Astro Flame: Starfighter

I love space shooters since my youth. I had a lot of fun through the great levels and thanks to the upgrades, my motivation was high. This game is a good representative of this genre and you can buy it without hesitation. Rating: 8/10

Excellent game smooth controls amazing sound with head phones on. 100% old school feel to it. Spent first hour farming for coins then upgraded . First 4 levels is best for this cause the game gets really crazy starting at lvl 5. I give this game a sloid 10 its hard to find a great shooter on pc i really enjoy this game! I recommend it to all the ol school players... Just wish we had more levels. i hope this developer makes more like this!

this title is not very polished....with that said Astro Flame still does soooo many things right! having multiple ability is nice and the level up system keeps me playing. the sound track is not great and with the shoot'em genre that is a must. this game has a ton of potential and i cant wait to so how updates will polish it.

doesn't catch up with Skyforce titles. Steering is too precise/hard, too many repetitive enemies. Hard to recognize from the rest of the scenes.

This is a slower-paced, autoscrolling vertical shmup in which enemies increase in armor class as you progress, requiring you to grind for upgrades. So far the levels are all unique (at 11 now). This is not designed to be a bullet-hell shooter; occasionally my ship was hit when expected to skate by. Power-ups appear seemingly randomly throughout each level, providing health or extra uses of your special weapons. Sometimes this makes a level run imbalanced in your favor. You can turn on autofire and just focus on movement and special weapons. You can also destroy ships slightly off-screen, so learning some patterns helps. The visuals are great and not confusing, the music is thumpin', the bosses are huge but perhaps on the weak side.

* Options -> Postprocessing : off * Options -> Autofire : on * Use a MOUSE to play, not a controller. ...those are my tipps to increase enjoying the game. However there are many MUCH better shmups out there (a similarly grindy and upgrade-heavy but very cool one is "Hyper Echelon"). This game isn't very good though, unfortunately. The issues is that you either get +50% credits for 100% shot down enemies, no bonus, or -50% if you get destroyed. No gradual bonus loss! So better never die and better always 100% shoot down every single last enemy! So you play the same level over and over to make SURE you get 50% bonus. Upgrades get more expensive, much faster than rewards increase, so initially you have to repeat a level 3 times, then 4 times to purchase an upgrade and so on.... Enemy patterns are extremely repetitive, you get 1 new enemy type each level, all other enemies and patterns are recycled every level. Only the first level is special. Played only to level 8 of 15, then the grind bored me out. It is also impossible to memorize the levels and enemies because the background is so nondescript. Controller controls are horrible, too. Mouse is way better.