Dead Ahead Deep Space locks eight of nine guns and starts the clock
Three retro roguelike shooter modes on one doomed ship, from a dash for the escape pod to a crew you cannot trust.
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.
Nine weapon slots run along the bottom of the screen, and eight of them say LOCKED. That is the first thing I read in Dead Ahead Deep Space, a free top-down shooter from Oradica, and it says a lot. You start with a plasma gun and two grenades. Alien, scrap, rifle, SMG, rocket, sniper and flame are all sitting there greyed out, waiting. The itch page pitches three roguelike shooters in one package, set aboard a single doomed ship and the dark space around it. In the first, the station is dying and you scavenge, fight through the decks and reach the escape pod before time runs out. In the sec...