Interesting 3D Flying Shooter games
Games where most of the time is spent shooting things in three dimensional levels with full range of movement.
Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown (link)
Airplane combat with simple flight model. You can upgrade the craft and equip guns, missiles, bombs and flares. Missiles lock on targets but can be dodged. Clouds can be used for cover. Missions have varied and changing objectives. There are missions with VR support.
Archimedean Dynasty (link)
You travel, buy equipment for your submarine and do missions that earn you money and advance the story. In combat, guns and torpedoes can be used. Submarines make noise that weakens with distance and torpedoes track the noise, which means they can be distracted by strong noise makers or other torpedoes that pass close. Both submarines and torpedoes are also affected by their inertia and sea currents.
AV-8B Harrier Assault (link)
The goal is to conquer an island with a finite amount of ships, aircraft, vehicles, soldiers and ammo. You start with creating a plan defining what units should move where and when, but new orders can also be given during the game. The island is protected by enemy units and has military bases, supply depots and defensive structures, which the enemy may repair unless captured by your ground units. You can take control of your aircraft directly, decide its equipment before take off and fulfill its orders yourself. When flying, you can attack buildings, vehicles and aircraft, but infantry is only simulated. The aircraft is capable of thrust vectoring and hovering. It has radar and night vision. It can fire heat and radar seeking missiles and missiles guided to targets painted with laser by ground forces.
Depth (link)
Players are in two teams. 4 divers are protecting a robot submarine until it opens all treasures for them and 2 sharks are trying to stop them. Both teams have a limited amount of respawns. Divers can purchase better equipment for found treasure and sharks gain upgrades for killing divers. The environment is dark so divers rely on flares and sonar to spot sharks.
Doki Doki Gravity Dive (link)
There are multiple large bodies in the level that have gravitational pull on your and enemy ships and projectiles. When you get close you will stick to the body which allows you to easier fight the enemies on it.
Everspace (link)
Randomly generated levels. Exploring the level and fighting enemies gives resources and sometimes equipment. If you spend too long in a level more enemies arrive. You can spend resources to create and upgrade equipment. When you die you start over but you can purchase upgrades that carry over to future attempts. Supports VR.
Everspace 2 (link)
You do missions, trade, kill enemies, gather resources resources and find leveled equipment with special attributes. You can dismantle, upgrade and craft equipment, which levels you up to get more perks. Levels contain secrets and puzzles that grant additional items.
Flying Heroes (link)
Arena shooter with different ship types to choose, each with different selection of weapons. In the level you pick up weapons and power ups to get the most kills during the match.
Freespace 2 (link)
Manage space ship energy between weapons, shields and engine. You get AI wingmen which can be ordered around. Ships have subsystems (engine, weapons, etc.) that can be disabled without destroying the ship.
Secret Weapons of the Luftwaffe (link)
There is a campaign mode which can be played from perspective of Allies or Germans. When playing as Germans, you try to defend your industry from allied bombardments. You can set what should be produced by factories, manage airfields and resources, and select planes and pilots to intercept Allied planes, during which you get to directly control one of your planes while the rest is controlled by AI. During this the ground forces are fighting as well, which are affected by the state of the industry and may lead to airfields being captured by Allies. As time goes on new weapons become available.
Star Conflict (link)
Player run corporations can take control of sectors in space by building a very large dreadnought ship to protect it. Different corporation can attack with their own dreadnought, resulting in a match on a special map where both dreadnoughts are firing at each other while players from both corporations try to help their dreadnought win by destroying pieces on the enemy one.
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