Good Knight - One-Button Bullet-Hell

Don't let early access scare you off! If you're into games like Ball x Pit or any kind of score attack game, this game is a must play! Seriously fun gameplay loop. This game is really special if you give it a chance.

This is a very interesting game. As it says on the store page, don't be intimidated by its difficulty. It's a very hard game, but every pattern is a new checkpoint, so you are usually only 15-30 seconds or so away from the next pattern. The best way I can describe this game is basically kind of like Super Hexagon but amped way the hell up. The game telegraphs bullet patterns, and you need to avoid them. In most patterns there is a circular wall in the middle of the arena that you run around, and it blocks bullets. So a dominant strategy is to anticipate where the bullets are coming from, and run to the other side of the circular wall to block them. Later in the game this doesn't work so well because it takes away the middle wall a lot. But you learn to adapt. The game to me is a piece of art. It has a story, but I don't understand it and don't care, but the gameplay is very much a flow-state. When you're in the zone you feel like a god. The music is also incredible, it's some fusion of power metal and classical with Touhou influences. Also reminds me a lot of the Ys series of games. I like the graphics style, but it's not a particularly good looking game to the average person. I will say though the bullet patterns are where the game shines in its presentation, and the performance for how much crap is going on in the screen is pretty scarily good. Overall it's a really interesting game that is seemingly unfortunately abandoned. Lots of promised features never came, but the game has enough gameplay for the price if you get it on a good sale. About 4 hours or so if you are not grinding S ranks. I bought the game in I think 2020, and only just played it again recently from digging through my backlog, and just finished it today. High recommend if you like bullet hell, it's more of a puzzle game and twitch reaction game than true bullet hell though. Play without Slow Motion for the best experience, it's just a crutch and it's more fun without it.

I cannot tell you any legitimate reason why exactly this one, but Good Knight is a random game I picked up that is so good I cannot fathom it. Scratches the perfect itch for me; painfully hard bullet hell madness, music so good that I bought my first ever sondtrack on steam, and an experience you really cannot get anywhere else dude