Jet Lancer
Code Wakers · 2020 · Action, Indie, Flight, Pixel Graphics, Shoot 'Em Up
PC
Very Positive92% · 1,139
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About Jet Lancer
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Jet Lancer is a high-velocity aerial combat shooter where you duel enemy aviators, hunt giant robots, and defy death at supersonic speeds.You are Ash Leguinn: badass pilot, highly paid mercenary, and flight-school drop out. Your day job is fine - the daily grind of dealing with Sky Pirates pays the bills - but nothing compares to the rush of demolishing a ninety-ton mechanical monstrosity at the speed of sound. And you’ll have your chance. As mechanized weapons converge on Root City, you’ll have to be at the top of your game to survive, and you’ll have to surpass your limits if you want to save the world.
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- Be A Badass: Jet Lancer is easy to learn but hard to master. Precise and responsive controls make you feel like an ACE as you dodge and weave through enemy fire without even a scratch in the paint.
- Surpass your Limits in Ash’s Story: Make your way from rookie aviator to ACE pilot in a story-driven single player campaign containing 30 missions, 11 bosses, and only 1 chance to save the world.
- Aggressive New Game Plus: Go higher, further, and faster in Jet Lancer’s New Game Plus mode which features more relentless AI, new attack patterns, and some fancy new upgrades for the LANCE to provide a fresh experience.
- Choose From an Extensive Arsenal: Customizable loadout with 28 different guns, payloads, and flight components to let you dominate the skies in any way you’d like.
- Customize with Accessibility Options:We think everyone should have the opportunity to feel like an ACE pilot. To that end we’ve included anti-fatigue control toggles, adjustable dodge windows, an invincibility option, and the ability to disable screenshake and screen flashing.
- Talking Cat: There’s a talking cat! His name is Lem.
And if that isn't enough we've got ARCADE MODE, Jet Lancer's take on a wave based score-attack mode!
- Unique, stacking upgrades: Make each run one-of-a-kind. The longer you survive, the more powerful you become.
- Multi-boss battles: Fight multiple bosses from the story mode at the same time.
- New Pilots: Three new pilots with unique jets and handling.
- Level Up: New Progressions system to unlock additional pilots and their jets
- New Weapon: Flamethrower: Immense repeatable damage at very close range.
- New Weapon Railgun: Instantaneous precision shots.
- New Weapon Coil Gun: Chain lightning between grouped enemies.
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- Vladimir Fedyushkin is the designer of Jet Lancer and is also in charge of art and hacky code solutions. A string of random events in his life led him to game development as a career and he hasn't looked back. You can follow him on Twitter @WhyNotArtDump
- Nicolai is the code wizard in charge of making things move on the screen. He hits buttons and helps to make the game as fun as we envisioned in our minds. You can follow him on Twitter @NicolaiGD
- Fat Bard are the guitar-shredders behind Jet Lancer's soundtrack. A composition/sound design duo, they create memorable music and immersive audio for games.
Jet Lancer is the debut game from Vladimir Feduyshkin and Nicolai Danielsen.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players praise Jet Lancer as a worthy successor to Luftrausers with engaging flying mechanics, challenging score-attack missions that feel rewarding to master, great visuals and soundtrack, and satisfying gameplay that encourages experimentation. The main complaints center on obnoxious dialogue and characters, limited ship customization variety despite weapon options, and occasional difficulty spikes or enemy design issues that can feel unfair rather than fairly challenging.
This game is such a cool concept, this is the type of game i have been searching for as a jet autist But if it wasnt such a cool concept i simply would have quit playing it, because it has some stupid design choices in terms of how they scale difficulty in new game+. IMO the way you do difficulty well is if you have the player die because they have to adapt to a certain tactic. This is done in Jet Lancer. For example, there are missions where you have to get a minimum score within a time limit by killing enemies. Enemy jets dont give a lot of point on their own, so they give you these 2x multipliers for evading and getting a combo. Without these multipliers you could never get to the minimal score, thus you are insentivised to play risky aggressive and kill as many in a short time. Now new game +. Not only are the enemies harder to kill, but they raised the minimal score for the levels whihc have those, again just as an example. There is this level where the minimal score mechanic is used in combination with another mechanic, where an insta kill laser is fired at you when you shoot too much. So you cant just keep skirmishing, but you also cant be too careful, because the…
incredibly satisfying gameplay
For me this is the way side scrolling shooters should be.
The pixel style is cool, I love jets, and it keeps me on edge. Love this one!
good, wish it had workshop support or the roguelike mode was more fair
this rips
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