Rainbow Laser Disco Dungeon

Cool general concept, just not executed all that well. Visually it's attempting the super extreme style of something like Post Void or Hotline Miami, but it just kind of hurts to look at and isn't that appealing. Music was decent, sound effects were obnoxious. In terms of the actual gameplay, it was extremely subpar. Rooms are incredibly bland, enemies are annoying and simplistic. It is a twin stick, but it went with a bizarre middle ground between true 360 aiming and the classic robotron. So rather than be able to shoot just orthogonally and diagonally. You can only shoot at 30 degree intervals. Feels extremely weird. I "beat" the game on normal mode in about 25 minutes and felt little desire to play anymore. It also appears to have broken achievements because I know for sure I did half of them but only 3 random ones are unlocked.

A love letter to Robotron with a phenomenal soundtrack.

It's got style for miles, like what you'd imagine is flashing through Jeff Minter's brain once the edible kicks in. The music is great as well, an aggressive, glitchy techno that's a must to leave on, and this coming from someone who shuts the music off 90% of the time. But the game, ah, well, it's weird. Partly "good weird," partly just confusing. This should be a score-based arcade style game but no, it's part that but also part dungeon crawler, and the weirdest part of all, it's endless. You don't die, your health just runs out which resets your score to zero, but then your health refills and you play on. Which makes the leaderboard pointless. The map just seems to go on forever, and there's so many visual effects going on it's hard to even see your character a lot of the time. I'd love to see this refined and redone, just make an arcade game out of it, not some pointless endless dungeon crawler. 7/10

I love the disco/rave aesthetic. The soundtrack and strobe light effects are great and pair very well together. The best part about this game is the ability to add your own music to play along to. Thankfully, it is easy to add and calibrate the BPM so they work within the game. I recommend adding the songs that are in Steam Achievement names. I anticipate a sequel sometime in the future!

Some folks might compare this to the old arcade game Robotron, but while it has the flashing colors of that, I'd say it's much more akin to Berzerk, sort of blending the two insofar as the saving people from Robotron & wrecking robots throughout a maze as in Berzerk. This, however, sets itself apart from both of those in its much funkier soundtrack which is worth the purchase price alone, and in its different shooting styles. By default you shoot to your left & right simultaneously from both hands, but you can switch to shooting with both hands in a straight line in front of you, or left & right diagonally. Not only that, but your weapons shoot to different rhythms, adding another wrinkle to the learning curve. Altogether this makes for a really enjoyable, if challenging, experience very much in the spirit of the arcade classics that inspired it. Oh, and as a bonus, you can play the game to your own songs, which can change up the enemy attack patterns, as if I'm not mistaken, they f...

Great game, great beats. Its fun to just intentionally syncopate various combos of guns sporadically to create your own "mixes" of the soundtracks, and you can add your own music for free-styling hordes of robots into scrap with, as well. 4 Solid Stars out of 5, and the developers can have another 6 stars if they bundle a nice, 1280 character input console with the advertised (but not currently player manipulable) "vintage text to speech" whiteboard. >:D