Evasion from cluster 42

Evasion from cluster 42

Eric Behme · 2023 · Action, Casual, Arcade, Shooter, Looter Shooter

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About Evasion from cluster 42

Evasion from Cluster 42, an arcade spaceshooter for 1 or 2 players with 3D GFX and a Background Story. There are lots of different levels in totally different environments.

The game has some unique features:
- Play every level from top down view or from side view. You'll get a different view and a different experience that way for each level!
- You can decide if enemies appear and behave in a random way or completly linear always the same.
- There is also a retro shader if you want the game to look like in the 90s but better
- You can totally change and build your ship your style there are about 30 different ship parts for a unique look and abilities, and extra modules and weapons. You can also rotate your weapons and tell the ship how to use it's energy...
- 1 or 2 players (alone or local coop with shared screen)
- There are daily and weekly quests and also trophies
- There are hiscores global and local, per Game Mode and for each level
- There is also a Arcade / Survive Game-Mode
- Rogue-like elements in the game, play certain levels multiple times to farm resources and improve your spaceship if the game gets to hard in some later levels

What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Players appreciate the indie space shooter's creative concepts and note that recent patches have resolved critical technical issues like freezes and gamepad problems. However, the game still struggles with stability concerns and technical hurdles, with the initial benchmark crash and compatibility issues leaving a poor first impression that players suggest waiting for a significant discount to experience.

Recommended Mar 8, 2024
Very indie space shooter with some nice ideas and too many technical issues. Update: The latest patch fixed both the "freeze" issue and non-working gamepad. The game works as intended now so I'm changing the review to "recommended". However, this is still a very problematic game with many issues. Get it at a heavy discount. Unfortunately, the game's theme revolves around technical issues. Before I could play the game, I had to complete a benchmark, which crashed my game. Although everything worked properly the second time, the first impression wasn't great. Even worse, the game's gamepad compatibility is utterly broken, or it is simply incompatible with my gamepad. When you first enter the game and pick the gamepad as your primary device, the game freezes and displays the message "Gamepad not found." Furthermore, it says to press a key to play without the gamepad, but that doesn’t do anything. To make matters even stranger, the fire button on the gamepad functions because you can hear the firing sound in the background. Because you can't even get back to the main menu, the only way to fix it is to force-quit the game and play with the keyboard. And that's not fun. Anyway, th…
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