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Out Zone

90% positive of 64 Steam reviews

Released: 2023
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam, GOG

Made by Bitwave Games, Toaplan. Published by Clear River Games.

About the game

Blast through alien hordes as the finest cyborg mercenary in existence! To emerge victorious, you'll need to manage time and resources skillfully. Toaplan's run-and-gun smash-hit finally arrives on PC, reloaded with new features and quality-of-life extras!

Tagged by players

Top-Down Shooter
Shoot 'Em Up
1980s
Local Co-Op
1990's
Aliens
Old School
Score Attack
Local Multiplayer
Co-op
Arcade
Retro

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Positive

What players say

Recommended
Unconventional vertical shooter which on first try may turn off some users because of periodic non strafing mechanics. As a whole the implementation does make sense and heavily contributes to the depth of the title and it only takes a few minutes of play to realize this. There will be times you need to give up your strafing ability and situations strafing will be advantageous. Don't want to give up your strafing…
47 min played when written. 21 found it helpful.
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Recommended
A Sweet Piece of Arcade History OutZone was one of the first arcade games I actually managed to beat, alongside classics like Golden Axe. It is a short but wonderful game that really challenges your reflexes, memorization skills, and ability to keep up with its great tempo. For its time, it was fantastic. And honestly, I think it has aged like red wine. It is a wonderful little piece of gaming history from the…
2.1 h played when written, mostly on Steam Deck. 0 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Emulation engine has much going for it — especially snappy input response time — but much is broken Runs too fast — 10% or so faster than original arcade speed and this breaks a lot of gameplay elements related to enemy spawning and behavior Normal ROM version is the oldest available and a prototype: missing music, enemy placement is incorrect, and there’s inaccurate enemy behavior specifically spawning, attack…
42 min played when written. 66 found it helpful.
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