

Fragile Equilibrium
MAGIC Spell Studios · January 5, 2019 · Action, Indie, Shoot 'Em Up
Fragile Equilibrium is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.
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Fragile Equilibrium is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.
About Fragile Equilibrium
Fragile Equilibrium is a game about the Imperfection and impermanence of life. It is a reflection on transience, a balancing act between progress and regrowth, a reminder to find beauty in decay and inevitable destruction. Using old-school “shmup” mechanics and forms, \ invites the player to explore a world of quick actions, forced decisions, and subtle strategy: but with each decision, the
player falls ever out of balance.
As balance decays so does the world, eroding over time and out of space, binding the player to a smaller area, pressing in upon the mind. Built upon multi-layered interactions, a Wabi Sabi aesthetic idealism, and a rich, broken world of yesterday’s fantasies, \ asks the player to reflect upon their play, their world, their nostalgia, and themselves.
Find your balance, live a life well played.
Fragile Equilibrium plays out using classic side-scrolling shmup mechanics across four levels descending into chaos. As your skills improve there are four levels of difficulty ranging from easy to insane. Local high score in the classic style will allow you and your friends to compete for the highest score!
NOTE: This game uses the Unity launcher to choose graphics quality and it does not support controller input. Once you enter the game it has full controller support.
Fragile Equilibrium — game info
- Platforms
- Windows
- Player modes
- Single-player
- Controller
- Partial controller support
- PC Game Pass
- Not included
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Fragile Equilibrium is yet another of literally hundreds of amateur 2D retro arcade bullet hell/shoot 'em ups infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one is a free student project, which explains why it's free, but doesn't otherwise impact the most important question about any game, which is whether it's worth playing or not. Shoot 'em ups an old and dead genre, and it doesn't serve the interests of gamers for there to be yet another "me too" entry. In this case some elements have been added like some quasi-existential navelgazing text before each level, and a couple of other bits like the screen being destroyed as you play, creating deadzones that damage you. This is not what Galaga needed to get to break the 21st century. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the …4 found this helpful
This game's main mechanic is fantastic! Any ship that flies past you breaks the screen and you have to repair it. Which goes against normal SCHMUP mechanics. You never want to miss an enemy, those are points you're missing out on. Instead in Fragile Equilibrium, you will sometimes want to miss the enemies on purpose. Mending the screen refills your missiles and laser energy pools. But you do miss out on that score. So it's this careful balance between shooting enemies and then recharging your energy. Although sometimes it's impossible to shoot everything so you're not really doing it on purpose. Still, it's a very smart design. There are only two negatives. First, the first level's background is blue and your shots are blue. You can't see where you're shooting at all. It's frustrating and once I skipped the first level I actually had a much better time. Second, the menu font is terrible. Good thing you don't need to see it that much. It's so difficult to read. Overall, you should give this a try, especially since it's free. It sure surprised me! [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/26701155-The-Pepp-Selection] Click to see my curator for more reviews! [/url]2 found this helpful
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Игра 'Fragile Equilibrium' – это увлекательная стратегическая головоломка, заставляющая игроков балансировать на грани победы и поражения. Идея уникальна: управлять ресурсами, учитывая хрупкость экосистемы, действительно затягивает. Каждый ход требует взвешенного решения, ведь любое, казалось бы, незначительное действие может привести к катастрофическим последствиям. Геймплей продуман до мелочей. Разнообразие фракций, каждая со своими сильными и слабыми сторонами, добавляет реиграбельности. Кривая обучения плавная, но игра быстро раскрывает свой потенциал, предлагая все более сложные и захватывающие сценарии. Интерфейс интуитивно понятен, что позволяет сосредоточиться на стратегии, а не на управлении. Однако, есть и недостатки. Визуальное оформление не поражает воображение и могло бы быть более детализированным. Также, иногда не хватает подробных пояснений к внутриигровым механикам, что может сбить с толку новичков. В целом, 'Fragile Equilibrium' – это отличный выбор для любителей интеллектуальных игр. Она предлагает глубокий и захватывающий игровой процесс, который заставляет думать и анализировать каждый свой шаг. Рекомендую всем, кто ищет что-то новое и необычное в жанре стра…
neat game and wonderful graphics .
Check out my video from 06:26 for a mini review of Fragile Equilibrium: https://youtu.be/zZuXs8dJ9Ps?t=387
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