DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge
Augmented Irreality · 2020 · Shoot 'Em Up, Old School, Top-Down Shooter, Indie, Top-Down
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About DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge
A retro mix of a shoot 'em up gameplay and RPG elements, DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge is inspired by Tyrian, Raiden, Donpachi and other classic games. Fast-paced with a primary focus on gunplay rather than bullet hell, DreadStar gives you incremental ways of not only pushing through content, but also improving your ship and its loadout (such as experience, leveling and skill points).
If you’re struggling with a sector, you can warp over to Redbeard’s Burrow to spend credits, upgrade your ship and return to where you failed. From Gauss Cannons to Lazer Beams, Hadron Exploders to weapon cooling - ship improvements are key to not only choosing your playstyle but progressing through harder difficulties.
With its 4:3 display and CRT mode, to its multiple difficulty settings that offer replayability across its 6 sectors, DreadStar provides an authentic retro experience.
- Fast shoot 'em up gameplay with epic boss fights.
- 4 different ships and 10 different weapons to annihilate your opponents.
- Tons of other customization options from armors and engines to shields and special items.
- Gain experience and skill points to incrementally improve your ship’s strength.
- 6 replayable sectors filled with unique enemies, bosses and minibosses.
- 3 difficulty settings for every sector, to improve both your skill and your ship.
- Hand-crafted pixel art graphics, cutscenes and animations.
- Chiptune soundtrack by Yerzmyey, created on Amiga, Atari-ST and ZX Spectrum computers.
- A 4:3 display and CRT mode for an authentic retro experience.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
DreadStar is a French indie shoot-'em-up clearly inspired by Tyrian, with a pretty decent soundtrack. Unfortunately, the dev's idea of Tyrian's RPG-like progression was to only have six stages and a painful difficulty hump near the start, such that you end up having to grind the first level a lot in order to get anywhere, and once you get past the difficulty hump, completing the remaining stages and higher difficulties are all easy. This is not helped by the fact the hardest level is the 4th out of 6, with the last two being very easy in comparison. Meh, not recommended, especially for the price, since most of the game length is made up of grinding rather than content or gitting gud. Play Tyrian or Raptor or Jets'n'Guns or something instead.9 found this helpful
The game looks, feels, and sounds basic, and progress is an absolute slog. "Oh, you beat the first stage and made *some* money? Well, you have to repair your ship, so maybe you can afford a new weapon after your next run."3 found this helpful
Fun old school style game. Controls occasionally freeze on first ship, but that might be intentional by designers of game so it is more fun to upgrade ship later. Is rather short, but that is kind of the point.3 found this helpful
The problem with finding good games isn't the lack of good games, it is the massive junk heap of worthless games like this making it hard to find decent ones.1 found this helpful
A classic-style shoot-em-up, clearly inspired by classics like Tyrian. The gameplay is tight, the visuals and the music are nice. Unfortunately, there are just 5 stages, and you need to replay them again and again to farm money for the upgrades, and once you've built a half decent ship and blazed through the final level there's not much left to do. DreadStar provides a couple evenings of nice oldschool fun, but little more than that.
Pretty good shmup with some light rpg mechanics
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