Review: Jamestown+ (Steam)

Set sail for 17th-century British Colonial Mars in Jamestown+: a cooperative shoot-em-up for 1-4 brave souls, designed to be exciting for players of all skill levels.

Pros:

  • Chunky Pixel art graphics.
  • 273mb download size.
  • Steam achievements.
  • Controller support.
  • Shmup gameplay.
  • Graphics-pixel perfect/proportional stretch/crazy stretch, widescreen, full screen and retro style.
  • Tutorial video.
  • Online leaderboards.
  • 2-4 player local co-op support.
  • Five difficulties-normal/difficult/legendary/divine/judgement.
  • Build your ship-select ship type and gunshot type and you unlock new ones.
  • Can rebind controls.
  • Difficult.
  • End of level score breakdown.
  • Glorious animated backdrops in the levels.
  • Earn coins for the shop.
  • Shop-buy new ships, challenges, and shot types.
  • World map level select.
  • Bullet hell elements.
  • Fun to play.
  • Satisfying combat.
  • Scores pop up as you kill enemies.
  • Plays really well.
  • Huge boss fights.

Cons:

  • The ship is mute of sounds.
  • Difficult.
  • Slight learning curve.
  • It takes a while to get gold.
  • No colorblind support.
  • No online co-op.
  • Hard to distinguish bullets as the enemy can have the same color bullets as you.

Jim Smale

Gaming since the Atari 2600, I enjoy the weirdness in games counting Densha De Go and RC De Go as my favourite titles of all time. I prefer gaming of old where buying games from a shop was a thing, Being social in person was a thing. Join me as I attempt to adapt to this new digital age!

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