Saturday Morning Rogue

Saturday Morning Rogue

Saturday Morning Rogue is the top-down 2D roguelike where custom crafted weapons are the only way you’re getting out alive. Pick up persistent custom weapons and armor of past players that are now stuck in Saturday morning forever. If you’re going to defeat the villains of each realm and destroy the corporate machine you’ll need to build some serious equipment of your own. Want more damage? do it. Need to push yourself across the map with explosive recoil? Go wild. The power is yours to create terrifying tools of destruction or hilarious weapons that never should have left the toy aisle!

You’ve been sucked into your favorite Saturday morning cartoons and must fight your way through the Hierarchy’s boomer bots in the zaniest bullet-hell challenge this side of Sunday. Thwart the Hierarchy’s plan to steal the power of your imagination and feed the cereal laden action figure printing machine. Start at the bottom and defeat their plot for profit by climbing the ladder and pushing bosses down another rung. It’s time to weaponize imagination!

Features:

  • Create extremely customizable weapons and armor that appear forever in the game, dropping from enemies for other players to use.

  • Every stat is yours to fine-tune. Modify damage, recoil, critical hit rate, and many more to craft the ultimate weapon!

  • Explore twisted procedural levels from the LepreFaun’s playful maze forest to the Boomer’s corporate castle and the Bone Apple King’s dungeon of empty bowls.


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Saturday Morning Rogue on Steam

UpGun

UpGun

Comme d’hab, Max et Zino nous offrent du lourd !

On a le droit à un jeu de grande qualité pour un prix très abordable.

Les différentes améliorations disponibles sont super, le jeu est beau, les maps sont travaillées.

Donc oui, ce jeu est réussi sur tous les aspects.

Hâte de voir de futures mises à jour, qui, je suis sûr, renderont l’expérience encore meilleure.

Et encore félicitation aux deux développeurs !

Real player with 22.6 hrs in game


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Really good game, still a little rough around the edges but that’s to be expected since it came out so recently. Can become oddly terrifying if you spend too much time in the lobby trying to do the parkour.

Real player with 18.8 hrs in game

UpGun on Steam

GUN&DUN

GUN&DUN

What a magnificent game. The best i have ever played in my life. This is a life changing game and this game was so good it impregnated me even though i am male. Every second i played this I shat my pants with glee. 100000000000/10

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game


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GG Dev Kid…GG

Real player with 0.3 hrs in game

GUN&DUN on Steam

Space Elite Force II

Space Elite Force II

I played the first one and had a lot of fun. This took everything I loved about the first (the power up system, full controller support, and fast paced shooter action) and just amped it and made it even smoother. The levels are less repetitive and the enemy patterns smarter. The garage system comes up after death rather than only after level complete so you can get through levels usually right away. The whole experience is just more fun and is a great addition to any game library! :3

Real player with 5.3 hrs in game

Had a lot of fun with this one…it’s familiar territory once again but that’s a good thing.

Graphics are nicely done, a cool rock/electronic soundtrack, lots of good upgrades and achievements, leaderboards for all modes, co-op, extra modes like boss rush and arcade kept me coming back for more. I liked the smaller enclosed levels too (SO glad you don’t take damage if you hit a wall here too).

There’s a few things I’d like to see in future games in the series…more upgrades, larger/longer campaign, more fun achievements, levels where the whole thing is a boss, (like level 3 from R-type), trading cards, more varied bosses, this game has some enclosed levels which were fun and I’d like to see more of those too.

Real player with 5.1 hrs in game

Space Elite Force II on Steam

Space Elite Force

Space Elite Force

Summary:

(longer version below)

Space Elite Force is a pretty neat and lite side-shooter, offering some builds/customization and a fair amount of gameplay. It doesn’t come without drawbacks, but they’re minor, so at the end of the day, depending how much you pay for it, you can get a pretty decent local co-op game without regretting it.

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Real player with 7.0 hrs in game

Reminescient of games like R-Type and Gradius, this shootem will bring back fond memories. It is a masterpiece and a game done right in this genre. It is 99 cents well spent. I would’ve gladly paid for $5 or more for it. Exceptional development.

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  • shmup

  • in space

  • upgrades

  • great graphics

  • great audio

  • joystick

  • active developer

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  • joystick, because keyboard does suck in this game

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Real player with 4.4 hrs in game

Space Elite Force on Steam

Tasty Arena

Tasty Arena

Gameplay

Survival mode

The main mode : Choose your arsenal from a multitude of weapons, then go into battle through different destinations.

Worlds are divided into several zones : the arenas.

In these arenas, you have to survive against ennemies until a boss appear, which allows you to move on to the next arena until you reach the final boss.

Challenge mode

Select a challenge from a list, which will teleport you into a small arena where you will have to brave this challenge.

A 3 star score will define your success.

Content

    • 20 weapons to discover, more incoming !
  • many ennemies to face

  • many bosses to fight

  • 4 worlds to visit

Many weapons to unlock

Unlock new weapons by completing challenges or discovering secrets. Unlocked weapons can be selected before starting.

