EXPOSURE, a game of camouflage
A game of camouflage where you can’t see yourself. Change colors to hide, dodge predators, and survive intense bosses in the abstract wilderness of stealth non-bullet hell. Lose the ability to see where you are, and learn to feel and know where you’re going.
EXPOSURE and CAMOUFLAGE
Being out in the open is unsafe. Avoid detection to survive. Switch between light and dark forms to camouflage, but careful: you won’t be able to see yourself either.
Entrancing World
Begin defenseless, but evolve into something greater. Progress through different branching paths across 11 procedurally generated areas. Disappear into the psychedelic minimalist design and atmospheric soundscapes.
Intense Bosses
Each area introduces new predators and parasites. Everything is much more powerful than you, but everything has a weakness.
Features
Collect all the Fieldnotes. Beat the Daily Challenge. Discover the fastest routes. Shoot ‘em up without shooting. Bullet hell without bullets. See without looking. Die and evolve.
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Pixel Galaxy
This game is ridiculously fun and bursting with creativity. I’ve never even played a bullet hell game before this one and I love it! The local co-op is also really fun to play and it lets you laugh at your ridiculous deaths with your friends! It’s got a bit of a difficulty spike but there are many modes to play and I still think it’s fun even when I do suck at it. It’s a great game whether you’re playing casually or seriously. The soundtrack is amazing, the graphics are sleek and colorful, and the gameplay is interesting, simple to learn, and challenging without being too frustrating. The ton of achievements also add a lot of humor and replay value to this game.
– Real player with 35.6 hrs in game
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Tags: Shootemup & Bullet Hell
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library
TLDR: One-screen endless wave survival bullet hell in which you collect pixels and evade others. Hard to tell which is which aas they are not consistently color coded. Game balance is iffy.
The problem with Pixel Galaxy is that it only does one thing and it does not do that one thing all that well. Collecting power ups makes your ship larger and thus easier to hit since your hitbox grows so large and the pixel patterns can be too tight together to avoid.
– Real player with 18.0 hrs in game
Unwanted visitors
Fight on hostile planets together with your friends. Get as far as possible while under attack of enemy waves and bosses. Increase your chance to survive by collecting bonuses. Every attack will make you stronger. But don’t forget you have just one chance.
Key Features
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Engage in local and online multiplayer with friends and other players from around the world.
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Play and unlock 4 unique characters.
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Get more special weapons.
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Fight against different enemies and bosses, randomly chosen by the game with random abilities and powers.
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Unlock new items, characters and achievements.
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Get extra rewards for completing quests
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Save your highscores and stats.
The game is in development and we plan to gradually add new things:
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New maps
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Other unwanted visitors
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Special bosses
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Other characters you can unlock
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Lots of other weapons and bonuses
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New quests
Join the unwanted visitors discord:
https://discord.com/invite/a762WmsZgz
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Geometry Arena
I’ll break this game up into a few sections. Those sections will be gameplay, proggression, and then specifics like graphics and sound design.
First off, the gameplay is pretty good for this title. I’ve played dozens of roguelikes from Hades to Nova Drift, and this game is up there in the quality of its mechanical execution. It’s not groundbreaking, as Nova Drift is a more polished experience overall, but this game compensates with its higher overall variety. That’s because this game incorporates 3 different systems for shaking up the gameplay - colors, roles, and skills.
– Real player with 196.7 hrs in game
After playing a lot more, and after numerous updates, I’ve decided to update my review
Ight my playtime went from 3.3h to 62.9h so yeah….
Graphics
☐ Amazing (+2)
☑ Beautiful (+1)
☐ Good (+0)
☐ Decent (-1)
☐ Bad (-2)
☐ Text (+0)
Gameplay
☐ Amazing (+2)
☑ Good (+1)
☐ Decent (+0)
☐ Meh (-1)
☐ Bad (-2)
☐ Tool (+0)
Audio
☐ Heavenly (+2)
☑ Very good (+1)
☐ Good (+0)
☐ Not too bad (-1)
☐ Bad (-2)
☐ Not noticeable (+0)
Audience
☑ Everyone
☐ Kids and up
– Real player with 65.2 hrs in game
Dextram
Love the game. Currently have the highscore in the gamemode classic. Try to beat me ;)
– Real player with 17.8 hrs in game
I have only played for a short time so far, but am really enjoying the game. I can see myself sinking many hours on this to climb up the leader board.
Update: This game is dangerously addictive.
– Real player with 2.9 hrs in game
BLACK BIRD
BLACK BIRD has easily been one of my biggest shmup related surprises of the year. I follow shmup releases as close as possible and as a result I feel that I’m aware of most upcoming STGs on Steam. The first time I heard about this game was around the time CAVE employees streamed it on their Twitch channel. I came across it again by chance in the 2018 Winter Sale and decided to purchase it.
