Starfighter Neon
MadeOfDinosaurs · 2017 · Action, Indie, Shoot 'Em Up, 2D, Bullet Hell
PC
3 user reviews67% · 3
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About Starfighter Neon
Starfighter Neon is a small, fun, re-playable arcade style space shooter where the goal is to beat your best scores (and your friends), unlocking extra ships as you go.
- It doesn't have an epic settings, huge boss battles or an emotional story line.
- It does have bite size sessions of laser blasting, alien dodging, space ship action!
You've been dropped into enemy space. Weave your Starfighter between alien spaceships, lasers, asteroids and bombs destroying as many as you can and collecting valuable coins and powerups as you go.
- If you fly off one side of the screen, you appear back on the other side, use this to escape enemies and surprise others!
- You have 3 lives each game.
- Collecting pickups will boost your weapons for a short while.
- There are Green, Blue and Yellow weapons to collect, alongside the default blaster, each available as 'normal' or 'gold' strength. The Yellow weapons are unique to each Starfighter.
- Collect coins to unlock extra Starfighters in the Ship Shop that all fly in different ways, and each have a unique powerup.
- Collect the SmartBomb pickup to wipe out the entire screen of enemies!
- Try Jump-in Mode - no gradual build up, drops your straight into the action.
Easy to play, just point and fire, this isn't a twin stick shooter. Keyboard and Gamepads both supported.
With the v1.4 update - there's now also a 'turn and go' control scheme, why not give it a go?
With the v1.1 update - there is actually a twin stick shooter mode, if that's your thing - but you can totally stick to playing the simpler original game if you prefer.
- Infinite game play, it only stops when you lose all your lives.
- Steam achievements and leaderboard.
- Steam cloud support.
- WASD / Cursors to Move.
- Space / Enter to Fire.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Simple, fun little 1980's style space shooter. with a tidy menu and graphics. You zip around the screen Asteroids style, shooting enemies, dodging bullets, and collecting temporary upgrades and coins to unlock different ships. Good for a few minutes, don't spend more than half a buck on it though.5 found this helpful
Starfighter Neon is an unabashed, lazy ripoff of games such Asteroids/"SpaceWar!" (Copyright Atari/Steve Russell respectively, 1980/1962 respectively). Many lazy "amateur" developers don't pay attention to their obligations under copyright law, and often steal the ideas of actual, real game developers without credit, such as the "developer" here has done. At this stage no legal action has been taken by Atari/Steve Russell respectively against the "developer" here, but it's never off the table, as previous copyright law cases have shown. Putting aside the unethical intellectual bankruptcy of stealing someone else's game concept for profit, this is also breaking that unwritten law of stealing other people's game ideas... you should at least try to do better than the game you're ripping off. Starfighter Neon is considerably worse than Asteroids/"SpaceWar!". You can play Star Control 2 for free, and that's way superior to any of those games, and a million times better than this trashware. The developer expects you to pay them money for this, by the way. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The g…3 found this helpful
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