DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge
A retro mix of a shoot 'em up gameplay with RPG elements, DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge is inspired by the likes of Tyrian, Raiden and Donpachi. Fast-paced with a primary focus on gunplay rather than bullet…
DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge is a shooter developed by Augmented Irreality, released 20 October 2020 on PC (Microsoft Windows).
What DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge is
DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge is a shooter game developed by Augmented Irreality and released in 2020. It is available on PC (Microsoft Windows) only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
A retro mix of a shoot 'em up gameplay with RPG elements, DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge is inspired by the likes of Tyrian, Raiden and Donpachi. Fast-paced with a primary focus on gunplay rather than bullet hell, DreadStar gives you incremental ways of not only pushing through content, but also improving your ship and its loadout (such as experience, leveling and skill points). If you’re struggling with a sector, you can warp over to Redbeard’s Burrow to spend credits, upgrade your ship and return to where you failed. From Gauss Cannons to Lazer Beams, Hadron Exploders to weapon cooling - ship improvements are key to not only choosing your playstyle but progressing through harder…
How it plays
Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge holds a critic score of 45 out of 100. That places it above 7% of the 3,306 rated shooter games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2020 averaged 73, so it scored 28 points below the year average.
What it launched against
DreadStar: The Quest for Revenge launched on 20 October 2020, within three weeks of Watch Dogs: Legion, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Tetris Effect: Connected and Assassin's Creed Valhalla. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Watch Dogs: Legion, Assassin's Creed Valhalla, Tetris Effect: Connected, Assassin's Creed Valhalla.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
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