Galacide

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  • Summary: Galacide combines the frenzied action of classic space shooters with the focused, fast-thinking tactics of puzzlers. Choose from a variety of ships, each equipped with unique features and abilities. Embark on your mission to tunnel through the strengthening alien invasion, find the source,Galacide combines the frenzied action of classic space shooters with the focused, fast-thinking tactics of puzzlers. Choose from a variety of ships, each equipped with unique features and abilities. Embark on your mission to tunnel through the strengthening alien invasion, find the source, and save the galaxy. Go it alone or assemble a squad of your friends to battle in the most unforgiving corners of the universe. In Galacide, you must carefully strike a balance between fighting the enemy and tunneling through the encroaching Bitwall, as neglecting either will assuredly result in your demise. It’ll take a combination of skill, luck, and an advanced spacecraft to ensure your success. As part of your mission to eradicate the alien invasion, you will journey across the galaxy and visit unique destinations like asteroid fields, planets, mining depots, and junkyards. Each location bringing you one step closer to finding the invasion’s source.… Expand

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  1. Video Chums
    Nov 4, 2020
    80
    When it comes to genre-blenders, few games do as good of a job as Galacide with its clever combination of shooting and puzzles.
  2. TheXboxHub
    Jan 13, 2021
    70
    The fusion of shooter and match-3 mechanics does work, and while it’s hard to keep on top of the situation, practice certainly helps. What doesn't work so well is the amount of fun on offer as Galacide quickly becomes frustrating. It’s fun for a short blast, don't get me wrong, and if your life has a shooter/match-3 shaped hole in it this will fit perfectly, but at the end of the day the game kind of falls between two stools.
  3. Xbox Tavern
    Nov 2, 2020
    58
    Galacide must be commended on its attempt to mix up the Shmup formula; by adding in the Match 4 elements it provides more challenge than simply (ha, simply) dodging bullets and shooting down ships. Unfortunately this innovation comes at the cost of being able to easily read the screen, and accurately utilise the mechanics to progress. A worthy curio then, but not one to rush out and play.

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  1. Xbox_Alive
    Nov 1, 2020
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    Galacide combines the frenzied action of classic space shooters with the focused, fast-thinking tactics of puzzlers. Choose from a variety ofGalacide combines the frenzied action of classic space shooters with the focused, fast-thinking tactics of puzzlers. Choose from a variety of ships, each equipped with unique features and abilities. Embark on your mission to tunnel through the strengthening alien invasion, find the source, and save the galaxy. Go it alone or assemble a squad of your friends to battle in the most unforgiving corners of the universe. It’s hard to tell which part of that equation gets the biggest billing. On the face of it, the game looks like a straight forward horizontally scrolling shoot ’em up in the classic style of R-Type, Nemesis and Darius. The main campaign mode offers just six stages (and a tutorial) and these are pretty brief, clocking in at just a few minutes each. We do prefer our shoot ’em ups to be too short rather than too long but Galacide definitely could have used a couple more levels just to pad things out and while we’re having a quick nag, the stages are all also very similar. So in the end it almost feels like It was rushed to the gamers, maybe the budget didn't allow for more but at least it left me wanting more.… Expand