Heckabomb
Allicorn Games · 2015 · Indie, Action, Twin Stick Shooter, Arcade, Shoot 'Em Up
PC
Mixed66% · 29 📉 Recent reviews down 57%1playing now
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About Heckabomb
✦ AI summary
Pilot the Heckabomber across the galaxy in this intense twin-stick shooter, blowing up enemy planets and harvesting their remains to upgrade your devastating arsenal of weapons and abilities. Face off against relentless waves of enemies, colossal warships, and a deadly ace pilot across multiple challenging modes backed by a spectacular arcade soundtrack.
About the game
Heckabomb is a twin-stick shooter for Windows. Works great with any controller. Supports mouse+keys play too. It has varied levels based in a circular arena and a host of upgradeable stats including bullet spread, rate of fire, turbo boosters and magnetic collectors. There are six varied add-on weapons too, including a chain-lightning gun, bullet-reflecting satellites and a rapid-fire swirly thing! (a legal requirement of any arcade shooter) Loads of different of enemies, including huge boss warships, missile batteries, tractor beams and a deadly enemy ace pilot will challenge your arcade reflexes and endurance.
- Twin-stick (controller or mouse+keys)
- Visually intense, massive explosions, huge debris clouds, trails everywhere
- Spectacular arcade soundtrack
- Campaign mode, Survival Mode, Hardcore Mode, AI Duel Challenge
- Online hiscores
Your planet is dead
The Heckabomber is a doomsday weapon, the only thing that survived the destruction of your home planet by the alien armada. Loaded with devastating planet-destroying bombs, you'll fight across the Universe. Seek out enemy worlds to obliterate, crush their defenders, crack their planet and harvest the remains for construction materials to upgrade your ship and continue your rampage.
Asteroids
Asteroids exist throughout the Universe and are often the leftovers of planet formation. With Heckabombs detonating across the galaxy, asteroids are often the leftovers of planet destruction too! Mining them for resources allows you to build new weapons, upgrade equipment and resupply smartbombs.
Every second level you'll race to harvest asteroids before the blast wave reaches you from the planet you just blew up!
Planets
After charging up on ship upgrades, you'll take on aggressive enemy ships, crash through their defensive lines and try to get close enough to their planet to drop a single, devastating Heckabomb onto it.
Enemies come in various shapes and sizes from tiny fast-moving divebombers to massive lumbering tractor-beam transports that'll try to pin you down for other enemies to shoot.
Warships
Every 10th level, you'll face increasingly huge enemy Warships. Each one carries a unique bonus upgrade that you can only get if you choose to engage the Warship rather than steer clear of it's deadly weapons and fighter launch bay.
Hardcore
In Hardcore mode you get no continues and enemy accuracy, rate of fire and bullet speed all increase substantially. One life only, extra challenging fights, vie for a place on the elite hiscore table.
Casual
Casual mode unlocks when you complete just one level of the main campaign. It offers a lot less challenge and a lot more salvage loot, making for a relaxing shoot-em-up ride up through the game as far as the first Warship encounter. Practice your moves in relative safety, or just watch the pretty explosions.
Survival
Unlocking the bonus Survival Mode gives you a huge upgrade budget to customize your ship just once then hurls you into an endless battle against increasingly ferocious odds and a limitless armada of enemy Warships.
Duel
Face the elite enemy ace pilot in the campaign and you'll unlock the bonus Duel Mode where you can challenge the ace alone (with his 5 elite henchmen... hey, he is a bad guy!)
DLC & expansions
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1] Defeat waves of asteroids and incoming enemies. After each stage you're able to buy new upgrades. Tight controls, game works good with controller. Might feel kinda luckluster nowadays, but still if you're looking for simple Asteroids-like gameplay just play it - it's simple yet good. [/h1]13 found this helpful
If you know what grinding games are like, that's exactly what Heckabomb is. There's full controller support, but other than that, no special features or story. You're just spam shooting asteroids, collecting loot, kill enemies, rinse and repeat throughout all the levels in the campaign. You can get upgrades for your ship too, and there are new ships to use. It plays out as a top-down bullet hell game. For the graphics, my biggest issue is with some of the BGs like the asteroid once; it's visually difficult to see the real asteroids when it's mixed with the BG asteroids. I'm also not a fan of the screen flashes whenever we get hit, because that's an entire second of me being blind, and getting hit by other asteroids/enemies during that screen flash. Steam cards, steam leader boards and even achievements are there but that doesn't justify the game play experience itself. It's just repetitive, and there's no real-replay value to it. Hence, why I can't vouch for Heckabomb.3 found this helpful
[h1][b]Not Recommended[/b][/h1]1 found this helpful
Heckabomb, I have mixed feeling for it, on one hand it's pretty decent and on the other it's bad. It's an old-school shoot 'em up, which is pretty cool I suppose, the game at the beggining is pretty fun , but as you keep on playing it gets so hard its ridiculous, an enemy can take down 2 of your shields by one shot! (when the max shields you can have is 9 and you can only "repair" them once you finish a level, and they are pretty costly). But in a way it was still fun, the music is pretty decent, and the duel mode was fun. The story (if any) is hilariously grim - your planet got destroyed (by what I assume the people/aliens spacecrafts you shoot) so now you go full on genocide-mode, visiting every ingle planet that these poor bastards live in, and blowing the whole world up. It's a solid 5.5/101 found this helpful
Heckabomb contains all the good elements of the arcade games of the genre. But that's is not enough... The game boils down to two types of levels: Collect resources from asteroids and fight against enemy waves. The visuals are not impressive, but are OK and the soundtrack is really nice. But as I said, its not enough. Unfortunately it becomes annoying and repetitive, without great sense of progression or continuity.
https://youtu.be/P4FAQDp3qjE After covering all the basics for an asteroids style game the creative space to differentiate itself lacks punch especially with issues for visual readability and controls.
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