Promethium

Whoa. Nice indie shooter. The operative word here is succinct. The vertical and horizontal bounds of the play-field are limited and your ship is able to traverse both left and right. The background is the Promethium armada ships in which your objective is to blow up each ships shield generator. The operative component, of course not explained anywhere, is the pick-ups dropped on enemy kill, essentially currency and there lies the depth. There are a string of power-ups lining the bottom of the play field. For every pick-up the string advances one and hence you can choose to make a real-time purchase of the highlighted power-up. Some power-ups are one use, though some like the first icon speed have multiple levels. The buy button on the Xbox controller was A and you can use an invariable number of buttons to shoot. Enemy patterns at least through the first few levels are somewhat if not totally static though I didn't find this to be an issue. The rest of the package has a s...

Fun shoot um up, simple but tough, one hit kills you (unless you save up and buy a shield). Took me a few goes to figure the power ups out. Enemies drop blue canisters, when collected the power up items are selected. If you collect 4 canisters then item four is selected and so on, you can purchase the current item by pressing A. It is possible to speed run through the level or take your time killing all of the enemies and getting as many power ups as possible. Some power ups can be upgraded multiply times. To complete the level you stay hovered over an area while a progress bar fills up. ** Play time is about 3-4 hours, it says "21.5 hrs on record" but I had the game paused over night :D **

This is a cracking shooter that takes me back to playing games like Uridium on the Commodore 64. I am not going to lie - this is a hard game, hard like games were when I was a kid 25 years ago. There is no easy route to being good, you just have to practice and learn the patterns and for me, that is what makes this so great. It is a love letter to early 90's shooters. It feels like I remember those games feeling and it looks like I wish they looked. Great stuff and an absolute bargain!

GTX 1060 (6GB) Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcLNiK9aBKM My Thoughts: One of my 1st ever computers was the C64 and one of my favourite 'all time' games was 'Uridium' Therefore I could not resist this. However, I would have liked to see a lot more variety in enemies, random attack waves, and formations. I have a lot of fond memories and hours invested in 'Uridium' and sadly this felt lacking in a lot of areas. I was hoping and expecting a lot deeper gameplay if I'm honest. This might be a poor mans clone but for the price I can't complain. Hopefully 'Promethium 2' will be more like the original 'Uridium' I was looking for. Game Details: Inspired by classic Commodore 64 and arcade games, Promethium is a hard-as-nails retro inspired side-scrolling shoot-em-up that takes place over numerous levels that get harder and harder. If you’re after a nice calm casual game this isn’t it!

Uridium has never been so much tedium.

It's old-skool difficult, at least with keys which is what I played it with.

Bought this hoping for a modern take on Uridium. Unfortunately this isn't it. - Glitchy - moving to the top or bottom of the screen whilst holding UP or DOWN respectively causing the screen to stop scrolling until you release the movement direction. - Controls - default controls are terrible layout compared to other scrollers (have to fire with analog triggers ratehr than digital buttons, which interfers with ROF), with no ability to remap - Gameplay encourages slow movement, whereas Uridium was all about moving at high speed across a dreadnought that was littered with barriers to crash into, and mine generators to keep you dodging.

Do you like shooting things while not being shot? Do you have enough money for a coffee? Then buy this game.

Great little Uridium style shooter. Enjoying myself, and at the price point it's hard not to recommend. I really love the look of the giant ships, pew pew.

As a HUGE fan of Shmups, Promethium really appeals to me. It does remind me ever so slightly of Defender, but thats probably due to it's horizontal play-style. Graphics are gorgous and the music and SFX fit the game very well. I especially like the way powerups are awarded and activated. This game really shoud be priced higher than it is for pure play value alone! Great job Xiotex!