Retro Classix: SRD - Super Real Darwin
One of the all time table top classics from the 80’s on PC! Shoot your way through enemies with different power ups to repel the invaders from Cokyo. Save the planet and top the leaderboard!
– Real player with 6.3 hrs in game
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Data East 3
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
FORTRESS DEFENDER
Well this came out of nowhere. Paying homage to the shmups of ancient times Fortress Defender will completely chew you up and spit you out..and that’s on Easy.
Not for the faint of heart nor the easily frustrated you will find absolutely no modern day hand holding here so be forewarned! With that said I enjoy a good challenge. Daunting at first glance with broken english for ship descriptions and some not so clear game mechanics one may feel slightly overwhelmed with FD. It took a bit of time but once familiarized with the controls and the game systems things quickly started to click. This shmup feels like a bit of a mash up between Gradius and possibly Gates of Thunder but with it’s own unique subsystems and powerup/shield system. Enemy design and attack patterns are well suited, bosses are challenging to take down, and the action is constant never letting up.
– Real player with 8.7 hrs in game
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It’s a good retro shmup.
– Real player with 3.5 hrs in game
Minimalist Space War
It’s a good game for a good price. It made me feel very nostalgic! It starts off easy, than gets progressively harder. Just what you’d expect in a space shooter game. Recommended!
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
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I liked a lot this geometric space shooter game. It slowly progress to more challenging levels letting you understand new weapons and power ups. I recommend, its fun and relaxing at the same time!
– Real player with 4.3 hrs in game
Space Intervention
Too basic Space Invaders clone where you have to only survive 3.5 rounds to get all achievements.
There’re no variations in points / enemies / levels. No powerups exists.
Very low replayability
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Blurple Food Wars
The game is made in the classic arcade style of the 80s.
By genre, this is a shooter in which you shoot food, which in turn has a nice explosion animation.
I was also pleased with the diversity of the game, there are many different waves with opponents that are different, and you can also improve your ship for better shooting
– Real player with 9.7 hrs in game
Good experience. In general, such games are good, albeit a little outdated.
– Real player with 4.2 hrs in game
Meteoroids 3D
Asteroids: when the simplest is the most addictive.
Eighties of the twentieth century. The golden age of 8-bit video games. We were leaving school, and we were going to spend our precious coins in the arcade machines.
One of the machines that personally caught my attention was Atari’s Asteroids. How could something so simple be so addictive? How could they simulate the physics of that little white triangle on a black background in such a way?
Asteroids was as simple as it gets. A simple black background, a white triangle, and figures representing asteroids, which were destroyed as we shot white dots from our triangle, which was our ship. Imagination did the rest. And the inertia effects were really amazing for the time.
A tribute to Asteroids: Meteoroids 3D.
Meteoroids 3D doesn’t pretend anything except two things: to be a tribute to Asteroids, and to allow the player to go back to destroying space rocks in an absurd and crazy way. To do this we have created a modern game, with weapons and scenarios in three dimensions, but with the simplicity of the game of the time.
Meteoroids 3D doesn’t want to be better than Asteroids; that’s impossible. What we want is to make a tribute. And that’s all we want.
We have added some aspects, besides the famous UFO: a demon, and some enemy ships that launch rockets to destroy us. Main features are:
Features.
Note: we highly recommend using a pad (Xbox, Playstation or compatible) because you’ll have more control flying the starship.
1.- 24 levels, that follow the greek alphabet. Why the greek alphabet? It’s cool.
2.- Seven weapons. You get new weapons while you get new levels. But you can activate all the weapons from the very first time if you wish.
3.- Energy weapons are far more effective, but consume a lot of energy. Be careful.
4.- Missiles. They follow the priority targets. If there are only meteors, they destroy the nearest. If there are enemies, they follow the most dangerous.
5.- Enemies. Asteroids had the UFO. Here you’ll also get the Demon, the Mother Ship, and enemy fighters, that are very, very fast and dangerous.
