Transcripted

It's not a bad idea but the weak graphics do not make the game that compelling. Plus, why is there such an elaborate and tedious story full of mumbo-jumbo, that totally dominates proceedings, when I just wanna shoot things!?

A nice match 3 puzzle with a good story, good voices and an enjoyable music. The difficulty is sometimes excessive to get some achievements.

I thoroughly enjoyed this. Easy to look at and I loved the gameplay.

Awesome music, simple but addictive game play. Found myself losing hours playing this fantastic game.

Match 3 + Geometry Wars + creepy, yet calming music + great visuals = strangely addicting.

A fantastic mix of Zuma-style match 3 and twin-stick shooter action with an interesting story to boot! Some of the levels are quite challenging, but there are plenty of power-ups and upgrades to unlock that'll help you along the way. Highly recommended!

Recieved this game in a humble bundle many years ago. The concept was so intriguing and the soundtrack compeling, I played it through non-stop until the end(approx 12 hours). Then given the potential continuation of the story, went searching for the developer to see what was next and learned about the criminal antics of their publisher Topware and at the time it sadly appeared that the developer would shortly be out of buisness. I have boycotted that publisher since, and am now happily suprised to be able to buy another copy on Steam from the people who actually deserve my money. Put up an OST for this game and I'll buy that too.

Well, I'm just publishing it just to add my recomendation. For now I can say that's a great game and well done.

I'll update this at some point with a more detailed and better worded recomendation. Give it a try.

Transcripted. Launched in 2012, stuck on a limbo for 4 years now back again to the store shelves.

Question: did the game age well?

I'd say yes.

Transcripted is a:

- single player
- twin stick shooter
- puzzle game (very similar to Zuma and Luxor)

That also features:

- an amazing soundtrack that becomes better the more you play the game
- actual plot and voice acting
- varied levels of difficulty: for both the puzzle and shooter part of the game
- an upgrade system with unlocks relevant to the progression of the story

I have played this back in 2012 and once more today in 2016 and the game still feels good, both with a gamepad and mouse and keyboard controls. Like any twin stick shooter it has a decent enemy variety to keep you on your toes and the puzzle part feels extremely satisfying instead of feeling like a chore. Mind you, I am a fan of games that mix both so its possible that my bias is showing.

Nevertheless, a worthy entry on the genre. Not a perfect game by all means, but very well made and the effort put into the game really shows. For the price you are looking at about 3 or 4 hours of fun gameplay on the normal difficulty at the very least if you are decent at this kind of game.

A solid, satisfying combination of twin-stick shooter and match-3 puzzle gameplay, Transcripted is definitiely worth a try for fans of both genres.

I beat this game years back only to recently find out it had been removed altogether from steam. For any of you that haven't gotten the chance yet, treat yourself and buy this game!

This game was a very pleasant surprise, it combines prefectly the mechanics from color matching game like Zuma with a bullet hell game.
From a technical standpoint the game has very polished graphics and from a gameplay standpoint the game remains interesting as you progress by introducing new elements such as new enemies, new rules, boss battles and also there is a neat upgrade system.
You should download the demo and give it a go.

Transcripted was taken off Steam for three years as a result of Alkemi terminating their publishing agreement with their scummy publisher and engaging in a prolonged legal battle over the rights (and the profits) to the game. I played and quite enjoyed this game before it got taken down, and now that it's back on Steam, I feel somewhat obliged to put in a good word for it after all these guys have been through.

This is a genre mashup between twin-stick bullet hell and "Zuma"-style match-3, and it actually works. I love it when a mashup actually works like this. Add in some creepy organic visuals (think of Metroid Prime’s title screen), a surprisingly great soundtrack, and surprisingly good voice acting, and you’ve got one solid, decent game here.

You play as a microscopic probe performing tests on plasma samples that are swarming with alien cells. The cells will attack you like an immune system. Shooting at them will sometimes yield colored blocks, which you can pick up and fire into the level’s unusually colorful DNA chain. Score enough clears on the DNA chain, and you win the level. Take too long, and you’ll likely get swarmed by alien organisms and die. Interestingly, when holding a cube, the alien cells believe you are one of them, and you will become temporarily invulnerable as you are given a few seconds’ reprieve from the bullet hell madness to aim your shot.

