Admiral Stepinski

Admiral Stepinski

Interesting game. You send ships to take over planets. There are also trade routes which allow you to steal the other player’s money.

Here some gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoDGCcKyIWg

Real player with 1.5 hrs in game


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Admiral Stepinski on Steam

Antithesis

Antithesis

Antithesis is a top-down action arcade game where you control one spaceship with each hand: one with WASD and one with the arrow keys (alternatively, one with each joystick of a controller). There are four levels to beat by getting a certain score, and one endless level in which you have to try and get the highest possible score, and who knows, maybe even get a spot in the leaderboards?

Unique Selling Points

  • High intensity, frantic gameplay that rewards skillful players.

  • Unique challenge of hand independence, which will test you in ways you’re not familiar with.

Features

  • Control a Green Ship which loses health constantly. Avoid all asteroids and lasers, but try to pick up powerups.

  • Control a Purple Ship which gives the Green Ship health back upon destroying asteroids, but cannot die or pick up powerups.

  • Collect 4 different powerups.

  • Survive 3 life-threatening events.

  • Beat 4 levels, ranging from easy to impossible.

  • Get a high score in endless mode. Good luck getting a spot in the leaderboards!

  • Have fun! :)


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Antithesis on Steam

Art of Space

Art of Space

Note that this game is still in alpha and that the game experience may not be fully complete and bug-free.

What is ART OF SPACE ?

Do you love fast-paced 2D space shooters? Where timing is crucial and success is sweet? With lots of satisfying destruction and explosions? Then read no further, this should be very much to your liking. (Just kidding, do keep on reading.)

Art of Space is essentially madness, as can be seen below.

Inspired by online and offline space shooters of the last two decades, Art of Space aims to provide a similar feel/atmosphere, putting an emphasis on fun gameplay mechanics while the campaign is reminiscent of the early days of online gaming.

Art of Space gives you the chance to build a spaceship and tweak it to your very own tastes, both visually and stats-wise. This game is for people who love to try all sorts of different combinations to figure out that ONE sweet-spot build that feels just right.

If you’re more of a “mad skillz!!” person, you will love the combat in Art of Space as fast-paced is what we do, and perfect timing is what we love. Your spaceship is a modular machine that can be destroyed and rebuilt bit by bit, all in the heat of battle.

Meanwhile, our single-player story-driven campaign aims to provide a narrative around the world of Art of Space, while providing many hours of entertainment to the player.

For the price of a hot meal, here’s what this game offers:

  • Manoeuvre your weapon of destruction through hazardous asteroid fields as you take out foes and defend allies using a wide array of weapons and utilities.

  • Build a fully modular spacecraft from a pool of ship parts and weapons.

  • Tweak your ship’s stats and utility slots.

  • Follow along a story-driven campaign that will provide many hours of entertainment.

  • Test your skills in the Endless mode to see how you measure up to others, or just take it easy and use it as a playground to try out your newest configuration.


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Art of Space on Steam

Caves Of Mars

Caves Of Mars

The Caves Of Mars is the new 2D action space shooter game set in the mysterious caves of the planet Mars.

Tharsis is a mountainous region on Mars where hundreds of caves have been discovered. These caves contain precious gems which are heavily guarded by enemies and alien life forms.

Navigate your spacecraft through these caves, destroy enemies and alien lifeforms and collect as many gems as possible. Collecting gems will increase your health and gain points. You will gain extra bonus points the more gems you collect and enemies you destroy.

There are 100 cave levels to complete, each one procedurally generated randomly so no two levels are ever the same. As you progress through the levels the caves will become larger, more complex and you will encounter more challenging enemies, aliens and obstacles.

Enemies

You will encounter many different enemies as you progress though the caves. Some guard their position and don’t move, whilst others form waves of enemy spacecraft which will follow you. The more powerful enemies will take serval hits to destroy.

Enemy Bosses

Watch out for enemy boss spacecraft. Some of the Key Cards are in the possession of enemy bosses so you will need your weapons to destroy these and collect the Key Card.

Aliens

Watch out for Alien lifeforms. Some of these can move, jump or fly and throw lightning bolts.

Fuel

Collect Fuel to Boost Your Health.

Power Ups

Collect vessels containing Weapons and Shield Power-ups. Collected power-ups are displayed in the right-hand panel. Activate / deactivate these by clicking them or selecting keys 1-8. Each power-up with change the appearance of your player spacecraft.

