Reviews

• gamedeal user

  May 31, 2022

  A psychedelic front running shooter with groovy music, sounds, and voices. You must collect sheep/llamas and additional ships that allow you to switch in realtime that offer different abilities that might prove useful in the current situation you find yourself in. You can rotate the ship to shooting enemies from every direction. The action is fast and furious, hectic to play and best played with an xbox controller. The graphics are wild and truly something to behold. The game hails from Jeff Minter of Llamasoft. For all those familiar with his work you know it is something truly unique and not found anywhere else. The game can be played with a controller but a mouse is sooo much easier. Highly recommended. Buy it!
• gamedeal user

  Sep 23, 2014

  Gridrunner Rev is the oft overlooked Llamasoft game. I sorta get why, it's not the most approachable despite being clearly designed -to be- the most approachable. That said, it's a little hard to grasp as it exists in its own world and with its own language. Exploding suns, flowers, pretty colours yet really, it's a fairly straightforward game to play with a strong scoring mechanic. Essentially, the prettier a pattern you make on screen with your bullets, the higher you score. If nothing else, that's different, right? If I had to pull it on anything it's that it locks the best part of the game behind an awful unlock system. You have to wade through a slow and slightly uninteresting group of stages before the high score mayhem can begin in earnest. Again, a clear attempt to draw people in but let's be realistic here, Gridrunner Rev is -for- the kind of people who really enjoy score chasing. And y'know, when the whole screen explodes around you with the Neon effects in the background it's quite the sight to behold. So yeah, a bit janky round the edges, attempts at accessibility that fall a little flat but a great underloved gem that given some time to gel makes for a good companion piece to Space Giraffe.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 5, 2016

  great psychedelic retro arcade action. if you are waiting for it to go on sale, don't hold your breath because i have owned this game on steam for six years and not once in that time do i ever recall seeing this game sold at a discounted price. also i think they ditched the leaderboards like five years ago so don't expect that part of the game to work if you buy it today.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 14, 2016

  This is Minter at his very best, one of the best shmups on Steam - highly recommended
• gamedeal user

  Oct 11, 2017

  Gameplay wise this game is "okay." There are other super psychedelic shooters/space invader-clones that are better though. Better in that there are others that offer more challenge, better sound (Gridrunner can become rather annoying), and more interesting/confusing/intense visuals. I'd put it down to still being an alright little indie game, but.. BUT, initial load time is horrific. My system isn't the newest, but for a game this primative to take almost a solid 2 minutes to load on an I7 hexacore, 64GB RAM, GTX1080 system.... the lack of optimisation in the code is mindblowing.
• gamedeal user

  Jun 7, 2020

  Awesome psychedelic crazy 2D space shoot-em-up game! Jeff Minter at his best, always creating something original, visually intense and clever.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 6, 2020

  This game is such a goddamn mess. Nothing about the visuals or sound works and I have no idea why it has "Very Positive" reviews on average. It is hot garbage. I legitimately have nothing good to say about it because it is just too busy and has no coherent design.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 3, 2013

  excellent shump it looks weird as hell, and it is. but.... the control scheme is a work of genius and its one of those games where when you get in the zone your score flies, you end up playing on instinct picking up visual and aural queues that get you through the bullet hell of the later vindaloo and phaal levels. (yeah the dificulty levels are named after strengths of curry!)
• gamedeal user

  Jan 20, 2014

  Llamasoft!
• gamedeal user

  Feb 15, 2014

  If you're of a certain age, then the name Geoff Minter and Llamasoft with bring back memories of bonkers games played on the Commodore Vic20, C64 and beyond. Full of sheep, graphics that induce LSD type trances and later, hypnotic trance music, Llamasoft games are an experience beyond just merely shooting things, you find youself zoning out and playing with your subconscious. Gridrunner Revolution is classic Llamasoft at its best and the bonus Vic20 mode unlocked after completing the first level set (all levels named after increasingly strong curries) will take you back to your misplaced youth. If you grew up playing Playstation or Xbox games, then there will be a huge dose of WTF and this game will probably not be for you. Go search youtube for some gameplay videos if you are unsure. If you want a surreal, hypnotic blaster, then this is money well spent.