Void Invaders

One of the most beautiful retro games I've ever played, and quite a challenging one too!

Not Recommended

I swear I saw someone compare this game to Space Invaders Frenzy in their Steam Review. They aren't wrong. While this is nowhere near my favourite shmup, it is still fun overall. I especially like endless mode and wave mode. As far as the games in the Interstellar Insanity Bundle go, this is my second favourite (topped only by Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition). Come to think of it, it could very well be my favourite even. For $3.29 Canadian, you could do worse.

EDIT:

I forgot to mention the screen wobble. If you find it nauseating at all; open up the settings, go to the screen settings and you can turn off the screen wobble from there.

unavoidable projectiles and an unfair amount of enemies on the screen at one time is a recipe for disaster in shoot em' up games
infuriatingly unfair game

Очередная инди-поделка из серии "а что если взять старую классику и переделать во что-то современное с крутыми яркими эффектами, свистелками и перделками". Вот только баланс и постепенное увеличение сложности не завезли. В итоге, получаем нечто среднее между хардкорным Shoot`em up и простенькой игрой на один-два вечера чтобы собрать ачивки. До 20 уровня будете играть на расслабоне, как будто это что-то незначительное, и игра играет сама собой. Затем начинаются сложные уровни, где у вас не будет места для маневров, а противники, сплошные "боссы" - будут вас таранить и сносить hp за секунды.
Основное оружие бесполезное и очень слабое, поэтому вся игра превращается в ожидание выпадения power-up. От этого складывается впечатление что ты не играешь в игру, а должен угадать задумку автора по тому как проходить тот или иной уровень
В итоге, вы захотите побыстрее пройти эту игру и больше к ней не возвращаться...
Впрочем, попробовать определенно стоит. вначале игра, скорее всего, доставит определенное удовольствие, хотя бы яркими цветами. Но очень скоро эти яркие вспышки могут начать утомлять - не стоит засиживаться за этой игрой длительное время, потому что яркие вспышки на экране могут реально утомлять глаза. Особенно тяжелой для восприятия игра становится в Endless режиме, где вы должны продержаться как можно дольше - экран превращается в постоянно засвеченный от ярких цветных вспышек, и вместо того чтобы целиться на установление рекорда, вы захотите чтобы это все закончилось как можно скорее, все равно играть невозможно, потому что непонятно что происходит на экране. В эту игру вообще играешь по принципу - запустил, и водишь стрелками влево-вправо в надежде что пройдешь этот уровень. Ощущение такое, что разработчики выкрутили на максимум ручку с надписью "яркие вспышки" и сказал "и так сойдет!". Фанатам игры "Beat Hazard" может зайти, но даже в той игре все было как-то менее "агрессивно" по отношению к вашим глазам.
В эту игру буквально "больно играть", больно вашим глазам. Большую часть времени игры в "Edless mode" я просто отворачивался от экрана, все равно там ничего не понятно что происходит - ваша задача постоянно подбирать "power up" усиления, чтобы быть хоть сколько нибудь способным уничтожать противников, и просто хаотично нажимать стрелки в стороны. Это сложно назвать игрой и контролем за процессом игры. После получения достижений за "Endles mode" и "Wave mode", которые, к слову, получить несложно и вполне можно получить даже с первого раза - я больше никогда не вернусь к этим режимам, и, почти уверен, к этой игре в целом...

3\5

This is a really simple yet fun shoot em up.

I have no issue with the flashing lights but I COULD NOT STAND the shaking screen. Fortunately, you can turn that down or off completely. You can also enable auto-fire.

8 / 10

What a fun game! Nicely done! Lots of great sounds, music and graphics. Great controller support. Great customizations of options. A Global Leaderboard. Great replay Value. I am diggin this one !

This is a great little game, combining the best of Space Invaders, Galaga, a touch of Asteroids and even more recent bullet hell games. There are 3 main modes - might be best to limit time playing limitless if one is epileptic - but the learning curve is just right, the tension ramps up as the boss fights escalates, there's a kicking soundtrack which keeps things feeling fresh by mixing it up between levels and modes, and the use of colour is very good: too many games throw chaos at the screen too soon, which this doesn't fall into the trap of doing. Recommended!

Fantastic; but I think my Boss in level 15 is broken. It seems to take endless bullets; where on youtube I've seen it take WAY WAY less. EDIT: The new Beta version seems to fix this boss; and also the menu not working when Paused. Get it by clicking the Settings gear of the game's steam library page; and then Properties; Betas; and then select "beta - Branch for Testing"

Input bugs that break the menu. Once you're in a game you can't exit because it holds your selection at the top menu entry. Developer seems to have abandoned it, they aren't addressing bugs in the forum.

This game is an offense to the original Space Invaders and Galaga.
Playing it was a total waste of time, gameplay is really boring, your shot has nearly zero power and you have to hit oscillating enemies that are also "bullet sponges".
The old arcade games were all about precision aiming and great timing. This game instead is completely the opposite, especially because you start with a spraying fire and it's anyway very difficult to aim at your target.
Totally not recommended even when it is priced few cents.

