Sky Mercenaries - Ultimate hand draw 2D action overdose!
User reviews: Positive (6 reviews)
Release Date: 16 Dec, 2014
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16 December

Sky Mercenaries now live on Steam

An epic sky battle awaits you! Choose your pilot and fighter to join the ultimate 2D S.H.M.U.P action ! Fight over 50 enemy types on 8 worlds in over 32 story missions and unlimited random content. To be prepared for the overpowering enemy fleet and challenging boss fights. Upgrade and skill fighters, drones and pilots the way you like to play them. Get powerful and permanent, visible upgrades, armor and different types of weapons. Level up your pilots and assign skill points in 3 different skill trees to unlock a variety of abilities like auto-shield, critical buffs and more. Join the Mercenaries now!

Game features:
• hand drawn full speed action
• 8 worlds, 32 missions and bonus stages
• 3 upgradeable wing fighters with a tripple part damage model
• day & night Missions, unique light engine
• 3 pilots with different skill-trees, various combinations
• tons of permanent upgrades and stage power ups
• 5 balanced difficulty levels
• command up to 8 drones, 6 different drone types
• over 50 different reacting enemy types
• damage system, critical hits and amor ratings
• 2 upgradeable main firemodes - red / blue system
• 15 different upgradeable weapons
• 16 epic bossfights
• unlockable random stage generator
• full mouse, gamepad, joystick or keyboard support
• 3 different INGame shops for INGame credits
• screen bombs, overload system
• multi language support eng, sp, fr, de
• resolution auto-scale and inFight zoom

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About This Game

An epic sky battle awaits you! Choose your pilot and fighter to join the ultimate 2D S.H.M.U.P action ! Fight over 50 enemy types on 8 worlds in over 32 story missions and
unlimited random content. Be prepared for the overpowering enemy fleet and challenging bossfights. Upgrade your fighters, drones and pilots the way you like to play them. Get powerful and permanent visible upgrades, armor and different types of weapons. Level up your pilots and assign skill points in 3 different skill trees to unlock a variety of abilities like auto-shield, critical buffs and more. Join the Mercenaries now!

System Requirements

    Minimum:
    • OS: Windows XP, Vista, 7 or Windows 8/8.1+
    • Memory: 512 MB RAM
    • Graphics: 128MB graphics card, Screen resolution of 1024×600+
Helpful customer reviews
3 of 3 people (100%) found this review helpful
0.9 hrs on record
Posted: 23 December
Nice RPG elements mixed with a cool soundtrack and nice old school arcade gameplay. Some of the levels and the bosses that I managed to kill where very challenging. Nice game with cool new features to the genre, a game with a heart for shoot ’em up fans.
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11 of 18 people (61%) found this review helpful
0.1 hrs on record
Posted: 16 December
Bought this game as a long time fan of the genre. The RPG elements seemed cool to me and the Ikaruga-like color swapping held some appeal as well.

But the game is not good. Technically it runs alright but I encountered bugs with it not displaying an icon on my taskbar. The UI is lifeless, the music is horrible (really poor quality on the menus and ingame) and doesn't feel inspired or interesting in any way, the ship customization+player customization+drone customization is done very badly. You don't get any real description of what anything does, and the little bars that gauge offense and defense don't make sense. On the ship selection screen they work one way and on the drone upgrade screen they work in the opposite way.

The levels are typical for a SCHMUP but your ship+drones take up a ton of the screen. It is really hard to avoid getting hit (which makes the Ikaruga-like color swapping mechanic useful) and things just feel really... unpolished. I think it is safe to say that the whole product feels and plays like a mobile port.

Hopefully this sees some major patching but as-is it is not really worth a purchase at 9.99. if you get this 90% off you might feel like you got what you paid for but at full price it feels like a rip-off. Especially since some of the best games on Steam are cheaper (Binding of Isaac, for example).
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