The game features a ridiculously deep upgrade system. Using EXP you earn, you can upgrade a few dozen aspects of your probe, like shot power, speed while holding a cube, speed at which you shoot cubes, health and energy capacity, energy recharge rate, extra weapons – all kinds of stuff. And the real cool part is that you can go back to previous levels anytime you want to complete level objectives you might have missed, which can give very high EXP bonuses. And if going back to unlock more upgrades isn’t enough to relieve the difficulty, the game is also thoughtful enough to feature two separate difficulty toggles, one for the match-3 aspect and one for the shooter aspect.

If I had to take off points for anything, it would have to be for the way some stylistic aspects of this game don’t seem to add up. The idea is that the game is taking place underneath a microscope, so it makes some sense that the gameplay would feel surreal; movement feels a bit strange and things like explosion sound effects are believably muffled by the plasma. However, this doesn’t excuse the lack of good tactile feedback when taking damage – you only get a barely-audible sound effect when colliding with an enemy, which you might not even notice as your health drains away. And despite the fact that enemy deaths and taking damage are sorely missing proper SFX, the game sees fit to throw in some silly sounds that nearly break suspension of disbelief, such as a “pew pew pew” when some cells fire at you, a “beep” sound when hitting switches, or the sound of shattering glass when you clear matches in the DNA chain.

Overall, I give the game a 7.5 / 10 for great visuals, great music, suitable difficulty options, and for a successful presentation of a novel idea. I also found it a great game for achievement hunting, providing a nice spaced-out variety of challenging objectives, some of which might make you rage for a dozen tries or so, but are very doable with skill and practice. I wouldn’t call it one of my favorite games, but it definitely deserves to be back on Steam, and I’m very happy that Alkemi might finally get to see some long-overdue appreciation for their work.

This game is like if Bejeweled fucked and cummed inside of geomotry wars...Bejeweled and Geomotry wars raised this prodigy child. On its eighteenth birthday it was brutally raped and impregnated by a schizoid who couldnt decide if he was a Civ5 technology tree or the magic school bus journeying through the human body at a cellular level. This bastard child conceived through legitamatish rape was known as Transcipted, and he was grand and received 9.5 out of 10 review score.

I got it on one of the daily deals, but its totally worth full price. It only took me about 5 hours to beat, but I've only unlocked 6/35 achievements and my scores on some of the levels leave a lot to be desired. The difficulty curve is pretty good, and the later levels demand your full attention. You may die, but it's usually your own fault for not keeping track of the shenanigans on screen. A great experience and I'll be playing for a while to improve my scores and get those delicious, delicious achievements.

Transcripted - an amazing symbiosis Zuma and Scrolling Shooter. Destroy one another virus-infected cells (sphere) and sort by color glowing blocks. Amazing primarily because the image. Screenshots did not pass effect, but believe me, the game looks fantastic: a riot of colors, glowing "jellyfish" (infected tissue), gently fluttering in weightlessness, power beams, the magic chamber music, slowly gaining momentum. The perfect blend!

I was lucky to see this gem on sale because basically nobody has ever heard of it. This was immediately fun and well worth the $2.50 I paid for it on sale, and is well worth the $10 even. It's like a combination of Bejeweled and a space shooter and is a real blast and a lot of fun to play. The farther I play into it the more it keeps impressing me. The fun comes from the nicely balanced tough challenge and how huge the changes are from level to level, while never being unreasonably difficult. This game is really well made and thought out, easily a 8/10.

If you like twin-stick shooters like I do, you will love this game. It starts off easy, but introduces new mechanics rather quickly, which gets pretty frantic (but not overwhelming). The controls are tight (360 controller or MotionInJoy of COURSE), graphics are bright and colorful, and the sound/music/voices are very well done.

The ship starts off really weak, but you earn credits throughout the levels and as awards at the end of each level, which you can use to upgrade your "probe" however you feel. Some upgrades are fairly useless, however.

Preview shows what type of game it is, so if it looks interesting to you, pick it up. The game mechanics are rock-solid.

Nice paint job in the well known Zuma formula, but for your own sanity IGNORE EVERY MID-STAGE BRIEFING. Everything is too rambly and overexplained and the humor is forced and it all stands in the way of the fun of playing the actual game.

Very pleasantly surprised by this. Why is it that games from 3-person teams so often surpass blockbuster releases when it comes to writing and voice acting?