Sway

Unique, fun, try it for free.

It's cute enough and it's free but you can't see your character on the screen. Artistic choice or otherwise that alone makes it a miss for me.

"Sway" is a very badly made 2D retro bullet hell/shmup... like, it's not even properly sized for widescreen monitors. This came out in 2022, can you believe it. What's the game about? Well, to paraphrase the developer, Sway is a short, experimental bullet hell game lacking significant substance. Players are thrown into a vaguely defined, hostile reality as a nameless character tasked with navigating abstract environments. Gameplay revolves around the repetitive task of dodging numerous on-screen projectiles and occasionally firing back at indistinct enemies or bosses, offering a brief and derivative experience based on familiar genre tropes. The graphics here are particularly awful, so bad that it actually stands out as one of the worst looking games on Steam. Quite an accomplishment. It's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. This is "free" enough, at least you won't be expected to spend any more money after you download this, but just because something is free doesn't mean it's good. De…

Game is pretty cool but the gameplay not so much, Enemy patterns are not that fun to play against

Pretty wonderful for a simple, free indie shooter. It's not as hard as it initially seems since your hitbox is tiny (You can easily see it by holding "shift"). Holding shift also slows and lets you focus the targeting to deal more damage. Most of the complaints about this game are probably due to people not knowing how that works. The music is absolutely beautiful and the graphics range between adorable and terrible, but that jankiness is typical of free Steam games and gives it even more character since you know one persona probably scribbled it all out in a few days.

The bullets match the background way too much which makes it a headache to dodge ngl. also the dialogue is showing up late.