Cosmoscope
Brilliant wee game!
The progression is done really well. New enemies and abilities are dealt to you at a nice pace and the ways to counter them are intuitive. The game brings in new situations and changes dynamics with each new chapter, which keeps it fresh and builds upon your existing knowledge. It has a really unique concept I haven’t seen in any game before with the Kaleidoscope but still has a really retro feel. Like arcade games of old!
Plus the soundtrack is amazing, not distracting but really sets the mood and keeps you in the zone!
– Real player with 10.6 hrs in game
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great soundtrack and quick to get into. just fun in a new spin on a mix of genres!
– Real player with 2.5 hrs in game
Trident’s Wake
Wonderful cooperative action game, I have had many hours of fun frying aliens with friends, customizing my sentinels, unlocking special abilities and improving my weapons.
The game is in early access and I assumed that it could have many bugs, but after play it on a friend’s PC, I saw that it is perfectly playable and I loved it. I bought it last week and I have played around 30 hours (be careful guys, it’s really powerful).
The sounds of the shots are wonderfully well done and the lighting is well enough adapted to generate some suspense and mystery but allowing fluid combats.
– Real player with 114.4 hrs in game
I’m recommending this game because on the base level, the game is playable and easy to pick up and play, however the game has been left in a bit of a broken state and is no longer supported by the dev team according to their discord , so any glitches, bugs or texture issues you may come across while playing the game may not be fixed or patched in the future.
That said, the game is a simple twin-stick shooter where you play as a Robotic soldier called a “Sentinel” tasked with clearing out the “Trident”, a type of “ark” that holds human embryos and Humanity’s last hope for survival amidst an alien invasion. you can play solo or with a group of 4 to fight through and take back control of 4 different sectors on the ship before moving on to the final “Strike Back” phase where you activate the Trident’s defense turrets and fight off the alien attackers.
– Real player with 23.8 hrs in game
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.
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Hovership Havoc
This is quite a simple game but it’s well made and quite worth the cost. It’s very good if you want to play something for half an hour without becoming too involved in anything complex. The physics simulation is quite good enough and it’s easy to begin playing within a minute or two.
– Real player with 60.1 hrs in game
I’m hooked! This is a great twin stick shooter game with a nice challenge element. Tons of ship secondary weapons keep each play through fresh, and the permanent ship upgrades keep you trying to bulk up your favorite ship! This game reminds me a lot of classic arcade games of the type, almost makes me want to go out and buy an arcade pad to play it!
The music in the game is also fantastic.
All around I would definitely recommend this game!
– Real player with 7.8 hrs in game
Restart Zero
In 2237, a high-tech laboratory (Cybertec) wanted to develop an all-cure remedy for the world’s diseases. Cybertec/lab uses a high-tech supercomputer with artificial intelligence to support this. Instead of developing a cure-all remedy, the supercomputer recognizes that the real disease are humans The supercomputer tries to take over humanity and protect it from itself with the help of a specially developed algorithm.
Can you stop the supercomputer?
Restart Zero is an action shooter in cyberpunk style. Experience a fast-paced adventure single or local coop multiplayer.
FIGHT
Fight against numerous opponents controlled by the supercomputer. Use different weapons, such as pistol, rifle and shotgun.
Fight against bosses with strong abilities. Use your dash ability in a controlled way to survive.
COMPANION - DRONE
Your companion, the drone will help you with various abilities. Manually control it to hack unreachable terminals so that no door remains locked.
Solve riddles to continue your way further, but be careful that your drone is not destroyed.
Clear obstacles out of your way with the gravity beam.
MOVEMENT
Ascending Madness
You’re tripping and loving it …
… until the skulls showed up.
Ascending Madness is a twin shooter that’ll challenge your arcade skills. As you play, you’ll find a variety of psychodelic enemies while fighting them off with cool weapons and equipping with rune power ups.
But it is much more than that. Immediately, you’ll be thrown into Merrick’s story that’ll leave you asking “What is happening? What happened? Where am I (Merrick)?” As you explore, you’ll meet other characters (if you can call them that) who will fill in the details and then confuse you more … or perhaps it is just the madness talking?
