NEON Ultra

A tricky & very fun little shmup game that will give you that "Just one more try" thirst! ☆

this game is pretty good. Like asteroids, but intense (and fun) 8/8 its gr8 m8 and werf the w8. Not to mention the price means its like permenatly on sale. Get this game to play when you just want to mess around and play something arcade-y but has had a lot of effort put into it.

If you lick twin stick shooters then this is definitely one of those games you need in your steam library :) Well made, runs well, fun to play, looks great and all round good game. Hats of to the devs for making such a great game. Look forward to seeing what else you guys can make :D

A sensory experience, probably best played at max volume. Very fun, few launch day bugs but I'm sure those will be ironed out. Great sound and graphics. Love that Overdrive.

Dev bailed out and left issues unaddressed. Great game ruined by a lack of support. RIP

Electrified blast of pure arcade fun!

NEON Ultra looks like it's a 2D retro pixel/neon/minimalist ripoff of Asteroids (copyright Atari Inc 1978), but it's not. See, the developers couldn't work out how to replicate the SpaceWar! (1962) thrust/movement mechanic that Wozniak did such a good job of copying for Atari. So it's more of a 2D retro pixel/neon/minimalist top down shooter without any of the grace or challenge of Asteroids. Which is pretty lame, but here we are in the dredges of Steam. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The graphics here are some of the worst, laziest attempt at video game "art" I've ever seen. It's hard to suggest this game even has graphics. It's just untextured, basic pixel blocks and blobs, the kind that an infant child might be able to create in 5 minutes on MS Paint. It's clear the developer didn't even try to produce any real graphics for the game and just phoned it in. It's unclear why such a lazy approach was taken, whether it may be caused by lack of talent, budget, or motivation to do their job properly. It also doesn't matter... what matters is that this has resulted in a game with zero visual appeal for gamers. It's an immediate failure on that measure alone. 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 controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts. PC gamers will be insulted by the demand from the developer that a console peasant children's toy controller should be used, despite this being on PC. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're developing for, and must never, under any circumstances dictate to gamers how their games are to be experienced. 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 6 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 50,000 games for gamers to choose from (over 9,000 completely free titles), the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. NEON Ultra 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 game features a number of suspicious, likely fake positive reviews. The reviews all appear at almost exactly the same time, exactly the same time the game launched on Steam, all have a direct Steam purchase of the game, and all have very similar wording and writing style. This is highly unusual given the very low quality of the game and poor player counts. The "Positive" review score on this game should be taken with a large grain of salt. This might be done to deceive and scam gamers into paying for a bad product.