

Super Helmets on Fire DX Ultra Edition Plus Alpha
Ripper Games · 2016 · Action, Indie, Platformer, Difficult, Pixel Graphics
PC
Mixed59% · 27 📈 Making a comeback 69%
This game is free to play. Get it on Steam →
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About Super Helmets on Fire DX Ultra Edition Plus Alpha
A simple construction worker with a simple objective… save the world.
Sounds quite simple, huh?
This might be a little difficult to achieve though.
Super Helmets on Fire DX is a crazy side scrolling action platformer game, with lots of nods to old school games, mixed with hardcore runner gameplay and a pinch of RPG lite elements.
You take control of The Worker, a simple guy that works at a building site in a bustling megalopolis. But one day, while mining some rocks, he discovered a secret that would have better been hidden forever!
The Ancient Evil God, a huge sphinx with the power to destroy the world, wakes up from his eternal slumber and sends our hero into an adventure through time and space, where he will try to save all his companion workers and the world!
Sounds quite simple, huh?
This might be a little difficult to achieve though.
Super Helmets on Fire DX is a crazy side scrolling action platformer game, with lots of nods to old school games, mixed with hardcore runner gameplay and a pinch of RPG lite elements.
You take control of The Worker, a simple guy that works at a building site in a bustling megalopolis. But one day, while mining some rocks, he discovered a secret that would have better been hidden forever!
The Ancient Evil God, a huge sphinx with the power to destroy the world, wakes up from his eternal slumber and sends our hero into an adventure through time and space, where he will try to save all his companion workers and the world!
Key features:
- Classic side scrolling running gameplay.
- High difficulty using fast reflex based gameplay. You will need to conquer the jump and crouch buttons if you want to survive.
- Story mode with escalating difficulty and bosses.
- 5 worlds to visit, including The City, Egypt, The Future...
- Procedurally generated levels that will learn from your gameplay behaviour.
- RPG-lite stat based challenge mode where you can modify your favourite character.
- Various skills that will help you during runs to get better records.
- More than 10 characters to unlock and play with, parodying popular characters!
- Endless running Classic mode, with no character abilities. Only your skills and proficiency will help you in this mode.
- Awesome chiptune soundtrack created by Carlos Viola.
- STEAM online leaderboards and achievements. Show your friends who is the best!
- Trading cards and badges.
- For Windows, Mac and Linux.
- Supports controller and keyboard. Although we recommend using a controller.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Players have mixed reactions to this retro-style 2D platformer. Some appreciate its energetic arcade chaos, colorful visuals, and cooperative gameplay, finding it entertaining despite its simplicity. Others criticize it as a low-quality example of Steam's oversaturated platformer market, arguing it plays worse than classic games from decades ago and lacks the polish expected of modern titles.
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Super Helmets on Fire DX Ultra Edition Plus Alpha, developed and published by Ripper Games, is a fast-paced 2D platformer that leans heavily into arcade chaos, blending classic side-scrolling design with the relentless momentum of an endless runner. It’s a game that doesn’t aim for subtlety or precision in the traditional sense; instead, it throws players into a constant forward push where reaction time, pattern recognition, and adaptability become the keys to survival. Beneath its deliberately exaggerated title lies an experience that is both energetic and uneven, driven by a strong central idea that doesn’t always fully cohere. The game follows a loosely structured narrative centered on an ordinary construction worker caught in an absurd, time-spanning conflict. The story serves more as a thematic excuse to move between wildly different environments than as a deeply developed narrative, but it does add a sense of progression and variety. Levels take players through a range of settings, each introducing new hazards and visual themes, helping to keep the experience from feeling completely repetitive even as the core mechanics remain largely unchanged. Gameplay is built around con…
"Super Helmets on Fire DX Ultra Edition Plus Alpha" is one of literally thousands of retro 2D platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "platformers" on the Steam store page yields over 17,000 results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This almost comes across as a joke game, but it is a "serious" (and seriously low quality) 2D endless runner platformer where you blend action and combat with endlessly running towards the right side of your screen. And that's all there is to it... this is 10 years old but plays worse than 30+ year old platformers like Super Mario Bros. In the modern era of high quality bleeding edge PC gaming, these kinds of flat, lazy, lackluster platformers just don't cut it. Platforming is a dead genre for a reason. Even though this is "free", it failed to attract any interest for gamers here on Steam Direct for obvious reasons. This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the l…
Игра 'Super Helmets on Fire DX Ultra Edition Plus Alpha' – это настоящее буйство красок и адреналина, которое не отпускает до самых титров! С первых секунд погружаешься в безумный мир, где главная задача – удержаться на голове не просто шлем, а самый настоящий огненный апофеоз. Управление интуитивно понятное, но освоить все тонкости, чтобы пройти самые сложные уровни, потребует от тебя немалой сноровки и стальных нервов. Визуальная составляющая просто поражает: взрывы, спецэффекты, яркие персонажи – всё это создает неповторимую атмосферу хаоса и веселья. Музыкальное сопровождение идеально дополняет происходящее, подстегивая к новым свершениям. Несмотря на кажущуюся простоту, игра полна неожиданных поворотов и секретов, которые приятно открывать. Особенно порадовал кооперативный режим – с друзьями веселее и жарче! Если ищешь что-то оригинальное, динамичное и с неповторимым стилем, то 'Super Helmets on Fire DX Ultra Edition Plus Alpha' – однозначный хит!
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