Galaxy Highways

A fantastic 2D pixel-art shooter that nails the retro feel! The vibrant visuals, smooth controls, and intense space battles keep me coming back. The soundtrack slaps, and the enemy variety keeps things fresh. Perfect for quick sessions or long gaming marathons. If you love classic arcade shooters with a modern polish, don’t miss this gem

Enemies have absurdly bloated health pools, you can pick between different ships with tradeoffs such as "slow, can't dodge often, hard to aim main weapon that does little damage, but a bit more health" and "fast, can dodge often, easy to aim main weapon that does a lot of damage, but a bit less health", the game tells you that fully emptying your secondary weapon punishes you with a slower full reload but it's actually much faster than letting your ammo reload bit by bit, the stat screens show DPS figures of dubious meaning (what does it even mean for a mine, damage divided by reload time or damage divided by the time between two mine placements?) that seem unrelated to how fast enemies die in practice, lazy bullet patterns that expect you to iframe dash left and right instead of moving carefully... But what annoys me the most is how little care went into the core gameplay loop: it is clear the game wants you to move quickly between objectives, with each of them giving you a timed bonus upon completion and reinforcement waves constantly progressing when you're outside objective areas, but everything else fights against that. Reinforcement waves spawn in far too quickly to be avoidable, you simply can't move fast enough and the occasional jump gates seldom are pointed in useful directions, but you also don't want to avoid them because they're an infinite source of heals and don't actually get much harder over reasonable playtimes. The slow map traversal also affects completion bonuses, until lategame you'll burn most of their duration on the way to the next objective.

+- новая идея с областями с врагами - пока не долетел, тебя грызут тупые мелки боты + новая идея с накоплением скидок на товары, которые давно не покупал +- хорошая идея с крейсером, однако с ужасной реализацией +- развитие базы есть, однако всё развитие в построении зданий дающих +10 % к чему-либо + есть сброс турелек + довольно интересные боссы + длина игры - 3 ч на нормальной сложности - нет помощи в наведении, с джойстиком играть значительно сложнее, чем с мышью - графика и дизайн лично мне не понравились Итог 6 из 10

Fantastic game! The developers on Discord are passionate about this game. It plays like a roguelite with upgrades, research, and meta-progression, and it’s quite challenging but not in any cheap way. You’ll know what you did wrong and what you’ll need to upgrade, swap, or approach in the next round. The enemies are good at attacking and defending. I’m quite picky about games that I purchase, and this is the one I’ve been playing the most recently. Anyone who likes shooters, space shooters, roguelites, or developers that care about their game should add this to their collection. I’m running it on a MacBook M2 Air and it plays perfectly with a keyboard and mouse. Be sure to join their Discord to provide them feedback or suggestions. I look forward to many more hours of playing and future updates.

Blast aliens, dodge lights, and ignore the story. This twin stick arcade style space shooter has tight controls and satisfying gameplay, which helps offset the overall lack of variety for both weapons and encounters. Progress through the story and purchase upgrades to both your base and two classes of playable starship. Special capital ship missions cap the ends of each story chapter. Development is ongoing at the time of this review.

Good space shooter with fun combat. I enjoyed also the battleship missions, and I don't think they were hard at all. Hopefully the devs make another one.

EDIT: Beat the game on Normal! And died a lot, ha ha [strike]In the middle of Chapter 2, dying a lot[/strike], but that's part of the fun! Really well done, lots of enemy and weapon variety, aesthetics and sound are pretty nice, as well. Upgrade system is inconsistent though. Each upgrade increases a number of stats, one of which reduces the cooldown of that weapon by 0.1 seconds (zero point one). So, even after five upgrades, which is significant, the cooldown is reduced by a mere half second (ex. base is 11 seconds, five upgrades later, it's 10.5 seconds), while the other stats changes can be easily felt right away. Is this a bug? Was this meant to be one whole second per upgrade? Anyway, that's probably my biggest criticism of the game, which is fairly minor. Not much replay value, aside from doing it all again on a higher difficulty, so no roguelite elements (yet?). But if you want something that respects your time, this is it. :) As of the time of writing, the game is at 1.0 and the devs said they are planning to add more. Go buy it!

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