Galaxium is a new vertical scrolling shooter for Windows Phone from Karios Games the guys behind the very popular platform jumper MonsterUp which we reviewed a while back. Will Galaxium be another game that will impress us ? read on to find out

From a visually point of view Galaxium is quite nice. When you launch the game you have a few settings and the option to go through a text based tutorial , was never a big fan of those and hope to see game with more interactive or at the very least a picture based tutorial. The settings page offers all the basic settings toggle options for music, SFX, haptic feedback, hints and leaderboard ( powered by VortexLink ). Here you will also find that you have 2 modes of control for the game

Tilt : using the accelerometer, there is no sensitivity setting here ( but that is probably coz you the option to choose 3 ships each with a different speed and having a sensitivity setting would defeat that purpose)
Touch : you just need to touch and drag / tap on desired location to move.

There is a storyline to it which goes something like ” aliens are invading Earth and you are Earth’s last hope ” but the cut-scene at the start of each wave does not really add any new element to that story which was a bit of a disappointment. The gameplay is the all too familiar never ending wave of enemies that you have to shoot your way through. But Galaxium does offer a boss fight at the end of each wave to make things a bit more entertaining and this add a nice touch to the game. As expected Karios Games delivers excellent graphics for the game and the tiny little thing like the moving background and explosion effects makes the game a lot more interesting than a simple vertical scrolling shooter. One other thing that you will notice is that when you gain the powerorbs you have the choice to save it to use it for a different upgrade and while I am not a biggest fan of that new upgrade system it was something different and will force you to strategize a bit before going all out on weapons upgrade.

You will also notice that the enemies vary in size , shape and attack pattern and this helps to keep the game a bit more interesting over longer periods of play. The enemies comes in the form of alien space-craft and asteroid and some of them will even shoot back at you. This brings us to one issue I have with the game the enemy projectiles are hard to see at times especially when there are too many thing going on and can be a bit frustrating but the major issue I have with Galaxium is that you can’t save your progress so each time you quit you have to start from the beginning :(

So to sum it up , Galaxium offers a nice vertical shooter only to be let down by the inability to save the progress in a game. The game is available for $0.99 with no trial but there is a totally free version of the game ( no feature limitation , other than the ads which might take up a bit of screen real-estate ) and so there is no reason why you should’t have Galaxium in your games collection.

Galaxium Gameplay Video

Galaxium Screenshots

Version Under Review : 1.2.0.0

Website : Karios Games, Twitter : @marioskar

There is NO trial version available and the full version is available for $0.99, but there is full feature FREE version available as a separate download which is supported by ads.

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