Strania - The Stella Machina -

This one is made by G.Rev, who also made Border Down. I can't recommend this one at all. At first blush it seems good but it revels in a couple of shmup pet peeves of mine: First, one of the bosses can linger at the bottom of the screen. Unless you have certain weapon(s) you can't hurt it but it can hurt you. It'll stay there for awhile wasting your time. Second, this and other bosses can go into the background where they can shoot you but you can't shoot back. Maybe in short bursts this is okay but it goes on long enough in this game to grind my gears.

Fun mecha multi scrolling game, the good thing about this game aside from the game play is that it isn't as graphically demanding compared to most other PC games. It runs smooth at 1080p 60 FPS

I actually played the demo of this game on xbox360 when gold was a thing, and now getting to play it on PC, it's still worth the purchase. It's just a really good bullet hell shmup game. The variety of weapons as well as being able to upgrade them depending on what faction you play's good especially with being able to switch weapons too. Not dying on 1 hit's also good. The fact also that you can play either side's also a plus as it gives you more to play. I would say though, if you plan to just play the game in it's entirety, you've got to play on hard mode as it has everything in it. If you want to make things easier, just do normal until you have more continues. You don't have to 1CC the game to get the ending, as long as you do things on hard or above, it's fine. But yea, game's great, would recommend to more experienced bullet hell players, but those who are new to the genre are also welcome.

Unique take that works well enough, but just not mind blowing; but hey that's fine, not every SHMUP can be the best.

yes - hard game but the set pieces and music are wonderful

No sound effect and there's no working fix or workaround