Galaxy Highways
Nanopike · 2025 · Twin Stick Shooter, Bullet Hell, Top-Down Shooter, Action-Adventure, Difficult
PC
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About Galaxy Highways
Take on the challenge as a space pilot in this adrenaline-fueled space shooter. Complete a variety of objectives, from attacking enemy forces to defending friendly ships. Blast your way through unique alien ships, space stations, bosses and defend your allies including miners, probes, and convoys against all odds.
In a distant future, humanity's expansion leads to the discovery of mysterious jump gates created by an unknown civilization. But with this discovery comes a fateful encounter with alien forces, resulting in destruction of Earth and forcing the remnants of humanity to retreat to the edge of the galaxy. As one of the few skilled pilots in the Last Hope colony, it's up to you and few others in special forces to protect the colony against the alien forces that threaten humanity's existence. Strike against the alien threat, steal their resources, and research new technologies that will give humanity a fighting chance. Battle your way through enemy forces, complete critical objectives and sabotage their efforts to discover the colony.
Master various ships
Choose from a variety of unique ships, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. With multiple ships to pilot, you can explore the galaxy and engage in fast-paced combat in a new way each time. Take your battles to the next level by pursuing optional objectives. With each successful mission, boost your ship's weapons and defenses.Unlock and upgrade weapons
Explore an arsenal of weapons to match your playstyle. With lasers, rockets, mines, and defensive turrets at your disposal, you'll never run out of options. As you make your way through the game, earn credits to unlock more weapons and upgrade your existing ones.Build the docks and battleship
You can buy upgrades for your ships in the docks. Upgrades will enhance your ship's capabilities, including HP, primary weapons, dash rate, continual reload, attack or defense drones and more. Each upgrade will build or upgrade a structure within your docks. You can get additional upgrades by completing optional and special objectives. The docks central structure, your battleship, will slowly take shape, becoming stronger and more powerful. When you've earned enough upgrades, you'll unlock the special battleship levels!Story
In a distant future, humanity's expansion leads to the discovery of mysterious jump gates created by an unknown civilization. But with this discovery comes a fateful encounter with alien forces, resulting in destruction of Earth and forcing the remnants of humanity to retreat to the edge of the galaxy. As one of the few skilled pilots in the Last Hope colony, it's up to you and few others in special forces to protect the colony against the alien forces that threaten humanity's existence. Strike against the alien threat, steal their resources, and research new technologies that will give humanity a fighting chance. Battle your way through enemy forces, complete critical objectives and sabotage their efforts to discover the colony.
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
...it brings back childhood memories from a time before high-end computers. Simply pure fun—old-school style. You 'll love it!2 found this helpful
Very enjoyable.2 found this helpful
9/10 Reccomend for every retro style game fans1 found this helpful
Chap and okay space shooter. Very easy, except end boss (that thing is obnoxious). Very short. Nice graphics, okay gampelay. Good to waste 5 hours or so, but nothing more
The controls take some getting used to and the campaign is short, but it's a rather fun game once you get the hang of it.
Enemies have absurdly bloated health pools, you can pick between different ships with tradeoffs such as "slow, can't dodge often, hard to aim main weapon that does little damage, but a bit more health" and "fast, can dodge often, easy to aim main weapon that does a lot of damage, but a bit less health", the game tells you that fully emptying your secondary weapon punishes you with a slower full reload but it's actually much faster than letting your ammo reload bit by bit, the stat screens show DPS figures of dubious meaning (what does it even mean for a mine, damage divided by reload time or damage divided by the time between two mine placements?) that seem unrelated to how fast enemies die in practice, lazy bullet patterns that expect you to iframe dash left and right instead of moving carefully... But what annoys me the most is how little care went into the core gameplay loop: it is clear the game wants you to move quickly between objectives, with each of them giving you a timed bonus upon completion and reinforcement waves constantly progressing when you're outside objective areas, but everything else fights against that. Reinforcement waves spawn in far too quickly to be avoid…
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