Pier Pressure Reviews
Take flight in one of three unique ships to battle a legion of enemies and massive bosses across a city sky, through a dark cave, along the bottom of the sea, and into a secret laboratory! Confront a buff, flamboyant crawfish scientist to retrieve the Power Pearl and save your job!
App ID | 1386160 |
App Type | GAME |
Developers | Headcannon |
Publishers | Headcannon |
Categories | Single-player, Multi-player, Co-op, Full controller support, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Shared/Split Screen, Remote Play Together |
Genres | Indie, Action |
Release Date | 13 Nov, 2020 |
Platforms | Windows, Mac, Linux |
Supported Languages | English |

29 Total Reviews
24 Positive Reviews
5 Negative Reviews
Mostly Positive Score
Pier Pressure has garnered a total of 29 reviews, with 24 positive reviews and 5 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Mostly Positive’ overall score.
Reviews Chart
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Recent Steam Reviews
This section displays the 10 most recent Steam reviews for the game, showcasing a mix of player experiences and sentiments. Each review summary includes the total playtime along with the number of thumbs-up and thumbs-down reactions, clearly indicating the community's feedback
Playtime:
47 minutes
Game kicked my ass cause whenever you do any action it wastes your health. if you get to a checkpoint and you die, you're better off restarting the entire level because you'd at least have a small af chance to beat the level. fuckin hell the difficulty though. more frustrating than fair tbh. only buy this if you hate yourself and wanna break your controller. Music is banger though,
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
175 minutes
I really enjoyed this game! The art direction is really cute looking and I'm always a sucker for pixel styles. The gameplay and mechanics are fun and in-depth while never being too much to handle (if you're playing on a controller like I did). There's only two problems I can say brings this game down, the short length being only 4 levels long and the high difficulty that follows even on the normal difficulty. Overall, this is a fun time that is worth the cheap price if you're a 2D spaceship shooter type games fan and I'm sad that this game isn't known very well despite being made by Headcannon of Sonic Mania fame. 4.5/5!
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
98 minutes
a bad 80s shoot em up with bullet sponge enemies and cheap difficulty. thanks guys. we definitely needed another one of these from the thousands of shoot em ups out there. don't bother.
👍 : 0 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
36 minutes
RAD! Has that juicy game-feel of Treasure Games - and a lot of the humor too. Interesting game design mechanics that are intuitive and fun to play with. Cool bosses!
👍 : 5 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
323 minutes
Fantastic indie title. Challenging, but fun and rewarding!
Been enjoying myself!
👍 : 8 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
55 minutes
some of the sonic mania team worked on this and that's basically all you need to know. absolutely kickass shoot em up that looks great and sounds great, get it, it's literally 5 bucks
👍 : 1 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
79 minutes
>Make a shmup with two-player support
>Every enemy prioritizes Player 1, so Player 2 gets hit for free by mechanics built around giving Player 1 room to dodge
Like there's these fish on stage 2 that zoom up to player 1 and encircle them before dashing through, and P2 justs gets whammed on their way in with no predictability whatsoever, it's the dumbest shit I've ever seen
Also stages are way too long for how much of the same shit you sit through in them
👍 : 4 |
😃 : 1
Negative
Playtime:
46 minutes
This game has great music, and graphics, but the gameplay is hindered by the upgrade system. In stage 3 i got in a deathloop where if you die after the checkpoint, you might as well quit because you cannot upgrade yourself to deal enough damage so you will keep dying repeatedly.
👍 : 3 |
😃 : 0
Negative
Playtime:
1241 minutes
Really amazing indie shmup with many unexpected twists and turns! I'd absolutely recommend this game to those who might not even be into shmups. Can definitely guarantee that you'll still have lots of fun despite the constant dying.
Both the soundtrack and art are amazing! ♡♡
👍 : 9 |
😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime:
155 minutes
This game is really fun, you should get it. But if you wanted to actually know something about it first, here's some stuff you might like to know:
- Running into walls doesn't kill you!
- You can turn around to shoot behind you whenever you want!
- I may not have a full understanding of it yet (so don't mind if I have some details wrong), but the power up system is neat! Everything you destroy emits energy towards your health, which in turn can be sacrificed towards powering up your main weapon or using a special or bomb attack. If you get hit, you power down, but you immediately have a choice of whether or not to try to regain more health or to retaliate by powering up at the cost of additional health. Basically, the game gives you options that are friendly towards new players, but also has a lot of room for advanced players to effectively bomb their way through whatever obstacles they want, and newer players may enjoy the "puzzle" element of figuring out when they really need to have a bomb ready to go and ensuring that they have the energy at the right time.
- Obviously made by Sega fans.
- Only $5USD! Cheap!
Bottom line, the game is friendly enough to be very accessible to players who might like the idea of horizontal shooters but often find them too difficult or unfair while also being interesting enough that expert shooter fans should play it just so they can argue about whether or not it's interesting. Pier Pressure is worth your time!
👍 : 14 |
😃 : 1
Positive