Transcripted

Transcripted was taken off Steam for three years as a result of Alkemi terminating their publishing agreement with their scummy publisher and engaging in a prolonged legal battle over the rights (and the profits) to the game. I played and quite enjoyed this game before it got taken down, and now that it's back on Steam, I feel somewhat obliged to put in a good word for it after all these guys have been through. This is a genre mashup between twin-stick bullet hell and "Zuma"-style match-3, and it actually works. I love it when a mashup actually works like this. Add in some creepy organic visuals (think of Metroid Prime’s title screen), a surprisingly great soundtrack, and surprisingly good voice acting, and you’ve got one solid, decent game here. You play as a microscopic probe performing tests on plasma samples that are swarming with alien cells. The cells will attack you like an immune system. Shooting at them will sometimes yield colored blocks, which you can pick up and fire ...

Transcripted - an amazing symbiosis Zuma and Scrolling Shooter. Destroy one another virus-infected cells (sphere) and sort by color glowing blocks. Amazing primarily because the image. Screenshots did not pass effect, but believe me, the game looks fantastic: a riot of colors, glowing "jellyfish" (infected tissue), gently fluttering in weightlessness, power beams, the magic chamber music, slowly gaining momentum. The perfect blend!

I was lucky to see this gem on sale because basically nobody has ever heard of it. This was immediately fun and well worth the $2.50 I paid for it on sale, and is well worth the $10 even. It's like a combination of Bejeweled and a space shooter and is a real blast and a lot of fun to play. The farther I play into it the more it keeps impressing me. The fun comes from the nicely balanced tough challenge and how huge the changes are from level to level, while never being unreasonably difficult. This game is really well made and thought out, easily a 8/10.

If you like twin-stick shooters like I do, you will love this game. It starts off easy, but introduces new mechanics rather quickly, which gets pretty frantic (but not overwhelming). The controls are tight (360 controller or MotionInJoy of COURSE), graphics are bright and colorful, and the sound/music/voices are very well done. The ship starts off really weak, but you earn credits throughout the levels and as awards at the end of each level, which you can use to upgrade your "probe" however you feel. Some upgrades are fairly useless, however. Preview shows what type of game it is, so if it looks interesting to you, pick it up. The game mechanics are rock-solid.

[h1]Transcripted. Launched in 2012, stuck on a limbo for 4 years now back again to the store shelves.[/h1] [b]Question: did the game age well?[/b] [b]I'd say yes.[/b] Transcripted is a: - single player - twin stick shooter - puzzle game (very similar to Zuma and Luxor) That also features: - an amazing soundtrack that becomes better the more you play the game - actual plot and voice acting - varied levels of difficulty: for both the puzzle and shooter part of the game - an upgrade system with unlocks relevant to the progression of the story I have played this back in 2012 and once more today in 2016 and the game still feels good, both with a gamepad and mouse and keyboard controls. Like any twin stick shooter it has a decent enemy variety to keep you on your toes and the puzzle part feels extremely satisfying instead of feeling like a chore. Mind you, I am a fan of games that mix both so its possible that my bias is showing. Nevertheless, a worthy entry on the genre. Not a perfe...

A solid, satisfying combination of twin-stick shooter and match-3 puzzle gameplay, Transcripted is definitiely worth a try for fans of both genres.

I beat this game years back only to recently find out it had been removed altogether from steam. For any of you that haven't gotten the chance yet, treat yourself and buy this game!

Nice game, shame about the difficulty curve.

Very pleasantly surprised by this. Why is it that games from 3-person teams so often surpass blockbuster releases when it comes to writing and voice acting?

Recieved this game in a humble bundle many years ago. The concept was so intriguing and the soundtrack compeling, I played it through non-stop until the end(approx 12 hours). Then given the potential continuation of the story, went searching for the developer to see what was next and learned about the criminal antics of their publisher Topware and at the time it sadly appeared that the developer would shortly be out of buisness. I have boycotted that publisher since, and am now happily suprised to be able to buy another copy on Steam from the people who actually deserve my money. Put up an OST for this game and I'll buy that too.