Neon Coliseum

Neon Coliseum is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one doesn't seem like any kind of asset flip, it even has a fairly unique mechanic where you jump around but can also "draw a line" of a specific colour. Why? This line will destroy matching enemies of the same colour as they drift across the screen. Is this fun? No. Is there any reason to want to do this? No. It's not 1981 anymore. People are not interested in games with about the same level of depth as Pac-Man. The game is very simplistic, small and limited in scope and ambition. This feels more like a tech demo, proof of concept or student homework assignment rather than a fully fledged product designed for PC gamers. As such it doesn't offer any real value as a serious PC game. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The game features extremely lazy, minimalist "art", of the type you normally expect to see in low effort Flash/browser games and mobile apps. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game, having the graphics phoned in like this isn't going to result in a high quality, visually impressive game that PC gamers are used to seeing. The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. Some of the defects in the game can be attributed to the choice of using the GameMaker Studio construction kit/toolset. This is a very poor quality toolset favoured by amateur developers as it's cheap and requires little in the way of development skill, but unfortunately has very limited capabilities. Just as you can't make a silk purse out of a sows ear, you can't make a great video game if you use a terrible engine. GameMaker Studio is most commonly used to make retro pixel shovelware and cash grabs. A strong argument can be made that construction kits like GameMaker Studio should never be used to make games for profit, as the "developer", Mantis Games has done here. These construction kits are intended to teach people some of the basic principles of game development, and to make small demos to pass around with friends. They're not intended to replace to actual work of real, professional game developers. So it's inappropriate when amateurs try to use these for profit, without any actual, real game development effort taking place. This doesn't result in products that have any real meaningful value for gamers. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 2 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam? Neon Coliseum is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 11,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product.

6/10

good game

It's ok. Watching the trailer will give you a clear expectation of what you'll get. It's fairly slow paced and boring. I did not enjoy the platforms at all, zero gravity was definitely the only enjoyable gamemode. It's cheap though so if you think you'll enjoy it then by all means.

[b]Neon Coliseum[/b] is an Action game where you have to destroy enemies of the same colour by making a line that gets shorter and shorter. I love the idea and it's quite unique. The reason for my negative review is that it's simply too fast and way too difficult. Also, the achievements have no descriptions and I have a feeling some of them are broken. For example I have killed a few homing enemies and yet the stats page shows "0 killed" and the achievement hasn't popped. Other negatives: - You lose your streak when you press escape - It's not possible to take screenshots in game

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