2023: Alien Bugs Invade Earth

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2023: Alien Bugs Invade Earth feels like an Early Access project that was simply abandoned before it could become a proper game. The developer planned more levels, a space-shooter section, a boss fight, new weapons, improved animations and voice acting, but development was halted and those promised improvements never materialized. What is left is a very short and basic 2D shooter mixed with visual-novel-style story sections, making the whole thing feel more like a prototype than a finished game. It does at least have 7 Steam achievements, but there isn't enough actual content here to make them particularly satisfying to unlock.

Genuinely not good in every facet of gameplay and design.

2023: Alien Bugs Invade Earth is an independently developed science-fiction action game created and published by StarTroop LLC. Built around the premise of an extraterrestrial invasion occurring in 2023, it combines traditional 2D platform shooting with story sequences presented in a visual-novel format. The game was released through Steam Early Access as a free-to-play project, and its design reflects an attempt to tell a surprisingly elaborate alien conspiracy story through relatively straightforward action mechanics. The central conflict revolves around Earth being attacked by hostile insect-like extraterrestrials. These Insectoids are portrayed as physically resilient creatures protected by durable exoskeletons, making humanity's conventional weapons less effective than expected. Players must move through side-scrolling environments, jumping across obstacles and shooting enemies while attempting to survive the invasion. The controls and underlying combat concept are deliberately accessible, placing more emphasis on progressing through encounters than mastering an extensive collection of complicated systems. One of the game's more distinctive qualities is the way its action st…

Clearly unfinished early access project with writing ambitions far beyond its capabilities. Gameplay was kind of dull and I think I would have enjoyed a pure visual novel with actual sprites.

"2023: Alien Bugs Invade Earth" is a kind of a joke game that's more visual novel/e-book than actual game, and us gamers are left puzzling if the high school anime club dropout fan-fiction writing is just worse, or, much much worse than the laughably terrible 2D side scrolling pixelcrap shooter sections. The idea is, as the title says, bugs invade Earth, and of course we know this because of the super crap VN writing. This is interspersed with some of the worst 2D side scrolling shooting ever to be inflicted upon gamers. It's pretty clear this was put up on Steam in the hopes of "going viral" because it's "so bad, it's good". It was not good, and it did not go viral. The "developers" walked away from this 2 years and 6 months ago. This is never getting finished. This unfinished game is just polluting the store and making it harder for people to find real, actually finished games. This isn't good for gamers or for developers who do the right thing. There's an overwhelming amount of mediocre Visual Novel/E-book style cutscenes in this game. The developers failed one of the most basic, fundamental requirements of game design.. "Show, don't tell." So you'll spend a huge amount…