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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 launched it at all. Across all of them it’s 66%.

S5 games
  1. #1Cuphead92% of 140
  2. #2Broforce92% of 91
  3. #3Beat Hazard88% of 57
  4. #4Revolution Ace89% of 47
  5. #5The Culling Of The Cows83% of 60
A13 games
  1. #6Stellar 2D89% of 36
  2. #7Mercenary Kings91% of 32
  3. #8SAMOLIOTIK87% of 39
  4. #9Super Space Pug89% of 35
  5. #10Blue Estate90% of 31
  6. #11State of Anarchy88% of 34
  7. #12DEEP SPACE WAIFU90% of 30
  8. #13Really Big Sky81% of 57
  9. #14Asteroid Bounty Hunter84% of 38
  10. #15Sun Blast85% of 34
  11. #16LUFTRAUSERS83% of 41
  12. #17Cube Destroyer87% of 30
  13. #18Shooting Stars!87% of 30
B20 games
  1. #19Enemy Mind82% of 44
  2. #20Uriel's Chasm 2: את85% of 33
  3. #21Gun Monkeys79% of 58
  4. #22DETOUR81% of 43
  5. #23Bit Blaster XL80% of 46
  6. #24Humanity Asset82% of 34
  7. #25Nux82% of 34
  8. #26Door Kickers: Action Squad83% of 30
  9. #27Power-Up83% of 30
  10. #28NOT A HERO82% of 33
  11. #29Pressure77% of 57
  12. #30METAL SLUG 377% of 53
  13. #31Planes, Bullets and Vodka78% of 46
  14. #32Heli Heroes79% of 38
  15. #33Horizon Shift79% of 34
  16. #34Super Killer Hornet: Resurrection78% of 37
  17. #35CPU Invaders79% of 33
  18. #36Chicken Shoot 276% of 41
  19. #37The Blue Flamingo76% of 37
  20. #38Cyberhunt72% of 50
C17 games
  1. #39GALAK-Z74% of 34
  2. #40Downwell72% of 46
  3. #41Rocketbirds: Hardboiled Chicken71% of 52
  4. #42Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime71% of 31
  5. #43METAL SLUG X70% of 40
  6. #44Flight of the Paladin70% of 30
  7. #45Savant - Ascent68% of 37
  8. #46Sine Mora EX67% of 30
  9. #47Beat Hazard 263% of 38
  10. #48RIVE58% of 43
  11. #49Jamestown54% of 37
  12. #50Aaero55% of 56

And 5 more: Bleed 2, Kero Blaster, Super Bit Blaster XL, Desert Child, Savant - Ascent REMIX.

D12 games
  1. #56My Friend Pedro44% of 64
  2. #57Capsized39% of 46
  3. #58Intrusion 235% of 37
  4. #59Distant Space40% of 77
  5. #60Serious Sam Double D XXL29% of 41
  6. #61Polygoneer26% of 46
  7. #62Drones, The Human Condition23% of 43
  8. #63Zombie Shooter11% of 35
  9. #64Valfaris17% of 46
  10. #65Weapon of Choice23% of 60
  11. #66Distant Space 216% of 63
  12. #67One Gun Guy1% 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 66% 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.