Разработчик: Ripknot Systems
Описание
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About the Game
Grav Blazer is an arcade space shooter with a focus on fast paced action. Players will experience procedurally generated levels with increasing difficulty. To beat a sector all space bases need to be defeated. Each base will constantly construct enemy ships to defend themselves and the ship type and strength is determined by what sector you are in. Skill based firing mechanics, rotational controlled power attacks, increasing level difficulty, and endless procedurally generated levels are some of the features players will experience.Special Features:
*Procedurally generated levels
*Rotational controlled, skill based firing mechanics
*Endless levels with increasing difficulty
*Rotational controlled, skill based special attacks
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Win 7 +
- Processor: 2.4ghz i5 +
- Memory: 1 GB RAM
- Graphics: Nvidia 1GB VRAM
- DirectX: Version 9.0
- Storage: 400 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
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There is a game made in Unity, I guess. But you can also just install it and run it for a second to get your +1 on the 100%-ed games list. I opted for the second.
Grav Blazer is yet another of literally hundreds of lazy amateur 2D retro top-down shooter/brawlers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere.
This one is notable for two things. You get four different special attacks that you need to charge up, and also, it's completely and terribly awful. This looks a lot like an attempt to rip off SpaceWar!/Asteroids, but the developer couldn't work out how to do physics in a video game, so it's just a twin stick shooter. And it's just so bad. Not bad like, Nintendo Power Glove bad, it's crap.
From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.
While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.
The game features somewhat lazy, simplistic "retro" looking 2D graphics, and it's hard to say if this is due to the age of the assets used, if it's a deliberate attempt for the game to look bad/retro on purpose, or if the assets are just, well, terrible looking. Considering this is being evaluated as a PC game in 2024, such poor quality 2D graphics in the 3D era just aren't good enough, whether it's a deliberate design fault on behalf of the developer or they just couldn't manage to do any better, this is a compromise gamers shouldn't have to put up with.
The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. 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. They dropped the ball on this one.
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.
These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.
The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only 5 players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 120 million gamers on Steam and well over 100,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected.
So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 100,000+ games on Steam?
Grav Blazer has the completely unrealistic cash grab price of around $7 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 $7 asking price for this game could get you games like "Ghostrunner", "Project Zomboid" or "The Vanishing of Ethan Carter". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.
Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Ripknot Systems |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 46% положительных (26) |