Dark Old Sun

Dark Old Sun

SN!Somos Nerds · March 7, 2018 · Action, Shoot 'Em Up, 2D, Shooter, Bullet Hell

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About Dark Old Sun

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Dark Old Sun is a shoot'em up, with focus on choice and progressiveness, so you can choose between a wide selection of weapons, and upgrade them becoming way more powerfull as you play.

Different stages with new ideas each, so it will not get repetitive.
Having 3 levels of difficulty, for beginners on shoot'em ups to hardcore skilled players.
Epic multi-phase boss battles with enormous focus in challenge and variety, making boss fights a real deal, and almost as important as the level itself.

For those who dont like to play with the new leveling system, can play in the classic way, where upgrades will be get automatically.

Different modes to play:
Arcade/Story mode - Play the full story, with 6 different stages designs, bringing new ideas, as you progress through leveling your weapons and abilities.
Challenge mode - a variety of challenges with new ideas and gameplay that dont fit in the original story mode.
Survival mode - Survive through random enemy waves, with new behaviors not seen in any other mode and special random events to spice up things.

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  • 17 Different weapons and abilities.
  • More than 70 Upgrades.
  • 3 Difiiculty sets, with a Extreme mode where enemies get new abilities.
  • more than 50 enemy types, resulting in more than 200 variations with different behaviors and attacks.
  • 360 degrees aim (Free AIM).
  • 3 Game modes.
  • 6 stages in story mode.
  • 12 unique challenges.
  • Controller support (Xinput).
  • Steam Cloud and achievements. (Steam cards soon)

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As earth and humanity get its darkest days with energy shortage, a small dark star but really bright at the same time, appears close enough to Earth.

Humanity get to harvest that star energy saving all human kind.
Meanwhile a man get the hands in a extremely powerfull spaceship, the VoidWalker. what motives he have? what his objective?

Dark Old Sun — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
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 Aug 13, 2024
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Recommended Aug 15, 2025
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1 found this helpful
Recommended Dec 13, 2024
story is alright, music is uhh...mid the rest of the game however is kind of baller for a free game. some of the bosses and enemies are pretty unique and fun especially stage 3 and 5, overall would recommend.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 28, 2024
You can yaw the fighter in the STG! Very good plot and paintings, but textures not that relevant to the lore, upgrade combination is somewhat creative (a little bit) I admire the protagonist, he can have such a beautiful and tender lover, I will definitely do the same thing to resurrect her if I have one as well...
1 found this helpful
Recommended Oct 31, 2025
Игра "Dark Old Sun" — атмосферный хоррор с глубоким сюжетом, погружающим в мрачный мир забвения. Графика стильная, но иногда размытая, что усугубляет напряжение. Геймплей требует внимательности: сложные головоломки и неочевидные подсказки могут оттолкнуть. Звуковое сопровождение — сильная сторона: напряженные музыкальные фрагменты и реалистичные звуки усиливают тревогу. Однако сюжетные повороты кажутся предсказуемыми, а концовка оставляет вопросы. Для любителей жанра — достойный выбор, но не для тех, кто ценит четкую структуру.
Not recommended Sep 4, 2025
"Dark Old Sun" is is a failed attempt to make a 2D retro bullet hell/shoot 'em up in 2018, some 30 odd years after the genre became obsolete. Smart business plan. Anyway, at least it was genuinely made as far as I can tell, not an asset flip or anything. But genuine intent does not automatically translate to a stellar gaming experience, as this game shows. What do you do in the game? It's really basic shoot 'em up stuff, but at least they got the game to work and play in widescreen. Unfortunately it's clunky and unpolished, not that much fun to play, and has a trite and pointlessly unengaging storyline. A whole bunch of things here aren't done well, to the point that this is less than the sum of its parts. On the topic of visuals, the weak looking 2D retro assets seem like they'd be more at home in a browser game or a mobile app. 3D graphics accelerators hit the mainstream of PC gaming in the mid 1990's with cards like the ATI Rage and Voodoo3D, there's no excuse for such poor 2D graphics in 2025. That alone is enough to disqualify this for recommendation. This game is fairly dated at 7 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, pr…

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