Emerald Blue

A manic shooter condensed into a bite-sized format that exacerbates it's short duration, speed and intensity. Simple yet effective mechanics and score system that also reward hyper-aggressive gameplay and quick action. Seriously addicting, the first time I cleared I wanted to pop another credit and reach a higher score immediately. The presentation pays an extremely faithful tribute to the doujin/indie STGs of the 2000's/2010's, from the visuals to even their faults. Menus are deliberately clunky, all of them expecting you to use enter to confirm selections, and to exit them by selecting the option to reset the game back to the game edition select/titlescren. Pressing ESC isn't a key to maneuver the menus, it will directly close the game, another custom of the old doujin STGs. Explanations on how the game exactly works are also deliberately scarce, even if most of the instructions are self-explanatory and you just need to learn to flow with the game. The faithful accuracy will be a burden if you aren't used to these old manners, but it's still absolutely worth playing.

Works perfectly on SteamDeck. This is such an amazing game, game density is on point, is a 10mins long but is so intense that it felt like a 30mins suffering, just perfect. Additionally, I love to see some familiar names at the credits, many great players from the community and friends gave the final touches to the great Shmup.