
A legendary SHMUP influential to the best makers in the genre, Hellsinker is now available on steam in its most advanced form! Gameplay, story, graphics, and even music all united into one cohesive and highly dimensional Shoot-em-up!
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A legendary SHMUP influential to the best makers in the genre, Hellsinker is now available on steam in its most advanced form!
A mindbogglingly deep gameplay experience that gets deeper as your skill progresses.
Intense boss battles one after another.
Fragmented and epodic lore texts leave the player to piece together a story for themselves.
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The world was long ago split in two by the sudden collapse of an advanced civilization and the destruction of the ancient and powerful core mechanism that reigned over it it.
GRAVEYARD
A band of those who have great stake in the remains, studiers of the various surviving artifacts of the lost civilization.
Each member's fate was once connected to the remains in some way.
EXECUTORS
Watchers that live only in obsession. An obsession to sever the fate they are bonded by.
Agents who exist as "Those who must go to the place they are meant to go".
The ceaseless echos of a severed past.
Their devotion is a torch that renders through the darkness and guides them toward their final duty.
The ruins to which they are all bound to by fate...have yet again appeared on the surface world.
DEAD LIAR
The longest living member of the Graveyard survivors.
Standard.Specializes in cooperative tactics with his Misteltoe, Tobari-Maru.
His narrow range of attack makes him enviable to delicate and precise operations,
But he packs an equally worthy level of firepower.
FOSSIL MAIDEN
A female of great latent ability, but whose blindness and poor physical health make her reliant on the support of her Misteltoe.
Effective mainly at subjugating spaces with her wide area of attack, she is also capable of highly powerful single shot attacks.
MINOGAME
An androgynous android deity created by a mysterious religious organization long ago.
Their main shot is rather simple , but their innate defensive capabilities and wide AOE attack excel at handling large numbers of targets.
Utilize a plethora of unique skills to attack and maneuver through long intense stages!
How you chose to master each character's strengths and weaknesses will be the key to victory.
Whether you take your enemies head on, play it slow and steady, or hit them with precision from a distance...Each play style possesses inherent merits, and inherent faults.
Adaptive on-the-fly strategy and an awareness of your position and targets will also be critical to success.
8+ stages that change in form and intensity in real time as you progress.
3 characters + a bonus character each with drastically differing play styles to explore.
Replay function and Boss fight selection mode.
More than 40 unique tracks of doujin game music.
3 element scoring system.
Limited give-and-take style life point system and bullet guard elements designed to encourage strategy.
Unique life extend system that can be capitalized on with the right skill and know-how.
Expanded digital manual with access to gameplay and story information.
Easy to learn tutorial for basic play and a no-limits practice mode.
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All-time low is the lowest price we've recorded for this game since we started tracking it.
Languages: Simplified Chinese, Japanese, English, Traditional Chinese
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 40 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
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Reviews
Extremely unique shooter that anyone who likes these kind of games really should try. The game is rather opaque with how the mechanics work and there is a lot of depth within them but once you get used to it it's really not that bad especially if you pick Minogame who is pretty overpowered. Really good game.
Great SHMUPS game. This game has many variables for you to explore in this game. Lots of weapon combination, the way how levels change depend on your performance, and subtle depths of when and how you use weapons which encourage the player to discover the most optimal way to play that comfort the player the most. Extremely Recommend. Also Minogame is OP. Please buff.
One of the most iconic and influential shmups from its age. Lots of mechanics, to the point where understanding them becomes part of the challenge. Amazing soundtrack, engaging gameplay where it always feels like you could have played the segment different.. The downside is the client is a bit clunky and it getting it to run at the desired resolution is not seamless.
よく分からないゲームとして有名で、解説や攻略の手引き等は沢山ありますが 自分なりに手探りで理解していくのが面白いタイプのゲームだと思います
The most primordial element of musical experience lies in sound itself. Whether through the whispers of nature in a Pisaro-Liu composition or the abrasive performance of a Glenn Branca, sound is mobilized in distinct ways to establish a connection with the receiver. John Cage, in 4’33”, shifts the channel of communication to the environment and the receiver themselves, transforming the act of listening into a meditative experience. But what if we did the opposite? What if the channel were, so to speak, flooded—if sound dominated everything so completely that the receiver ceased to recognize themselves? Noise, or more precisely Harsh Noise, has often been dismissed as a joke. Imagining music so overwhelming that it stifles even one’s own thoughts may seem absurd. And yet, that is precisely where the enchantment of listening lies—for example, in Decrescendo by The Gerogerigege. The experience of not hearing oneself, of feeling solely and exclusively the substance of sound, becomes one of the most serene states. It is no coincidence that listeners of Merzbow rarely describe his art as explosive; rather, they glimpse in it a moment of pure stillness. It is through this same logic that I perceive the beauty of so-called Bullet Hell games. Trying to play Hellsinker by observing every detail on the screen, devising strategies, or analyzing enemy design—common gestures in other games—proves here to be a complete failure. The only way to survive is to focus attention exclusively on one's own character and the most immediate threats; any attempt to grasp anything beyond that may mean death—and in games where one death costs an entire run. The truth is that Shmups are as meditative as Pulse Demon. There is not a minute available to reflect on anything else. Only surrendering to a cathartic experience, in pursuit of a constant balance until the final moment of the run.
This game will constantly have you clench your nuts/tits as you desperately fight to reach the next stage. 10/10
A fascinatingly weird shmup, with some of the strangest character abilities I've ever seen and a scoring system I still don't understand at all. It's charmingly homemade, inspiringly ambitious, and oozing with some very particular y2k sub-aesthetic. I think probably the best way to approach this is to dive in and flail around for a couple hours in the cryptic chaos, then read the Actual Manual (an html file in the game's install folder, with an English version available, which actually explains nearly everything), then choose a character to get serious with, then reconsider your choice of main once you can reliably get to stage 5. I think I'd only recommend this to people who have like... Adopted The Lifestyle, with regard to shmups. But if that's you, yeah play it. It's unique.
정통 종스크롤 슈팅게임 = 피한다. 못 피하면 봄을 쓴다. 못 피하면 피탄당한다. 합쳐서 견적을 짜서 클리어한다. 초보자는 회피를 하고, 고수들은 패턴을 만든다. 그 패턴은 정답에 가깝다. 헬싱커 = (탄막이 온다. 이 탄막의 상태를 바꿀 수 있는가? 느리게 할 것인가? 서프레션 래디우스 켜질 시간이 되는가? 생존기로 지울 것인가? 들어가서 적기를 끊어 발사를 막을 것인가? 서브샷을 써서 빠르게 끊을 것인가? 아니면 그냥 기합회피할 것인가?)를 루프 함수에 넣고 실시간 갱신하는 게임 불친절하지 않습니다. 실시간으로 대가리를 계속 돌려야 할 뿐 멋있는 탄막을 비집고 들어가서 피하고 싶으면 불호 탄막을 내가 조작하고 조건을 바꿔서 해결하고 싶으면 호 쪽일 가능성이 높을 듯 싶네요 저는 호
its ultra kino. one of the best to ever do it
i want to marry minogame
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