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Which shoot 'em ups actually get played?

67 shoot 'em ups owned in at least 30 of the libraries read here, ranked by how many owners got past Steam’s two-hour refund window. Across all of them it’s 43%.

S5 games
  1. #1Cuphead76% of 140
  2. #2Broforce77% of 91
  3. #3Power-Up80% of 30
  4. #4SAMOLIOTIK74% of 39
  5. #5Asteroid Bounty Hunter74% of 38
A13 games
  1. #6Shooting Stars!77% of 30
  2. #7Blue Estate74% of 31
  3. #8Stellar 2D67% of 36
  4. #9Mercenary Kings66% of 32
  5. #10Sun Blast65% of 34
  6. #11Planes, Bullets and Vodka61% of 46
  7. #12Chicken Shoot 261% of 41
  8. #13GALAK-Z62% of 34
  9. #14State of Anarchy62% of 34
  10. #15Pressure56% of 57
  11. #16The Culling Of The Cows55% of 60
  12. #17Bit Blaster XL57% of 46
  13. #18DEEP SPACE WAIFU60% of 30
B20 games
  1. #19Super Space Pug57% of 35
  2. #20Uriel's Chasm 2: את58% of 33
  3. #21Cyberhunt54% of 50
  4. #22Horizon Shift56% of 34
  5. #23Humanity Asset56% of 34
  6. #24Nux56% of 34
  7. #25Beat Hazard53% of 57
  8. #26METAL SLUG 353% of 53
  9. #27Cube Destroyer57% of 30
  10. #28Revolution Ace53% of 47
  11. #29Savant - Ascent51% of 37
  12. #30NOT A HERO52% of 33
  13. #31Heli Heroes50% of 38
  14. #32DETOUR49% of 43
  15. #33RIVE49% of 43
  16. #34Enemy Mind48% of 44
  17. #35Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken46% of 52
  18. #36LUFTRAUSERS46% of 41
  19. #37Downwell46% of 46
  20. #38Super Killer Hornet: Resurrection46% of 37
C17 games
  1. #39Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime45% of 31
  2. #40Sine Mora EX43% of 30
  3. #41The Blue Flamingo43% of 37
  4. #42Desert Child41% of 34
  5. #43Kero Blaster41% of 32
  6. #44Flight of the Paladin37% of 30
  7. #45METAL SLUG X38% of 40
  8. #46Door Kickers: Action Squad33% of 30
  9. #47CPU Invaders33% of 33
  10. #48Bleed 231% of 32
  11. #49Really Big Sky33% of 57
  12. #50Beat Hazard 229% of 38

And 5 more: Aaero, Distant Space, Savant - Ascent REMIX, Gun Monkeys, My Friend Pedro.

D12 games
  1. #56Drones, The Human Condition19% of 43
  2. #57Super Bit Blaster XL19% of 43
  3. #58Polygoneer17% of 46
  4. #59Jamestown14% of 37
  5. #60Zombie Shooter6% of 35
  6. #61Capsized11% of 46
  7. #62Intrusion 25% of 37
  8. #63Weapon of Choice13% of 60
  9. #64Serious Sam Double D XXL2% of 41
  10. #65Valfaris4% of 46
  11. #66Distant Space 210% of 63
  12. #67One Gun Guy0% of 89

Counted from the Steam libraries read here, by the hours Steam has on each game; free games are left out, since Steam lists one as owned only once it has been played. A game owned in only a few libraries is pulled toward the kind’s 43% as if 60 more owners had played it like the typical one, so a lucky handful can’t top the list. S is the top 8%, A the next 20%, B the next 30%, C the next 25%, D the rest.