When you’re in search of an arcade-style shooter with a sweet-sweet twist then Ben Walter‘s Lengthy Reside The Hive would possibly bee the one for you.
Ignore my preposterous punning. Lengthy Reside The Hive is a stable little shooter that stands by itself with none wordplay. If something, it makes use of phrases in a way more intelligent, direct, and minimalist means: It shouts them. It doesn’t shout them as in ‘please flip down your laptop audio’. No, it ‘barks’ like a drill teacher, the voice in Superhot, or a hive thoughts would possibly. THE HIVE MUST SURIVIVE. It’s easy, cool, efficient and feels completely becoming to the premise.
Contemplating that it was created as an entry to the just lately ended Ludum Dare 56 — theme, Tiny Creatures — and was performed properly forward of cut-off (in underneath 18 hours) there’s really quite a bit going for it.
To play, you’re taking management of one of many drones inside a degree, flying round with the WASD keys and firing towards your mouse cursor with the left click on. You’ll fireplace small pellets of nectar (or honey or unspecified yellow blocks) which may clip off elements of enemies or in the end kill them in case you hit them on their core (pink) physique elements. Most of them will fireplace again, although, and your projectiles persist, cluttering up an already-busy hive.
Every of the degrees are generated as you drop in, with new enemy varieties (and larger densities of them) coming into play as you make your means by increasingly ranges of the hive. Map technology and enemy distribution is generally good, though I had a few spawns the place enemies had been dumped in as massive stacks and even immediately subsequent to me. That mentioned, there’s a second of hesitation earlier than they shoot so you possibly can usually scutter away from them.
One thing else that I particularly loved about Lengthy Reside the Hive was that in case you do die, you’ll tackle the type of one of many different bees littered across the degree. Nevertheless, these may be collaterally killed by the hive-invaders, so generally you gained’t have any lives left after a single loss relying on the pace at which you goal enemies.
Lengthy Reside The Hive is obtainable without cost on itch.io.
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Dann Sullivan
After virtually a decade of promoting video games, Dann determined to strive his hand at writing about them as an alternative. Just a few years in and he’s the Founder and Editor-in-Chief of Massive Boss Battle, the place he and his staff cowl video games of all sizes and shapes. When not within the function, he can usually be discovered in search of out small, memorable sport experiences.
