

Unstable Star
Heatwave Studios · 2024 · Adventure, Bullet Hell, Shoot 'Em Up, Top-Down Shooter, PvE
PC
Positive90% · 10
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About Unstable Star
Journey through the galaxy as the hero Jaughn, which is totally not a respelling of John, and fight your way against the dreaded Intragalactic Coalition! As a former Border Guard for the Intragalactic Coalition, Jaughn quickly becomes embroiled in an unexpected Rebellion to save the galaxy. Join a colorful cast of characters and embark on a lighthearted yet action-packed journey of redemption. Lead the Rebellion into victory!
Unstable Star is a galactic arcade-style, third-person space-shooter packed with action, comedy, and galactic salvation.
Break out of jail, join a team, start a rebellion, and call upon the galaxy to prevent its total annihilation before it’s too late!
About us:
Developed by Heatwave Studio (formerly 25PercentGames), a student game development group based out of Arizona State University that aims to complete and publish one game each year. The game is a completely volunteer effort from an interdisciplinary team of students from across the academic and creative spectrum. We hope you enjoy what we made!
Unstable Star is a galactic arcade-style, third-person space-shooter packed with action, comedy, and galactic salvation.
- Explore the immersive story: Play as Jaughn and his new-found friends as they fight to stop the Intragalactic Coalition from destroying the galaxy and watch as the action unfolds through colorful cutscenes and in-game dialogue.
- Fight waves of enemies with upgradeable loadouts: Unlock new weapons and abilities such as phase shift or the laser gun to help defeat enemies and destroy environmental obstacles such as asteroids. Customize your loadout before each level to play to your style, and fight the waves of enemies as they approach your ship.
- Take down bosses in boss battles: Complete levels and objectives to progress the story to the two boss battles in-game. Uncover who is behind the nefarious plans of the Intragalactic Coalition, and take them down!
Break out of jail, join a team, start a rebellion, and call upon the galaxy to prevent its total annihilation before it’s too late!
About us:
Developed by Heatwave Studio (formerly 25PercentGames), a student game development group based out of Arizona State University that aims to complete and publish one game each year. The game is a completely volunteer effort from an interdisciplinary team of students from across the academic and creative spectrum. We hope you enjoy what we made!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
My friend who I play Counter Strike with said if I post a review on Unstable Star and it gets 100 likes and 20 Awards that he will buy me a RTX 4060. So im just gonna leave this here. Help me bro6 found this helpful
Brisket5 found this helpful
Pretty decent game as a project by student developers. Personally would have preferred a twin stick shooter approach to the keyboard controls as trying to aim left and right by holding LMB or RMB was a bit awkward especially since movement is WASD with Spacebar to shoot. Also noticed that the dialogue in general was a lot longer and drawn out than I would have expected (i.e. if you count the total LMB clicks I did in the game more was spent on dialogue than aiming weapons!). Granted, you can "skip" it, but I like to go through the story at least once first. Then again, I suppose just because the overall gameplay loop is fairly simple, doesn't mean the story and dialogue has to be short. One suggestion I'd provide is to lower the screen real estate being taken up by the information in the bottom left (ship health/shields, etc). Typically that wouldn't matter as much except it's actually taking up space in the primary game area instead of a border frame or panel. Alternatively, some of the information could be placed in a small meter/icon around the player's ship to make it still readily viewable but take up a lot less of the screen. [h3]Overall the ship mechanics and enemies…3 found this helpful
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"Unstable Star" is a poor but apparently deliberate runner-up for one of the worst games on Steam, this Itchio reject is a really badly made 2.5D retro shoot 'em up with a vague elementary school tier sci-fi narrative premise and some of the worse gameplay on Steam. What do you do in the game? You play the worst Galaga ripoff to insult gamers. As Jaughn (pronounced "John" or "blurgth this game sucks I just threw up"). Itch has one job, and it's not a hard job, but they failed again... to keep amateur stuff in their weird hugbox where everyone claps and says "Good job!!!" at every bit of amateur drivel (which nobody actually plays) and away from gamers. Unfortunately this has leaked out onto Steam platforms and now gamers have to put up with yet another bit of poorly made amateur shovelware. The graphics here are particularly awful, low poly garbage and even worse backdrops, 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 …
This is by far the best game I have ever played.
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