Promethium

Whoa. Nice indie shooter. The operative word here is succinct. The vertical and horizontal bounds of the play-field are limited and your ship is able to traverse both left and right. The background is the Promethium armada ships in which your objective is to blow up each ships shield generator. The operative component, of course not explained anywhere, is the pick-ups dropped on enemy kill, essentially currency and there lies the depth. There are a string of power-ups lining the bottom of the play field. For every pick-up the string advances one and hence you can choose to make a real-time purchase of the highlighted power-up. Some power-ups are one use, though some like the first icon speed have multiple levels. The buy button on the Xbox controller was A and you can use an invariable number of buttons to shoot. Enemy patterns at least through the first few levels are somewhat if not totally static though I didn't find this to be an issue. The rest of the package has a surprising polish, adorned by cell shaded graphics and good ambient sound, music and effects. The developers mention their inspiration, classic Commodore 64 arcade games and [url=https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197991582159/recommended/624680/]one user review[/url] mentioned that Promethium reminded them of a game called [url=https://www.c64-wiki.com/wiki/Uridium]Uridium[/url] on the Commodore 64. I've also noticed that the developer has raised a good chunk of change for [url=https://twitter.com/GamesAid]@GamesAid[/url]. Sweet! On sale the game sells for under a dollar and $2.99 at full retail price. An excellent value at full retail. You'll find yourself trying to master the gameplay, power-ups and levels. Promethium is quite the challenge though and advertises the difficulty as a selling point. I've found myself coming back for more. I wouldn't put Promethium in league with the great SEGA side scrollers like Thunderforce III or Gaiares but the game is based on the genre before such masterpieces. A++.

Fun shoot um up, simple but tough, one hit kills you (unless you save up and buy a shield). Took me a few goes to figure the power ups out. Enemies drop blue canisters, when collected the power up items are selected. If you collect 4 canisters then item four is selected and so on, you can purchase the current item by pressing A. It is possible to speed run through the level or take your time killing all of the enemies and getting as many power ups as possible. Some power ups can be upgraded multiply times. To complete the level you stay hovered over an area while a progress bar fills up. ** Play time is about 3-4 hours, it says "21.5 hrs on record" but I had the game paused over night :D **

Uridium was one of the greatest C64 games ever written and obviously Byron feels the same as he's created this tribute to it. This game is seriously hard, I'm not joking. But the original Uridium was also tough as nails so I totally get why. You can play this beast with keys but you've got to be using a controller to stand any chance of progression. Playing Promethium I've come to realise that I'm really now too old for arcade games like this - the reactions are too slow. But that doesn't stop me from having a go anyway as this game is fantastic fun to play. I know I got it for free but I'd have paid out in a heartbeat at the price it's selling for. If you love old style ship destroying, scrolling shooters then you can't go wrong picking this game up. It's great fun.

This is a cracking shooter that takes me back to playing games like Uridium on the Commodore 64. I am not going to lie - this is a hard game, hard like games were when I was a kid 25 years ago. There is no easy route to being good, you just have to practice and learn the patterns and for me, that is what makes this so great. It is a love letter to early 90's shooters. It feels like I remember those games feeling and it looks like I wish they looked. Great stuff and an absolute bargain!

GTX 1060 (6GB) Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLNiK9aBKM My Thoughts: One of my 1st ever computers was the C64 and one of my favourite 'all time' games was 'Uridium' Therefore I could not resist this. However, I would have liked to see a lot more variety in enemies, random attack waves, and formations. I have a lot of fond memories and hours invested in 'Uridium' and sadly this felt lacking in a lot of areas. I was hoping and expecting a lot deeper gameplay if I'm honest. This might be a poor mans clone but for the price I can't complain. Hopefully 'Promethium 2' will be more like the original 'Uridium' I was looking for. Game Details: Inspired by classic Commodore 64 and arcade games, Promethium is a hard-as-nails retro inspired side-scrolling shoot-em-up that takes place over numerous levels that get harder and harder. If you’re after a nice calm casual game this isn’t it!

Uridium has never been so much tedium.

It's old-skool difficult, at least with keys which is what I played it with.

Great little Uridium style shooter. Enjoying myself, and at the price point it's hard not to recommend. I really love the look of the giant ships, pew pew.

Ненужная сложность, простая графика, сюжет для галочки, одна музыка, геймплей не интересный, сама игра не доставляет удовольствия.

Joguinho bem interessante e desafiador. Tinha ele pelas cartinhas e nunca tinha jogado, é um game de nave; com diferenciais que vamos lidando com objetos do cenário e podendo virar rapidamente. Tem robos para matarmos e darmos tiro, mas praticamente tudo pode ser mortal; o cenário é um grande inimigo. O jogo é bem interessante e tem uma média de jogatina boa para quem curte fazer 100%, fui até a quarta fase e acabei cansando de jogar; porém ele é fluído e acontece tudo rápido.