Geometry Wars: Retro Evolved
This is one of my favourite games on steam. It’s everything you could hope for in an arcade game, it’s fun, addictive and straightforward. You have your ship and you have your enemies, all various shapes and sizes. You shoot them and earn points. Higher combos unlock better weaponry, although I think the 2nd to last gun is better than the last and most powerful. Where this game really sells is in its visuals. Enemies dont just explode when you shoot them, it’s a literal firework show. It’s wonderful to look at. The more enemies there are, the more fantastic the lightshow becomes, when enemies explode in a dazzling array, the world warps and wriggles and bends and a million different colours explode onscreen making you go ooooh and aaaaaah.
– Real player with 61.3 hrs in game
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Lots of people out there claim there’s no point in buying this because Geometry Wars 3 contains this entire game. As an avid fan of both games, let me clarify that GW3 does NOT contain GW. There is a mode in GW3 that replicates GW, but there are big differences. Visually, GW has a very unique look from GW3, but more importantly, the mechanics of GW are different. In GW you first have a basic weapon that automatically upgrades to one of two more powerful weapons. It then cycles between these two weapons (rapid fire and wave), and that’s what gives GW it’s charm and distinction from GW3. I actually go back to play this one quite often because I love the simple yet addictive, pick up and play gameplay. It’s never not fun trying to reach a new high score. I personally find this game to be very well balanced, and a lot easier on the eyes than other, similar games like Waves.
– Real player with 13.7 hrs in game
Ultra Bushwick
This game is awesome! No boring moments; to pay the rent you need to keep it moving! & The art style is really cool!
– Real player with 16.9 hrs in game
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Wow. Really fun and visually stunning for a 5 dollar game. Killer pixel art, but with so much on screen its a little tough to find the enemy’s in the chaos. A simple outline of the enemy’s would help. Otherwise this game rocks, and is well worth the asking price. This was made by one guy? Hell I have played TS games that were made by a huge team of programmers and were not nearly as fun, one guy made this? Good job man.
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
Vector Assault 2
Fight off waves of enemies to reach the highest score possible. Choose from multiple ships with different weapon loadouts. Play various game modes and try out the different play styles each mode offers. Take on various challenges to test your skills and see if you can get the highest score possible.
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BULLET PARTY
This is a seemingly straightforward schmup on the surface but it’s just as much a puzzle game. Levels fly at you thick & fast, and you sometimes have just seconds to destroy all the enemies onscreen. However the visuals, whilst retro, are clearly defined & even though you will perish (many times!) it never feels annoying as you get put back in again, forcing you to think quickly & remember what worked & what didn’t.
Kind of unique among the many twin stick shooters out there, and great value. Even the pulsing soundtrack is effective. Get it!
– Real player with 10.5 hrs in game
BULLET PARTY is obviously a bullet hell game. A very hellish bullet game at that.
CONS
1. Gets very hard very easily, but this is to be expected. Bullet hell game after all. (Still annoying.)
2. No level editor. I feel like a level editor would REALLY make this game, especially if you could upload your levels and others could play theeem……………………
1. Very fun experience, with lots of levels.
2. Very fun with friends.
FINAL VERDICT
BULLET PARTY is a very fun game as you can tell. The game can be annoying at times, but it’s worth the money.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Retromancer
This game is awesome! The speed and progression are excellent. The difficulty is just right. The graphics are flashy and the game has that unknown thing, that soul and mystique that make playing through it so good. Robotron lovers need to get this game now.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
TL;DR: A good time-waster if you can get it on sale.
What I like is that it has a progression system to the powerups. Yes it feels a little tacked-on, but I don’t mind chasing the upgrades.
The game is competent, and the levels are enjoyable with good variety. However I find the graphics all look the same so you can’t distinguish your avatar from the projectiles, from the enemies, the enemy projectiles, etc. It is all a big phony retro blur.
I played it for about 1.5 hours before I grew weary. Probably wouldn’t have lasted that long but I’m a sucker for twin-stick shooters.
