
Rick Henderson is an endless horizontal-scrolling shoot 'em up with infinite replayability, a true homage to 16-bit shooters wrapped in graphics we all loved. Twitch your fingers through five enemy factions and their bosses, upgrade your ship and try to survive through unpredictable space events.
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Languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Traditional Chinese
Engagement
Hours played at review time, across 30 reviews with recorded playtime.
Reviews
A good Steredenn ripoff, also not better than Steredenn, but feels different enough to get your hands on it. Pros: - Useful upgrades, and weapons - Good bosses, with visible, fair patterns - Visuals are Steredennish- good stuff - Pumping synthwave Cons: - No key binding even after full release... a big "go back to the shadows" shoutout to keyboard players like me. If any developer EVER really thinks, a shmup can be played with button x,y, z buttons... they clearly never seen a keyboard. - The shield system is useless. They lasts for a second, so i never really felt they help with anything - No hull repair, in any way. Not even in upgrade form, or score reward... u made mistakes, u will never comeback from it.
9/10 I feel I will be spending a lot of hours on this game in near future :)
Awesome side scrolling shooter resembling some of the retro Konami style games. Levels and swarms are random, and no two are the same. One of the best features are the Bosses which change their attacks between playthroughs (loops) so you have to keep adapting. Would like to see possible co-op or multiplayer modes in the future.
Great atmosphere and music, real old school 80s arcade space game feeling :)
A totally fun and beautiful looking 2D space shooter.
I don't feel as if this game should be sold on Steam. The game is almost a complete rip-off of 2015's Steredenn. The layout. The UI. The end-of-wave upgrade circle pixels. All stolen. Enemies that look like Steredenn enemies with a slight visual re-skin and have the same attacks as Steredenn enemies. Heck, even the font is stolen from Steredenn.
Not biggest fan of horizontal shooters, but i'm enjoying this one. Love the fact that i can choose heavier ship so i don't die in first 3 waves :)
Fun, intense and meticulously crafted.
good game
Great game, needs polishing. I was a kickstarter backer back in the day, and I've watched the game evolve in the past year. The game has a great 80's arcade shooter vibe, with some unique elements like having 3 weapon types at all times, and enemies vulnerable and resistant to each type. The biggest downside is that a lot of the features ended up on the cutting room floor, since it's basically a 1-person indie title. Overall it's fun, unpolished indie gem in a world of perpetually disappointing AAA games.
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