Tachyon Project

[h1] Nice twin stick shooter with great soundtrack and responsive controls. Recommended. Gets kinda tuff though... [/h1]

it's a shame theres no borderless window but what am i saying this game is 11 years old it takes a second to get used to the movement but its really fun

EDIT: Could not beat level 7, wave 1. On PS4 the wave had mines, which would help extend the timer, but not on PC apparently. Good music, but spends too much time playing mellow music and changes tracks at random intervals. Would be better to change tracks with spawns or even just when a new wave starts. Starts off easy, but from level 4 some game sense is needed. Enemy placement seems deliberate and encourages tactics to get rid of them efficiently. Enemy variety is excellent and they appear distinct so you can know which enemy type it is at a glance. The yellow and orange small fry blurs together in a pinch though. I found upgrades to be unbalanced but at least many are cool to try. The extra time/health upgrades seems mandatory sometimes, so I just left them on. And upgrading shooting seems cool at first, but you often get surrounded, so I felt like I needed AoE - when I have AoE, shooting seems secondary and a waste of upgrades. You get a secondary weapon which buffs shooting a lot, so maybe with that one, or if you got bullet hell skills, you may have more build variety. Some times I could not fire special weapons (explosions, mines). Never found out why. Seems like they …

Tachyon Project, developed and published by Eclipse Games, is a fast-paced twin-stick shooter that blends classic arcade intensity with modern progression systems and a light narrative framework. At first glance, it presents itself as a familiar top-down arena shooter, but as the experience unfolds, it becomes clear that the game aims to offer more than pure reflex-driven action. It places the player in control of Ada, a sentient artificial intelligence navigating hostile digital spaces in search of answers about her origins, using this premise to give context and cohesion to what might otherwise be a purely abstract sequence of battles. The core gameplay is built around tight, responsive controls that are essential for survival in the game’s increasingly chaotic arenas. Movement and shooting are handled independently, allowing players to weave through dense enemy fire while maintaining offensive pressure in any direction. Levels are structured as multi-wave encounters, each introducing different objectives or enemy combinations that prevent the experience from becoming monotonous. Rather than simply overwhelming the player with numbers, the game emphasizes enemy behavior and spat…

Yeah. Not quite Geometry Wars, but I guess we're never getting another one of those. This'll do for now.

Wow, this game has coin operated Arcade quality! The difficulty increases until it breaks you mentally, then your primal instinct begins to itch from within your subconscious into a hot RAGE!!! I shall adapt and overcome toward Victory.///