Buckle up for shoot ‘em up chaos in this fast-paced and hyper-stylized roguelite. As the infamous bounty hunter Black Paradox, it’s up to you to travel through space and defeat the Hellraisers – the most dangerous criminal organization in the galaxy.
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Jul 21 → 0/day in the week after.
About
Free major update available now. Reimagined visuals, rebalanced difficulty, and a brand new Endless Mode, all included for every owner of Black Paradox.
Black Paradox is a roguelite shoot 'em up that drops you into the cockpit of a time-jumping bounty hunter, hunting down the most wanted criminals of the universe across waves of bullet-soaked chaos. Built on the language of classic arcade shooters, layered with modern progression systems, and soaked in neon-drenched retrofuture.
Every run is different. Every upgrade matters. Every boss is somebody you don't want to meet twice.
Fully redesigned visuals - Sprites, effects, UI: everything reworked from the ground up. The retrofuture aesthetic is finally where it always wanted to be.
Rebalanced difficulty - Seven years of player feedback distilled into a smoother learning curve. More inviting for newcomers, still uncompromising in the late game.
New Endless Mode - Survive escalating waves for as long as you can. Designed for "one more run" sessions that quietly become entire afternoons.
Quality of life everywhere - Performance, controls, accessibility, dozens of small fixes informed by the community.
Key features
Roguelite shoot 'em up with permanent progression between runs
Procedurally generated levels and enemy patterns
Dozens of weapons, ships, and upgrades to unlock
Original synthwave soundtrack
Full controller support
Multiple difficulty options for every kind of player
If you've owned Black Paradox since 2019 and prefer the original version, you can still play it on the ClassicBlackParadox Steam branch. To access: right-click Black Paradox in your library → Properties → Betas → enter access code ClassicBlackParadox → select "ClassicBlackParadox" from the dropdown. Switch back anytime.
Sums Steam only; PlayStation, Nintendo publish no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
| Store | Price | Audience | Score | Chart | Est. revenue |
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SteamYou are here | $8.99 | 132reviews | 69% | — | $23.1K |
| $7.49−50% | 129ratings | 88% | — | not modelled | |
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Reviews
Themes across 41 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
I've been looking for a bullet hell game that I can play when I really don't feel like turning my brain on. This satisfies that urge. I wouldn't recommend it at full price though. There's just too little content to justify the 12,50€ asking price. Every run is kind of the same (with a bit of randomization) and the unlock progress, while a neat feature, doesn't incentivize spending any real amount of time with this game. For 3€ tho, I'd wholeheartedly recommend it as a nice little distraction for whenever you have a few minutes to pass.
The devs spent all their time on the "juice", making the game look and feel like it should be satisfying, but they forgot to make a good gameplay experience underneath it. The controls feel sluggish and your ships odd shape make dodging really unintuitive.
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For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: English
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Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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音乐很好 boss很酷
我的XBOX ONE 手柄无法识别 但奇怪的是 到选项设置里面去看手柄却可以震动 也仅仅只能震动 其他手柄按键都没用
Musica God, pero el juego es una exageracion, te llenan la pantalla de balas y te dan una mejora del 1% de probabilidad de no recibir daño, sabes por donde te puedes meter tu 1%? por allí mismo. Que si quisiera estresarme me instalo el Dark Souls, que solo quería recordar mi infancia jugando a las navecitas y no recordar el estrés que me daban los chancletazos de mi mamá :( Música: 11/10 Diseño: 10/10 Gameplay: 3/10
Great SHMUP with some lengths at the beginning. Due to the roguelite elements the very beginning will actually be the hardest part of this game. You'll die quickly and maybe not even see the first boss. Also, the first upgrades you buy with your credits will feel like they do nothing. But then there is some point where you will farm some credits with each run, unlock more slots and get real upgrades. And that's when you can suddenly see some of the later levels. The graphics are nicely pixeled, the gameplay is smooth and the soundtrack is really good. I had to double check, though, that this is not a game from the makers of Steredenn, if you played that some things will look and feel pretty familiar.
Это яркий пример плохого рогалика, выбора мало но за то можно фармить деньги и покупать статы. Лучше бы уровни сложности поставили ибо фармить топовые руну можно долго. Я прошел продукт и получил немного удовольствие и если бы не элементы рогалика игра проходилась за 4 часа и удовольствие принесла бы больше.
Loads of fun! Early game is tough/repetitive/grindy until you get better/get more upgrades but then everything rocks! Music is awesome. Wish there was a toggle for screen shake and flashing. The screen flashing is a bit excessive and I feel sorry for photosensitive players.
One of my favorite games of all time. I played this for days on the switch but just got it on here. Hope more games will come out similar to this.
Difficult, but fun. You will die a lot at first, but you accumulate money to buy upgrades which progressively become better as you do at playing the game.
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