Void Invaders is a really fun take on Space Invaders. It is very flashy and bullets will be flying everywhere. This is definitely not for anyone with a sensitivity to light because this game flashes a lot. I had a blast playing it though and would recommend it to anyone who likes Space Invaders or shmups.

Colorful, has cool music (at least the first 300 times it loops). The mechanic is novel, but it's a little annoying how bosses (every 5 levels) frequently require several hundred thousand hits to kill, with absolutely no indication what progress if any is being made against the boss' health. A couple of them involve simply flying in a circle pattern following the boss' circle pattern, avoiding his one single shot pattern every few seconds, for upwards of 10 minutes. Doing the literally exact same 6 second pattern over and over and over and over. But those parts are interspersed with good clean shooter fun. Until you get to level 22.
Why make more than 22 levels if the 22nd level is dozens of enemies that are faster than you and beeline staight for you all at once, each taking several thousand hits to kill, but any of them kill you in 3 hits? Easy to make to that point, literally impossible to make it past that point. Was pretty fun up until that, tho. I give it a solid 4/10. Worth $2 but I wouldn't pay more than that.

Firstly SEIZURE WARNING

Good now that I've cleared that up just get this game.

If you like arcade, bullet hell, flashy, simple fun with a great sound track (which comes free with the game btw), then get this game.

This game is so cheap and can be R5 on special (that can be made back by selling the trading cards). It's just awesome and really deserves a lot more recognition. I played this game for about 6 hours and I will still play a lot more.

Do your self a favour, get this game and thank me later.

A seizure-tastic Shmup! Graphic style is strongly reminiscent of the earlier BIT.TRIP games. It also has a great soundtrack if you’re into chipstep – and it’s included as a free DLC with the game!

When Void Invaders first came out, it was more of a Shmup version of Clicker Heroes, making you play through the same set of levels over and over again with increasing difficulty and forcing you to grind for EXP on previous levels whenever the difficulty got too high. Over a year after the game’s release, there came a few new patches which completely overhauled the game progression. With the new version, the upgrade system is still there, but you only have to play through the 30 levels once. The difficulty ramps up quickly, forcing you to grind to max level if you hope to have a chance of reaching the end.

The game’s difficulty is pretty silly – it’s about 50% dodging skills, 50% spray-n-pray. The game takes refuge in its ridiculousness: many levels have huge waves of undodgable bullets. Many levels will give you bombastic powerups which will fill the screen with colorful explosions so you literally can’t see anything for entire seconds at a time. Many levels will troll you with hilariously huge enemy patterns. And to be fair, I feel that the game pulls off the crazy style well. The action is wild and death isn’t too punishing. It works.

Aside from the main game mode, Void Invaders offers a few absolutely awful bonus modes:

“Endless mode” throws a constant mess of random, unsynchronized enemies and powerups at you, and seems fine-tuned to smash you to death with extreme prejudice EVERY TIME just moments before you would be awarded the achievement. (Healing is impossible, and you seem to take more damage from collisions the longer you survive – so the final difficulty spike will usually kill you in seconds regardless of how much HP you’ve saved.)

“Wave mode” throws synchronized groups of enemies at you, but it’s skull-crushingly boring, and random to boot – the enemy hoard is either going to fall straight down on you faster than you can dodge, or decide to move slowly enough to let you kill them. High scores are dependent on getting a random HP refill which may or may not show up.

Finally, “Hardcore mode” makes you play through 10 unique levels on a single life. It’s quite boring and easy until the end of level 9, which throws a (practically) one-hit KO enemy at you near the end of the level, prone to render the last ten minutes of gameplay wasted.

I give Void Invaders a 5.5 / 10. Recommended if you like the BIT.TRIP aesthetic and aren’t prone to seizures. It’s silly, colorful, addictive, and has got some great music. And it’s cheap!

But if you’re an achievement hunter looking for a cheap and easy 100%, I’d recommend leaving this one be. For me personally, the headache caused by the bonus modes has ruined any fun the rest of the game may have provided.

Void Invaders is short and sweet and well worth the price. There are 30 levels to get through, with bosses spaced out periodically as you progress. Gameplay is fast-paced and the enemies are relentless. Power-ups make things infinitely easier, but they're often short-lived and are placed strategically throughout the levels, so you have to use them wisely.

There's both keyboard and full controller support, I tried each and definitely preferred using my controller, the controls are very responsive and maneuverability felt much more natural and smooth. To each his own, though.

Achievements are a bit buggy but easy enough to fix (I had to disable Steam Overlay and in some cases restart my game).
There is an epilepsy warning at the beginning of the game and Endless Mode is particularly guilty of ridiculously bright flashing explosions and colors, so that's something to look out for (the regular levels and Wave Mode weren't as bad with this, I don't think).

