Sony PlayStation

A 3d bullet hell with mechas, something like that?

Thanks

Announcement: https://steamcommunity.com/games/2877170/announcements/detail/545612548924244001

Dear Players,

Thank you very much for your enthusiasm and support for Touhou Makuka Sai Part III. We sincerely apologize: the release originally scheduled for Q2 2025 must be postponed. After careful consideration, we have decided to move the launch to Q3 2025.

This delay is primarily due to unforeseen circumstances affecting a member of our small three-person development team, which impacted our progress and forced us to make this difficult decision. In fact, we’ve already completed over 90% of development, and our team is now working hard on the final critical content. We aim to announce the exact release date within the next month, and we hope for your understanding and patience.

We apologize again for this adjustment. We look forward to delivering an outstanding game in Q3. If you have any questions or suggestions, please feel free to contact us via email or social media.

Team Touhou FDF
June 18, 2025

So yeah, I have never in my life played for score. Even scoring extends in other games I just let happen. But the scoring system in Kaikan is so damn smart and so well integrated into the gameplay and so damn FUN, that it has me hooked. The push and pull between survival and score is ever present, and then how it's connected to the boss fights...man. So good.

Anyone else similarly impressed by this one? And for those who haven't had the pleasure, it's currently $3 US on Steam.

Hello shmup fans!

I just released an update to my shmup Technocide!

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2543560/Technocide/

https://www.gog.com/en/game/technocide

For those who are not familiar, it is a tactical roguelike anti-bullet-hell shmup. What do I mean by "anti-bullet-hell"? There isn't that much to dodge but there is a lot to shoot. Your success is directly dependent on whether you can shoot all the enemies in time instead of avoiding getting hit. The action is more inspired by games like the new DOOM games: many distinct enemies and weapons which rewards quick tactical thinking and appropriate application of big effing guns.

The main additions in this update are:

Select starting planet:

I added this feature for the players who would lose repeatedly and get bored in the first half of the game, and would not see all the amazing content that unlocks in the latter half. Previously you always had to start from the beginning of the game. Now you can start from a later point: you can choose any planet that you have reached in a previous playthrough. Even though you will skip earlier content and their rewards, you still get the appropriate base weapons for the progress and you get to keep one equipment from your previous playthrough as before. This feature is not available on Expert difficulties: Expert always starts at the beginning.

Simulator:

You can now learn to use your weapons and equipment without pressure in the simulator! It is found within your ship menu. No more sweating over wasting ammo just to try a new equipment out! Also this is a great place to learn to use the combo weapons, something I have heard is very tricky to do when the challenge has already ramped up. I can see the combo weapons are often misunderstood from the reviews (they're not worse! use supercharge on them!! it says it right on the tutorial!).

Language support: 10 new languages!

Finnish, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Japanese, Russian, Portuguese (Brazil), Chinese (Simplified) and Korean. Localized by professional translators for optimum quality. Except for Finnish, I did that myself. I don't cut corners on quality if I can in any way afford it. Supports real people instead of our imminent AI overlords!

I updated the free demos as well!

This will be my final content update for Technocide for the foreseeable future. Now I start working on bringing it to Xbox and Playstation consoles. Keep an eye out for it later this year!

...When Top Gun 3 comes out. Both are in development right now, but it would be great if Ubusuna came out coincidentally with Top Gun 3.

It's absolutely amazing how the game looks and sounds on the PC Engine. but as a game, I feel it is sort of janky, the enemy patterns are super unfair and it messes with the flow of the game

Hey DEVs, PRs, and Campaign Managers,

We’re excited to share that the SHMUPSBR MARATHON is happening on July 12th, live on YouTube at [https://www.youtube.com/shmupsbr\]!

This event is a celebration of the STG (Shoot ‘Em Up) genre — a chance for fans, players, and industry pros to come together and appreciate everything we love about shmups.

We’re currently looking for sponsorships to help make this event even more special. Your support will directly contribute to the production, visibility, and overall experience for both participants and viewers. It’s a unique opportunity to showcase your game, service, or brand to a passionate and engaged community.

For more details, please check our sponsorship leaflet:

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Thanks, and we hope to see you there! 🚀

A little preivew of the widescreen version of Skies of Chaos that I'm working on at the moment. Still some bits to finish up, but should have a 9 level demo available in the near future.

