Tempest 4000

Visually it does the job and I want to love it, but it's basically unplayable with normal controllers. If you have some kind of paddle/spin knob that grants you precision control, it might be more fun.

Great game, Captures the feeling of the original, just beautiful work. Didn't know they sold spinners, will look into getting one if they add support. If its not in there would also dig an 'old school' mode to be able to go to pure vector look now and again, but as it is now it satisfies just like the original.

Absolutely lousy excuse for a Tempest game. No music, terrible key mapping, and the in game button prompts don't even match up with the controls you've assigned. I bought this on sale and I still feel ripped off. Refunded.

I don't get the hate. It's a perfectly adequate, and in my opinion improved port of TxK. Plays and looks great. Has that 'loud' neon Minter aesthetic and is a decent, better-looking followup to his other Tempest (and adjacent) efforts. Flaws: that it doesn't default to the new/TxK OST, instead playing the same T2K tracks we've heard millions of time since 1994, is kinda lame. The new tracks also aren't quite as good. Mouse/spinner support is SORELY lacking even though that would probably make the bonus games hard/impossible to play. They could have retooled them for spinner controls, anyway. There were clips of you playing it with a spinner, Jeff. What happened?

Plays beautifully at 90 fps on Steam Deck. Still not as good a game as TxK on the Vita.

Decent version of the classic Tempest. However, it would have been nice if Atari enabled dial spinners. Come on Atari. Regardless, still a decent version of the game.

Amazing Game, amazing heritage I still play the original but this follows it's DNA perfectly. Jeff Minter is the man and Atari also need credit for allowing TxK to become T4k. Can't recommend enough. A+++

I liked playing previous versions of this game since they worked fine with a keyboard; this version does not work very well with a keyboard. Since it does not work with a keyboard, I returned the game.