Crit

Ray’z Arcade Chronology

Buy90%

Very Positive · 111 player reviews · Low confidence

Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.

Steam Deck Verified
  • Windows

M2 Co.,LTD · Shoot 'Em Up · Sep 25, 2023

Player review score
90%
Very Positive
Price
$24.99−50%
Lowest ever
Playing right now
All-time peak
Not charted

Steam only charts its most-played games, and this one isn’t among them.

Achievements
35
total to unlock
Steam does not publish achievement rarity.
Languages
5
Full audio0 of 5
Subtitles2 of 5

Should I buy Ray’z Arcade Chronology?

Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 10 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 6 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • No recurring complaint surfaced in 49 sampled reviews

Based on 111 player reviews · updated

What players think

The recurring themes across 49 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
25% of themes are praise75% are divided0% are complaints
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
10 of 49 sampled reviews raised it
The Rayforce series is a state of the art for its time both artistically and gameplay-wise, and does a lot of things better than shmups do today.
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
6 of 49 sampled reviews raised it
Many are likely to agree that RayForce - aka Layer Section, Gunlock, and the lame Galactic Attack; is this a record for alternate titles? - is still the best of the trilogy, even just by virtue of its superb 2D pixel art graphics, which also make great use of parallax and scaling effects, looking in some ways more three-dimensional than many 2.5D games.

Theme by theme

Scored on what reviews say about each topic, not the thumbs.

Players love
Gameplay10 reviews
Graphics6 reviews
Divided opinion
Steam Deck
75% still recommend
Story
100% still recommend
Difficulty
100% still recommend
Controls
100% still recommend
Audio
100% still recommend
Performance
75% still recommend
Players complain

No recurring complaints in this sample.

What you get

Can you play it alone, does a controller work, does it run on your machine.

Play modes

  • Co-op
  • Multi-player
  • PvP
  • Shared/Split Screen
  • Shared/Split Screen Co-op
  • Shared/Split Screen PvP
  • Single-player

Controller

  • Full controller support
  • Gamepad Recommended

Store features

  • Family Sharing
  • Remote Play Together
  • Steam Achievements
  • Steam Cloud
  • Steam Trading Cards

Platforms

  • Windows

Valve device support

Steam DeckVerified
SteamOSPlayable
Steam MachineVerified

Should I buy it now?

Based on Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded
$24.99$49.99−50%

That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

4 points recordedtoday · $24.99

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