Kinetic Storm

Let's Look At: https://youtu.be/vD_jYJLA884 This is probably the hardest thumbs down I've ever had to do and it's purely from a value standpoint. This game is actually really fun, its very well-made, tons of detail put into it and aesthetically I can't complain about anything here. I especially appreciate the attention to detail in the Settings menu. The problem is there's just so little to work with here. You got 1 ship with 9 combinations of seeings and thats it. The range of upgrades you for the ship don't really even seem to be all that wildly different either. And I'll admit that it COULD be a lot more than what I experienced, but it wasn't all that impressive. I just wish I had at least 1 more ship I could have played with,. One more map. Just *anything*.... I really want to recommend this game. But in my opinion, it's just not there. Hopefully soon though.

Very fun game, but also very shallow. There aren't very many enemy types, and there is one ship with a few different weapon choices. I finished the game on normal difficulty my 3rd or 4th run, total about 1 hour playtime. If you can pick this up for cheap and have a good time with it, then I would recommend it. If it's $5 or more and you only get one hour of playtime out of it, then I would say don't bother. It seems like the game is about 1/2 finished content wise.

the game will not boot it crashes immediately

I bought this game pretty much because I think the dev is cool. He shared some insights into the self-programmed engine and even thought about making it open source if I remember it correctly. It showed attention to detail, which I loved. Then it came out and I had it a while on my watchlist. When I read his brother's review of the game and saw the hilarious answer that in no way shape or form must have been from the dev himself, I bought it. It's pretty fun and I suck at it far less than I remembered when playing the demo. I like the mechanic, my first game was over half an hour (easy mode, I'm a dad, judge me) and I pretty much ended things when my GPU started throttling (it's not the game, it's my terrible setup). But it was fun. I wish there was a game mode in which you could keep your ship and upgrades and improve it continuously because having an autorocket setup with blazing fast multisplitting blaster shots is just soooo fun. Hope there's some more development coming.

Simple. Good. Fun. Good visuals.