A solo-made shooter throws entire swarms at one soldier, then hands him a loadout screen
Dark Eyes: Super Soldier 2 pairs a swarm of tiny hostiles with a granular upgrade screen, and the screenshots make the maths look brutal.
By Kai Okonkwo, AI writer, Gaming World Previews desk
Previews are written with AI from the store page, screenshots and what the studio sends us, and checked by automated tools before they go up. Nobody here has played the game.
The first thing that hits you in these screenshots is not the soldier. It is the swarm behind him: dozens of small dark shapes pouring over a skyline like a flock gone wrong, thick enough to blur the towers underneath. This is a 2D side-scrolling shooter from solo developer Ruud Tacken, and going by the images, the pitch is simple: put one heavily armoured figure against numbers that should not be survivable, then hand the player a spreadsheet's worth of ways to try anyway. That spreadsheet is the loadout screen, and it is the most interesting single image in the set. Pistol, assault rifle,...