Steel Rain
PolarityFlow, Adrian Zingg · 2015 · Shoot 'Em Up, Action, Indie, Side Scroller, RPG
PC
Positive87% · 47
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About Steel Rain
Prepare for the ultimate shoot-'em-up / strategy ReMix with RPG elements!
Steel Rain is a truly novel mix of strategy, RPG, and frantic action, with a modern, high velocity shmup core at its center. You get to control 2 wings you can tactically arrange in different formations and firemodes, as you fight your way through an impressive variety of overwhelmingly huge enemy fleets.
Liberate planets, build colonies, research new technologies, and learn new active and passive skills. Construct buildings, and research new combat technologies and skills. Wisely craft items, and play through missions to gather the experience points and cash needed for even more exotic and powerful upgrades.
Never forget to install your shiny new upgrades, construct cunning drone pets, and buy new wings; make your strikes deadlier than ever!
Instantly switch through 3 different wing formations, and combine them with 6 fully customizable firemodes, in order to develop your very own sets of special tactics and strategies for each and every situation; on the spot!
Complete missions and survive epic bossfights on 7 different planets, play randomly generated orbital patrol missions, or design and create your very own stages with the built-in stage editor, as you fight to become a true master of Steel Rain.
Fight for leaderboard positions, get classic rankings, and unlock over 80 achievements in this unique, fun, and taxing new indie game!
Steel Rain is not only frantic. It is a deep and strategic experience too. The game offers impressive gameplay variety, 10 difficulty levels, and a hardcore mode, to let you freely modify your gaming experience. Full and complete gamepad and joystick support are, of course, a given.
Features:
- Frantic Tactical SHMUP Action
Maneuver your wings, shoot, avoid missiles, switch tactics on the fly, and crush the opposition!
- Colonization
Build, defend, and manage your colonies. Conduct crucial research, and generate income.
- Skills Management
Unlock and research new active and passive skills for each of your wings' firemodes.
- Research
Research new technologies and unlock new buildings, skills, drones and much more.
- Upgrades for your Wings
Choose from 6 different categories of upgrades and equipable items for 10 different wings.
- Stage Editor
Create, share, and download new stages for Steel Rain.
- Item Crafting
You can now use your factories and citadels to produce new items, and prototype upgrades!
- Local Coop
Fight together and command drones with a friend in Steel Rain's exciting, brand new 2 player co-op mode!
- Game Modes
New Survival, Campaign and Arcade Modes with alternative upgrade system!
DLC & expansions
🎁 Complete the collection
Base game + 2 of 2 DLC at today's best prices.
$14.87
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What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
[h1] Another shmup that is not bad but rather mediocre at best. Switch between 3 fire modes and obliterate enemies. Collect cash for upgrades so you can repeat same mission over and over again or just farm chimichangas using some clever strategy. Backgrounds are bland and boring. Controls are ok, so no complain here. Music is unfitting and could've been better. Overall gameplay lack some kind of interesting enemies and ship formations to make it much more interesting. Not recommended but still you can check it out. [/h1]11 found this helpful
Sometimes buggy, often confusing, always fun.2 found this helpful
Classic shoot em up arcade style game. great for what games are intended for, entertainment. even though i have beat this game many times, i keep coming back but because its just fun.1 found this helpful
Garbage game. Feels like a student project. Cheap graphics. Nonsensical game play. Constant useless powerups...lots of modes and upgrades to distract from the complete mess of a poorly thrown together shmup. Buy it if its a dollar maybe, just to see if its as bad as I say it is.1 found this helpful
This is an excellent side scrolling shoot 'em up.
A pretty good side-scroller shoot 'em up much along the lines of Reign of Bullets or Drifting Lands but marred by a few negatives... 1.It features the Times New Roman font. This may be ok for a retro-look but is out of place here and cheapens the whole thing. 2. The progress/update system is far too complicated than it needs to be making it ultimately quite overwhelming. I must have spent 90% of my time in-game trying to get my head around what things meant rather than actually shooting things. I'm still extremely confused. 3. Capped at 48fps?? Yes this DOES make a difference and YES this is a borderline deal-breaker for me. So there ya go. If the framerate issue was fixed, I might be more motivated to dive deeper into the game and figure things out but as is, this issue is a a major turn-off for me. Still a thumbs up though as it does play quite nicely.
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