Always enjoyed games like Space Invaders, Galaga, etc. and this one took those inspirations and did its own thing and was very easy to enjoy. It's colorful and upbeat and a decent challenge, not too easy yet not terribly frustrating, either. Definitely worth checking out!

Pure arcade madness with modern music and explosions.
Kill enemies, grap powerup, kill boss. 22th level is too hard, 24th is twice harder, but still possible. Everyting in between is easy as pie.
The game lacks widescreen option.

Maybe one of the most fun indie games i've ever had, with its kickass music and flashes which makes my brain melt! My favourite mode is endless mode. Thank you VoidDev!

Hey Kids, do you know what time it is! No, well then it must be review o'clock!

• Are you feeling some nostalgia for Space Invaders?
  
• Haven't had an acid flashback in awhile?
  
[*] Want a cheap test to see if your epileptic?

If you answered yes to any of these questions, step right up, and queue your cart!

Wow!
I must say that i have never expected to enjoy a Space Invaders clone as much as this.
So, starting the game, you are confronted with a settings menu that contains everything you need and some excellent music (soundtrack is included when you buy the main game) prematurely filling you with adrenaline that you will need later on. Then there's the selection between gamemodes being:

• Level Mode: Play through 30 different levels with a slight level of passive experience-based progression between levels. (data is autosaved)
  
• Endless Mode: Mow your way through a procedurally generated neverending (hence the name) stream of enemies in the hopes of beating your high score.
  
[*]Wave Mode: The same as Endless Mode, but in a rotation of waves (duh) that are all manually designed.

Jumping into it i admit that i saw nothing but a weak space ship in a take on the classic coin-eating Space Invaders, but it didn't differ from the original enough to keep me interested. That was until it started borrowing some of Galaga's complexity, and classic shmup elements and pacing from the bullet hells such as CRIMZON CLOVER. And that is basically what this is, classic arcade Space Invaders/Galaga with shmup elements thrown into it.
But somehow, Void Invaders succeeds in not feeling like another one of these unoriginal ripoffs as instead of blending different existing games together, it does that and adds more to it. They added a lot of new enemies and bosses with original patterns and also new shmup-like temporary upgrade pick ups with not only "more bullets in a wider range", but besides that also a handful of unique upgrades that cause different playstyles and pacing, much like Bit Blaster XL.
What also differs Void Invaders from other Space Invaders clones is that the general amount of shit happening on the screen is not inserted merely for the sake of eyerape. It actually adds to the aesthetic of the game. The way the particles are thrown on the screen is what many refer to as "artistically cohesive" in the sense that all of the explosion effects, the background and the unique screen tilt while moving actually fit together quite nicely. I'd say Void Invaders should switch places in reputation with Bit Blaster XL.

Don't see stuff that should be here or vice versa? I'm open to constructive criticism.

I dig this game. The dev did a good job capturing a retro feel. I not only was reminded of Space Invaders & Galaga, at times it felt like a little Millipede & Megamania. Only gripe is that is does not work in steam beta, had to simply switch back to current steam which took less than 5 min.

Void Invaders is an retro-arcade like experience that plays similar to Space Invaders and Galaga. You face off against a horde of aliens with your… um… own alien? Yeah, you also control an alien – I don’t know, maybe he turned rebel or something. Whatever.

Anyway, that’s pretty much all there is to it. There’s aliens, alien bosses, powerups, as well as a few modes to keep you occupied. It’s not too difficult to complete the game (in level mode at least); which is kind of refreshing actually, since most shoot ‘em ups are utterly manic in the difficulty department. Definitely recommended for the casual gamer at least.

Overall, Void Invaders is more of a pleasant experience than it is a super hardcore shoot em up extravaganza. It won’t last too long, but there’s enough there to keep you entertained for a while.

Overall 70/100.

There are not enough accolades that I could ever try to give this game.

Look...I know you'll hear a lot of people calling this a mix between space invaders and galaga...and,I suppose I can see it,galaga wise, with the well evolved power up system...but,to me...and I don't think there are any space invaders influence discrepancies...and bonus on them for using my favorite space invader as their Mario....but I see,hear,and feel centipede as the rightful mate of space invaders in all of this.

Let me just say that my love for this game is based upon the endless mode.
The wave mode is wonderful...but simply not as gripping...although the boss battles are epic.

While you may not dedicate your life to this game,
it will turn you out every time that you come calling.
It will leave you breathless...
and you will feel your heart begin to beat again as the alien mushroom clouds and explosions subside...
and you see your own mushroom cloud...
the air returns to your lungs...

This game is intense.

9.11.15.


Ok.so I have dedicated more time to the wave mode.

I now find it equal to endless.

You would miss out quite a few interesting characters
by not embracing it.




To the Devs:

All of the bright explosions...especially when the screen is full and the aliens are dying like flies in a fire...

is like Jedi mode for me...relaxing amidst a sea of chaos.
Just feeling where I am.

And...the screen shift...
I never really noticed it until I saw someone mention it in a review.

Thank you for your obvious aches and pains of love that delivered this work of art.

I look forward to more from you.