Разработчик: Elder Games
Описание
Your only weapon is your ship: The Phase Shifter has been outfitted with a one-of-a-kind jump drive that lets you warp out of tough situations at will, a technique which will challenge you of to your limits when surviving the masses of enemies coming at you from all sides in this true bullet hell.
In good old shmup fashion you will face uncountable formations of enemies that'll try to stop you. Be clever and use the Phase Shifter's jump drive to your advantage or you will get shot.
STORY
Shortly after mankind left the solar system to colonize new worlds, we had to face a powerful alien race. The war has passed, the losses were devastating and the enemy has defeated us. As the final strike, they are about to destroy the sun that gives life to the system that we now call home.
Chaos erupted, and pirate raiders are scavenging fellow human colonies on the outer rim. Their only goal is to collect enough resources to be able to leave the solar system.
FEATURES
• Unique 'shifting' mechanic to bring a completely new level of depth into a shmup
• 18 tough missions
• 8 beautiful environments
• Over 40 enemy types encountered throughout the game
• Upgrade your ship
• 4 controllable ships: One main ship and three alien ships. Control all-powerful alien vessels that decimate allied forces with ease.
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
- Processor: 2Ghz single core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600 GT / ATI 2600 Pro
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
- OS *: Windows Vista / 7 / 8 / 10
- Processor: 2Ghz dual core
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 275 / ATI Radeon 4770 (or higher)
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Mac
- OS: Mac OSX 10.7
- Processor: 2Ghz single core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600 GT / ATI 2600 Pro
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
- OS: Mac OSX 10.7 or newer
- Processor: 2Ghz dual core
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 275 / ATI Radeon 4770 (or higher)
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Linux
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04
- Processor: 2Ghz single core
- Memory: 2 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce 8600 GT / ATI 2600 Pro
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
- OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or newer
- Processor: 2Ghz dual core
- Memory: 3 GB RAM
- Graphics: nVidia GeForce GTX 275 / ATI Radeon 4770 (or higher)
- Storage: 4 GB available space
- Sound Card: Any
Отзывы пользователей
Solar Shifter EX is yet another of literally hundreds of retro arcade bullet hell/shoot 'em ups infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one has almost passable graphics which is nice to see, and there's a shifting mechanism that doesn't add all that much to the game.
This is an old and dead genre, and while some professional production quality went into making this, it still ends up having less than average quality gameplay, with some rather janky collisions and what ultimately is a less than enjoyable look and feel. It's also 9 years old, and while Unity does give it 4K support, it's not really enough. I'm not even sure this is a "maybe".
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers, left handed gamers or gamers using AZERTY or other international keyboard layouts.
PC gamers will furthermore be insulted by the presence of console peasant children's toy controller prompts, despite this being on PC. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're developing for.
This looks a lot like it was designed for consoles, but released on Steam instead by mistake. While this is on PC, it has all the hallmarks and deficiencies of a console game, from the clunkier than needed control scheme to the less than cutting edge graphics. There's 10's of thousands of PC games on Steam, and PC gamers deserve only the best. This might not appeal to many gamers due to the lack of PC-centric design. It's unclear why this never made it to the video game console appliances it seems to have been designed for.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
You don't have to take my word about how bad the game is, we can measure the interest in a game by how much people bothered to play it. Solar Shifter EX has achievements, and they show us a very clear picture that the game absolutely failed to capture any interest from gamers. The most commonly and easily attained achievement is "Welcome to Bullet Hell!", starting the game, trivial to achieve, but less than 10 percent of players bothered to get that far before uninstalling the game. That's a tiny, tiny proportion of gamers who even bothered with this. Ouch.
Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a modest spike in player counts for the game. But this only happened once, and isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show less than 10 percent of players bothered playing the game for any reasonable amount of time. How is it possible for this game to have so many concurrent players who didn't bother engaging with this game? Trading cards. People will use card idling software to collect the cards and sell them, but this won't trigger any achievements in-game.
That tells us people only really bought this game for trading cards, and that's a damning indictment of the woeful quality. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with little merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Solar Shifter EX has the almost unethical price of around $5 USD, it's not worth it given the defects and shortcomings with the product, especially considering the sheer number of completely free, much higher quality games on Steam.
For comparison, the $5 asking price for this game could get you games like "Don't Starve Together", "This War of Mine" or "Battlefield V". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Elder Games |
| Платформы | Windows, Mac, Linux |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 20.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 40% положительных (20) |