Pixel Star

Very fun game with big variety of upgrades and items. Every new game feels like nice gambling. For it's money this game is definitely recommended.

Pixel Star is basically the classic game Asteroids if everything was cranked to 11. It's... not bad, I'm not going to say I didn't have fun marking off a winning run in 45 minutes of play, but part of the "cranked to 11" is that you often take hits from nearly-invisible things due to the amount of strobe effects and screenshake, or from things that fly onto the screen too fast to be reacted to even if the screen was empty, so it kind of ends up like a preview of the Magic Survival / Vampire Survivors formula from several years later where shooting is important but your stat/pickup grind is moreso. However, I don't particularly think it makes for either a great Asteroids-like game (I'd point to something like Beat Hazard instead) or a great Survivors game (where I'd point to something like HoloCure), so ultimately this is not going to be recommended. It is one of those non-recommendations where I'd recommend trying it out and marking a win quickly if you do own it, though. It should take you under an hour, after all!