This game is the debut of Japanese indie developer Onion Games on Steam. I’m not familiar with them but evidently they’re known for a few games including Million Onion Hotel. BLACK BIRD’s story is about a little girl that dies in the street. After dying she is reborn as a crow and starts to destroy everything. The story, graphics, music, and environments are all well designed. I’d call it almost a steam punk style opera type of aesthetic. When I originally saw the game on CAVE TV the style didn’t connect with me, but when I actually played the game I enjoyed it.
– Real player with 14.8 hrs in game
Imagine a remake of Fantasy Zone with Tim Burton’s flavor of adorable bleakness, japanese attention to gameplay detail and quirkiness. The game starts with a young girl reborn from despair as a Black Bird to destroy the world. The more you kill, the bigger and more powerful you’ll grow. This dark premise is offset by cute spritework, silly animations and a very eccentric soundtrack. It’s just a delight to consume the cruel world, which left you to die. The gameplay and its scoring is well tuned. The player is constantly managing risk, reward and greed. Nuking a whole screen at max combo with a completely pumped up bird is the most satisfying climax very few shoot ‘em ups manage to pull off. The first play through is easy mode and completion unlocks the slightly harder true mode. Online leader board for global score chasing just adds to the replay value.
– Real player with 12.8 hrs in game
Celtreos
One or two players. Use a mouse or trackpad, keyboard (including Touch Bar), or 1-2 game controllers.
Mac or mobile only, and updated for macOS “Big Sur” with x86_64 and arm64 support.
“Celtreos” is like the space shooters of decades past: tiny ship, big weapons, waves of foes, power-ups and obstacles.
Music, Sound and Voice
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Over 25 different songs (nearly 45 minutes of music!)
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You can even play your own music and auto-next-song for key game events
Stages
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12 stages: a city, space station, ocean and more
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Horizontal scrolling but more than one “screen” of vertical space
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Start from any stage you want!
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Each stage ends with a challenging boss
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Wall layouts and spawn patterns are partially randomized
Weapon Arrays, Special Moves, Power-Ups and More
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Choose from a huge arsenal of weapons and special abilities
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7 different ships to choose from
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Customize ship properties, such as gun mount locations and top speed
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In-game power-ups with weapons, defenses and temporary powers (like Rapid Fire)
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Power-down orbs with temporary inconveniences (like Weapon Freeze)
Additional Configuration Options
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Set number of lives, and number of times that special abilities can be used
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Play in a window or in Full Screen, and specify how much of the display to use in Full Screen
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Set graphics quality to one of three levels
Super Forklift 3000
A cool, short and cheap game. Nonetheless, there is a lot of replay value. In every try i learned something new to improve my score.
– Real player with 1.8 hrs in game
Solid ““““space shooter”””” with original elements (try yourself). It fullfills it’s objective: to be a arcade like game where players can always improve their scores and unlock really challenging achievments.
The price is unfair. It should cost more.
– Real player with 1.4 hrs in game
Baby Redemption
Well. This developer has only one project so far, and now I will tell you what it is: Fun scrolling shooter, action, roguelike by the way is not quite simple at first glance, in which the range of a large Arsenal of weapons accompanied by different sounds and effects. What is acceptable for the gameplay. There is a guide, which is typical for beginners, first aid kit can be found in the safes. Our hero, Why hero? Because it saves children from enemies and this is our main task in the game. There are 2 types of games-arena and arcade. We can not only kill here, but also break objects and even walls over time, which makes it even more interesting.
– Real player with 8.2 hrs in game
Just bought this game and played it for about 20 minutes, for 1 person developer not bad at all. Very challenging, but it gives a skilled player a chance to feel worthy by playing the game. I like the dash and slow moe, and the feel of the game. It is definitely worth the 4 to 5 dollars if you like top down shooters. The game can only get better from us reviewers giving feedback. My feedback is fixing the menu, which I have no idea because i don’t make video games lol, but it’s not smooth navigating the 3 options, also maybe have a controls menu in the settings menu or ESC option. There is a Q icon next to health which makes me think heal and everytime I press q I throw the circle shooter grenade. I am not sure if there is a heal option but that would be dope, if not still solid makes it more challenging. But yah if anything just remove the Q at the side of the health. That’s all i got i think, definitely enjoyable, keep it up, I’ll play it more and give more ideas I may find.
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
Edge Of Dead: Under A Uranium Sky
Edge Of Dead is an action roguelike game set in a distant star system. Use shotguns, power saws, axes, hand grenades, cybernetic implants, and more to battle your way through the system.