Bad-ass twin stick rogue-like implemented by seriously talented developers. Perfect in every way with extreme vibes from the PS3's Super Stardust HD and Star-ship Troopers. This magnificent twin-stick is played out on gorgeous looking spherical play-fields with a good progression system and 2 additional un-lockable characters. Progression is character independent allowing for good longevity though the game's stages can get repetitive. Stages though remain challenging and hold your interest as you advance in ability. The game can be difficult but stick with it and as you invest into character, drone or weapon attributes you will be rewarded with new play-field dynamics as you progress. A real Steam hidden gem.

It's hard for me to give this a Thumb's Down because even though it is fairly tight and competently made, it is ultimately a boring game with a very flat experience overall. You start with a heavily-neutered set of powers and skills and as you proceed through the arenas (little planets), you gather chips which you may use for permanent upgrades. Every upgrade is MORE SOMETHING. So your basic gun sucks, and then you grind away to get upgrades to it's damage. Your jetpack sucks, and you grind away to get speed/fuel upgrades. Your speed is slow, and you grind to get speed upgrades. The core game does not have enough depth to keep a player interested enough to keep doing this and make it feel worthwhile. You're basically repeating the same dull arenas over and again with very little to keep you interested. There are different weapons which randomly drop which are ostensibly there to help you tear through foes faster... but like other upgrade aspects of this game, those weapons are heavil...

Gets boring pretty fast. The game is very much carried by the visuals. I only ever made it to the 3rd boss and the game was only really fun for the first 2-3 runs, after that it feels very "samey". The "rougelite" perk selection is very generic and most of them you hardly notice any difference. There is virtually no learning process at all and every run feels very much like the same thing from start to finish only with gradually increased difficulty and more instances of unavoidable damage Also, the permanent upgrades that carry over between runs feel very much like a mandatory grind in order to progress rather than a nice helpful bonus. I can't imagine it would be possible to complete a fresh save file run of this game just because of how mandatory the mobility, health, and damage upgrades are in order to survive. Which should not be the case in a rougelite IMO, the barrier to completing a run should be knowledge/skill, not grinding. Its a well made game, but there just isn't nearl...

The game is a pure adrenalin rush and feels like an explosion opera! It's fun to dodge the million bullets and enemies and combine attacks with the jetpack and special abilities. The difficulty is quite steep, but it's therefore super satisfying to make progress. Awesome title!

One of these cases where I wish STEAM would have a sideways thumb or a 'MEH' option. This game is fun for a while and is obviously a hommage to the excellent Super Stardust HD, with it's rotating spherical playfield. Unfortunately it ultimately falls flat compared to SS-HD. The game has okay graphics, fairly colorful and it never crashed during play. So thats a plus. Gameplay however gets VERY REPETITIVE, VERY QUICK. You drop onto a planet and then there is 4 stages where you have to either defuse bombs [stand next to a thing for couple of seconds] or kill everything/ survive 30 seconds, and eventually face off against a boss and move on to a Shop Planet to invest dropped money into permanent but very boring upgrades. You also get to choose a perk upon completion of each planet. Typical 'Rogue Lite' fare. Suffers from most of the 'procedural generation ailments' you find in other games. Grindy nature, occasionally stupid placement of gameplay stuff like the bombs and that annoying r...

I love everything about Battle Planet - Judgement Day. The gameplay, premise, and visual aesthetics are all superb. The permanent progression allows unspent upgrade chips to carry over to subsequent runs, while weapons, along with item upgrades can be shared by all characters. Meaning you only have to use your points on those two categories once. This allows you to focus on upgrading character specific traits between runs, or at upgrade posts after missions. The gameplay loop is based on being fair to the player, which makes it hard to stop playing. Battle Planet feels fast, frenetic, and fun!! Controlling each avatar feels unique, and the overall feel of the game is buttery smooth. No complaints here, just a great game. Cheers to the development team.

First of all, let me tell you that this game is not for flat earthers, we can definitely see that the small planets in this game are all round so beware! Joke aside, I bought the game during the last Halloween sale and it's a lot of fun! You like top-down rogue-like wave shooters and rotating around small planets and shooting everything that is moving sounds good to you? Then yes, you might enjoy this one. I was a bit concerned that I would not enjoy or simply bear the gameplay about fighting on a very small rotating planets with top-down view but now that I tested it, I find it really cool. You can unlock temporary perks for the run that are lost upon death, there is also a small shop that you will visit every 5 waves in which you can buy permanent cybernetics implants to improve your characters, weapons or the support items that you can use during combat with a cooldown but infinite use. Talking about the characters, you start with 1 and can unlock 2 others knowing they have differ...

It's fun, but I personally don't find it fun or varied enough to be worth even $4 compared to other games like it.

I love the super fast pace. Simple yet deep combat. solid upgrades. Fantastic presentation. Awesome game. GGWP!

This is a fantastic rogue-lite top down shooter. + Great visuals and unique aesthetics. + Very good combat. + Good learning curve. + 3 different Heros which play very differently. + Persistent upgrades for your hero, pick up weapons and abilities. + Upgrade currency doesn't reset between runs like in some other Rogue games, if you earned 3,000 chips in one game and 1,500 in the next one, you will have 4,500 chips. + 40 levels in campaign and challenge levels after you beat final boss. + 10 to 15 hours of gameplay to 100% the game depending on skill level. + Good boss fights. + Good variety of enemies and their mechanics. - One of the heroes [spoiler](Psycho)[/spoiler] is a lot better than the other two. - Some of the pick up weapons are quite useless compared to even the default weapon. - Some of the abilities are also very subpar. - Unskippable boss intro cutscenes but they are short.