Seven Suns of Orion

Kind of a 5/10 currently, but understandably this feels like early development. Cons/things to look into to improve the rating: - Movement feels painful. I know it's emulating the movement system in star control 2, but it simply doesn't feel good, especially for a survivor-like. The lack of drag means you end up bouncing around the place way too much, especially when enemies are constantly pushing you and you can't do anything about it because you're "slower". Bigger ships shouldn't be moved around like that, instead I'm a pinball when I'm trying to collect xp/health/magnets and can't dodge projectiles. - XP being tied to gravity means it is very difficult to collect and discourages fast movement (even when that's necessary to survival in a survivorlike). Sometimes it will just orbit you for cycles and then whatever magnet upgrade you picked up runs out and it all goes flying away. Annoying. - It would be nice to have progression specific to different ships in addition to the universal upgrades which currently feel a little basic. They could have their own tech trees or meta progression type things. Defeating levels should also possibly unlock more things than just give you stars/coins, like certain locked weapons/ships/progression upgrades? Ship recolouring would be neat. More upgrades in game would also be neat, like self-repair/health regen, ramming damage, asteroid/environmental resistance, different weapon upgrades and stuff like that. - An enemy bestiary would be nice to have, especially for their damage and health. Currently I have to scrutinise my health and damage taken to see if I've taken enough armour upgrades. By the same margin, a weapon codex would also be good to have, to see weapon base stats, weapon combos, and what weapons are available to what ships. Doesn't have to be unlocked all at once, but would be super nice to have and it feels weird that it's missing. - The UI doesn't seem built for KBM/pc gaming. It flicks around whenever I click on an upgrade in a way it shouldn't, and could just be set out where you can see all the upgrades at once instead of having it be the current clunky screen scroll. Level select UI is also very small and blends into the background, and could stand to be bigger/more visible. The UI scale option doesn't really make this better, as the bigger stuff is just made bigger and small stuff stays small. - When you zoom out far enough in battle, every enemy except the boss seems to disappear visually? This happened consistently on level 3. Not sure if this is due to zoom or enemy count, but either way definitely something is up. Enemy detail as a setting shouldn't be making enemies invisible entirely so I'm not sure what's causing it. Overall, it's a neat prototype but currently doesn't feel the most fun to play for a survivor-like. Short round time and low price are positives though, and if development is continued it'll be great to see, but currently it's hard to recommend

Quite a nice game. The newtonian motion adds an interesting twist to the survivors formula, and the visual design is clear and detailed. I like the detail of the moving turrets on the ship, and the screen never gets overly cluttered. Health and Armour feel like the same upgrade, both basically increase the number of hits you can take before dying. I would suggest switching one of those for a shield mechanic, a smaller buffer that recharges faster, and maybe only protects against certain types of incoming damage. That would be more of a choice for the player. And please improve keyboard and mouse support. Show us a mouse cursor, and don't show us an on-screen keyboard...

Fast, fun, and well worth the price.

The game has a Star Control combat feel but combines that with Vampire Survivor aspect of needing to try to stay alive as things get harder. I really like the shorter play sessions of the levels (7 mins I think) Vs Vampire Survivors longer required runs. Finally beat a couple of the bosses which rewards you with a good amount of coin to making progress on upgrades.

I appreciate the fast rounds, easy to fire up in-between other tasks.

Only had time to play an hour so far, but this is a nice, quick shooter with a pinch of physics/momentum to make things interesting. Thus far, the second ship is my favorite, especially on the second mission, namely the asteroids one, as it feels like a souped up classic Asteroids arcade game crossed with vampire survivors. My only gripe is that the big asteroids don't split into smaller asteroids when you shoot them (because again, Asteroids!). The seven minute rounds are good for rewarding yourself with a nice bite-sized bit of gaming when finish annoying tasks/chores at home (or at work, why not?).

Fun little space vampire survivor- happy to see it expand off the ground and into a space theme!