Worth it for the right player.
At $9.99. It has been as low as $1.99.
- Audio: 23 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Graphics: 20 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Gameplay: 19 reviews raised it, mostly praise
- Combat: 9 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
- Crashes: 4 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
Based on 269 player reviews · updated 6 days ago
What players think
The recurring themes across 144 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.
Despite the negatives, the game is still tremendous fun due to the great soundstrack and sound design, the varied ships and weapons, the cool enemies that work really well and the unique way of buying lives and ships.
The graphics are colorful and bright, with the stages showing some variation (night/day) between runs.
The music, effects, voices, pixel art, and gameplay all come together to create an outstanding experience; I have a handful of much more expensive shmups in my library, and none of them are this fun.
Due to the movement acting like a digital input even when using a controller, this means that you can only move in 8 directions and always at 100% speed.
However, the latter's actions had given them a lot of infamy at that point, causing people to shower the developer with support to win the case including free legal defense, a GoFundMe campaign raising about $18,905 to cover the legal fees and countless copies of the game getting sold on Steam.
In my personal opinion, the level of difficulty is spot-on and well balanced, especially for an early access game.
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Should you buy it now?
Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.
Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $1.99.
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