Superstatic
Sleepy Studios · 2015 · Action, Indie, Top-Down Shooter
PC
Positive83% · 12 📉 Recent reviews down 59%
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About Superstatic
SUPERSTATIC
Superstatic is a top-down shooter where you're given the ability to possess and control your enemies. Using "copies", you're able to perform a variety of skills including killing enemies within a certain radius, chaining kills together based on your current combo, teleporting to your copy's position and more.
The story centers on an addict who desperately turns to a clinical trial for a new drug. The drug is said to enhance the user's psychological capabilities, but it instead gives him mind control. After discovering some documents, he realizes that he is scheduled to be terminated. Infuriated, he goes after the creators of the drug through their webs of lies and conspiracies.
The game also includes a level editor allowing you to make your own custom levels using your own graphics, maps, guns, conversations and enemies.
FEATURES
- Possess your enemies, use them to fight for you and gain new abilities along the way
- Rich branching storyline - the choices you make determine the levels you play
- Large, open levels designed around multiple paths and freedom of choice
- Fully fleshed-out modding system: create your own levels, enemies and guns
- Fast-paced, quick restart gameplay
- Original soundtrack featuring dark, driving synths and pulse-pounding beats
SOCIAL
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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Neon pulses feel like a dance party for your brain, each glitch is a surprise confetti blast, and the humor makes you grin like a cat on a keyboard.
Superstatic scratches the Hotline Miami itch but adds its own spin with a ghost/possession mechanic that lets you hop into enemy bodies and use them against each other — when it clicks, clearing a room this way feels genuinely satisfying. The camera being locked to your character means you constantly get shot from off-screen, which forces heavy reliance on your clone, and with energy draining fast and guns perpetually running dry after just a couple shots, the pacing often feels more exhausting than exhilarating. The power boxes that recharge your energy blend into the environment and are a pain to locate, and there's no way to finish a knocked-out enemy, so you end up awkwardly waiting for them to stand back up before you can deal with them permanently. It's rough around the edges and notably shorter than I'd have liked, but for the frequent sale price of around a dollar, it's a flawed but interesting take on the genre worth trying if you're hungry for more top-down action.
Interesting idea for a top-down shooter where you can create a ghost that can move forward and possess an enemy. Camera is stuck to your avatar which prevents you from scouting ahead which is somewhat overcome by using your ghost. Guns run out after a couple of shots which makes you overly reliant on the ghost to progress as you hop between recharge stations. Occasionally, you are spawned in a doorway right in front of enemies with nowhere to go which was frustrating. Story is far from compelling. I felt little reason to continue with this, but can see why someone who really likes top down shooters might be interested.
2/10
It is, effectively, a more boring Hotline Miami.
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