Good Knight - One-Button Bullet-Hell

I thought I mastered the left click till I played this game

Terrible Name (for marketing and finding purposes) but it's a Great Game! Visual design is a bit of a mess, both UI and in game, but you do get used to it fairly quickly. As a 'shmup' though, its fantastic (Not that you actually do much shooting ). The bullet patterns are really well designed, always keep you on your toes and never too unfair to not find a solution through. instant retry from the last pattern keeps you playing, Very Addictive. Soundtrack fits perfectly too. Recommended for sure.

界面没中文，纯纯坑人

[h1] とにかく曲がハイクオリティで熱い！！ [/h1] ゲーム内容はめちゃくちゃやられまくる初見殺しの弾幕死にゲーですが、チェックポイントが小刻みに設定されているので、現時点でストーリークリアは難しくないです。 難点としては、アングルが変わったりするので弾幕が見づらい時もあり。 でも何より、熱くノリノリでプレイ出来るので100回や200回やられても苦にはなりませんでした。 まずは曲だ！っていう自分みたいな方にオススメです。 ハードコアなのにメロディーラインがキャッチーで心地よき。 PVで流れるような曲がてんこ盛りです。 P.S. もちろんサントラもソッコー買いました👍

[h1][b] TLDR: An insane bullet hell with a unique puzzle-like spin. [/b] [/h1] [b]Genre/Similar Games: Bullet hell shooters (but the puzzle elements feel more like raiding in MMO’s like FFXIV)[/b] [h1]PROS: [/h1] ✅Crazy bullet hell ✅Some kickass music [h1]CONS: [/h1] ➖More puzzle than shooter ➖Nonsensical story? I have no idea what is going on [h1] [b] Content (Game world/Narrative/Lore) – [3/10] [/b] [/h1] There’s about 6 levels of bullet-hell here, spanning 2 or 3 difficulties. This is a relatively short game and I was able to complete stages 4 of 6 within 2 hours on the easier difficulty. There seems to be a semblance of a story, but it’s too confusing and barebones to make any sense. [h1][b] Gameplay (Controls/Mechanics/Loop/Difficulty) – [7/10] [/b] [/h1] So I should explain a little about this game, because I almost dropped it within the first 10 minutes, but after I figured some of the mechanics out, I was hooked. This is NOT a traditional bullet-hell shooter. You don’t even shoot manually – it’s all passive. You’re only goal is to survive the screen full of bullets. How do you do that? Simple controls: your character automatically moves in a circle. Left click changes the direction back and forth. Holding left click move slowly and you can use left shift to slow down time (which only seems to affect your character, not bullets). So yeah, that’s it. You’ll be single clicking 95% of the time. This game is DIFFICULT. There are warning splash screens when you start that introduces the game as a “Rage puzzler”. Be prepared to die a lot. I got a bit frustrated with the normal mode, and made some more progress on the easier difficulty. [h1] [b] Graphics (Quality/Art style/Animations/UI/Performance) – [3/10] [/b] [/h1] A bit interesting. It’s almost cartoony a la Grim Fandango-ish. Doesn’t look amazing. No performance issues and ran consistently over 200FPS. [h1] [b] Audio (Sound Effects/Music/Voice Acting/Ambient) – [9/10] [/b] [/h1] I knew I was going to love the audio when I hit stage 3 and there were guitars playing alongside violins. The music is great and really sets the tone with the massive amount of projectiles. Great job here. [h1] [b] Replay Factor (Side quests/NG+/Player Choice) – [7/10] [/b] [/h1] While there are no side quests, choices, or NG+, the one thing that really enticed me to keep playing over and over was leaderboards. It was addicting to push forward for a lower rank. I’m happy to say in the easier difficulty I might have gotten ever stage under 100 and a few under 50 (I still suck tho). [h1] [b] Final Verdict – [6/10] [/b] [/h1] An interesting concept. I am not too much into puzzle games, but I can definitely see the allure here for people that are. [h1] [b] Recommend? [Y/N] [/b] [/h1] [h1]Yes [/h1] If you like puzzle games and dodging tons of things, you should try this. You can find my curator page here: https://steamcommunity.com/groups/Synik_GR

What makes this game special in my opinion is that it's the only shmup that can be played with one hand. My left thumb begins to hurt very quickly when I use a d-pad nowadays because I abused it with all my years of gaming. Good Knight is the only shmup I could play for hours on my Steam Deck without hurting. Just because of this, Good Knight will always be installed on my Deck. ;) And that makes it a true classic