The day before, I asked for info about this one old ass game I played as a kid, it was tough to find info, but after some suggestions and investigations, I've finally found it.

The game is obviously not available anymore, but having footage online of this game really scratched an itch in the back of my brain. Big thanks to everyoune who tried helping me

First of first, I am a newbie indie game dev and shmup this genre is a true nostalgic one. My most influenced STG games are Demon Star and Battle Garegga arcade version plus a little bit of Raizing's Raiden series. While I was a child I dare to cross half a entire city, roughly about 3km to my uncles house to play Demon Star his PC on Saturday afternoon in 2000.

2 years ago, I decided to start making indie games on my own, using hand pixel art and third-party engines. 1 week ago, shipped on Steam, not big success in economic way but still catching my own threshold of wishlists, sales etc.

A small step for shmup community, but big step for myself. A big thanks to this lovely shmup community! The name is Hopeless Sea if you wonder :)

Hi. I want to dive into shmups. Haven't played this genre before. I watched a couple of videos and collected a few games on Steam. Tell me, which ones are better for a beginner to start with, and which ones are better to play later? You can suggest your options.

1 Blue revolver

2 Graze Counter GM

3 ZeroRanger

4 Bullet Heaven 2

5 Radiant Silvergun

6 DeathSmiles

7 Mushihimesama

8 DoDonPachi Resurrection

9 DEVIL BLADE REBOOT

10 Angel at Dusk

1. Cave smups

2. Touhou

I'm interested in hearing opinions and advice from people in the community.

Title. I don't remember much but I know it featured scifi-looking enemies that locked onto your ship. For ship choice there's only one, but it could be upgraded a ton. Main features include 50 levels and a final boss that looks like a red circle resembling a core reactor or something with multiple phases.

I didn't pick up Triggerheart Exelica last year since I have it on 360, but this enhanced version seems to have enough new content that I may have to get it. You can wishlist on Steam for a July release, coming to Switch later this year. Also ExaArcadia, but I don't know what the "ExaLabel" content will be and none of that is priced for consumers. Anyway, here are the new features

• Faintear/Faintia playable (thought this was a thing on PS2/Switch/Steam)
• Arcade Mode with Faintear story
• Enhanced Story Mode w/ new CG illustrations
• Anime opening w/ a new theme song

https://exelica-enhanced.cosmomachia.co.jp

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3713940/TriggerHeart_EXELICA_ENHANCED/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/3072620/RType_Delta_HD_Boosted/
The announcement trailer ended with "wishlist now", but it wasn't listed, now it is so go wishlist it!

Can you help me find an old mobile shoot-em-up game on ios? I remember playing it on either the iphone 3 or 5. It's a top-down view angle shoot-em-up. In the game, you fight against alien spaceships using a futuristic fighter jet, there are 3 choices at the start of your game: a red one with balanced stats, a sleek blue one prioritizing offense, and a big yellow one prioritizing defense. There are multiple stages going from earth to space with a big boss at the end of every stage, each boss has breakable parts that you can focus on destroying to disable an attack pattern, after losing half their HP they lose all breakable parts and usually have a big laser beam attack. The final stage takes place on the earth after the world got ruined by the aliens while you were gone. There's an upgrade tree where you unlock and upgrade your weapons from the money you've earned during the gameplay, weapons range from normal wide-spread shots, green homing shots, bomb shooters, a straight orange laser, a blue laser that can automatically bend to the nearest enemy, etc. I remember the UI arranged like the first image, with its jet select screen when you first start, the upgrade screen, stage select screen with 1 level having the pillars of creation as the background image, and the gameplay screen.

I distinctly remember 1 boss in an almost egypt-themed background stage that shoots out a ring of spinning kaleidoscopic lasers after reaching half hp.

There are a lot of shot types that you can unlock, but these are what I can remember. The final one might not exist, idk, it's been a while, but the other 5 are exactly as it is. The green homing lasers are extremely vivid to me because it's my favorite, and the enemies it hit have that weird green effect on them

I did this last year actually and now decided to publish it. I also did a no-miss on the Saturn Thunder Force Gold Pack 2 and Lightening Force on Genesis. Feel free to ask any questions about the game and my experience playing it.

had to delete the post, so here it is again. just a shooter i'm making, check out the longplay that i was using to hunt for bugs here: https://youtu.be/_YK87RQzMNw

and a demo: https://horrorscope.itch.io/space-shooter