Challenging Dogfights

[h3]Challenging Dogfights is a simple 2D on-rails shooter in which you move vertically to avoid enemy fire. This simple formula is stretched to its limit across its 7 missions, which have you do every action imaginable in the game, like collecting buffs & debuffs, tanking hits, timed survival, and destroying moving targets. To the developer's credit, the achievements have been streamlined and are verified working, but beyond collectors of these it's hard to find much value.[/h3] There are two primary modes to the game: Missions and Free Play. The missions require you to perform a specific task, and for completion, to repeat the mission 3 times in progressively more difficult versions. Generally this requires surviving longer and facing a higher spawn rate of the tougher planes, while fulfilling the same objective. Free play is essentially a survival mode with online leaderboards, and not much more. You can pick a plane, a background, and a difficulty that only effects plane spawn rates, as with the missions. The power-ups in the game modify your movement speed, firing rate, and shield (invulnerability). The power-downs are slightly different, diminishing visibility, ceasing fire,…

Challenging Dogfights is a weak 2D retro pixel side scrolling arcade shmup with a WW2 theme (but none of the spirit). This is a garbage tier shovelware shmup. Gameplay is weak and unsatisfying. Despite a 2019 release, they chose to use obsolete retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution and controls are locked. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC.

Waste of time