Syder Reloaded
Studio Evil · 2025 · Indie, Action, Shoot 'Em Up, Arcade, Bullet Hell
PC
Positive92% · 25
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About Syder Reloaded
An overcharged and furious side-scrolling, multi-directional shoot 'em up.
Syder Reloaded is the love letter to 90s Amiga shmups you've always wanted, remastering and expanding on Syder Arcade, the classic shoot-em-up, bullet-hell hybrid you know and love. A slew of challenging levels, a fleet of distinct ships and a motherload of alien invaders. Get back to your old-school roots and curse at your monitor in this skills-first shooter.
No items to upgrade, nothing to grind through, no coins needed for continues; your progress is solely measured by your individual skill. If you're looking for a game that delivers a straight shot of nostalgia and 90s challenge, you'll find nothing better. Pick up your controller or reach for your keyboard, will you master Syder Reloaded?
Syder Reloaded is the love letter to 90s Amiga shmups you've always wanted, remastering and expanding on Syder Arcade, the classic shoot-em-up, bullet-hell hybrid you know and love. A slew of challenging levels, a fleet of distinct ships and a motherload of alien invaders. Get back to your old-school roots and curse at your monitor in this skills-first shooter.
No items to upgrade, nothing to grind through, no coins needed for continues; your progress is solely measured by your individual skill. If you're looking for a game that delivers a straight shot of nostalgia and 90s challenge, you'll find nothing better. Pick up your controller or reach for your keyboard, will you master Syder Reloaded?
What’s New?
- ‘Tis But a Scratch: Introducing grazing! Fly in the face of danger and keep your score multiplier alive by flying close to bullets.
- Pick Your Poison: Shoot powerups to cycle your options. Forget otherwise perfect runs being ruined with random weapon drops. Now you make the call.
- Make Mine a Multi: Bullet cancelling partially refills the multiplier reset counter. When your special weapon is charged, earn extra score based on your multiplier.
- A Fresh Coat of Paint: All new graphics and improved level design, boss battles and enemy behaviours.
- Expanded Roster: Get ready for battle with 4 new playable ships.
- Settle The Score:The scoring system has been redesigned from scratch, rewarding the most skilled players.
Key Features:
- 6 Legendary Levels: A challenging Campaign Mode packed with guns, glory, and buckets of adversity for you to overcome!
- Choose Your Ship: Even more superb starships ready to be commanded, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Choose wisely!
- How Far Can You Go?: 3 different Survival and Challenge Mode levels, perfect for pilots wishing to showcase their skills.
- Online Leaderboards: Take control of the all-new scoring system and make your mark on the Global Leaderboards, or go personal and fight for bragging rights at the top of your friends list.
- Play with What You’ve Got: Pick up a controller or reach for your keyboard, how you play is up to you.
- Travel Back in Time: Apply a suite of retro graphic filters to change the way you see the game and bring that wonderful hit of nostalgia from the 90s!
- No Grind, Just Glory: Earn your place among the elite, winning badges and high scores based on skill and ability, not hours invested.
- Big Bosses Await: Go head-to-head against monstrously-sized ships. Will you overcome these alien invaders?
- A Challenge with Choices: Pick from up to 4 levels of difficulty, so you can set your own challenge. Rise to the maximum as you master your ship!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
6/10 It's okay, well made but very short and there isn't much impetus to complete it with all the different ships. Decent graphics, music and sound though.1 found this helpful
Decent shoot 'em up with similarities to [i]Fantasy Zone[/i].1 found this helpful
I love Shmups but in this the ship controls like it swims through molasses. In addition, in a Defender style game where you have a giant tunnel ... enemies have to spawn right next to you instead of spawning on the far left/right side of the tunnel, so you can prepare for what is coming. I also didn't like that all you will get is 8 ships where each has its own "bomb" move that can't be switched and a basic main weapon it starts with. That main weapon can be changed while playing, but the power-up that lets you do so flips through all the different options so fast that you can't reliably pick what you want. In addition I had originally problems to get my Steam 2026 Controller working, because I had a few other controllers also plugged in. In such a case, the game randomly decides which one it takes as the main one, and you can't change this. You have to go into the folders and delete a folder, unplug all controllers ... only leaving the controller you intent to play with in and start the game. From then forward it memorized which controller it is you want to use. But not only that, the game lacks any setup that allows you to change button configuration ... in 2020 we have a …
One of the most underrated shmups of the last decade. A true retro gem in todays language for fans of the genre (or newcomers).
It's alright if you get it on sale. There are several ships to unlock, but half of them are using the same 3D model. The SVG640 filter looks so much better than all the other options that it should probably be the default setting. There's no reason not to hold down the fire button, & there's no built in fire toggle, but you can add one yourself easily enough using Steam Input. The optional anime style portraits look like absolute arse. It's a bit basic, & I would like more content; more levels, more ships, more stuff to unlock & upgrade between missions.
Thank god, they didn't change the basic style from Syder Arcade: it's the same cosy retro arcade feeling! Music and sound effects are superb! Graphics have many retro modes like C64, Amiga, 8Bit, etc. The best "modern" in "ultra" ist good enough for Arcade, but I would love to see a more blleding edge mode with ray traced ships, bullets, asteroids, ... :-) So, almost perfect, but the fixed keyboard layout is not optimal because the special weapon on "Z" is bad for german keyboard layouts - hope for an update to make the keys configurable. Other than that: a gorgeous side scrolling shooter at it's best! :-)
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