What do you call types of games where you shoot but don't control the movement

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3020/Call_of_Juarez/

Is there a name for games where you shoot but don't control the movement?

An example would be Call of Juarez

Possibly there is a Steam filter with these kinds of games?

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Console_Modder@sh.itjust.works · 47 pts · 118d (1 reply)

On-rails shooters?

Sanctus@anarchist.nexus · 36 pts · 118d (3 replies)

Its a rail shooter, games like House of the Dead, Time Crisis, or any other run-of-the-mill arcade shooter you'd find atChuck E Cheese. Fable also had a rail shooter, as well as Dead Space on the Wii.

Corngood@lemmy.ml · 9 pts · 118d (1 reply)

Maybe a bit of a forgotten genre, but there were some absolute classics like the Panzer Dragoon series.

Die4Ever@retrolemmy.com · 3 pts · 117d

The genre had a small resurgence on VR, hand controllers work well for them

Holytimes@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 117d

Don't forget typing of the dead! A true classic.

karashta@piefed.social · 12 pts · 118d (1 reply)

The on-rails style reminds me of games like Time Crisis. Ah, the memories.

leoj@piefed.social · 6 pts · 118d

My favorite was Deadly Tide - not an arcade game but on oldschool windows PC, had like 8 discs or something.

CancerMancer@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 117d

This post is odd because you're talking about on-rails shooters but Call of Juarez is not one of them (it's an FPS).

leoj@piefed.social · 1 pts · 118d
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