Outstation
Outstation is a shoot em up that takes place during a new frontier of space exploration. Nebula mining operations have spread far across the galaxy with a rising need for protection from marauders looking to steal the resources harvested.
As a mercenary in the out, you can choose from a selection of contracts which present different game modes. If you complete your contract, you get paid.
The contract stipulates you are responsible for your own ship and the well-being of the station you are employed to protect. Upgrade and personalize your ship, fortify the station, and destroy the increasing waves of marauders!
Features
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Free-roam shoot ‘em up
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Choose between multiple games modes (contracts)
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Fight off masses of enemeis
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Large-ship boss battles
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Customize your ship to be ready for any contract - every upgrade alters your ship’s abilities!
STORY
A new form of fuel has been discovered within the clouds of various nebulas and utilized for space travel bringing a rush for dominance over the budding industry. Throughout the galaxy, a number of mining operations have sprung up to harvest and refine this new fuel.
This rush to harvest fuel has made the concept of security nearly non-existent leading to massive collaborations of corsairs that patrol the galaxy looking for potential mines to raid and ships to hijack. Once a scout has found a vulnerable target, the group will warp waves of ships to its location to overwhelm and plunder.
Seeing an opportunity to satisfy the desire for money and combat, mercenaries began to offer protection services to mining operations. These mercenary contracts operate on a pay per-kill basis; depositing payment into the mercenary’s account instantly upon destroying a combative ship and often provide a contract completion bonus.
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Hyperspace Dogfights
Updated Review:
Excellent game, 269 hours of playtime (with still more stuff to unlock and do; I only have 98% completion, with a new major update on the way (No Masters, that is)!), excellent potential for challenge runs, and, in my opinion, overall a nigh-flawless example of roguelikes.
By the way, here’s one tip that’s very helpful: If you’re being tracked by a homing missile, a square crosshair will follow you. If you jump while that crosshair is on an enemy, you’ll shift the missile lock to that enemy, thus causing it to seek out that enemy instead of you. Using that trick, you can avoid always needing the Flares active to shrug off missiles (For.. maybe 12 hours or so? I didn’t know that, and so I couldn’t drop Flares without dying, or play any other jet, and I’d frequently die because Flares ran out of charges. Then I saw a loading screen tip.)
– Real player with 420.6 hrs in game
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GENERAL OVERVIEW
Hyperspace Dogfights is a side scroller shooter set in an weird sci-fi setting with familiar tropes and wild cards. Requiring a decent bit of skill of both maneuverability skills to evade fire and using the capability to enter a controlled stall to dish fire at the enemies on your six or to shoot an enemy from where they least expect.
The game takes inspiration from games like Luftrausers but offers a completely different game experience with a level of progression through unlocks for later playthroughs such as new fighter choices with different starting gear or more gear unlocked to come by in later games.
– Real player with 162.8 hrs in game
It’s time to get out from the solar system
This is an extremely low quality vertical scrolling arcade shootemup/bullet hell game. The objective is to fight through waves of enemies, perform limited ship upgrades, and eventually escape the solar system.
While the quality here is very low, the developer didn’t use retro pixel graphics, which makes this immediately better than thousands of games on Steam. The game runs properly in fullscreen and even supports 4K graphics, again better than thousands of games on Steam. The downsides, however, are significant. The graphics are of very low quality and bad to look at. The controls are lethargic and the ship moves like a slug. The translation is too terrible to make the story digestible. It’s just not fun. And what’s with the unskippable intro that replays when you die and goes on for an eternity?
– Real player with 5.9 hrs in game
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Back in 2014 this was not the worst shoot em’ up on steam for under 5$. It it still not the worst shoot em' up on steam in 2020. There is plenty of other shoot em' ups this generation for the same price. This game is lacking content compared to todays shoot em' up and this game is no longer being updated or supported. So if you are looking for e decently fun game for about this price, this is fine but keep looking they is alot more out there.
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game
Sora
Intorduction
I have never been a fan of bullet hell games reason being is that I always can’t keep up with the action that is going on the screen and I usually give up if it is too hard but as for Sora I liked it in fact I loved it and it is quite addictive, because it is manageable for me and I could say I did have a great time playing Sora. Sora tells the story of its namesake: the lone enhanced human, Sora, and her struggle to protect a fading world. Enjoy breathtakingly fast-paced combat in the Suguri universe, with improved game system and graphics along with original trance music by DEKU.
