Neon Pulsefire

If you are a fan of the genre, do not pass this one up. The hit boxes are precise enough to pull some split second dodges and there is no momentum for your ship, meaning you can weave through clouds of bullets. The difficulty scales nicely so even with a broken build you can still mess up and die. The upgrades are incremental but have impact. The ship classes all feel and play differently. I'm currently achievement hunting after having unlocked all the ships. My only complaint, besides a couple crashes, is I wish there was more stuff. I want longer runs, maybe an endless mode. This game has fun as a top priority. Seriously, buy it.

The game is cheap and fun to play. It's fairly easy to understand. With a little exploring you can see where to upgrade your stats. And what to do to unlock everything. It's a simple game, you can easily see how some of the mechanics work. (E.G. how the enemies simply follow you where-ever you are. That's one of the first things you learn how to program when starting out with making games.) I appreciate the effort and transparency the solo dev is putting out there, in order to fix any bugs. Old review is no longer relevant. Just leaving it here hidden for now as a reminder. [spoiler][strike]I actually like the game, but right now there's still too many crashes happening. Most of the crashes happen right after you kill the boss, and then your progress is at least saved before it crashes. I had one run where I crashed before I finished a run, and in that instance I lost my progress. So right now I can't in good conscience recommend anyone to buy the game. It is however not an expensive game to buy. And it's fun in it's simplicity. Will change my review to positive once I've found more bug fixes have happened and the game isn't crashing all the time. But for now I have to put this g…

A slept on roguelike. This game feels great to play, has all the crunchy number go up aspects that item collecting goblins crave. Visually, it is a feast for the eyes and reminds me of younger, carefree days playing Geometry Wars. Well worth the 4 bucks it costs normally, and I got it on sale. Only real issue I had with it was near the end of my time grinding out the achievements, some of my more obscene builds in A4 were absolutely leading to crashes at the end of the runs. Not really sure what that was about, but honestly it wasn't a huge deal since it saves progress before the crash. Would love to see an "endless" mode! Looking forward to other games from this dev.

Neat little game, well worth the full price. Decent amount of content. What it needs is a neatened menu aesthetic, a few more base enemies (perhaps one that shoots at you or lays mines?) and a multiplayer mode. I look forward to seeing what the dev does with this.

Works well on the Steam Deck OLED (60FPS, 10W TDP), I will come back and provide a more detailed review once I've played a bit more.

crashes after the boss literally every time