6.- What if you don’t want enemies and just want play the old way, destroying meteors? Deactivate enemies and that’s it.
7.- Every time you start destroying meteors there is an incremental count that finishes after a time. Try to make your best records in the minimum time.
8.- There are two initial scenarios, more to come. But don’t worry: the main goal is to finish meteors, not scenarios.
9.- You can see who’s the best in the Steam statistics.
10.- First view is the best! We want third view! Well, choose how you want to play in the config menu.
11.- Fast game or a long challenge? You can modify the time for every level from 3 minutes to 15. And you’re going to suffer if you want to survive.
12.- Leaderboards and records for various items, including the record destroying meteors in 20 seconds.
Have an idea or something to say? This is a game to have fun. We’ll hear you.
Last, but not least, we have added a full physics option: if the player wants can activate it, and then the ship will have the same inertia that the small ship of the old game had, so the control will be logically more complex. Those who do not want that degree of realism in physics can leave the simple mode activated.
For the rest, Meteoroids 3D is a simple, addictive game, with twenty-four levels, which wants to be a tribute to the games that gave us so many good times in the eighties, and especially Asteroids, which undoubtedly made me leave many, many coins inside.
We hope you enjoy Meteoroids 3D, but don’t forget to play Asteroids in some emulator. It’s still as addictive now as it was then. Thank you very much.
Asteroid Blasters
Overview
Asteroid Blasters is a modern re-imagining of the classic 80s Asteroid shooters from the early arcades.
Asteroids are on a collision course with Earth and the only way to avert disaster is to nose straight into the cluster and destroy as many as you can.
Other machines have been deployed to assist in the destruction of the space rocks but be careful that they don’t hit you by mistake!
Features
Choose from 6 ships, each offering a variety of performance differences.
Multiple weapon drops will be teleported from Earth.
1 Player or 2 Player Co-Op arcade action.
High Score Leaderboards to see if you’re the best space pilot.
Procedurally generated levels.
Old school inertia based physic controls.
Full Joypad Support.
Save / Load to continue where you left off (Single Player Mode ONLY).
Lots of Steam Achievements.
Tiger Tank 59 Ⅰ Black Hill Fortress
Lucky me gets to write the first review for Tiger Tank 59 Ⅰ Black Hill Fortress. This is a free to play 2D top down shoot ‘em up where you control what I think is some kind of tank against a bunch of other tanks. It’s hard to tell, as the screenshots show, there’s some really bad graphics here.
Although this is a copy of the GameMaker Studio shoot ‘em up template, original assets have been used. GameMaker Studio is a terrible game construction kit, and you can’t build a nice house from a terrible foundation. Games made with GameMaker Studio are always, always terrible, and this game is no exception.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
Tiger Tank 59 Ⅰ Volcano
Lucky me gets to write the first English review for Tiger Tank 59 Ⅰ Volcano. This is a free to play 2D top down shoot ‘em up where you control what I think is some kind of tank against a bunch of other tanks. It’s hard to tell, as the screenshots show, there’s some really bad graphics here.
Although this is a copy of the GameMaker Studio shoot ‘em up template, original assets have been used. GameMaker Studio is a terrible game construction kit, and you can’t build a nice house from a terrible foundation. Games made with GameMaker Studio are always, always terrible, and this game is no exception.
– Real player with 0.1 hrs in game
While you are Downloading
Simple, fast and fun. You will find yourself playing long after the download has finished.
Here’s my let’s play video. Try to beat my high score!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AyMIXeVWxDY
– Real player with 0.8 hrs in game
The game is definitely good at what it aims to do. It is marketed as a game to be played in short intervals while you wait for other games to download. I think it succeeds at this fairly well. The controls are very simple, using just left and right to move your ship. It shoots on it’s own and constantly moves forward. As time goes on, you gain access to new weapons. As you score more points over the lifetime of the game, new power ups become available giving you a reason to keep playing to that next checkpoint. A simple game for a simple purpose, but fun enough I’ll keep coming back. Nice work devs!
– Real player with 0.4 hrs in game