Iron Skys

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Adorable roguelite shmup! I wish there were more upgrades but the game is great so far, lovely little game and absolutely worth playing since it's free

A really nice old-school shoot'em up. Actually, even a bit Bullet Hell. With good music, a coherent pixel art style, small hit boxes, tight controls and rogue-like mechanics. You start with one type of shot and after each defeated boss you get one of two random upgrades to choose from. Mostly these are additional shot types that can be used as options. You only have one life, but you have hit points, which you replenish by shooting down enemies. I think it's a good game. You can definitely find worse free shoot'em up games on Steam. But you should also know three things: 1. the key mapping is designed for the keyboard. So if you want to play it with a controller, you should briefly familiarize yourself with the key mapping setting via the Steam client. 2. do not look at the high score list before you have an entry! It will hardlock the game. 3. the difficulty level of this game is: Suck it up, noob!

I had to hit enter in the console after launching in steam to get the game to launch, it is a pretty good bullet hell shooting game. After beating the first boss you earn the ability to shoot behind you. I think the key early is just making sure you don't get hit and fire shots where you can. This was covered as part of this week's episode of Free2Play Weekly: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVITE6CbT1Q&t=1643s

I'll be honest, the controls are kinda horrible and the firing upgrades are separate which is just a difficulty mechanic. It has no saves or checkpoints. I'm not gonna rate it hard unless the problems are fixed.