Should you’re in search of an arcade-style shooter with a sweet-sweet twist then Ben Walter‘s Lengthy Stay The Hive would possibly bee the one for you.
Ignore my preposterous punning. Lengthy Stay The Hive is a stable little shooter that stands by itself with none wordplay. If something, it makes use of phrases in a way more intelligent, direct, and minimalist manner: It shouts them. It doesn’t shout them as in ‘please flip down your pc audio’. No, it ‘barks’ like a drill teacher, the voice in Superhot, or a hive thoughts would possibly. THE HIVE MUST SURIVIVE. It’s easy, cool, efficient and feels solely becoming to the premise.
Contemplating that it was created as an entry to the lately ended Ludum Dare 56 — theme, Tiny Creatures — and was finished nicely forward of cut-off (in below 18 hours) there’s truly quite a bit going for it.
To play, you are taking management of one of many drones inside a degree, flying round with the WASD keys and firing towards your mouse cursor with the left click on. You’ll hearth small pellets of nectar (or honey or unspecified yellow blocks) which may clip off components of enemies or finally kill them when you hit them on their core (pink) physique components. Most of them will hearth again, although, and your projectiles persist, cluttering up an already-busy hive.
Every of the degrees are generated as you drop in, with new enemy varieties (and larger densities of them) coming into play as you make your manner by way of an increasing number of ranges of the hive. Map era and enemy distribution is generally good, though I had a few spawns the place enemies had been dumped in as massive stacks and even instantly subsequent to me. That mentioned, there’s a second of hesitation earlier than they shoot so you’ll be able to usually scutter away from them.
One thing else that I particularly loved about Lengthy Stay the Hive was that when you do die, you’ll tackle the type of one of many different bees littered across the degree. Nonetheless, these will be collaterally killed by the hive-invaders, so typically you received’t have any lives left after a single loss relying on the pace at which you goal enemies.
Lengthy Stay The Hive is offered totally free on itch.io.
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