// Overdrive is an addictive arcade fast-paced procedural shooter rogue lite.
Clear each procedurally generated rooms, loot some precious upgrades, fight bosses and defeat the final boss!
Enter your name in the glorious leaderboards.
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Overdrive is an interesting genre mash-up of bullet-hell, twin-stick shooter and roguelike mechanics. Unfortunately, for every thing the game does right, it also does something wrong. It boils down to the upgrade system not...
-Mildly fun at times, but incredibly unbalanced and half-assed in many ways.
-Many of the "survival" rooms can be easily cheesed by just standing behind a wall for 30 seconds. Makes me think the game was barely tested at all.
-Your runs can be extremely difficult or insanely easy depending on how lucky you get with perk selection.
-Speaking of perk...
This game offers a clever concept that works similarly to gun overheating. You fill up the 4-stage bar at the top of the screen by holding the fire button and shooting bullets. Each stage you achieve provides you a temporary boost, such as increased fire speed or damage. When you let go of the fire button, though, the bar decreases and you lose the...
I had the opportunity to discover the next game from the same developer (Project Operator) at Strasbourg's Indie Game Contest and I wanted to give a try to this first title.
For this price, I would just say go! Get ready for very efficient (and addictive) gameplay mechanics.
I wanted to test it for 10 minutes and oops, 1 hour was gone lol
A special...
Slow to control, dull to play, and too much reliance on flashing elements of the screen.
