A generic shooter where you fight against gravity in a rocket ship to survive an onslaught of enemy drones. The “hacker” aesthetic is barely relevant, except for the weird little text prompt startup. It’s competently put together, except for the weird glitch that shrunk the window to 400 pixels wide, which is frustrating when considering that this rudimentary game doesn’t have a windowed mode.
I was sort of enjoying the medal competition, but aside from getting personal bests in the survival levels and high score mode, there isn’t really much to do apart from grinding ship parts to max out your capabilities and complete the achievements. There are ten levels of parts, and the most expensive pulls still have level THREES in their rotation. You can upgrade by combining duplicate parts, but they require a special currency that also has to be grinded. I’ve had worse grinding experiences, but I played hours longer than I needed going for completion.
Movement works, but the momentum and gravity mechanics are so transparently basic. The high score mode mixes things up with random modifiers to the controls and physics, but they aren’t very exciting in of themselves, they just force you to adjust your routine. The screen shakes and pixelates when you get damaged to make your mistakes more punishing than they deserve to be.
Overall, I’d say that this isn’t a bad game for a dev to start out with, but not a game worth paying money for.
