Paper Planet

Really Awesome Silly Game With Lots of References :3

Cool idea, the upgrades have no description tho

Paper Planet is a wave survival arcade bullet hell/shmup with a difference, the game looks bad on purpose and you control a turret on a planet in the middle of the screen while the enemies come at you from all around (it's been done before, better than this). The monotonous and obsolete concept is spiced up by upgrades after every wave, which add a variety of "wacky" shooter options like shooting giant bee ammunition at the enemies. Whatever. The game "works" and is polished well enough (it would be almost difficult for it not to be given how simplistic it is), but ultimately the developer even admits this is a glorified Flash game that seems designed more for mobile phones than as a fully fledged PC game on Steam. I guess this is the kind of thing that caused Newgrounds to go under. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The artwork here is terrible, it's all just amateurish "My First Wacom Tablet" style drawings used instead professional looking game assets. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can create graphical assets properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low, enough on its own to deter gamers. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The very poor quality of this game puts it squarely on-par with ancient 1990's Flash/Java games, and given it's 2025 (and this was released not so far back in 2023), gamers and the industry expect and deserve better than this kind of low effort shovelware. These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 130,000+ games on Steam? Sometimes amateur developers have delusions of grandeur. Paper Planet has the completely unrealistic cash grab price of $15 USD (FIFTEEN BUCKS FOR A FLASH GAME WTF... delusion!), for which you could easily get any number of older AAA games. This is overpriced if it was a 50c game. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. For comparison, the $15 asking price for this game could get you games like "Valheim", "Cuphead" or "Remnant: From The Ashes". Quality, professionally made games like those are frequently on sale cheaper than this.