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HEIANKYO ALIEN / 平安京エイリアン

86% positive of 30 Steam reviews

Released: 2017
Steam Deck: Not tested
Platforms: Steam

Made by Mindware.

About the game

The Heiankyo Alien, developed on a personal computer and released in 1979 as an arcade game from Denki Onkyo, is now ported and arranged for Windows! Arranged version "Heiankyo Alien 3671" is a time-based game, overwhelmingly addictive and euphoric, with new features such as seven items buried in the field, various scoring tactics, simultaneous play for up to four players. More aggressive game strategy leads to more advantage! No matter how many times you get killed, the game is not over as long as you have time remaining, so aggressiveness pays off! Enjoy this extraordinary euphoric gameplay by demonstrating your aggressiveness.

Tagged by players

Action
Arcade
Pixel Graphics
Retro

What players say

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Positive

What players say

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Mindware's best classic remake yet. Sort of a PacMan CE DX-style 5-minute time attack, but high scores are based more on careful planning and landing a big payout in the final seconds rather than the constant "in the zone" type scoring of Pac. Great music and audio queues. It's been updated really frequently since release, lots of bug fixes and tweaks for the better. I do find a lot of the default effects to be…
2.7 h played when written. 10 found it helpful.
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Recommended
So, do you remember games like Pac-Man and enjoy Pac-Man Championship Edition? Or just plain like arcade games? Well, this is the game for you then! Heiankyo Alien is just an excellent arcade game about digging holes and burying aliens alive as they scream for mercy, sure, the game looks simple but man, it gets hard and frantic pretty damn fast! Add a good soundtrack to that and you get one addictive and awesome…
12 h played when written. 6 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
I came to this having grown up playing the Game Boy version of "Heiankyo Alien." I wish this version of the game had adapted some of the innovations of that Game Boy port; the nicer graphics, the multiple breeds of alien, the little boats to escape on, the undiggable areas of ground, the disappearing barriers, and I particularly miss that awesome soundtrack by Norio Nakagata. This port is just sort of okay, though…
8 min played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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