Kromaia
Kraken Empire · 2014 · Indie, Action, Shoot 'Em Up, Arcade, Bullet Hell
PC
Positive80% · 4668Metacritic
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About Kromaia
The frantic old-school action of classic coin-op shoot-‘em-ups comes crashing headlong into the 21st century with Kromaia, exclusively for PC. Explosive high-octane blasting combines with hordes of enemies in a 360˚ environment, allowing you to fly, spin and shoot anywhere and everywhere!
Where most shooters see you racing along a fixed path to blast anything in your way, Kromaia does things differently. Set in three-dimensional space, you’re free not just to explore but also dodge and blast through hordes of enemies all intent on destroying you! With your objectives spread out in all directions, it’s a true test of high-speed flying and sharpshooting skill – only the greatest space pilots need apply!
Game Features
Where most shooters see you racing along a fixed path to blast anything in your way, Kromaia does things differently. Set in three-dimensional space, you’re free not just to explore but also dodge and blast through hordes of enemies all intent on destroying you! With your objectives spread out in all directions, it’s a true test of high-speed flying and sharpshooting skill – only the greatest space pilots need apply!
Game Features
- True 360˚ Action – Kromaia sends classic coin-op shooting action hurtling into a new dimension, allowing players to explore huge 3D worlds full of things to blow up!
- Harder, Stronger, Faster – The better you do, the tougher things get; adaptive AI adjusts to your abilities, ensuring you’ll always face a true challenge!
- The Bigger They Are… – Survive through all your objectives and you’ll have a bigger challenge ahead: gigantic bosses that need to be destroyed before they destroy you!
- Take Your Pick – Four unique craft, each with their own style of weaponry, let you experience the action of Kromaia in your own way. Rapid-fire guns, homing shots, powerful blasts or melee strikes… it’s totally up to you!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Kromaia is an unconventional shoot-’em-up that attempts to break free from the genre’s traditional constraints by introducing full three-dimensional freedom of movement. Developed and published by Kraken Empire, it reimagines the classic arcade shooter not as a linear, forward-scrolling experience, but as a spatial challenge where players navigate open arenas while under constant threat. This shift in perspective gives the game a distinctive identity, though it also creates a learning curve that can be as demanding as it is intriguing. The defining feature of Kromaia is its six-degrees-of-freedom movement system. Players are no longer confined to a fixed plane or direction; instead, they can move in any direction within large, enclosed environments. Each stage functions as a contained space filled with enemies and objectives, requiring players to search for key items needed to progress. This introduces an exploratory element rarely seen in the genre, as success depends not only on shooting skill but also on spatial awareness and navigation. The freedom to approach objectives from multiple angles adds variety, encouraging players to experiment with movement and positioning rather t…2 found this helpful
Fast-paced and pretty challenging. Really striking and stunning audiovisual landscape. Works with my HOTAS as well, although flight stick sensitivity is a bit weird. A unique single-player shooter with a lot of freedom to move around.1 found this helpful
Cool game for kill, annihilate, destroy and decimate. If you are the one who kills everybody...who is really the bad guy? Needs some drum and bass or jungle Much better with high discount
https://youtu.be/sl-BeU-97hA Rough in numerous ways but nailing the flight controls for a 'space' ship so smoothly it's worth checking out.
This is like the version of a game you get working, and then say ok now lets fix the core issues and make it good. Except they didn't. It's frustrating as this could be a much better game with a little more work. Firstly turn off glow and depth of field completely if you play this as otherwise its a myopic mess. The keyboard and mouse controls are heading in the right direction but are frustratingly not quite right. The behaviour of the enemy units is a bit rubbish to be polite. Visually it is interesting, but then also a hot mess at the same time. I wish there was a better version of this game...
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