DEVELOPER INFORMATION

Sati Bros. (Minneapolis, MN)
Programming/Audio: Sami Sati
Artwork: Erick Sati
Contact: Satibros@gmail.com

GAME INFORMATION

Release Date: June 21st 2024
Platforms: PC Steam & Itch.io
Price: $14.99 during the Early Access period
Price: $19.99 after full release

DESCRIPTION

Get ready to push your skills to the limit against an endless sea of bullets and evil robots in Astral Gunners. Choose from five different gunners to master in this horizontal shooter. With the ability to dodge, reflect, delete, and convert bullets you are more powerful than you might believe.

FEATURES

-Five playable characters: each with four different abilities including a standard shot, a unique shot, a defensive ability with a cooldown, and a powerful special ability that requires meter.

-Six Main levels, each with a miniboss, a boss, hidden collectibles, and a quest-style event that unlocks an assist character.

-Six Hidden Bonus Stages. Fight challenging shadow versions of each gunner risking the survivability of your run for a boost in score.

-Choose your route. With the assist character system, which stage you pick next can have significant impacts on each level.

-Intense Scoring: Utilize your special attack to clear bullets and increase your multiplier, then once your multiplier is over x100 enter System Overload and collect as many items as you can! Speed running skills carry over as clearing sections quickly spawns bonus waves that increase in value over your run!

-4 Difficulty modes: Easy, Normal Hard available from start. Revenge is unlocked after beating Hard. Higher difficulties use different sprites for added bullets to make it clear what's getting harder.

-Roguelite-style progression: Astral Gunners features no procedurally generated levels, but takes big inspiration from the Roguelite genre by adding progression elements that can be unlocked via achievements.

-System Hacks: Unlock powerful abilities to make the game's challenge more managable. Hardcore shmuppers will have their own separate leaderboard free from the kusoge nonsense.

-Co-op: Play a co-op mode like no other shmup out there, with defensive abilities that allow players to coordinate roles, and a revive mechanic that lets you stretch the value of each quarter.

-Online Leaderboards: Filter by mode and character to find a leaderboard you want to master.

-Training Mode: The most in-depth training mode we could envision. Every variable can be changed, and every section and boss phase can be played on loop.

-Botstiary: Read about the lore and backstory of Astral Gunners through the botstiary, which includes descriptions of all the robots and their motives.

-Tons of Unlockables: Unlock system hacks, character skins, music in the jukebox, Botstiary Entries, characters, and difficulties.

-Multiple endings: Collect all of the Astral Cores, get a 1cc, and be a pacifist to see how the ending of the game changes and which bosses appear as a surprise. Get the best ending for the best score!

LINKS

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IlXbKLeYeC0
Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/893900
Itch.io: https://satibros.itch.io/astral-gunners
Soundtrack: https://samisati.bandcamp.com/album/astral-gunners-original-soundtrack

Website: astralgunners.com

Twitter: @astralgunners
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/AstralGunners/
Instagram: @astralgunners

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