Technocide

Game received for free through LazyOtter. Game is a new take on the vertical 2d shooter, arcade style. Interesting story at least, particularly relevant today. Did not play more than a few levels... Def on the harder side even just on "normal". Some enemies are obnoxious and could use a rebalance. Dying resets but you can choose a save to get back to close to where you were. Dislike the 1 to 3 ratio on choices for which colony to save, feels very X-com, and I hated that feature about that game too. If you are a preexisting fan of the genre, go for it. Otherwise, most people will probably find their money better spent elsewhere.

I dare to recommend it if you are looking for a well-functioning space shooter. I will admit honestly: I played the last boss on the easiest difficulty level, before that on normal. The first game ever where I went this way. After almost three hours of playing, I was tired and still wanted to see the end. It is not exactly my favorite type of game and my age is already taking its toll. I definitely want to see a life bar on the final boss. It was quite dull to shoot hundreds of bullets without knowing how far away the end was. This also became decisive in changing the difficulty level.

Shmup that does it's own thing and does it quite well.

Such a fun top down shoot em up, the controls are smooth the variety of weapons, enemies and everything else is well worth the low price with old school art style and funky sound track.

A flawless arcade co-op for quick sessions, although the story slows the tempo and feels unnecessary in this kind of game. I was terrible at it, but luckily so was everyone else.

It was fun for a while. It really was but it cant see myself playing it for much longer because of a few things. Choosing a different difficulty makes things more stressed then fun. I went one higher then normal and those tanky ships spammed and I had no option but to shoot them as the bugs passed through. And second the upgrades like between the rail gun and the shotgun are cool but they are just not as good as the beginner gun. The beginner gun covers everything and the other ones I would die when I choose them because their weak spots were just too bad. I know I can swap them mid level but sometimes it gets stressful where I'm swapping between them quickly (and this is probably my fault) and I miss click something not doing what I wanted too. Then the whole thing resets and you are stuck there grinding up again till you reach the same point again. I know thats the point to feel like an arcade game-ish but I don't like it a huge amount. Cool game but change some things in my opinion.