Angel at Dusk
Akiragoya · 2024 · Action, Bullet Hell, Shooter, 2D, Psychedelic
PC
Overwhelmingly Positive98% · 1,65316playing now
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About Angel at Dusk
✦ AI summary
Strip away the excess and experience pure shmup action in a distant future where angels awaken to primal chaos—dodge torrents of bullets, charge devastating attacks, and press close to enemies to maximize power-ups in this uncompromisingly skeletal take on the genre. Gorgeously grotesque visuals and a mind-bending story about Earth's ultimate evolution combine with multiple modes, unlimited ship upgrades, and the friendliest tutorial in shmup history to make mastery accessible to everyone.
Outline
Overwhelmingly bizarre beauty.
Shoot, dodge, and destroy!
A shmup where an apocalyptic world awakens to primal desires!
The newest answer to shmups. A game which is "uncompromisingly skeletal".
That is, a game in which every last ounce of excess has been cut away, and only its framework quintessence remains.
Bones free themselves of flesh, laying waste to needless entrails!
Revealing a skeleton of extraordinarily strenght.
Story
Mankind has rid the world of all crime, pain, and desire.
Finally, they extinguished the source of all sin, intellect, and transcended to angeldom.
A great deal of time passes. The year is now 2300000000 AD.
"Earth" is a paradise of angels.
The sun has begun to expand, and a long twilight is now upon this heavenly realm.
System
Dodge fire, grab items, and blast away at throngs of enemies...A faithful return to the origin of shmups.
The closer you attack your enemies, the more HP recovering and bomb charging power-ups appear!
Obliterate oncoming projectiles with your charged attack, and get up close and personal with enemies to hammer away at them from close range.
The best offense is a good offense!
Features
- Artwork that exhibits both extravagant beauty and grotesque surrealism.
- Story that illustrates the apex of Earth's evolution with unparalleled grandeur.
- Original mode with Hack-and-slash style game mechanic where there's no limit to how strong you can upgrade your ship.
- Arcade mode with a variety of unlockable ships.
- The path to mastery can be walked by anyone! Contains the most beginner friendly tutorial in Shmup history.
- In-game achievements.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
人生中第一款stg 不赖 玩得我直流口水1 found this helpful
This Game Has So Much Sauce, It's Crazy1 found this helpful
The thing that will hit you right away when you see this game is the unique art direction and settings. And after going through the whole adventure mode and reading all the lore text, I can say that the lore of this game is a very creative and interesting take on how humanity may evolve into after billions of years into the future, worth a read. I am not a shmup person, but from what I see from this game, I can see that the developer really wanted to make a shmup that is as beginner friendly as possible, and it works. The tutorial explains well the basic of the genre, as well as fundamentals in an informative and also quite humorous way. And from what I see from shmup fans' reviews, they do agree that this game has a really good tutorial. The gameplay itself is pretty well designed and fun to engage in. The way you charge up heavy attacks that can destroy or push enemies' projectiles away, combined with how your shot creates more benefits up close (more damage, heals you for more), create this back and forth aggression flow that I personally quite enjoy. I would say more about the level and boss design, but I'm not savvy enough with this genre, But I'd definitely say I had a good…
not sure if it's a good shmup, but it does tickle my fancy shall I say
If you are new to shmups this game has excellent tutorials to ease you into the fundamental techniques that all shmups rely on. Fantastic art and gameplay.
Picked it up for being an Akiragoya SHMUP on sale with the variety of the giger-esque biopunk art. Found it to be a lot of fun. Arcade has several ships to unlock, while there is a 'campaign' mode focused on incremental upgrades and equipment loot drop upgrades to a single ship. The only minor negative is that it looks like the alternate arcade ships were not added to the campaign mode, which is a bit of a shame. Recommended.
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