Emerald Blue

Great bullet hell shmup. Simple, pure. Highly recommend!

Great shmup. Game doesn't ♥♥♥♥ around. Novice gave me a pounding but got the clear after a couple of hours.... Good times.

A manic shooter condensed into a bite-sized format that exacerbates it's short duration, speed and intensity. Simple yet effective mechanics and score system that also reward hyper-aggressive gameplay and quick action. Seriously addicting, the first time I cleared I wanted to pop another credit and reach a higher score immediately. The presentation pays an extremely faithful tribute to the doujin/indie STGs of the 2000's/2010's, from the visuals to even their faults. Menus are deliberately clunky, all of them expecting you to use enter to confirm selections, and to exit them by selecting the option to reset the game back to the game edition select/titlescren. Pressing ESC isn't a key to maneuver the menus, it will directly close the game, another custom of the old doujin STGs. Explanations on how the game exactly works are also deliberately scarce, even if most of the instructions are self-explanatory and you just need to learn to flow with the game. The faithful accuracy will be a burden if you aren't used to these old manners, but it's still absolutely worth playing.

Excellent, if tremendously difficult SHMUP, with a very satisfying point-blanking mechanic & frenetic gameplay. This game is pure adrenaline. Simple gameplay but you can't relax for one second!

Very dense and fun shmup with high ship speed and emphasis on destroying enemies quickly by staying in the top half of the screen and speed killing. Fast ship speed, slow enemy bullets (so they take a lot of space for a long time if you don't speed kill enemies), and high point blank damage all incentivize aggressive play. If you want to feel the rush of being a glass cannon, this shmup captures it with clarity and no fluff! Some more points: QoL features are minimal but functional. No replays or leaderboards at the time of this review writing, but the leaderboards are under construction. There is a practice mode where you can choose the start of a stage or its boss. The stages are short but active and dense. The first stage gets kind of boring after enough plays unless you want to go for score micro optimizations.

amazing cave-like game, on par if not better than the bluewish / eden's games. crystal rev update is awesome and added scanlines which is always fun! gauntlet and boss rush are also great additions.

Demasiado bueno para estar tan cortitoo :´´´´u es muy divertido muy recomendado! ^^)b

Works perfectly on SteamDeck. This is such an amazing game, game density is on point, is a 10mins long but is so intense that it felt like a 30mins suffering, just perfect. Additionally, I love to see some familiar names at the credits, many great players from the community and friends gave the final touches to the great Shmup.