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Sin & Punishment is an on-rails action shooter developed by Treasure and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo 64 in 2000. Originally released only in Japan, it combines automatic forward movement with player-controlled aiming, evasive movement, jumping, and close-range attacks across rapidly chang...
Star Wars Trilogy Arcade is a 1998 on-rails arcade shooter developed and published by Sega. Players use a mounted control device to aim and fire while the game guides them through action sequences based on the original Star Wars film trilogy, including the Death Star attack, the Battle of Hoth, and...
Star Wars: Battle Pod is an arcade rail shooter video game developed and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment in 2014. Designed exclusively for arcades, the game is housed in a specialized cockpit cabinet featuring a large, distinctively shaped dome screen that envelops the player's field of visi...
"The Typing of the Dead: Overkill" is a 2013 typing-based rail shooter developed for PC by Modern Dream and published by Sega. The game is a modification of "The House of the Dead: Overkill," replacing the standard light-gun mechanics with a keyboard interface where players must type specific words...
Burning Force is a third-person rail shooter originally released by Namco for arcades in 1989. The game follows a futuristic space cadet named Hiromi Tengenji as she navigates a hoverbike across three-dimensional, science fiction environments. Built on the hardware of Namco's earlier racing titles,...
Rebel Assault II: The Hidden Empire is a 1995 Star Wars action game from LucasArts and a sequel to Star Wars: Rebel Assault. It retains the earlier title's on-rails shooting structure, placing the player on a fixed route through space and ground sequences while aiming at targets and responding to ti...
Gal*Gun Returns is a 2021 remake and remaster of the first Gal*Gun, the Inti Creates rail shooter originally released in Japan in 2011. It combines first-person, on-rails shooting with dating-simulation elements and follows a protagonist attacked by crowds of enamored schoolgirls. The release brough...
Gal*Gun: Double Peace is a 2015 Japanese action game developed by Inti Creates for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation Vita. It uses a first-person rail-shooter format in which the player aims a pheromone gun at pursuing schoolgirls while advancing through a romantic comedy storyline. Alongside shooting s...
Star Wars: Rebel Assault is a 1993 DOS FMV rail shooter by LucasArts, notable for its early use of digitized footage from the original films.
Star Fox Guard is a 2016 Wii U spinoff developed alongside Star Fox Zero by Nintendo, casting the player as Slippy Toad defending outposts via a network of security cameras.
