- Simulator, Strategy, Indie, Arcade
The skies will be set aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer's stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Select from over 125 combinations of weapons, bodies, and propulsion systems and take to the skies to battle enemy fighter planes, battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.
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Plot-driven, relentless, unpretentious and resolved.
- character-ledplot-driven
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- resolvedopen-ended
- warmbleak
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KotakuSteve MarinconzMar 2014Gives you the constant feeling of just escaping death at the last moment.
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TwinfiniteChristopher HadlockMar 20145/5Luftrauser was too difficult, extreme, and monochrome for some and I'm happy to report that this remake does absolutely nothing to address these issues, but rather only expands upon them gloriously..
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Gaming NexusJeff KintnerMar 20149.5/10The easiest way to summarize Luftrausers is to call it the Hotline Miami of dogfighting games. It's incredibly difficult, but it's really good at sinking it's claws into you to keep you launching your planes onto the battlefield. It's a game that's really easy to binge on, but since it naturally comes in bite-sized battles, you might get a bit more staying power if you get it on the Vita and play it a couple hours at a time.
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Rock, Paper, ShotgunAlec MeerMar 2014[Luftrausers] is such a little thing. I have to focus hard to remember it when it's not right there in front of me. It probably doesn't have much staying power. But when it's there, when the sound of machine-marking throbs through my speakers, when I drop like a stone into the ocean then rebound heroically skywards, with smoke pouring out my engines, it's everything that matters.
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GamingTrendLucious BarnesMar 201460/100There are no secrets to Luftrasuers; it has no surprises. It comes to you with open hands, unwilling to explain if you'll enjoy playing it because you're reminiscing about how this style used to be cutting edge, or if you just need to see if there's that perfect configuration that will take you all the way. It's not about being good or bad, it just about being what it is and if that's something you want.
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About the game
- Platforms
- PlayStation 3, Linux, Android, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, PlayStation Vita
- Developer
- Vlambeer
- Publisher
- Devolver Digital
- Released
- March 18, 2014
- Modes
- Single player
- Perspective
- Side view
- Engine
- Game Maker Studio
- Time to beat
- 24 h completionist
IGDB rating 7.9/10 from 64 ratings.
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