– Real player with 63.4 hrs in game
Let’s be honest.
If you’re buying this game, you’re buying it for Sora (Military) and that’s the only reason.
Same with the other games.
But that doesn’t mean it isn’t good in it’s own right.
Out of the games that give you bonus characters i’ve played (AoS 2 hasn’t been released yet, and i don’t care enough about Aru (Scramble) to get her game) this is most certainly the best. The gameplay is more refined and detailed, the story is much more deep than “QP wants pudding back” and it actually makes you feel bad for the characters, even some of the bosses.
– Real player with 41.5 hrs in game
Binarystar Infinity
cena gry nie jest duża oraz sama gra długa nie jest
pixelart jest wyśmnienity i bardzo pasuje do gry
gameplay też jest świetny
– Real player with 3.2 hrs in game
I love the look and music. I’m not the best shoot em up player. This one is challenging to me. I like how in cooperative you get some ships again at the start of the next level if you die but the other player makes it. When levels are unlocked you can start from further levels. Worth the price. Probably worth more than the price I paid.
– Real player with 1.7 hrs in game
Cosmo Chaser
Very nice little shooter. This takes me back to the arcade days. Everything works smoothly, no complaints here.
Note:
Game was last updated on July 15 2019.
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
Cosmo Chaser is a bullet hell shooter where the enemies have infinite, long-lasting bullets whereas you have slowing, short-distance bullets. I couldn’t even complete the first step. 3/10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnBNxlcIqkM
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Dark Zodiac
Mystictronaut is traveling alone in search all lost constellations. His costume, boots, gun and grenade give him special abilities so he is up to the task. Hunting aliens and robots, searching for the path through this universe of planets and stars.
Playing as Mystictronaut you can:
1- Fly through space using your revealing bomb to reveal hidden planets and asteroids.
2- When the planet or asteroid is revealed it comes with lots of aliens and robots that you must eliminate.
Galaxy Highways
GALAXY HIGHWAYS is a 2D twin-stick retro looking pixel art action shooter in space where you are doing pirate raids into other star systems inhabited by alien civilizations where you destroy enemy ships, space stations, defensive positions, mother ships or bosses and try to complete all missions as soon as possible before enemy defense system destroys you with its increasingly powerful waves of attacks.
The game takes place in the future when after the expansion of our civilization and the discovery of the so-called jump gates built by an unknown civilization to quickly move between star systems is our civilization discovered by aliens. Home planet and civilization itself was almost completely destroyed and after last failed fight they had to escape and started hiding in the edge of the galaxy. New colony was built and people now trying to survive by sabotaging, stealing enemy resources and researching new technologies to survive. It’s up to you and few others in special squads to show, that we are still here and we’ll not be forgotten so easily.
Game features
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Twin-stick retro looking pixel art space shooter
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Optional order in which the player completes missions in the levels
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Optional reward-based missions increasing the difficulty of the level and rewarding a player with achievements
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An enemy defense system that sends increasingly stronger waves of enemies to destroy the player
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Lot of different weapons
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RPG elements such as upgrading weapons and ships
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Intense boss fights
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Visual representation of game progress and achievements by visual improvements of the dock and the large battleship in it
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Catching story
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Killer hard rock/metal style soundtrack with retro synthetisers to support retro and fighting atmosphere.
Star Hunter DX
I’m pretty hooked on this game! The scoring system is intuitive yet deep, and feels very fun. The bullet patterns are dense, but also pretty fast, so this game feels different from a lot of other bullet hell shmups.
Heads up though! This game is tough! I’ve played a lot of shmups and even the easiest difficulty level in this game feels like a respectable challenge.
– Real player with 12.2 hrs in game
This is one hell of a shmup. It doesn’t pull any punches on difficulty level either so be forewarned!! Love the artwork and especially the soundtrack. The grazing mechanic to earn more bombs is unique and I enjoy how using bombs will refill the “slowdown time” meter. There’s alot more going on here but just know that the systems put in place give a good bit of strategy within the onslaught.
If one thing could be added in a future update it would of course be online leaderboards. This game is screaming for a leaderboard even is its just simply integrated with the Steam leaderboards. Devs if you even have time eventually please ….
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
Tormenta do Tempo
Very cute and fun game in retro graphics! Great soundtrack and good storyline will give you lots of hours to complete. I suggest you play this game with a gamepad as it is a lot easier and in my opinion more fun. It is very satisfying to kill the monsters
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game