Z-Warp Reviews

Z-Warp is an intense vertical shoot’em up presented in retro pixel art style, featuring frenetic arcade-inspired action where blasters, bombs and KILLER specials are your only allies.
App ID1990820
App TypeGAME
Developers ,
Publishers Eastasiasoft Limited
Categories Single-player, Steam Achievements, Full controller support, Steam Leaderboards
Genres Indie, Action
Release Date21 Jun, 2022
Platforms Windows
Supported Languages English, Japanese

Z-Warp
22 Total Reviews
22 Positive Reviews
0 Negative Reviews
Negative Score

Z-Warp has garnered a total of 22 reviews, with 22 positive reviews and 0 negative reviews, resulting in a ‘Negative’ overall score.

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: 44 minutes
Good game and had a lot o fun. The game has only 5 stages plus a sixth boss, and they are short, but they are fun and it makes learning the patterns easier. Good music and multiple difficulty options for casual and veterant players. You start with zero credits but are going to earn more of them as you play so anyone can beat the game. And any game that makes me kick baphomet´s ass is a big plus for me. My only gripe is that there are way too many distracting flashing lights and the backgrounds get lost in all the chaos.
👍 : 1 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 75 minutes
This game seemed very promising, and for me, it overdelivered on this promise. The art, music, mechanics, "juice" and style are fantastic. I couldn't stop playing until I finished the game (on easy mode, but still). It was a very nice way to spend 1 hour before bed, and I'm glad I gave it a try.
👍 : 1 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 19 minutes
Great Game, but i think the price is a little too much, ive seen bigger games for less price.
👍 : 2 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 226 minutes
Cool little shmup with online leaderboards, offering rewarding gameplay. Thumbs up! (8/10)
👍 : 5 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 303 minutes
Fun little tribute to DoDonPachi. It's a short experience but great for a run or two trying to beat it without continuing or to better your score. Also, not too difficult, so recommended to players getting into shoot-em-ups.
👍 : 0 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 162 minutes
Very nice little shmup with great bomb/bullet cancel mechanic. Screenshots look chaotic, but game presentation reads very well, although for my taste they overdid it with flashing colors. I'm not good at shmups, so I play on easy, and easy mode in this game was very much doable after couple of tries for me (not quite 1cc, but still), while not feeling too easy. Overall feel of the game (movement, shots, bombing) is great.
👍 : 4 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 102 minutes
I like this game, but I would recommend giving more continues. Bombs charge fast to get you through, but overall more continues are necessary. I purchased Z Warp on sale, but unless you're really good at shmups, I wouldn't recommend Z Warp unless the game is on sale. Overall a beautiful looking and sounding game. 1 continue is not enough. I probably would need at least 3 to finish the game, and I'm talking easy mode.
👍 : 4 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 42 minutes
So I'm a newbie to shmups, only ever played Mushihime-sama and Deathsmiles. First off I wanna ssay the graphics are awesome. You have these fleshy monstrous enemies while you're just a mechanical ship which shows the contrast and really shows how good the sprite art is. You have 2 firing modes like in every other shmup but what differentiates this one is the bomb system. The first level you might play like me and get a little lost just shooting like in other shmups, you very soon notice picking up bomb items immediately detonates them so you wonder what's actually going on, you then notice the bomb counter in the top right be a bar that refills. This honestly suprised me, like why is it a bar? Did I mess something up? Then I used the bomb button and it didn't clear the screen, no it only cleared and damaged anything within a little circle around the ship and started refilling. This had me stoked, a bomb on an actual refill? Then I panicked and again pressed while it was refilling and it short circuited the bomb and just cleared an even smaller circle of bullets around you. This is such a cool and engaging mechanic since it wasn't just put in but instead the level design actually takes advantage of the bomb from level 2 onward, for example you have enemies behind flesh walls you can't shoot and have to instead kill with the full bomb bar, this just makes the whole game so fun and honestly I might say from these 3 shmups I played this one might be the most fun and interesting just bc of this clever mechanic. So I definitely recommend for the price
👍 : 4 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 47 minutes
I really don't have much to say about Z-Warp. It's a competently-made shmup, and a very short and easy one at that. If you are fairly experienced in this genre and remember to read the in-game guide, it can take you about 20-30 minutes to finish the whole game and then maybe 10 minutes more to 100% the game. As there's actually nothing else to do in the game other than trying to get a higher score and to 1cc the game for bragging rights, and there aren't any classic achievements such as "beat the game on easy/normal/hardcore" or "beat level x without losing a life", I heavily recommend getting this game on sale. [b]There are two problems that can sour the experience though.[/b] First, the game does not have any kind of key rebinding feature; so you're stuck with default keybinds. Second, the game REALLY goes overboard with high contrast colors and flashing lights, and this can cause eye strain pretty fast. So watch out if you have epileptic issues.
👍 : 3 | 😃 : 0
Positive
Playtime: 94 minutes
This game is quite good!!! Very short (to me that's a good thing) but nonetheless a memorable little shmup. Beautiful and unique art style, this little shmup is quite on the easy side, but still very engaging and enjoyable. Even though it is very beginner friendly, be sure to check the guide option on the main menu before hopping on the story mode.
👍 : 8 | 😃 : 1
Positive
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