Saccharine

A short, but sweet little Christmas themed boomer shooter with colorful presentation! ^^

This is a pretty fun boomer shooter. It's not too long, 5 levels plus a 6th one that's just a massive area for the final boss. The gameplay is pretty expected for a boomer shooter, but the art direction is where this game really shines for me. The look of the enemies, levels, and weapons all carry a lot of charm and is the main reason I did two playthroughs before posting a review. The story is pretty lite, but it's still nice, serving as a nice reasoning for the whole game. I played through once on normal and again on hard. I died a few times on hard, none of which were because of the game being unfair and were all on me. Honestly, I can't think of any Christmas boomer shooters and this was a true gem. If you like these types of games, I highly recommend picking it up if you get the chance

A throwback to Christmas Specials and 90s/2000s Flash Games combined, Saccharine has the greatest controls, mechanics, and a unique short storyline complete with six-packaged levels and creative eight festive weapons.

Pretty good Hour game, good if you need some Holiday fun!

Im so glad to randomly stumble upon this Silly game its so lovely short altough a bit too easy (epic gamer alert) on the hardest difficulty but really levels are nice the characters and voicelines are nice and cheesy (besides the plush waow ok accidentally pressed e on it and got that, its fine just unexpected) i love the artstyle its scrunkly dont know how else to call it rocket launcher felt good i like that oh oh The Cute cop mouse is THE HARDEST ENEMY IN THIS DAMN GAME HE DOES SO MUCH DAMAGE OH MY GOD he isnt an issue but you could replace him even with the end boss (i loved the second stage where she appeared to play like the player does) and it would still be easier than THE RAT BASTARD (altough really cute) Interestingly enough enemies do have factions or something like that they even attack each other thats so cool. thank you meow meow

Just a short and sweet Christmas shooter. Would recommend for being a good Christmas game. Could do with a no blood option purely for presentation

I have mixed feelings about this game and although it is not terrible, I decided to flip the thumb down here, because I think that it's current rating (18 out of 18 reviews = 100% positive at this time) is simply not justified for what it offers -- even at that low price point -- and because one thing annoyed me in particular. On the positive side, the game does bring back some good old early-90's vibes with a fairly nice midi soundtrack and the X-mas setting is a nice change from the usual demon/cyborg/zombie shooters out there. The art design, sound effects and voice overs are comicly bad in the sense of a B/C/D-move, but this is intentional and so I can book this as "artists freedom" and I am fine with that. The selection of weapons is solid, but unspectacular and I have mostly used the shotgun throughout most of the game, as most of the other weapons somehow felt less balanced or "unhandy" to use for the lack of a better word. The level design is pretty bare-bones in the sense that there is very little decoration scattered around to make the levels feel lively (kind of like the first two Doom games) and so the levels have a sterile feel to them even though they are quite colorful, which is a pretty strong contrast to many modern good "boomer shooter" games like Ion Fury or Selaco, which make a really good job of making the levels feel alive with tons of decoration. The main reason why I didn't enjoy this game and what ultimately led me to the down-vote is that the designers decided to stray away from the "boomer shooter" path in the core component, namely the enemy design and, more specifically, the enemy movement: The enemies in this game move in an unpredictable zig-zag pattern at fairly high speed as they move towards the player, which turns every single enemy encounter into a "guess-in-which-direction-the-enemy-moves-next" game that can only be solved in a spray'n'pray combat style, which is just infuriatingly annoying -- and I am not trying to say that the combat is difficult or frustrating, because it is not, but it is just simply annoying. The combat in boomer shooters is meant to be fun and potentially challenging, not annoying. Finally, let it be said that you can easily beat this game in 1 hour and the final boss fight is pretty underwhelming and almost trivial -- "almost" because the boss also moves in a zig-zag pattern...