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Galacticon

Galacticon

Released: 5/20/2022

Galacticon is a video game with the look and feel of arcade cabinet games from the early 80's that rescues the unbeatable gameplay and fun of those classics, but with touches of "puzzle" to increase bonus points and enter your score in the local high score table (or even in the worldwide leaderboard). STORY: Humans are tiny creatures of an outer belt planet that thanks to their biomechanical monstrosities have invaded, exploited ans enslaved most species in the galaxy. The interestellar council has met for the first time in eons ans has determined that there is only one option left to exterminate this plague... an option that has always been feared beacuse it could be as powerful as dangerous: Invoke the Galacticon, a deadly legendary creature -half God, half machine- and pray everything goes well... KEY FEATURES: • Awesome gameplay. • Direct and frantic action. • 8-bit aesthetics • Infinite levels with a progressive difficulty curve. • Extremely smooth and precise control. • Easy to play... difficult to master. • Optimized to be used in arcade cabinet machines. • Secret bonus on each level. • Local Hi-Scores table, and worldwide table through QR code reading.

Galacticon is a video game with the look and feel of arcade cabinet games from the early 80's that rescues the unbeatable gameplay and fun of those classics, but with touches of "puzzle" to increase bonus points and enter your score in the local high score table (or even in the worldwide leaderboard). STORY: Humans are tiny creatures of an outer belt planet that thanks to their biomechanical monstrosities have invaded, exploited ans enslaved most species in the galaxy. The interestellar council has met for the first time in eons ans has determined that there is only one option left to exterminate this plague... an option that has always been feared beacuse it could be as powerful as dangerous: Invoke the Galacticon, a deadly legendary creature -half God, half machine- and pray everything goes well... KEY FEATURES: • Awesome gameplay. • Direct and frantic action. • 8-bit aesthetics • Infinite levels with a progressive difficulty curve. • Extremely smooth and precise control. • Easy to play... difficult to master. • Optimized to be used in arcade cabinet machines. • Secret bonus on each level. • Local Hi-Scores table, and worldwide table through QR code reading.

Galacticon is a video game with the look and feel of arcade cabinet games from the early 80's that rescues the unbeatable gameplay and fun of those classics, but with touches of "puzzle" to increase bonus points and enter your score in the local high score table (or even in the worldwide leaderboard). STORY: Humans are tiny creatures of an outer belt planet that thanks to their biomechanical monstrosities have invaded, exploited ans enslaved most species in the galaxy. The interestellar council has met for the first time in eons ans has determined that there is only one option left to exterminate this plague... an option that has always been feared beacuse it could be as powerful as dangerous: Invoke the Galacticon, a deadly legendary creature -half God, half machine- and pray everything goes well... KEY FEATURES: • Awesome gameplay. • Direct and frantic action. • 8-bit aesthetics • Infinite levels with a progressive difficulty curve. • Extremely smooth and precise control. • Easy to play... difficult to master. • Optimized to be used in arcade cabinet machines. • Secret bonus on each level. • Local Hi-Scores table, and worldwide table through QR code reading.

Critics
84
Steam
100

Score Breakdown

83.5

Critic Average

2 reviews

100

Steam User Score

55 reviews

N/A

Metacritic User Score

Less than 20 reviews

Disparity Breakdown

Steam Disparity
-16.5
Metacritic Disparity
N/A
Combined Disparity
-16.5

Average of both sources

Review Timing

2 launch window (100%)0 late (0%)