven. Your goal is to get to the final boss by shoot...