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Astebreed Definitive Edition

You are Roy Becket, a young pilot with dreams of becoming as skilled as his adoptive father. When a galactic war with an ancient mechanical alien race reaches its boiling point, Roy is forced to spring into action and take control of an otherworldly bipedal war machine in hopes of saving what's left of humanity. Joining Roy is a young girl who claims to have escaped the clutches of the nefarious aliens. Forever altered through horrible experimentation, she now possesses the very abilities humanity will need to push back the doomsday clock. Together, they must battle an unrelenting army alone a

Release date
August 26, 2014
Platforms
Windows
Developer
Edelweiss
Publisher
PLAYISM
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★ 8.2/10GOG · 105 ratings
GOGLast checked October 31, 2026

Most helpful8

★ 5 / 5
*IMPORTANT NOTE* Credit-spamming arcade games is like playing a first person shooter with the god cheat on. Of course it's boring and easy if you…
★ 5 / 5
Astebreed does everything right. The shooting is satisfying, the visuals are gorgeous, the difficulty curve is spot-on, and it has just the right balance of…
★ 5 / 5
Sometimes you just need to get behind the controls of a big mech with a comically over-sized space-sword and obliterate your way through thousands of…
★ 3 / 5
I do not see how this game gets the ratings it has. It's not that good! The game makes like it has this really advanced…
★ 4 / 5
It looks great, and it plays great. It's an old school shoot-em-up bullet hell arcade game. However unlike other bullet hell games in which you…
★ 3 / 5
but i has no automatic fire... you have to press the controller-button for every shoot - 1 million times. for me this makes the game…
★ 5 / 5
Go for it! One of the best shooters I've played in a long while. Reminds me a lot of Saturn shmups, such as Thunder Force…
★ 5 / 5
Edelweiss was always known for its innovative imagination of the shooter genre. Ether Vapor showed how to make a simple shmup/shoot 'em up/STG more dynamic…

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★ 1 / 5
I tried playing this game on several computers. And it always had some problems. The first time my mouse and keyboard would leave the game…
★ 3 / 5
I try to move the mouse to move the lock-on beam area to an certain direction, but it moves not smooth, not moves at all,…
★ 5 / 5
Love the 3D fighting on 2D. The whole environment can be taken out with several moves. Robots with swords = win.
★ 3 / 5
I've played a lot of shoot em up games before this one and I feel nothing. It's almost there the feeling is moving around but…
★ 3 / 5
but i has no automatic fire... you have to press the controller-button for every shoot - 1 million times. for me this makes the game…
★ 3 / 5
I do not see how this game gets the ratings it has. It's not that good! The game makes like it has this really advanced…
★ 4 / 5
It looks great, and it plays great. It's an old school shoot-em-up bullet hell arcade game. However unlike other bullet hell games in which you…
★ 5 / 5
Edelweiss was always known for its innovative imagination of the shooter genre. Ether Vapor showed how to make a simple shmup/shoot 'em up/STG more dynamic…

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