The best shooter games like Sin and Punishment Star Successor are Sin and Punishment, Star Fox 64 and Ikaruga. Below are 9, each with the reason it is here — and, at the end, what filtering to shooter costs you.
Filtering to shooter means you want the guns to be the answer. It is the right filter when what you liked was the feedback — the sound, the recoil, the way enemies react.
What you get: Moment-to-moment feel, and the shortest distance between picking a game up and enjoying it.
What made Sin and Punishment Star Successor worth playing in the first place is covered on the full list. This page is the shooter part of that answer, and only the shooter part.
The N64 original, finally playable outside Japan.
The other great rail shooter, and much gentler.
Treasure again, and the purest scoring game they made.
Rail shooting at its most beautiful.
Treasure's other shooter, and the design people still study.
Rail shooting reduced to rhythm and light.
Treasure's Genesis run-and-gun, and just as dense.
A modern shooter made by people who studied Treasure closely.
Rail shooting on foot and in the air, with the same chatty tone.
Variety. Shooters commit hard to one loop, and the ones that try to be something else usually do the something else badly.
The full list is on games like Sin and Punishment Star Successor — 9 picks, no genre filter.
Sin and Punishment. The N64 original, finally playable outside Japan.
No. Sin and Punishment Star Successor released on the Nintendo Wii, but a recommendation is only useful if you can play it, so the picks above span platforms and eras. What they share is the genre and the reason.
How the guns sound and how enemies react to being hit. A shooter with mediocre levels and superb weapon feedback is more fun than the reverse, every time.
Each pick says. Several of the best shooters ever made are single-player campaigns, and a few of the co-op ones are genuinely worse with bots.
By hand. Each pick was written for the full Sin and Punishment Star Successor list first, on what the game actually does, and this page is the part of that list that is shooter — never a genre tag lookup, which is how "best racing games like Super Mario 64" used to be a page on this site.
Or read the shooter guide for where to start in the genre generally.