Steel Defier – Review

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Ratalaika games are quickly building a great reputation for fast, fun, indie games and the latest arrival from Brazilian developer Viridino Studios gives us a sci-fi prison escape with a difference.

When the game starts, you’re free from the shackles of your prison cell on board a large prison space ship, everyone else is dead but you’ll need to jump, dodge and outmanoeuvre the ships automated defense systems to collect access cards to progress to the next room on your journey to find the loading dock and escape to freedom.

There’s over 40 rooms in total, with 6 offering suit upgrades to make life a little easier. close to your starting location rooms are pretty straight forward with just a single beam appearing that moves across the room, you can easily jump over this with the A button, as you run around collecting 15 access cards, to disable the rooms security and unlock the surrounding doors.

Progressing through a couple of tooms and you’ll start getting more defense systems, there’s a yellow cube that explodes at a set location, a blue box that slowly follows you and eventually various other obstacles you’ll need to avoid.

With every new room, you’ll need to collect 15 cards, which are clearly marked, and while this will star tto get tougher, initially it’s pretty straight forward with a few hop, skips and jumps over the surrounding obstacles.

Thankfully there’s 6 rooms containing suit upgrades, adding the ability run, dash and double jump, there’s also two passive upgrades which magnetize your suit drawing the access cards towards you and a one-hit shield to give you a second chance, the best upgrade however is the resonant watch, which lets you slow down time, making that path across a busy, obstacle filled