Crucible

Crucible

TriScale · March 22, 2021 · Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Action, Top-Down Shooter, Shooter

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About Crucible

✦ AI summary

Crucible is a top-down shooter where you pilot a magical dragon through twelve increasingly intense bullet patterns while dodging colorful attacks from a rival dragon. Survive all patterns on either difficulty without continues to unlock the true ending, with the twist that you can counterattack incoming bullets with perfectly-timed fireball bursts to protect your health.


Dodge your way through the crucible of fire! Crucible is a top-down shooter game made by three DigiPen freshmen for their GAM100 class project.

You control a magical dragon in a trial by fire against an older, stronger dragon. Your goal is to dodge through an onslaught of colorful bullet patterns without getting hit. There are twelve patterns in all; you win by lasting through all of them in a row. See the true ending by completing either difficulty without using any continues!

Each bullet pattern can be cleared either by reducing the boss's stamina to zero or lasting until the pattern timer reaches zero. If the player is hit by a bullet, they can prevent themselves from losing a life point by reacting with a fireball burst attack. The player's score increases every second they're alive and whenever they come close to a bullet without touching it.
  • Full controller support
  • Full keyboard support
  • Two difficulty settings

This game was developed as a student project at DigiPen Institute of Technology and was created for educational purposes only. Please check out our publisher page for more information.

Crucible — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Feb 24, 2024
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9 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 15, 2026
This game has some odd technical issues with its display and controller support, but is otherwise great!
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 7, 2024
A pretty nice free bullet hell game consisting of a single bossfight, with a couple difficulty levels to choose from. I have 1cc'd this game on the highest difficulty available after trying for a while, but I already have quite a lot of bullet hell experience and plenty of Touhou Extra stage clears under my belt. I feel like the game could use another, lower difficulty for entry-level bullet hell players as well as scoreboard and replay saving system, but overall this is a nice little game to do and it costs nothing to try. And lack of such features can be justified by overall "smallness" of the project anyway. Definitely good for bullet hell enthusiasts looking for a moderately challenging bullet hell game to clear. Was definitely a nice experience overall.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Aug 8, 2023
Good and free bullet hell game 👍
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 25, 2024
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Recommended Jan 25, 2024
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