UTOPIA 9 - A Volatile Vacation

It's a pretty good "roguelite" shooter in terms of design, gameplay and presentation. It's a bit slower paced than most other shooters and enemy variety is based on equipment and enemy size. Their behaviour does not vary at all, which isn't necessarily a bad thing. The nemesis system implementation is kinda fun. But I gotta mention the cons. This game is seriously lacking content. I'm gonna go through a list just to make the point clear: [list][*]There seems to be only 1 unlockable character and not that different anyway. [*]There's no difficulty selection. [*]No music, just dark, dreary ambient sound in the background. [*]I've already unlocked all perks, there's not that many and they don't change that much anyway. [*]There's not a whole lot of mutations and again, they're not that exciting, but they do help quite a bit. [*]While I like the selection of weapons, I just end up picking mostly the same stuff everytime and there's not that many. [*]The game is almost completely linear a...

Seriously, why isn't this game more popular ? It has a great visual style, a very good gameplay that has managed to strike a perfect balance between tactic and mindless slaughter, it has a lot of weapons, and since you can dual-wield every one-handed weapons, there's many, many combo to try ! I love the big splatters of pinkish blood, and the impact of weapons, whether melee, explosive, shotgun-like, laser-like or regulars feels very satisfying. You're not just hiting sprites in a videogame, you can really feel them exploding to bits ... it just feels great, i dunno. And like i said, it's not a game of mindless slaughter ... entirely. As the game progresses, you have to get better and devellop strategies, either for trapping enemies in a choke hold or near explosive stuff, or to find the best combo of weapon that allows you to deal with every situation. You're not just blasting mutated tourists, you're thinking, too. It's ... a smart kind of slaughter. If you just go in and blas...

[h1] Fun little game where you find yourself on a different planet. Mission is simple - terminate everything that's moving. You travel from city to city choosing which path you wanna go. Goal is to get to opposite side of the map. Each place have various resources like weapons, health, ammo and utilities. Taking down aliens give you some mutagen points which can be used for various upgrades which are random generated but you can pick one from a few available at the moment. You can have two sets of weapon for each hand that can be swap depending on situation. Please note that there is no dodging are dashing system here so your character is likely to get hit anyway. Game is good suited for coop. Graphics welcome you with vivid colors. Sound and music is nice and fits well. Recommend mostly for coop, but can be played alone as well. [/h1]

This initially started at the bottom of my twin-stick 'to-get' list. Factors were a poor impression gotten from a more-narrative-than-informative trailer that seemed more interested in showing off a rather half-assed mixed media motion-comic than its gameplay, and vague 'samey' screenshots that seem to sell the vistas more than the main course. It had even put me off looking for lets play videos as a result. Talk about false advertising.... So I finally got round to this little fucking gem which I now consider my favourite twin-stick dual-wieldable experience I've had since hotline miami. And even then I love it alot more in many ways. So it might just be my absolute favourite twin-stick experience EVER. Makes me regret even wasting my time with the 4-5 other more popular titles. Mainly due to the following aspects: PROS: 1)The GUNPLAY PACING. UNGGGHH. SO FUCKING REFRESHING. Initial firefight on the landing (scrapyard) zone had my eyebrow raised throughout, uncertain if I was play...

Nice game. I enjoyed this more than Forced Showdown and Enter the Gungeon. Not sure why, but it controls well and I like the mechanic where the enemy that kills you gets your old weapons and becomes a boss enemy. Give it a try for yourself, it's inexpensive and worth a play.

After a lovely touch where you wriggle free of the green stasis goo that fills your crashed ship, UTOPIA 9 immediately stands up as a no-nonsense isometric blaster that has, at this stage at least, very few frills. There's a handful of weapons and shields to loot and an upgrade tree masquerading as a series of mutations, neither of which are exactly uncommon for the genre. After clearing the arrival area of suitcase-wielding purple mutants, you'll find eight stages laid out in front of you, although due to the game utilising a branching path system, you'll only tackle four per playthrough. Be warned, this is not exactly the game that the vibrant graphics sell it as; the lack of health and ammo early on make the opening couple of stages an unforgiving experience that only gets worse if you die, as Utopia 9 dumps you back at the beginning minus your weapons and upgrades, as well as spawning a new welcome party of enemies to jump you before you've even climbed out of your ship. The game g...

If you enjoy Gungeon, Nuclear Throne, or Binding of Isaac this hits many of the same bulletpoints but adds "Couch Co-op Friendly" to the mix, along with a unique inventory, and a mutation system that allows you to do downright stupid builds. Control is smooth on both keyboard and gamepad, Weapons feel impactful and different, the ragdolling corpses ond debris add to the chaos as your wrench sends a foe skipping across the road splatting bits of him as he slams off of walls and dumpsters. A well placed grenade sends a gaggle of enemies haplessly twirling through the air showering drops soylent and gore. Its got a kitschy retro-futurist vibe going for it too which adds a further layer of absurdity to the action. The weapon variety is strong, with even two weapons of the same class being totally different. A 4-slot weapon inventory system makes loadouts particularly interesting as you can dual wield any two 1-slot single handed weapons or just lug around 2 2-slot heavy...

You travel to another planet and you kill the aliens. =) you can upgrade your gears, etc. UTOPIA 9 - A Volatile Vacation 8/10 Heisen

This game really has a lot going for it. It features some stunning yet cute graphics and some very addictive gameplay. It sort of reminds me of Captain Keen meets Diablo, only with ragdoll physics, sick weapons and some great sound effects. One minute you're shooting easy dudes with your pistol, the next you're hammering away at a mini-boss with some crazy laser cannon. Then you're out of ammo and have to beat it with your suitcase. There is also some interesting customisation options with the mutation system. Basically you're turning into an ammo-grabbing juggernaut. Oh, and did I mention. It's very VERY challenging. You start out in a short intro-level and you think "I got this." But wait, because you don't. Somehow even with the most high-powered weapons and body armour these mutants always get me. That's why I like to stun them one by one, just to feel like I'm pawning them for a change. If you didn't already, you will definitely want to buy this must-have gem of a game. If this...

Great indie effort. Has the charm of Magicka, difficulty of Nuclear Throne, and graphic style in a class all by itself.