Mabus 3000
Fancy Donkey LLC · 2023 · Action, Casual, Arcade, Arena Shooter, Bullet Hell
PC
2 user reviews50% · 2
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About Mabus 3000
Mabus 3000 is an arcade shooter game with a limited number of lives. The player controls a single ship in an arena of increasingly difficult enemies and levels in the spirit of classic arcade games like Space Invaders and Galaga.
Gameplay
A shield-orb forms in the center of the arena, slowly building out arms of blocks that try to reach to one of the arena's six axis points. Each of the arena axis points periodically offers a weapon power-up. Destroy the block arms to keep the arena clear and maintain access to the weapon power-ups. Each level resets the arena and the shield-orb.
Every block of the shield-orb arm can spawn enemies: drones, mini shields, mines and turrets. When one of these blocks has a spawned enemy attached to it, the block cannot be destroyed. Clear the attached enemy to destroy the block. Destroying blocks and enemies gives the player points. The points can be multiplied by chaining which enemies are targeted. Each level lasts for one minute and with each level the enemy difficulty and pace of play increases.
The player ship has only five lives. Different enemies can cause higher damage to the player. The game ends with the destruction of the player ship.
Three Weapon Types:
Each weapon can be changed, or powered-up by collecting one of the color-coded orbs that randomly appear at one of the arena's axis points. The weapon power-ups only last a limited time, so beware! And, remember, watch those arena axis points because they can get closed off by any one of the shield-orb arms! Without a weapon power-up, gameplay becomes much more difficult.
Bosses:
When the player clears the shield-orb of all blocks, or the shield-orb blocks all six arena axis points, or the level timer runs out, the shield-orb will form into a boss enemy. Defeat the boss and the level will have been successfully cleared. A new level will begin. What will be your high score!
Key Features:
Gameplay
A shield-orb forms in the center of the arena, slowly building out arms of blocks that try to reach to one of the arena's six axis points. Each of the arena axis points periodically offers a weapon power-up. Destroy the block arms to keep the arena clear and maintain access to the weapon power-ups. Each level resets the arena and the shield-orb.
Every block of the shield-orb arm can spawn enemies: drones, mini shields, mines and turrets. When one of these blocks has a spawned enemy attached to it, the block cannot be destroyed. Clear the attached enemy to destroy the block. Destroying blocks and enemies gives the player points. The points can be multiplied by chaining which enemies are targeted. Each level lasts for one minute and with each level the enemy difficulty and pace of play increases.
The player ship has only five lives. Different enemies can cause higher damage to the player. The game ends with the destruction of the player ship.
Three Weapon Types:
- Bullets (red)
- RPGs (green)
- Lasers (blue)
Each weapon can be changed, or powered-up by collecting one of the color-coded orbs that randomly appear at one of the arena's axis points. The weapon power-ups only last a limited time, so beware! And, remember, watch those arena axis points because they can get closed off by any one of the shield-orb arms! Without a weapon power-up, gameplay becomes much more difficult.
Bosses:
When the player clears the shield-orb of all blocks, or the shield-orb blocks all six arena axis points, or the level timer runs out, the shield-orb will form into a boss enemy. Defeat the boss and the level will have been successfully cleared. A new level will begin. What will be your high score!
Key Features:
- Arena Shooter
- Bullet hell
- Random generation
- Non-modal
- Shoot n' dash gameplay
- Single-player
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Note: Played on the Steam Deck Mabus 3000 is a good looking arcade game. It's almost like cross between old school Tempest and a reverse-Tetris. You pilot a craft and are to destroy pieces of a towers that grow out of a sphere. The towers can create/spawn things that can attack you. The towers can spawn turrets, mines or mini fighters that chase and attack you. All of this lines up to be a fun, high score attempting type game. Unfortunately, there are some design choices that are a bit curious. For me, these choices make the title just not any fun. First, there is no target indicator. You don't know where you are firing, until you start firing, and then you have to try to aim at what you wanted to hit in the first place. While I understand the decision, I believe that detracts from just having fun with the title. You spend so much time trying to figure out how to hit something rather than hitting something. Second, the towers start spawning things to kill you right off the bat. Typically you want to ramp up the difficulty, and maybe it gets even harder, but there is no reason to have so many things coming at you right out of the gate. I would suggest maybe the firs…3 found this helpful
Good Arcade game, good graphics, appealing to look at.
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