Death Rings of Jupiter
Albatross Wirehead · 2017 · Action, Indie, RPG
PC
6 user reviews83% · 6
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About Death Rings of Jupiter
Death Rings of Jupiter is a 2d retro bullet hell shooter, set in the dense asteroid fields that make up the rings of Jupiter.
It features original gameplay that mixes classic gravity games and platformers.
Hidden somewhere in the rings of Jupiter, there is treasure, and it's guarded by an infestation of alien monsters.
You steal a ship, fire up your percolator and set the controls for the epic gas giant.
While you dust off your trusty lasers, fear creeps into the back of your mind.
No one that has gone into the rings of Jupiter has ever returned.
Game Features
Find more music by Vi-Res at discocinematic.bandcamp.com
It features original gameplay that mixes classic gravity games and platformers.
Hidden somewhere in the rings of Jupiter, there is treasure, and it's guarded by an infestation of alien monsters.
You steal a ship, fire up your percolator and set the controls for the epic gas giant.
While you dust off your trusty lasers, fear creeps into the back of your mind.
No one that has gone into the rings of Jupiter has ever returned.
Game Features
- A Space survival bullet hell shooter. Mixing slow paced asteroid hopping with fast paced battles that can have hundreds of bullets and enemies on screen.
- Freeform gameplay where you choose your own path and discover strategic approaches to defeating the three bosses. Upgrade your character, visit shops, find chests and items.
- Retro pixel art graphics including 200 bizarre and colourful pixel art aliens that burst into pixels when they die. The feel of classic games but with smooth controls and a 60fps framerate.
- Be at home in empty space with a big sci-fi synth and drum soundtrack, by VI-RES. And wicked title and win screens by Illustrator Joyous Colley.
- Procedurally generated guns, enemies and levels in each run. Find weapons like double shot exploding sniper, rapid fire flaming quadshot and poisonous homing lasers!
- Inspired by classic games like Gravity Force, Exile, Soldat, and Abuse.
- This game is challenging, it comes with an in game tutorial and easy difficulty setting to ease you into the game.
- Built in auto-fire, no memory hacks required!
Find more music by Vi-Res at discocinematic.bandcamp.com
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise this retro space adventure for its engaging exploration, excellent pixel art, atmospheric music, and impressive value at its low price point, with helpful in-game tutorials making it more accessible. However, many find the difficulty frustrating, particularly with boss fights involving jetpack controls against endless enemies with hard-to-dodge attacks, though leveling up and proper stat management can make progression more manageable for patient players.
Challenging Retro Space Adventure I really enjoy this game. It took me a moment to get the controls down, yet the developer has now added some in-game instructions, so that is great. Once I had the controls down I was off to find blue gems so I could travel to the next world and explore. I will say at first, before leveling up your character, the game is quite challenging. Especially if you go to a level 5 area right away. You will get killed. But then you will level up and get some cool special items. All-in-all I really dig this cool, pixel art, space adventure game. The music and atmosphere is great. You can't beat this amount of content for $2 - Give it a try!4 found this helpful
As nice as the positive reviews here are, this is gonna be a no from me dog. I understand this isn't a review for a triple A game But a boss fight with these jetpack controls, endless horde enemies, and insane hard to dodge attacks is horrendous even on easy. Thought i was getting a cool retro game when i saw this and ended up with something more annoying then anything I've seen on a retro style game. I will say at least you didn't make the game completely confusing and slap the player off in the middle of no where with no idea how to play or what mechanics you have to look at.3 found this helpful
Got it before all the quality-of-life updates. It is slightly easier now and with more tutorials but from watching reviews on Youtube I already had an idea of what to expect back then. I play on easy but it is still nerve-wracking when flying to high-level regions or boss areas @_@ On every new start you get a brand new world and even the enemy aliens look and behave completely different. I like to sit down with tea and start farming the easy asteroids to stock up on crystals. My focus is on increasing stats and buying good weapons and then off to areas beyond level 4. I ignore places other than asteroids completely because gosh there is some weird things patroling out there @_@ Make sure to level up health, air and fuel before attempting any of the bosses - the battles get pretty intense and dodging is already hard enough without retreating for air. I have actually tried mapping inputs to an Xbox controller but the game is designed for keyboard and mouse controls and that is what I always do now. It gives you most precision after all.3 found this helpful
A fantastic game despite some small bugs. Wholeheartedly recommend this title My review on the game is below Hello Im Skill Incarnate and Welcome to My Games Review Series. My reviews cover indie games that i have bought, had gifted to me and have been provided by developers for review. In This Episode i am taking another look at the Indie Retro Space Shooter called Death Rings of Saturn following some feedback from the developer after my last video. In this game you are an astronaut fighting in a procedurally generated galaxy against alients while gathering valuable resources for weapons and upgrades. Disclaimer: I was not paid by the Developer for this video. Game was provided for review purposes. ================================================ Revisit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xop9guZWpjI&t=1s Original Review: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuDMrtLZifQ Skill Incarnates Gaming Channel https://www.youtube.com/c/SkillIncarnate Twitter: https://twitter.com/skillincarnate Death Rings Of Jupiter On Steam http://store.steampowered.com/app/691620/Death_Rings_of_Jupiter/ ================================================ Death Rings of Jupiter is a 2d retro bullet hell sho…3 found this helpful
Absolutely love this game. Such a great concept.1 found this helpful
Such an awesome game! I punched my mum and kicked her dog out the window for asking me If I wanted ice cream because she distracted me and I died.
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