Reviews look positive, but there are only a few so far.
At $3.99. It has been as low as $1.99.
- Gameplay: 7 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 4 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Performance: 3 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 5 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Difficulty: 3 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 70 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 45 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
The gameplay itself is simplistic in design and faithful to its predecessor, keeping the player's movement limited to strafing left and right with a progressive increase in difficulty with each stage, while also enhancing the well-known formula with new additions that spice up the experience.
Visually, Chicken Invaders 1 reflects its late-1990s origins with clean, colorful 2D graphics that emphasize clarity over spectacle.
If you are playing the 2023 remaster then you should have no trouble running it under modern versions of Windows, it is still pretty much the same as the original, however the game now has a proper main menu and all the cutscenes have been redone from scratch, along with some other tiny improvements, the gameplay is fixed at a 27 FPS cap, but at least you don't need anything else to be able to run it properly.
The game can be played with up to a maximum of 150 FPS and you now actually have a music track fanning you in the background, which is a medley of all CI games' main themes, on top of that, you have the choice to play the game using the original games' spaceship design, sadly the Ion Blaster doesn't have a green color, this version of the game also has an ending along with a cutscene, tying it up with the other games in the series.
Theme by theme
Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.
Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.
Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $3.99. The lowest we've tracked is $1.99.
The data behind the verdict
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