HyperShot
An impressive first entry onto Steam by this indie developer. I madly respect that he has realized his limitations as a new developer and not tried to bite off more than he can chew.
The controls work really well for this game (mouse to move your ship and WASD or arrow keys to fire 4 directions).
I do think that this game could use some very simple changes to make it way more satisfying and fun to play and I gave those suggestions to the developer in this first impressions video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxvOS6IeKP0
– Real player with 0.5 hrs in game
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Hell is Other Demons
This game is super fun. Buy it. You will not be disappointed.
INTRO
I heard about this game from the Indie James YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2YdTpHlyw1s
I was immediately hooked to the music and art style, and came over to Steam and bought the game. For ten bucks, this game is an absolute STEAL.
GAMEPLAY
Everything feels smooth and alliterative; many separate systems work together extremely well and the game has been play-tested into oblivion from what I can tell. Whenever something happens that causes you to die, you feel like it’s your fault, and not the game’s fault. I can’t stress enough how important that is in a game that plays like this, and for gameplay that goes as fast as this.
– Real player with 67.7 hrs in game
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Hectic and great arcade bullet hell fun with stunning graphics (with an own touch). On top of that we are also being served an excellent, pumping, synth-wave soundtrack (a couple of tracks with that distorted, heavy metal, electric guitar that we all love as well) that just reeks of what we want to remember the 80’s were like.
I have no complaints what so ever. I could understand some people wanting a longer campaign mode (yes, it was quite short and I wouldn’t mind more) but I kind of see that whole part of the game as a tutorial or “getting to know the game”. It’s in the arcade style modes that the game really shines. Trying to climb the global leader boards. Trying the characters that all feel and play differently from each other. On top of that, you are also given a good upgrade system, great controls and sound effects that do their job. What I initially thought would be a quick little fun ended up being quite addictive.
– Real player with 34.8 hrs in game
BlastZone 2
My Grandfather smoked his whole life. I was about 10 years old when my mother said to him, ‘If you ever want to see your grandchildren graduate, you have to stop immediately.’. Tears welled up in his eyes when he realized what exactly was at stake. He gave it up immediately. Three years later he died of lung cancer. It was really sad and destroyed me. My mother said to me- ‘Don’t ever smoke. Please don’t put your family through what your Grandfather put us through." I agreed. At 28, I have never touched a cigarette. I must say, I feel a very slight sense of regret for never having done it, because this game gave me cancer anyway.
– Real player with 208.4 hrs in game
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Apparently the blast zone is actually quite large. BlastZone 2 is a short indie side scrolling shooter (ala R-type but I wouldn’t say this game is that similar to R-type) made by solo developer Mat Edzenga. It features a number of different ships with different load outs, 8 stages filled with enemy ships, interesting 3D graphics and a few extra modes to try your hand at once you have beaten the main game. It also has local 2 players, controller support and costs only a few bucks.
Good
– Real player with 9.6 hrs in game
Space Mayhem
A well-calibrated space shooter. Several ships to choose from have distinct characteristics, this adds replay ability. Very enjoyable as casual entertainment. Or, prepare to swear if you wish to make it to the leaderboards.
– Real player with 123.7 hrs in game
Very cheap game that’s a lot of fun! I’ve been having a blast playing it and trying to beat my high scores. If you’re looking for a game that’s easy on your wallet, then you should try it out! Fun to compete scores with friends too.
– Real player with 8.4 hrs in game
The United SPACE of America
Use your shoulder cannon and proton sabre to blast your way through HUSK soldiers, ships, robots, alien animals and much more in this fast paced, action side scrolling bullet hell shooter! Absorb enemy fire to unlock powerful abilities, unlock story sequences and much more!
In the year 2010, Earth received a signal from the Cygnus region of the Milky Way from a hostile collective of extra terrestrials that refer to themselves as the HUSK. With the threat of their invasion looming, Earth used the 102,492 hour warning (11 years) to focus their efforts to prepare and develop technology to thwart the incoming dark omen. The Husk arrive and shatter the Earth into pieces leaving the entire country of The United States drifting as asteroids throughout the solar system. Citizens of the country survive thanks to false atmospheres installed on all regions of the country. Now their only hope lies with the President of the United States equipped with his shoulder cannon and proton sabre to bring all of the asteroids together and become the United Space of America and crush the invading HUSK forces.
弥留之岛 Xanadu Island
Key Features
Xanadu Island is a fast-paced massively multiplayer bullet hell game that brings you to the arcade gameplay. In the nonstop BOSS battle, your death is just the beginning，accumulate experience, acquire equipment, and fight side by side with other players to knockdown all the BOSSes!
