Sakura Stars

Sakura Stars

Super16bits · May 21, 2020 · Arcade, Retro, Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Cute

Buy Sakura Stars from Steam at $3.99 — the cheapest of 1 store we compare.

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$3.99
lowest tracked $0.99
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Sakura Stars price by region

Sakura Stars costs £3.39 in the United Kingdom, $3.99 in the United States, €3.99 in Europe (EUR), $3.99 in Georgia (USD), CA$4.99 in Canada, A$5.95 in Australia, NZ$5.99 in New Zealand, R$13.79 in Brazil and zł17.99 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Sakura Stars offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £3.39 £3.39 — 1
United Statesyour region $3.99 $3.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €3.99 €3.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $3.99 $3.99 — 1
Canada CA$4.99 CA$4.99 — 1
Australia A$5.95 A$5.95 — 1
New Zealand NZ$5.99 NZ$5.99 — 1
Brazil R$13.79 R$13.79 — 1
Poland zł17.99 zł17.99 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Sakura Stars

Description


When hordes of Youkai threaten the world, the Tanukis send a messenger to choose human girls to receive magical powers to defend humanity. They are known as SAKURA STARS.
Take on hordes of youkai in this 8bit horizontal shmup and defend humanity from supernatural beings.

Sakura Stars is a game made on Pico-8, a retro fantasy console with purposeful limitations and low-resolution to simulate an 8-bit era console.
But like modern shmups, the player has a small hitbox, indicated for a circle, allowing a greater number of enemy shots on the screen, as well as patterns with closer shots.

The characters have an artistic style of Japanese anime, purposely made in low resolution to create, together with the music, a more casual and relaxed atmosphere.

Features:
  • Three characters, each with a different shooting pattern, and different speed. Choose the one that best fits your playing style.
  • Enemy waves have a fixed pattern, encouraging them to be memorized to facilitate gameplay. Just like old arcade games.
  • Four levels in retro style. Face Youkai girls at the end of each one.
  • Soundtrack by authors of classical music, in chiptune style
  • Made on Pico-8, a fictional virtual console, created to impose the limitations and low-resolution of the 8bit era and simulate the sensation of playing a game from that time.
  • Anime like pixel art style. Drawn pixel by pixel, in a 16-color palette.

Sakura Stars — game info

Platforms
Windows, Linux / SteamOS
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Partial controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

✦ AI summary

Players praise the game as a charming retro bullet-hell shooter with attractive pixel art aesthetics and solid audio, appreciating its arcade-style difficulty and reasonable gameplay loop. However, critics point out significant balance issues, particularly with enemy explosions that unfairly damage the player, along with awkward control schemes and mechanics that seem unfinished, leading some to feel the game needs more polish despite its unique appeal.

Recommended May 26, 2020
The game is very hard but have boobs.
2 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 16, 2024
8-bit classical music
1 found this helpful
Recommended Apr 27, 2022
[quote][b]Check out our [url=store.steampowered.com/curator/36364102-Horny-Hentai-Festival/]Steam curator[/url] , [url=www.youtube.com/curatorhhf/]YouTube channel[/url] and [url=twitter.com/hhfcurator]Twitter[/url]![/b][/quote] [Shoot'em up] Not a Sakura VN series? :D This is a KAWAII bullethell shumup. The pixel artworks are nice for old gamer. Every pixel boobs looks good for hentai gamer. [STG]可愛いドット絵キャラの弾幕STG。ドットおっぱいが良い
1 found this helpful
Not recommended May 22, 2020
First impressions of the game is that it needs a lot more work. I figured out the controls, arrow keys to move about and 1 and 2 on the numerical keyboard to select menu option and fire. The game is a horizontal shooter and each time you destroy an enemy it turns into a smart bomb creating a huge ring which sadly also kills you on contact. Avoiding that ring proves difficult due to the size of the sprites. Perhaps the idea is to avoid killing everything, but killing stuff seems the only way to get points. I am unable to rate this game more then 2 due to the lack of controls and unbalanced game play. sorry Dev the game needs a lot more work, but good effort!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 21, 2026
il give it a thumb for uniqueness
Recommended Nov 10, 2025
Sakura Stars ---{ Graphics }--- {} Beautiful {x} Good {} Decent {} Bad ---{ Gameplay }--- {x} Very good {} Good [ Combat Stances & Weapon Attributes / Variants ] {} It's just gameplay ---{ Audio }--- {x} Good {} Not too bad {} Bad ---{ Game Size }--- {x} Old Fashioned {} Workable {} Big ---{ Difficulty }--- {} Easy {x} Easy to learn / Hard to master {} Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- {x} No Grind {} Only if u care about achievements {} Average grind level {} Too much grind ---{ Story }--- {} No Story {x} Average {} Good {}Lovely ---{ Game Time }--- {} Long enough for a cup of coffee {} Short {x} Average ---{ Price }--- {} It's free! {x} Worth the price {} If it's on sale {} If u have some spare money left Overall thoughts This is a great side scrolling Shooter (shump) 9.8/10 Review Score

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