– Real player with 27.8 hrs in game
Great game
– Real player with 7.3 hrs in game
Space Cows
I wouldn’t suspect games filled with fart jokes and smurf-level wordplay about milk to be that fun.
– Real player with 6.5 hrs in game
This game is really fun but don’t assume it’s an easy one! Actually, the very first level is already quite challenging!
It really feels that the guys developing it had some fun and share a good sense of humor. Also, for the price you can’t go wrong..
– Real player with 4.1 hrs in game
Solaroids
If you like astroids type games, you will love Solaroids! It is a really smooth play, and there are many settings that you can tweak and change to adjust the game play/view the way you want. I also think the soundtrack is high quality and enjoy listening to it while I play. The local multiplayer mode is fun for families, -my kids enjoy the game too! Solaroids is still in early release, but the solo developer keeps us posted about the updates he is making and the plans he has to improve the game, including a story, and more grapics etc. He is also very open to suggestions, which I appreciate. I would definately recommend the game if you like to shoot things in space. It is surprisingly fun, and polished in the game play. Give it a try!
– Real player with 134.7 hrs in game
I have been playing this off and on for about 3 years. Seeing the massive updates, option upgrades, graphic changes, etc. has been really amazing.
This seems like a finished product, not a beta or early access… and then it updates and (unlike many other updates) you realize that they found a way to improve on something that was already great and retain the things you liked! You have even more things to explore or try out!
When the twin stick came out I was FINALLY a bit more competent and it transformed from a PC simulated arcade game to a modern console version.
– Real player with 69.8 hrs in game
The Last Cadet
A mission gone wrong, an ancient monster awaken!
A private military company is hired to escort a laboratory team in a submarine to recover a valuable specimen near an abandoned deep sea facility. As the laboratory team and part of the military personnel explore the target site, things go wrong almost immediately. An ancient monster attacks the submarine and sinks it, ruining the submarine’s communication links. A mere cadet, John “Flash Pan” Pinback is the team’s last hope at survival as the only escape route is a mini-sub that’s in bad need of replacement parts, which Flash Pan can find and fix. Meanwhile, Captain Valeria Buenrostro must search the submarine and target site to save her squad members while dealing with constant sabotage from an unknown source.
Twin-stick action-driven survival horror in a 1-bit, deep sea metroidvania!
Play the individual stories of Flash Pan and Captain Buenrostro to discover the truth behind the ill-fated mission and unravel the not so abandoned deep sea facility, all the while surviving the wrath of an ancient monster and a submarine filled with mutated versions of electric eels, jellyfish, and sharks.
Make the most of available resources and dive into an array of weapons with unique ways to use them!
Light is scarce with the only sources being the few working lamps, resident bioluminescent marine life, and the deep sea suit. Use twin stick controls to survive the horrors that are drifting in the darkness with multiple weapons, some of which can be used in unique ways like dashing with the harpoon gun, high jumping with the shotgun’s recoil, and busting open stuck doors with a flamethrower-like welding kit.
Play with a friend and sink together into a world 20,000 pixels below normalcy …
Couch co-op experience with multiple modes as Flash Pan and Captain Buenrostro. Take on waves of enemies coming at you at full strength or complete missions together from clearing enemies from specific areas to scavenger hunts.
Unlock achievements!
Use specific weapons, complete side quests, and more! Switch on the speed run timer and go for the speed run-based achievements.
幸存者 星星之火 | Survivor Spark
«幸存者 星星之火 | Survivor Spark» Review(En/RUS)
[Indie / Sci-Fi / 3D / Shoot ’em up / Twin Stick Shooter]
Gameplay:
«Review(En):»
In this shooter, not only weapons will help you survive, but also the jumps.
Enemies kill you with one shot. After death, the hero continues the game from last checkpoint.
You can pick up upgrades, but the weapon boxes do not highlights.
It’s difficult to understand what you can break and which item is the decor. There are a lot of enemies, the gameplay is very complex and dynamic, you do not have time to look at the environment.
– Real player with 0.7 hrs in game