Ion Assault
Coreplay · 2010 · Action, Indie, Casual, Twin Stick Shooter, Arcade
PC
Mostly Positive74% · 8162Metacritic
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About Ion Assault
In ION ASSAULT players wield thousands of Ion Particles to blast, fry and disrupt anything on screen as you see fit!
GAMEPLAY WITH A TWIST: By centering its gameplay around its unique fluid and particle physics system, ION ASSAULT adds a twist to arcade style space shooters!
ANYONE CAN PLAY: Utilizing its dynamic level intensity, ION ASSAULT is both accessible for the beginner as well as challenging for the skilled gamer. The faster you destroy obstacles, the more enemies the game will throw at you, so play it safe and clear one obstacle at a time or go crazy and see how many enemies the game can throw at you for a maximum score!
GAMEPLAY WITH A TWIST: By centering its gameplay around its unique fluid and particle physics system, ION ASSAULT adds a twist to arcade style space shooters!
ANYONE CAN PLAY: Utilizing its dynamic level intensity, ION ASSAULT is both accessible for the beginner as well as challenging for the skilled gamer. The faster you destroy obstacles, the more enemies the game will throw at you, so play it safe and clear one obstacle at a time or go crazy and see how many enemies the game can throw at you for a maximum score!
Key features:
- Classical Shoot’em up with tactical depth: Ion Particles are limited for each level
- Wield thousands of Ion Particles.
- Use your space ship to fight against enemies and to destroy asteroids by absorbing and blasting Ion Particles.
- Collect valuable power ups to improve your ship, your defense or your fire power.
- Blast 30 different enemies using a variety of patterns to attack.
- Fight through 4 large sectors, each guarded by a huge boss!
- Over 20 levels, 5 levels in each sector
- Conquer the leaderboard by mastering the innovative multiplier-based scoring mechanic.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A sleek and challenging shoot 'em up with smooth graphics, addictive gameplay, and a variety of levels that keep you hooked from start to finish.1 found this helpful
Ion Assault is a pretty looking game with nice sound effects and music, but it's also repetitive and often visually overwhelming. There's an annoyingly huge difficulty spike once you reach the 1st boss and the 3rd world, which is stupidly tedious because of the endless enemy spawns. Also, the levels feel too cramped and tight with all the floating asteroids and enemies filling the screen. = 6/101 found this helpful
Fun, nice smooth gameplay and graphics1 found this helpful
Broken achievements1 found this helpful
Ion Assault is a clever twist on the Asteroids formula — vacuuming up ion particles and blasting them at enemies feels genuinely satisfying once you get the hang of it, and the particle effects are stunning. The core mechanic rewards precision and positioning over just spraying shots everywhere, which gives it a nice strategic layer. That said, the visual chaos can work against you since enemy projectiles have a nasty habit of blending into the particle-filled background, leading to some frustrating deaths that feel cheap rather than earned. The game is also quite short, the music loops get repetitive fast, and the lack of mid-chapter saves means you need a solid block of time to make meaningful progress. Survival mode adds some replayability if you want to chase scores, but there just isn't enough content here to sustain long-term interest.
Game crashed so hard Windows legit said "if Control Alt Delete doesn't work, use the power button"
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