– Real player with 3.3 hrs in game
satryn deluxe
Satryn Deluxe is a fun reimagination of Robotron/Llamatron, an 8-directional twin stick shooter. Shoot all the baddies and collect friends to increase your multiplier. When you die you lose a life and half of your friends. Every 75,000 points a new powerup will spawn.
The levels are procedurally generated, the RNG is a bit strong with levels varying in difficulty and some containing much more friends than others.
It may or may not be the best to way to play it but the game does support (a one handed) controller+mouse in addition to the standard keyboard+mouse and dual stick controller. Which is nice because my dual stick is out of service for the moment and I don’t want to use the keyboard to move my character.
– Real player with 17.3 hrs in game
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A love letter to Robotron 2084 and a great companion title for twin-stick purists who can tolerate only a little spin on a classic. Nice enemy variety and number of weapon drops will keep you engaged. The action is tight but this burns a little slower than its grandfather, quickly allowing new players to play for twenty or more stages after only a handful of runs. That’s okay; this isn’t a greedy arcade machine trying to eat all your quarters as quickly as possible. The late game challenge ramps up nicely and lingering around on one stage is clearly discouraged. All in all, this should be one of those ‘one more go’ games that will keep you up when you should be in bed.
– Real player with 15.4 hrs in game
#Funtime
Nice twin stick shooter, with different map types. good although short sound track. tries to have rogue lite elements like ship upgrades, and while they are cool, i was able to unlock all of them right away (with the exception of 1 tier3 unlock). it almost feels as if those unlocks should just be like PowerUp drops during the game. but overall so far i have had a #Funtime
– Real player with 8.3 hrs in game
Great game; this game gets more and more dynamic as you progress through the levels. It can get quite intense but the relaxing sound-track adds a nice balance. It seems to be well optimized for PC because it runs smooth and takes little storage. My favorite level so far is 10; maneuvering around the asteroids is good fun and makes a great scenery. I look forward to exploring the rest of the levels and arcade mode.
– Real player with 8.0 hrs in game
Bubblegum Zombie Hunter
BUBBLEGUM ZOMBIE HUNTER
Welcome to Gloomhaven, home to**Kaylee Bu33le**, the towns most iconic streamer.
Gloomhaven has been attacked by a zombie outbreak and the shambling hordes have knocked out the internet!!!! Enraged that she can’t hit her daily donations goal, Kaylee heads out, armed with her Gumball Gun and vows to take on the zombie hordes save her friends and the internet!
Geometry Wars™ 3: Dimensions Evolved
This game is a very good use of $15, and you should purchase it. You should absolutely not hesitate to buy it at sale prices. If you are looking to play “Geometry Wars 2, but better,” you should continue reading.
There’s a lot of people who played Geometry Wars 2 on the XBox. Some of my most fond memories of my last year of undergrad were spent in front of a TV trading the controller off with a friend of mine, making him curse my name for making sure that all of “his” high scores were actually mine. Undeniably, a rerelease of Geometry Wars is going to attempt to play off of that nostalgia.
– Real player with 121.3 hrs in game
For those of you that are looking for a quick answer whether you should purchase this game or not, I give you, “Yes, you should buy this game, at $14.99 it is worth every cent and it is insanely good!” and I’ve also added an overview in the code box below. For everyone one else, you are in for an Aficionado treat.
After 6 long years, the moment I thought never possible is here, as ‘Lucid Games’ releases to us the next chapter of intense arcade action with Geometry Wars 3: Dimensions. This is the epitome of “arcade” gaming, the reason why kids everywhere stood around a cabinet, converted their lunch money into quarters and pumped them into a machine to top each other’s score. If you ever wondered what a “Twin Stick” game is, this is the perfect definition.
– Real player with 45.4 hrs in game
Gridform
Gridform is a fast-paced action arcade game restricted to a square arena. Action is fast with predictable enemies with exploitable interactions. Like your own ship, enemies die in a single hit.
Campaign
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Gridform’s primary campaign features a large, interconnected grid of over 75 levels. Each level is designed to test your skills in a unique and exciting way by presenting you with unique win and fail objectives.
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Unlock additional weapons to complement your strategy.
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Fight against huge bosses that break the rules.
Gridform is designed to be a challenging game. You will die, but you will learn.