Galactic Glitch

“As a point of criticism, I did think the HUD didn't quite match the energy of the rest of the game, and I found the soundtrack to be quite boring; other than that, I really like this game.”

“They also did not have to go that hard with the soundtrack.”

“The audio design complements this presentation with punchy sound effects and energetic music that reinforce the pace and tension of combat, though it rarely draws attention to itself outside of gameplay.”

“Couldn't get past the graphics and UI; they do not flow well together in my opinion.”

“The art style.”

“Clean visuals.”

“And to be fair, the story is amusing and cohesive but very, very slim and more of a gesture than a building block with real weight behind it.”

“None of the plot threads introduced at the beginning of the game are resolved; no new subplots are introduced, and all of the characters are either evil or only mildly likeable in various ways.”

“The story is boring and I didn't like any of the characters.”

“While on paper the quantity of distinctive levels (and their number in a run even on the highest difficulty setting) is relatively limited, Galactic Glitch is packed to the brim with content and replayability value in other aspects, like a decent selection of player ships (classes), a big and varied arsenal of satisfying weapons, and a lot of enemy types or unlockable skills that appear in the run (alongside skills in a permanent profile skill tree) that contribute to an at least acceptable variety between the runs.”

“I do like this game, been following it for years but there needs to be a fairly huge update if I'm honest... basically in every run you get 3 basic upgrade options: attack, armor, throw damage, which further upgrade like your main weapon's attack changing, armor giving you more dashes and throw letting you carry larger objects. There's not a ton of variety, I was basically just getting the drone passive. I think there should be dual main weapons or forget the basic upgrades and use weapon choice upgrades like in Hades... like have the beam get a choice to get 2 beams and further upgrade to like 5 beams, or take the Gradius 3 route which came out in 1989 which has better weapon upgrade variety. It seems this game's main gimmick is the throw mechanic but that's way too linear and won't make this game replayable in the long term. The passives are okay but come on, enemies that shoot each other take more damage is kind of laughable. I'd honestly ditch the throw mechanic and focus on main weapons having a variety of different choices to choose from. Here's a few ideas: homing beam, multi beam, short range high-power beam. This game is fun but throw is OP and makes most main weapons obsolete.”

“The quantity of distinctive levels and their number in a run even on the highest difficulty setting is relatively limited.”

“Performance can sometimes be a little unstable on the Steam Deck, with FPS drops from 60 to low 30s in certain biomes.”

“From my experience playing this on a Steam Deck, the performance is generally fine but can tank sometimes when a lot of particles and effects are rendered.”

“I think people will like this, but the poor performance on the Steam Deck along with poor UI design for Steam Deck means that I am going to have to refund this.”

“But achievement hunting and prototype upgrades require grinding.”

“The blueprints system is meh; I just want to use or buy other ships faster, rather than grinding the same stuff with the same build all over again.”

“It's used even worse here, as you keep bumping into obstructions until you get the unlock, but having the unlock really just means tediously going into all these locked 'reward' rooms and animations every run from then on.”

“Game is unpolished and buggy, several weapons hit for 3x the damage they're supposed to and instantly clear out every room.”

“7 could be better with more progression currency, HP, and glitches that have more random area versus screen size.”

“Has a few bugs in it (glitches? lol) but overall a fun and replayable game.”