Find Special Weapons: These are very powerful weapons with limited ammos, use them wisely !

Many enemies to face

You will face different enemies who have specific abilities.

Some are more dangerous than others…

Different destinations

Play in multiple worlds : Each world has its own boss and secret to discover and weapons to find.

Tasty Arena on Steam

Fracture Hell

Fracture Hell

Great game I’m not sure how I feel about different character score bonuses but that’s just a small nitpick. The game doesn’t explain anything about the enemies and I really liked that because it allowed me to learn about the enemy types. Which was oddly satisfying for some reason. There are plenty of different character types to choose from. The effects and sound implementation was well done. I had a lot of fun with this game and it’s only 2.99 at the time of writing which is a steal if you like these types of games.

Real player with 3.1 hrs in game

Pretty decent quality, for what you might expect from a new title on Steam. Good fun, pretty responsive, feels good.

My one massive gripe, is the decision to make ammo-count a thing for your main gun. In my playthrough, despite putting many of the upgrades (hey, upgrades are cool) into ammo, it ended with no bullets.

I think it takes away from the “fun” part of the game: spamming bullets and going “AHHHH!” So consider removing ammo counters for some core weapons and if you feel it decreases difficulty, just reduce some of the round timers.

Real player with 0.2 hrs in game

Fracture Hell on Steam

1993 Space Machine

1993 Space Machine

I confess I purchased this mainly for the nostalgia factor. After completing 1993:SM I can say the tagline “celebrating games like Gradius, R-Type and Life Force” is realistic but tends to underestimate some bullet hell elements that are present in game.

Bullet hell did indeed surface in year 1993 but was not a popular subgenre until the second half of the decade. What we have here, to summarize, is a mostly classic horizontal shooter, with occasional incursions in bullet hell territory - especially in some overcrowded passages where complex bullet geometries and bullet wave patterns tend to show up, challenging you to not only shoot but dodge, too. I’d say the classic/BH ratio is 80/20, but your mileage may vary.

Real player with 19.9 hrs in game

1993 Space Machine is short, simple but very fun 2D side scrolling Shoot Em' Up. The game is easy to pick up and play - You guide your space ship through five stages in your mission to defeat the final boss.

That is not to say the game itself is easy. Stages rapidly increase in difficulty and you will soon find yourself fending off multiple enemies and stage hazards. There are two classes of ships to choose from - A small, nimble but weaker ship or a slower ship that can tank more damage and carry more weapons. Personally I prefered the former, they were just generally better at avoiding enemy projectiles and stage hazards. I would recommend trying both types of ships and seeing which you prefer.

Real player with 13.1 hrs in game

1993 Space Machine on Steam

Antibody

Antibody

You are the cure.

Sanguon, an otherwordly and newly discovered planet, has found itself the hotbed for a highly infectious alien lifeform. After intercepting a distress call from the surface research colony, you conclude the infection rate will outrun your efforts to contact your fellow humans. It is up to your piloting skills and the peculiar cleansing capabilities of your allied Chonklers to save Sanguon - and indeed the universe - from Viroid assimilation.

Multitask to victory.

Efficiently and continuously reposition your Chonkler companions to impede the rising infection. But stay alert, as your friendly critters are completely defenseless and will need your maneuverability and firepower to keep them safe as increasingly dangerous waves of enemies amass to attack.

Their loss is your gain.

Viroid corruption siphoned by the Chonklers can be converted into power-ups by your ship. Radar improvements? Piercing shot? Do you save up for big upgrades, or do you enjoy a flurry of smaller ones? The choice is yours.

A blast from the past, in the present.

A love letter to shoot ‘em up classics like Gradius, R-Type and Defender. Undeniably gameplay driven and thoroughly indulging in 80’s sci-fi pulp, Antibody is sure to excite arcade enthusiasts.

Antibody on Steam

Blasters of the Universe

Blasters of the Universe

I play on the Oculus Rift and it works perfect with only 180 degrees of freedom.

This is my all time favorite VR game of the about 130+ titles I’ve played so far. It was much better than expected on the video.

The gameplay is amazingly perfect! Bullet hell is a very good discription of this game. There’s always shots and enemies somewhere and you have time to react to everything going on. I truly feel that it’s my own fault for doing something stupid and I get better all the time. All the shots coming at you makes it super immersive. The formations of the shots makes it very interesting how to tacle them. Finding a spot to stand where everything flies around you feels awesome.

Real player with 30.8 hrs in game

BOTU is a wave shooter set inside a retro themed arcade game - it’s conscious about you playing a VR game.

You have a gun and a shield. As you progress through the “campaign” you unlock more shield types and components for the weapon customization. As you make kills, your weapons special ability charges - this brief effect (also customizable) can be anything from a powerful ray to invulnerability.

There are 4 levels in the campaign, each ending with a boss fight. Once a level is unlocked, you can also play it in endless mode. On top of that there’s a challenge mode which runs for a few days, with a predetermined weapon and shield. There are global leaderboards for all levels/modes.

Real player with 21.8 hrs in game

Blasters of the Universe on Steam