Gran Vitreous
Heliocentric Studios · 2015 · Action, RPG, Indie, Top-Down, Arena Shooter
PC
Mostly Positive76% · 34
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About Gran Vitreous
Gran Vitreous is a PC shmup that combines classic arena shooter gameplay with the mechanics of a loot driven action RPG. Upgrade your ships equipment and level up as you battle through a galaxy filled with randomly generated encounters.
Fight your way through a randomly generated galaxy as it unfolds in front of you. Each zone you encounter is unique; asteroid fields, gravity wells, large motherships, and massive army clusters are just some of the zone types you will find. In addition each zone is randomly given attributes that change the encounter, you could be fighting against larger tougher enemies in one zone and in another be battling in a tiny arena with slow firing enemies and your ships weapons are overcharged.
Enemies you destroy drop items and credits that you can use to upgrade your hull, shields, utility, main weapons, secondary weapons, and super weapons. Every piece of equipment is a unique piece of loot with randomly assigned stats and attributes. Item attributes are those you've come to expect from the loot driven subgenre (Critical hit chance, Increased item drop rate, Increased damage percent).
You will also gain XP from enemies you destroy to level up and gain skill points as well as allowing you to use higher level items. Use your skill points to enhance your ship in the way you see fit whether its to strengthen your shields increase your firerate or increase the drop quality of your items. Forge the ultimate weapon of space destruction to fight your way through the toughest enemies and bosses towards the edge of charted space.
Fight your way through a randomly generated galaxy as it unfolds in front of you. Each zone you encounter is unique; asteroid fields, gravity wells, large motherships, and massive army clusters are just some of the zone types you will find. In addition each zone is randomly given attributes that change the encounter, you could be fighting against larger tougher enemies in one zone and in another be battling in a tiny arena with slow firing enemies and your ships weapons are overcharged.
Enemies you destroy drop items and credits that you can use to upgrade your hull, shields, utility, main weapons, secondary weapons, and super weapons. Every piece of equipment is a unique piece of loot with randomly assigned stats and attributes. Item attributes are those you've come to expect from the loot driven subgenre (Critical hit chance, Increased item drop rate, Increased damage percent).
You will also gain XP from enemies you destroy to level up and gain skill points as well as allowing you to use higher level items. Use your skill points to enhance your ship in the way you see fit whether its to strengthen your shields increase your firerate or increase the drop quality of your items. Forge the ultimate weapon of space destruction to fight your way through the toughest enemies and bosses towards the edge of charted space.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players enjoy the core roguelite twin-stick shooter gameplay and find it fun for stress relief, with solid mechanics around gear rerolling. However, the game suffers from significant technical issues including frequent crashes and performance problems, plus visual clutter from excessive particle effects that makes it hard to distinguish bullets from enemies, with no options to adjust these settings or rebind controls.
I want to like this game, I really want to but fact is within 10 minutes my game crashes twice. And considering that this game is six (6) years old I doubt there's any updates/ bug fixes on the horizon. Verdict: As a fan of roguelite genre this negative review hurts inside me but with constant crashing there's no chance for me to enjoy this game. If you are looking for something like Gran Vitreous but something that works (or at least it worked on my PC) check out Geometry Arena's store-page.1 found this helpful
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Fun game, but grindy. In fact, with the right combination of trash gear, you can keep going until you simply don't do enough damage to kill fast enough, then upgrade to the appropriate level of trash gear, and repeat the process. Rerolling the gear is fun as always, but costs are too high for rare gear. Charge ability is a bit OP, whereas nukes aren't that useful. All in all a fun game that requires very low initial time investment (as opposed to say, Diablo III). Still highly recommended however, as I find this great for stress relief.
- Just a cluster**** of flashy particles on the screen. Much more than you see in the trailer. No way to tell if stuff is bullets, enemies, bonuses or just particles and explosions. No option to tone it down. So you often just fly through stuff and _hope_ it doesn't kill you. - No rebindable controls. - Crashes.
Thumbs up for gameplay and a good roguelite twin stick shooter, but there does not seem to be any ongoing developement /bugfixes and it has crashed at least 3 times in the 2 hours I have played. Others have not had this issue So your computer may be alright but if you get a couple crashes in the first hour just refund because it is not worth the hassle. Recommended , but buyer beware.
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