Steredenn: Binary Stars

If mastering a top tier shmup is like learning to play a piece of classical music, don't mistake this game for jazz. It's more like having musical instruments chucked at your head while someone screams scales at you. Half the time these will be harmonicas in the wrong key, sometimes they will be a mechanical steam calliope emitting methane. It is often fun, weird, and interesting, and the presentation is excellent, but it's like playing some made-up game with your uncle at thanksgiving that he invented out of spite 20 years ago when he swore off football after getting passed over for the varsity team. That said, it's not bad for a few kicks. If you want to see the same combinatorial level design idea applied to a shmup more effectively by developers who understand shmups, try DariusburstCS instead.

This game kicks my butt, pisses me off and i'm stuck in an endless loop of Play->Alt F4->Uninstall->Install->Try again, repeat. Very responsive controls, fast paced bullet hell that is tough as nails with interesting boss mechanics. The stages are very short so dying to a boss is not a big deal because you can get back in a very short amount of time and the procedural generation helps with keeping things fresh. Couple of things i don't like is that when you carry 2 guns you have to switch all the time to use them and that when you switch you have to release the fire button and press it again otherwise the weapons won't fire. You may think it's not a biggie but in the midst of combat it becomes an issue. Also i really hate the fact that when you pickup upgrades you have to actually read what they do first, then press a button to pick them up and you have to make sure you don't have the wrong weapon equipped because you have to drop gun to pick the new one. All that, while you are facing 1 million enemies and trying to dodge 10 million projectiles. If you like your shmup to be hard combined with a roguelike this is your game.

Nobody is good at this game, without large overhead and significant luck. I could live with the randomness, if some broad attacks didn't have faster telegraphs and movement than your ship. Which just leaves you with happening across an op build or the right one for that boss. Tbf they do compensate the randomness with rapid replay.

Steredenn is a fun roguelike shoot 'em up with an interesting low-res pixel style (although the backgrounds diverge from it, having more detail). Not too short, not too long, with a pretty decent amount of variation in its weapons, bosses and randomly generated stages. With a good discount, I'd recommend it!

Honestly, one of the most fun and hetic games in my Steam library. Maybe one of my favorite games, even if not the most played by hours-metric

A good game that I die a lot in where you can fly a space ship that sometimes has saws There is a multiplayer mode, which is neat, although in some ways its a bit of a debuff because that's more you have to keep track of on screen and iirc you both share the same health bar I really like the music fade at the start of levels. I think it's a very nice touch my space ship has a KNOIFE 10/10