Arcade style gameplay
A fast-paced, arcade-like gameplay where you can jump in and out of the game anytime you want, easy to learn but challenging.
Together with dozens of players, you will face hundreds of bosses and elite monsters with unique combat methods, defeat them, collect legendary loot, or be defeated by them as tombstones…
Diversification Progression and cross-platform
You can choose the heroes of the Xanadu Island as your heroes, these heroes will grow with you, their death will make you stronger, up to 300 kinds of equipments, as well as a wealth of skills, talents, pets, can be formed into different builds, and many PC players and even mobile players together to achieve legend.
In-app purchase value-added services
Paying won’t make you stronger, but it will give you a more dignified death, like a bigger tombstone…
Izanami’s Dream Battle
First off, I personaly don’t think that this is a game for newcomers, but it’s cheap so why not give it a try.
That being said, Inazami’s Dream Battle is a well made “bullet hell” game with (from what I seen) 4 playable characters (yeah, not 3 as description says). Those have some variety in shot type and bombs but I din’t had time to try them all yet.
Story is ok, I believe there is one or more references to Touhou Project.
The patterns are quite tight, especially on highest difficulty setting and for some might be undodgable without some basic knowledge from playing other Shmups beffore. Good news for new players, there is abudance of (9) bombs - those clear the field of bullets and deal some dammage to enemies (best used when you are cornered / can’t move freely anymore). For more seasoned players, yes you can decrease number of those.
– Real player with 2.8 hrs in game
Izanami’s Dream Battle is a cute parody game in the bullet hell genre.
Backstory
Izanami has become bored with sitting around the house and being shut in. She does, however, have a group of friends in Eione, Florine, and Lauressa. Together they decide to show Izanami a magical stone from their homeland. The stone has the power to turn her thoughts into a reality. This enables Izanami to bring excitement to her own Danmaku (bullet hell). Izanami is determined to take over the moon and to make that her reality.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Jet Lancer
Contrary to some people’s belief, this game is way more than just “LuFtRaUsErS cLoNe”. Not only because these people are severely brain damaged, but also because aside from them being 2D flight games, they really don’t have THAT much in common.
Sure. You could say that, in a way, Jet Lancer is basically “Anime LUFTRAUSERS”. But some people just don’t give JL the credit it deserves. Especially when they accuse the devs of straight up stealing another game’s code just because It’s the same genre as it.
– Real player with 54.2 hrs in game
This is actually a review written at 20 hours playtime, I just let the game idle by accident.
FIRST AND FOREMOST: If you are the kind of user that wants to use the 2 hour window to try the game and refund if you don’t like it, then take a pass on the purchase, at least until you’ve done some of your own research/watching; the early game is the most bland part of the game with easy, unaggressive enemies and not much plot development since it still is laying out what kind of personalities the characters have. It doesn’t pick up until about 7 missions in when you finally have some loadout options to try and a boss to fight, along with more advanced units in missions afterwards.
– Real player with 43.3 hrs in game
RADARjAM
What a good little game!
Thanks for making this! Looking forward to more releases from Hamra 3
– Real player with 1.0 hrs in game
this game makes me go uwu
– Real player with 0.2 hrs in game
SWARMRIDERS
An extremely simple yet difficult twin stick shooter that starts and ends with intensity. You’re an unamed person riding on a flying motorbike firing backwards into an endless swarm of what appears to be pink lit alien spaceships. You don’t seem to have a destination seeing as you never really look forward to see where you’re going and kind of just speed into an endless abyss of black, the only colors being your bike, your bullets, and the swarm’s pink lights. What are they? Who are they? What do they want? Whatever the case may be, it’s all irrelevant as they ALL want you dead. Your goal is to obviously shoot as much of them as you can and avoid running into them. There’s only one game mode which is as you guessed it: Endless mode. But even with just one gamemode, it’s quite the blast.
– Real player with 10.0 hrs in game
SWARMRIDERS
Awesome and very highly paced game with head banging music to boot.
Looks like an easy game " RIGHT"
Ah don’t be fooled LOL, 1st 2 Ach’s quite easy to nail,
then you need to hit the 120 and 150 sec mark to get the last two :D
I had a bit of a time obtaining the 120s mark and was thrilled when I got it.
Had to stop playing a bit, because the game was driving me crazy in a pleasant way :D
Went back to it in the right mindset and finally cracked the 150s barrier that I so desperately wanted to do :D
– Real player with 4.8 hrs in game