Blasters of the Universe is an arcade developed by The Secret Location, released 31 August 2017 on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Blasters of the Universe is
Blasters of the Universe is an arcade game developed by The Secret Location and released in 2017. It was published by Archiact. It is available on PlayStation 4, PlayStation VR, Oculus Rift, PC (Microsoft Windows), SteamVR and Windows Mixed Reality. It runs on Unity.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Blasters of the Universe is the first of its kind, bringing the bullet hell genre into first person VR. Intense gameplay is heavily reliant on physical movement, requiring the player to duck, dodge, twist, turn, and maneuver their way through tons of enemies and hundreds of bullets.
How it plays
It is played from a virtual reality perspective. Its themes are action. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Blasters of the Universe holds a critic score of 60 out of 100. That places it above 17% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2017 averaged 71, so it scored 11 points below the year average.
What it launched against
Blasters of the Universe launched on 31 August 2017, within three weeks of Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II and Uncharted: The Lost Legacy. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Destiny 2, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Divinity: Original Sin II, Uncharted: The Lost Legacy.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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