Yargis - Space Melee

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This one is a close call, because this concept is extremely over-used at this point, but despite that I think the game is OK.

First of all, the game is extremely short, despite 1k players playing at the time I played, I could not find a game with anyone in it, and the story mode lasts about 1 and a half hours.

The graphics and look of this game are exactly like all the other million or so games like this, such as Gaia, Space Shooter, Beat Hazard, the list goes on and on.

The voice lines are ok, its pretty obvious the developer, and his friends/family where the voice actors, but its nice they put in the effort.

The plot only had 2 typos, and no errors, as someone who has a read a lot of books, I have had to lower my standards a LOT when it comes to indie game plots, this one was surprisingly good.

The levels where unbalanced but creative, you weren't just shooting things like in every other space game.

Again, theres a bit to this game that makes it unique, but 99% of it you can find in every other top down spaceship game.

Game's pretty bad, ngl. Game would've benefit greatly from having an actual decent story without spelling mistakes, and just cutting out the voice acting entirely. It's bad enough that it's better to not have it.

best games of year

im actually surprised that the game's mixed, as i genuinely did enjoy my time with it, and its always nice to actually see more games with a tyrian 2000/JnG weapon system where you can literally change your weapons between stages and armor and the like, mad respect to the devs for it!

Yargis - Space Melee is not an asset flip, it's a sincerely, if somewhat poorly made low poly sci-fi themed top down shooter (while the game does look like it's a ripoff of SpaceWar! from 1962, it doesn't feature advanced space/thruster physics, instead you can move fairly freely in 4 cardinal directions using WASD as the default keys). There's a number of missions, upgrades and quite a bit of depth plastered over a shallow game concept (this is no Star Control 2, by a long shot, and let's remember this is a paid product where Star Control 2 is open sourced and free).

Welcome features for gamers include 4K support and control customisability, and a few other tweaks, but not much. There's also 3D graphics instead of the usual lazy pixelcrap we expect to see at this lowest end of the Steam store.
Unfortunately no UI scaling, so text in the game is impossible to read if you have a modern gaming PC. Strike one. Let's go over the rest of the problems.

From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the 1990s. It's unclear why the developers weren't able to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets for the game, and also irrelevant... what matters is that this looks bad as a result of their decisions, a compromise PC gamers shouldn't have to put up with.

The controls and game handling are notably very floaty and imprecise. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing or polish done.

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. Yargis - Space Melee 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 for destroying 100 ships, but only around 4 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 very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this isn't consistent with the achievement stats, that show only 4 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 weren't even playing the game? Trading cards. Players 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 no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.

Yargis - Space Melee is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend.

say good reason for buy this?

Literally one of the worst games I have ever played . This is a python game made for a first year 101 gaming college course being sold as some sort of finished product on Steam. Hot Garbage. Do not buy.

This is a playable game with a little bit of challenge and complexity. But it's less than ideal. For some reason the game starts in an overworld where you can careen your ship into the same level over and over again if you don't want to challenge yourself. The level designs are very crude and could have stood some refinement over the years. I played up to a level that increases the difficulty so sharply that it would take days of grinding the lower levels to be able to pass.
Everybody talks about the voiceovers being "cringe", but the actual problem is that no effort was put into acting out the characters: if you listen to a video of the developers you realize they used their everyday voices for the entire script; so it's no wonder the tough space soldiers sound like nerdy programmers.
Overall, this game is an interesting example of a small team project that was probably made mostly for the fun of the experience, but I can't recommend it as a particularly engaging game for the players.

The dedicated server program stalls most of the time. According to Steam, the game kept running even through computer restarts, and apparently runs under a different alias in Task Manager, since all Yargis-related tasks were shut down, and was still unable to uninstall.

It's very ugly game with convoluted menus. For some reason you've got tutorial only after you're start a first mission, but you already moved and use controlls in lobby "space" in order to start it. Music remid you of something cheap or flash game. Maybe this game has only value if you wanna laught at atrocious voice acting because it's has a really funny-bad quality to it

it sucks

this should be in an arcade not on steam.

This game is playable, so ill give it that. The music is nice and so are the particle effects, but that's about it. The dialog in the "story" is just horrible and the game is voice acted.... BY JUST FOUR DIFFERENT NON-VOICE ACTORS! So the characters sound like they are in a cheesy high school play. I also think the HUD and menu screens are unappealing and bland. Not to mention the game is hideously overpriced. It also is just generally not fun. Like I understand that this indie game was made with love by a few collage students, but I still don't think this game is good enough to win me over.

Poor control and combat make this game unfun. It is clearly a homemade game. If only it controlled like Particle Mace or something, and if shooting seemed more refined, perhaps it could be ok. The only positives is that the dev seems committed to the game, and has clearly put some effort in it, including a campaign of sorts. I rather like the level selection by flying to it, but that's it. It is nothing like games similar to the screencaps & videos you see, but not in a way to differentiate. (1/5 stars, buy it for trading cards)

realy fun game but easy campaign

A really low budget rip off of Subspace/Continuum. The controls are awkward, the graphics are bad, the voice overs are so bad it's hilarious. The multiplayer is empty, even when the game is 90% off on Steam. Even at 90% off I don't recommend this.

This game is quite boring and feels dated, but without the magic of the classics. There is a rumor that one or more of the creators is suffering from what I have heard called "reverse telescoping microbenis syndrome" and it really shows in the gameplay.

Bought this hoping it'd be a traditional newtownian space shooter like Asteroids or Subspace/Continuum. It's more a twinstick style shooter. Single player sucks pretty hard. There's no real challenge. The game uses an RPG style inventory system and gives you money for doing missions but you can't buy anything meaningful for a very long time. The "story" is told through cutscenes full of cringeworthy voice acting and stock character portraits. Back to playing vanar.io I guess.

This game is nothing like their description. No one playing multiplayer. Controls are horrible. Feels like ice skating in space on a car hood.

Here is some gameplay.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MzOF6Gxk-uE