One Bit Arena

Reminds me of gaming on the old monochrome Texas Instrument graphing calculators and it's a competent arena shooter as well. The game has plenty of enemies and bosses to fight as you strive to survive as long as you can chasing the almighty high score. This is not going to be easy, but you knew what you signed up for when you bought this game on sale because you always read the descriptions, see the screenshots and check reviews like this one.

One Bit Arena is a lazy Gameboy like Russian 2D top down retro pixel wave survival shooter with one single gimmick, you have a "Frisbee(tm)" instead of a gun, and you have to make sure it returns to you or you can't fight. Waves of blobs attack you, etc etc, there's a million top down shooters on Steam, all better than this Russian shovelware. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. There's no options to change the resolution for the game or customise the graphics settings. There's no way for gamers to ensure this is running at the native resolution of their displays... there's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted de...

This game can not boast of cool graphics. But is perfect for killing time. Overall happy with the purchase.

this game cost me 35p

like a game-boy game love it

This was always my favourite way to waste time back in highschool, so suffice to say I was a little disappointed when Flash Player suddenly disappeared, and this game along with it. Hope was restored when the game first appeared on Steam, only for me to find that it wasn’t available in Australia. Then one day, a price tag suddenly appeared on my wishlist, and while I think it’s a bit steep for what this game is, I’m glad to have it back in my library for good. I have to say, though, there are a few things which I’m quite disappointed by. For starters, there aren’t really any resolution options. You can choose between fullscreen and windowed, but all fullscreen does is stretch out the image to your monitor’s resolution without locking the aspect ratio. Then once you’ve done that, you see that everything’s raster-based rather than vector-based; I.e. the graphics are low-quality. You can kind of avoid this issue using third-party programs such as Borderless Gaming, howeve...

Not a whole lot to say about it, other than it's a fun little distraction if you need to kill some time.

[h1]1[/h1] This game is simple enough but I'm getting frustrated with two main points. First, it is really difficult to re-start the game quickly. If I don't have a high score, the game should give me a way to restart as fast as possible. I hate having to enter my name or go through the menus each time. The second complaint is that I would like the tutorial to be available on the menu. I accidentally skipped it when I was setting up my Steam Controller, and I don't know what the finer points of the game are, nor do I understand the scoring, etc because of this.

good

Good. worth the 40p.