Games like Parodius and Pop'n TwinBee: why we made a cute-em-up for PC and Mac

If you grew up with Konami's Parodius or Pop'n TwinBee on the Super Famicom, you'll know there's nothing quite like a cute-em-up: a shoot 'em up that swaps grim sci-fi for colour, comedy and gloriously silly enemies. Astro Burn is our love letter to those games. What is a cute-em-up? A cute-em-up is a shmup (shoot 'em up) with a playful, cartoonish style. You still get the fast arcade action, dodging and boss fights of a classic shooter, but the world is full of personality instead of metal and menace. What Astro Burn takes from the classics You play as Astro, a daredevil feline astronaut strapped into a high-powered jetpack, with her chatty robot sidekick AL. Coming back from a deep-space mission, they find Earth has been taken over by colossal, aggressively cute animal overlords. Screen-filling bullet-hell chaos and giant boss battles The Stack-Em-Up weapon system , which lets you combine several power-ups at once The Catnip Power Bar , which triggers over-the-top, anime-style special attacks like the screen-clearing "Meow-doken" Local couch co-op on a single screen Old-school high score tables with three-letter initials Built for "just one more go" Astro Burn is designed for pure pick-up-and-play fun, with no 60-hour commitment, no complex onboarding and no microtransactions. It's made for everyone from kids to retro purists. Get the Astro Burn Collector's Edition : 5 random art cards, 2 stickers (one holographic) and a DRM-free copy of the full game for Windows and macOS.