Exophobia
Zarc Attack · 2024 · FPS, Metroidvania, Boomer Shooter, Exploration, Arcade
PC
Very Positive90% · 96
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About Exophobia
Exophobia is a retro inspired sci-fi FPS with modern metroidvania progression, mixing crisp colorful pixel art with intense electronic music for a unique stylish aesthetic!
You find yourself alone in a human spaceship taken over by hostile alien soldiers. Explore and fight your way to find the last human survivors, while you uncover piece by piece the backstory of the spaceship crew, leading to this high-stakes moment at the red planet. Evolve your alien weapon and shoot, slide, stun your enemies and more, in your journey to escape out alive!
Experience FPS gameplay where quick reflexes and clever positioning are vital to survive. Learn each enemy behavior and use your weapon, movement options and surroundings to eliminate diverse groups of alien armies in fast paced action filled combat.
Discover a spaceship with multiple floors, each featuring a unique hostile environment. From worm infested laboratories to the mechanical inner workings of the spaceship engine, with plenty of secrets for the curious explorers!
Improve your weapon with a new ability every time you reach a specialized weapon laboratory. In metroidvania fashion, these abilities drastically empower you in combat and also unlock previously inaccessible areas required to progress.
Challenge yourself with unforgiving but fair difficulty in diverse battle situations with ruthless enemies possessing unique attack patterns, including menacing boss fights, each with their own defeating strategy. Don't forget to save your progress in checkpoints!
You find yourself alone in a human spaceship taken over by hostile alien soldiers. Explore and fight your way to find the last human survivors, while you uncover piece by piece the backstory of the spaceship crew, leading to this high-stakes moment at the red planet. Evolve your alien weapon and shoot, slide, stun your enemies and more, in your journey to escape out alive!
KILL
Experience FPS gameplay where quick reflexes and clever positioning are vital to survive. Learn each enemy behavior and use your weapon, movement options and surroundings to eliminate diverse groups of alien armies in fast paced action filled combat.
EXPLORE
Discover a spaceship with multiple floors, each featuring a unique hostile environment. From worm infested laboratories to the mechanical inner workings of the spaceship engine, with plenty of secrets for the curious explorers!
UPGRADE
Improve your weapon with a new ability every time you reach a specialized weapon laboratory. In metroidvania fashion, these abilities drastically empower you in combat and also unlock previously inaccessible areas required to progress.
DIE
Challenge yourself with unforgiving but fair difficulty in diverse battle situations with ruthless enemies possessing unique attack patterns, including menacing boss fights, each with their own defeating strategy. Don't forget to save your progress in checkpoints!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
I can't recommend this. Seemed very cool at first, like an interesting mix of Super Metroid and Blake Stone. But the level design gets more and more complicated as you go on, and the in-game is completely inadequate. I play a LOT of games like this but I absolutely cannot keep track of this game. I finally gave up in the third area. This game needs a better map or it's dead.4 found this helpful
A neat retro styled FPS Metroidvania with a space theme. Played this when I was itching for a Metroidvania of this type. I would recommend this to you if you have a similar itch(or are interested)2 found this helpful
It is fun, BUT.... My main complaint is projectile tracking and hit detection. For example, using a charged shot, I have seen the projectile go through an enemy, presumably because it missed the hit box, even though the sprites intersected. Or, using a blast shot, the explosion was visibly closer to the enemy than it was to me, yet I took damage and the enemy did not. Also, when trying to place a teleport, I have experienced frequent issues, leading me to mashing the 'E' key in hopes that it would find somewhere to place on the large open platform. Lastly, shots will ricochet well before they hit a destructible object, at times, which can even be outside of the blast radius of a blast shot, making it impossible to destroy the barrier. Fortunately, that one is as hit or miss as the hit detection for enemies. World design is fine, honestly, nothing groundbreaking, but not that bad. However, progression is a little obtuse, turning what should be a simple 'follow the upgrade signs' to looping back and forward because you went through the wrong one-way door and the only way back is to go to the previous level, back track to an elevator, then come back to the level you got stuck on, …1 found this helpful
This game gives nightmare fuel, especially the wasps, DEAR GOODNESS, THE WASPS IN THIS GAME... but its still good...
While it's not something I plan on finishing it's a good Metroid Primeia
Probably my favorite Metroid-like yet, it's designed with razor-sharp precision and has very fun combat. Although the endgame was so tough I lowered the difficulty to Normal since Hell definitely fits the billing.
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