Key Cards and Laser Doors

Find and collect ‘Key Cards’ to unlock ‘Laser Doors’ to gain access to each section of these caves.

Map

To help there is a map of each cave system indicating the location of each Key Card and the laser doors they unlock. Open this by clicking on the map button. The caves get larger and more complex as you progress so you will need this map.

Laser Beams

Beware of the laser beams which you will need to negotiate your way through as they switch on and off. Each laser beam will turn off and on as you approach it. To return you need to navigate the sequence of laser beams before returning.

Moving Platforms

Navigate Your Way Through Moving Platforms.

Controls

Your spacecraft will automatically descend downwards until it hits the ground or an obstacle. Control your spacecraft using arrow keys or WASD keys. Fire using either Spacebar or Mouse Click.

Caves Of Mars on Steam

Gratuitous Space Battles

Gratuitous Space Battles

If you get this game, get the complete pack. If you already have this game, get the Campaign module. Without the Campaign aspect, the game is very limited and ultimatey you won’t have much to do.

But with the campaign, while it is VERY limited to just building fleets and maintaining them (with no other 4X concerns; all structures are pre-built in any given system), it becomes a completely different game. Since the fleets are uploaded from players, you’ll always hit new interesting configurations for specific systems; add in all the special per-system rules that you need specialized ships and the concern of maintaining supply lines for your fleets, and it becomes a pretty engrossing game that requires far more planning and leaves you with the threat that the next attacking fleet might have your number with a counter.

Real player with 632.0 hrs in game

Never thought that creating ships to blow alien ships up for no apparent reason or logic whatsoever could be so fun! :D

What you basically do is to design ships which, when deployed in battle, will help defeat the enemy fleet. Every victory you win will give you a credit like reward called Honour. You use this ‘Honour’ to buy new shiny gadgets or weapons that blaze nice looking beams of death onto your enemy.

There is no actual story line. The game is basically composed of about 14 setups (counting the tutorial battle aswell as an additional 9 setups when including all the DLC’s, which brings the number up to 23) which all offer a different challenge along with a certain species to go against. This means that just because your ship designs and the fleet you deployed were successful against a certain race in such a scenario, doesn’t mean that you will be as successful in another scenario with a different species. Not to mention certain scenarios having something called ‘Spartial Anomalies’ which can affect how well/poor your ships perform in terms of their weapons and defences.

Real player with 308.3 hrs in game

Gratuitous Space Battles on Steam

Retro Classix: SRD - Super Real Darwin

Retro Classix: SRD - Super Real Darwin

One of the all time table top classics from the 80’s on PC! Shoot your way through enemies with different power ups to repel the invaders from Cokyo. Save the planet and top the leaderboard!

https://youtu.be/kggicsXjKCY

Real player with 6.3 hrs in game

Data East 3

Real player with 0.1 hrs in game

Retro Classix: SRD - Super Real Darwin on Steam

The Rescue Squad

The Rescue Squad

A pleasant game with a relaxing gameplay, where you are one of the planetary rescuers who are looking for missing astronauts. Dodge the sharp soils of unknown planets, he flying debris in the form of fuel bombs and discover all new planets.

The Rescue Squad is a 2d side-scroller game in which the player controls a spaceship and rescues lost astronauts from an infinite number of planets, dodging the soil and debris of unknown planets.

Features of the game:

  • Pleasant Atmosphere
The Rescue Squad on Steam

Floathink

Floathink

Floathink is an action puzzle game with physics and gravity, which objective is to reach the platform of each level with your spaceship as soon as you can, by avoiding several space obstacles.

Game Features:

  • 50 levels

  • 50 achievements

  • Enjoyable Soundtrack

Floathink on Steam

Lost Astronaut

Lost Astronaut

I loved the game. Challenging and with perfect level progression. The game has good effects and particles. Congrats to the devs!

Real player with 2.9 hrs in game

Nice game!

Real player with 1.5 hrs in game

Lost Astronaut on Steam

Eslander Alpha

Eslander Alpha

It’s all good for now but need more work! Keep going and this can be very nice game after few months… I hate that i need to wait but i think it’s a going well!

Supported from me!

Real player with 21.0 hrs in game

Needs a lot of work but looking really good right now and looking forward for all updates

Real player with 7.7 hrs in game

Eslander Alpha on Steam