Champions of Breakfast

pirate slopware made it

Even for $3 this is a waste of money. The developer claims to have "20 years in the industry" yet this looks like something a high school student being taught intro to game making would throw together for a final project Dev has been embroiled in multiple controversies, spreads lies and misinformation about Stop Killing Games initiative, and when refuted refuses to apologize or correct his statements. Save your $3 and avoid any other current or future projects from this "dev"

the dev is a nepobaby and a corpo shill

This dev killed his own game. Spend your money on something better than this, like a soda or a bag of popcorn.

The developer of this game has gotten himself into some controversy, recently, but I made my purchase and played for around half an hour without knowledge of this. I'd had my eye on this game for a bit, being a cheap game with Steam Trading Cards, but I was totally unaware of this until I'd put the game down. Figured I wanted to get ahead of that before I actually got to the review, because my negative review isn't really affected by that. It's a cute, easy little SHMUP that can be played on the Steam Deck. Levels are repetitive, there's only a handful of enemy patterns, and the progression system isn't really explained at all in-game. There's no manual, nothin'. At the end of every stage, after beating the boss, you're presented with 3 choices for a permanent upgrade. What do they do? Doesn't tell you. You can't hover over the item for a description, so what I /imagine/ is intended be a strategic choice is you looking at 3 food items whose appearances may not correlate with effect, and either look at a user guide or just fumble blindly. Apparently there's some fancy 'trick' the developer thought was kinda cutesy by tying game progression to achievements. For several reasons, this is kind of a silly idea, but it does raise a barrier for any players who may want to reset their progress for one reason or another. It's 3 bucks, so it's not like you're wasting a whole bunch of money, but what you're getting is pretty feature-bare with some questionable design decisions.

Its replay-ability is not great... no updates in years, obviously developer intended this game to have a quick end of life to make money off other games

0/10 game, the dev groomed me on second life smh.