Cleared Hot
CLEARED HOT is a top-down helicopter shooter with unscripted physics and light tactical elements. Shoot, dodge, move your troops around the battlefield, and pick up just about anything with your rope and electro-magnet.
With fully physics-based action, even your fails are fun. Send enemies ragdolling through the air with your rockets. Load more troops onto your helicopter, and feel the weight change. Dodge heat seeking rockets that actively try to chase you down.
The action is even hotter at night. Fly under the cover of darkness, and utilize your night vision or thermal goggles to get the jump on the enemy. Just try to keep track of which soldiers are on your side!
You’re basically a taxi…with a minigun. Transport troops to take enemy territory, or position them to defend your own base. Deploy them wisely to complete your objectives, and try not to drop too many along the way.
Haul a**…and just about anything else. The electro-magnet allows you to transport vehicles and objects around the map to support your ground troops. Steal enemy vehicles, and bring them back to your base. You can pick up anything that’s not tied down, so get creative.
- Quickplay mode so you can get into the action right away
- Single-player campaign- are you a bad enough dude to rescue the president?
- Fly multiple helicopters, and use their unique strengths for your mission
- Customizable loadouts
- Upgrades and unlockable weapons
- Day and Night modes
- Physics-based interaction rewards your curiosity and creativity
- Rope and Electro-magnet let you move vehicles and objects around the map
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Game Discussion
Steam User 275
Um, YES
10 minutes was all I needed to know this game is exactly like the Urban/Desert/Jungle/Nuclear/Soviet Strike games of the past and that's exactly what I wanted!
Steam User 155
This is how games were back in 90's. Pure fun, cheesy lines, damn good music.
Great game.
More missons please!
Buy it.
Steam User 117
Hits that spot for Desert/Jungle/Urban Strike memberberries. Lots of fun.
Steam User 131
30 years ago, I was a kid following my parents on an evening stroll around the town in China. We walked past a computer shop and I was attracted by the sound of video game inside. I stopped and watched them playing a game, where a helicopter was flying over enemy bases in the desert, shooting and firing missiles, and picking up barrels of fuel. I was instantly hooked, but my PC at the time was too old to run any games like that. So it remained a childhood dream of mine... until NOW!
Clear Hot lets me relive this childhood dream! Inspired by the classic Desert Strike (the game I saw as a kid), everything felt just like what I remembered, with modern controls and 3D graphics. The music was lit and combat was intense, and it even expanded the original concept with your own base. Being a fellow indie developer, I can feel the love and excitement of the devs!
There are some opportunities for improvement, especially with combat:
- Aiming the crosshair onto enemy targets feels difficult due to the camera movements.
- The minigun "heat level" is shown on the player helo but my eyes are not there during combat. It should be near the crosshair
- There are lots of objects that you can pick up but most are color-coded red, making me wonder if they are supposed to be destructible. Probably need more color coding
- The process of picking up objects feels OK enough, but I still struggles at times
Camera work is going to be the most challenging part to develop, I went through the same troubles working on Tunguska: The Visitation. It's a constant battle between motion sickness and not able to see far enough and getting shot by enemies outside the screen - a signature problem for top-down view shooters. I had to implement a lot of nuanced camera movements to reduce discomfort.
Steam User 79
My parents lived paycheck to paycheck. On rare and special ocassion we would rent either a Super Nintendo or a Nintendo 64 from the local video store. Needless to say, what games we chose to go along with the rental were sacred. On one of those occasions, I saw a helicopter on the box and couldn't resist. A game called jungle Strike.
Today, Im almost 40. Finding time to play video games can be difficult let alone feeling any sort of nostalgia from playing them. This game. Wow. I was 12 years old again, the same energy I felt long ago. The soundtrack, the sound, the gameplay brought me back to my childhood living room, sitting with my brothers, fighting over the controller. Im excited to keep playing. Thank you.
Steam User 91
I bought this for my dad after we saw a game review on youtube. He's been playing on my pc and absolutely loving it. He's been able to relive his teen days; sitting down and playing desert & jungle strike on the mega drive. I seriously hope there'll be more updates, I wish to see my dad happy more often.
Steam User 78
Who played old games like Desert strike or Nuclear strike will feel like a 80s/90s kid again! Greate game for several minutes session or for a bit longer. Only bad thing is that there isn't too much content in the game yet, but it will improve in the future. And it's cheap!