Solbane

Solbane is, as advertised, a boss rush shmup featuring 14 stages each with their own unique boss, and 3 customizable ships to take on the campaign with. It's not really much of an RPG, since there's no grinding or real variables as to how strong you are at any given time, except that you unlock more upgrade points and customization options as you go through the campaign. Unfortunately, it's weighed down by some questionable boss design - a lot of instakills feel cheap even though the game says it will usually warn you, the next-to-last boss Archangel works differently from all of the other bosses, and not to the game's benefit, and there weren't really any bosses that I felt I wanted to try going up against a second time after winning - and the lack of difficulty modes, so while I could play with the other two ships I didn't use to complete the campaign, there's not really much left for me after just a little over an hour of play, and there's no easy mode (or RPG-style grinding) for less skilled players, either. I can't say too much about the customization since I only used one ship, the Architect, but once I unlocked and found a setup I liked, it worked on every boss after that.…

This isn't a difficulty curve, it's a difficulty elevator shaft.

Good game, nice mechanics, had a lot of fun playing it. 10/10 - would recommend it to everyone.

Woow, I just finished the game, the bosses were amazing to beat all of them. Well yes after some pain and cry I managed to beat them all. The game overall is fun to play, I really like the auto shoot game mechanic plus paired with life steal... awesome! However I am not a big fan of games that have too many stuff on the screen and glowing, that was irritating me, somewhere in the middle I got used to it and the first few bosses were problematic due to this. Definitely I am waiting for the second journey through the Sol system! And btw the music makes the game!

Great game dyude

Good game, recommend it!