About This Game Space Codex is a casual retro arcade minimal awesome top-down shooter featuring waves of enemy spaceships with different attacks in what is, literally, a bullet hell. To beat them, you will have power-up options available through the map. The game only gets harder. How long can you stay alive?Features:- Multiple and unique power-ups- Beautiful retro, pixelated graphics- Unique chiptune soundtrack- Multiple enemies with different behaviorsMusic by:VisagersawsquarenoiseTeknoAXE 6d5b4406ea Title: Space CodexGenre: CasualDeveloper:takkPublisher:takkRelease Date: 9 May, 2016 Space Codex Download No Virus Got it with a Steam Coupon for 10 cents. Well basically this is a space shooter, kinda like asteroids. You pick your ship in the beginning with different attributes and then shoot other ships in a quadratic area. On your way you pick up items like a shield or temporary firing modes. Presented to you with neon pink and purple aesthetics and a really suprisingly great chiptune soundtrack for such a little game. After 10 minutes you get every achievement and those other 8 hours of my playtime were basically just idling for the cards.I guess its alright if you like to get high scores and have not much to do and want to spend your time quickly. Otherwise there isn't much to say about here to be honest.. Uggghh, it's hard to know what to say about Space Codex. Long story short; every review has to answer the question as to whether you would recommend the game or not. I wouldn't recommend this. I'd say go off and play something like Geometry Wars instead.HOWEVER, it's not like the game is bad. It's just completely inoffensive, There's a few bugs but nothing majorly broken, the gameplay is fine but nothing to write home about by a long shot, and so on. I played it for 45 minutes (And left it running to get the trading cards DON'T JUDGE ME) and will never touch it again, but for the price I paid I can't complain; You can easily spend three times as much on a cup of coffee, for goodness sake. There's better out there, yeah, but you won't hate yourself if you end up buying this.. Every now and then I like to page through Steam and see if I can find any weird, cheap games. I usually find nothing, but today I found Space Codex! It's normally $.99, but I got it on sale for $.59. Even even if a game doesn't look that great, who could pass it up at that price? Not I. And it even had good reviews! Wowza! (There were only six reviews, but everyone seemed to like it)Space Codex is a straight forward, top-down twin-stick style arcade shooter. Bad guys fly towards you and you shoot them, that's just about the whole game. There is a handful of power-ups and a few different enemy types. There are also three different ship types to choose from, each with different stats.The basic gameplay is simple but pretty solid, and the music is surprisingly good. There is a pretty good variety of tracks, too. With a game this small, they could have easily gotten away with a single repeating track, so the variety is appreciated.Now, here's a few of the gripes I have with the game:(A couple hours after posting my review on Steam, the dev commented on it and told me he'd fixed a lot of the issues. I'm very impressed!)-Once you choose your ship, you can't go back. You have to reset the game(Apparently, you just have to hit escape, then click "Select Ship". This wasn't even an issue that actually needed fixed. I just didn't think to hit escape because I'm a dummy.)-Power-ups are hard to see against the stars in the background. The shield especially, since it's just a light-blue circle.(The dev added a nice glow effect to all the power-ups. Not only are they easier to see now, but they look cool, too!)-No controller support. (Controller support is being worked on.)(If you have a Steam Controller, I've uploaded a control scheme for the game, feel free to use that.)-No Leaderboard.(Leaderboards are also being worked on.)-There is a small window after dying where hitting the boost key restarts the game.(You can totally ignore that complaint now. Totally fixed!)Like I said, the dev very quickly fixed most of the issues I had with their game. I can definitely recommend it now. It's good fun, especially for the price it's being sold at.. The only common problem is the friend info and the Shift+Tab. Other than that, It's a nice game! 9\/10. Fun little space arcade game reminding me of the yesteryears. Gameplay is smooth. UI is not buggy, other than the fact that whenever you get an achievement, the bottom right part of the screen gets glitched out.I prefer the second ship for my gameplay style and I'm close to reaching the 100k score for the final achievement. (UPDATE: I've got this one too now, with the same ship)The game is pretty easy but with time, unless you properly position yourself and shoot accurately, you will be overwhelmed. The background score sounds good too.If the dev hasn't done so already, I hope he thinks about releasing this game on the Android, iOS and Windows 10 Mobile platforms too, because this has potential to be a fun game to play on the go.
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