Cellosseum
Cellosseum is a bullet heaven following the progress of a lone cell as it battles a variety of enemies on its quest to guide the evolutionary process of life itself. From upgrading your attacks, shields, health, and speed, to understanding your role in the creation of life on the planet of Ceres Prime—will you create life from nothing, or will you be lost to the cold indifference of the galaxy.
The Lone Cell: Play as a cell on its quest to become the leader of evolution on Ceres Prime. Choose from a range of unique attack types that evolve the range, power, and type of projectile as you blast your way through enemies.
The Enemies: Life for a cell isn’t just about peacefully floating through the primordial soup—prepare yourself and your reflexes as you face off against challenging and unique enemies with varied attack characteristics such as: Edgelord, Snowflake, and Snuggle Bear.
Content: This game’s content includes a wealth of watercolor artwork, characters, and music that is completely scratch made. Float your way across beautifully stylized cellular landscapes while engaging with memorable hand-drawn characters.
Features: This game features an ability upgrade system for your character. Choose the evolutionary traits that you want to keep that suit your gameplay style.
Game Discussion
Steam User 0
Nova Drift clone? If you look at the studio's page, it's made by one or more students from Michigan State. It's free and it's a pleasant fun 15 minutes to 1 hour waste of time.
If I think of it as a finished indie game, it's terrible. If I think of it as a student portfolio project/ demo/ early access, it's very promising and interesting.
The animation and sound-design is good. The entire thing has a biological feel to it. It can be fun or frustrating depending on your choice of build.
As for feedback. A few more upgrades, or an infinite/ repeatable upgrade mechanic would have really helped the game. Some skills are also buggy (mitosis in particular). Also the background/ environment design is terrible from a game design perspective, as it's very hard to figure out what's actually going to interact with you on-screen, vs what's just some aesthetic background element.
There's very little really to give a negative review here, given the background of the studio, and the fact that it's free. Expect an interesting concept, like you would see on itch.io, not a full rogue-lite bullet-heaven.
Steam User 0
Short, simple, and funny bullet hell game. Good variety of upgrades and enemies. Mild difficulty. There's some replay-ability in the way that you can create different core weapon/shield combinations.
Steam User 1