Twin Ruin

Intense twin-stick rogue-like. Fast-paced, and intended for people with good twitch skills. Polarity (aka. color) is used to apply greater damage to oppositely-colored foes - and the game routinely throws both colored foes at you at the same time. You take less-or-no damage from enemy fire matching your color - but bumping into any enemy will damage you, regardless of the polarity. Killing various enemies allows you to pick up energy to improve your weapon, but the dropped energy only last a few seconds, meaning that a lot of it disappears before you can spare a thought to grab it while trying to stay alive. Still, weapon power, fire rate and number of projectiles improve as you collect energy. Absorbing same-color enemy fire is used to charge up your weapon, which allows an infrequent special attack. As you play multiple games, unlocks will reveal a few new avatars (each with slightly different stats) and arenas. Apparently, I suck at this. My attempts typically only last a minute or two, and the frustration wears thin after 15 minutes of playing. Still, I *do* keep coming back for several reasons, one of which is that I don't have to reserve an hour of real-life time just to play a single game. My one complaint is that the game feels a little thin. I believe the dev is still working on it, so there may be more content/features in the future, but you'll experience most of what the game has to offer in only a few hours.

Really awesome twin stick shooter! It's a bit Ikaruga, a bit Nuclear Throne, but with a lot of great ideas and features of its own. Fast paced arcade action from the get-go. Great graphics and VFX, too.

Twin ruin is a neat, little high score chasing game. Graphics are good. Controls, movement, aiming and gunplay feel good, and I have no complaints. It doesn't seem like a very long game outside of score chasing (I unlocked the few characters and stages in an hour). Your weapon gradually gets stronger as you kill enemies on a run,. and there are minor random upgrades you can pick up. Which feels similar to a roguelike but it isn't one. I would've liked that - significant random upgrades like spread shot, explosive bullets, etc to change up each run. But that's just my preference and not a criticism to the game. Overall fun game and well worth the price.

Amazing game that you should buy immediately.

Meh....its not horrible...the polarity gimmick is an interesting change of pace from the usual twin stick fair, but honestly it gets annoying. Not being able to custom map the controller is a drag....high challenge out of the gate, some people like that...me not especially...I like to be able to get used to the controls and mechanics before I die on the first level more than once...The end game screen is a mess...I just want to quit out to the menu, no idea how, mash buttons till something works... Very aggravating and demoralizing, makes me just want to quit and play anything else...Maybe I am an idiot, but even an idiot should just be able to find the button prompt to exit the screen... Not impressed with the general way the game is put together and presented... but for the price, and I got it on sale, I cant quite bring myself to be a jerk and down vote it since I think a middling "positive" rating is fair...so buy it on sale because I do not think any new updates are coming....ever.

I've been looking for a simple yet challenging twin-stick shooter for a while now, and this one kind of hits the spot. It feels a bit Risk of Rain-ey mixed with Alienation, but still manages to have its own unique play-style by having you focus on the colours of the bullets. It's a short play, managed to (basically) 100% it in 8h, but that's not really a downside. Just a short, fun, interesting and challenging action-packed twin-shooter. Well done from a solo dev! PS: please please fix the bug for not getting the stage 4 achievement. As a completionist it really itches me that I'm on stuck on 95% achievements for this game, even though I definitely finished stage 4 multiple times but can't get steam to tick it off. EDIT: achievement is fixed now, thanks!