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PewPew – Action Game Review
PewPew is a Action/Casual game from Jean-Francois Geyelin, first launched in 1st June 2009.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 67+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes PewPew Stand Out
PewPew is a multidirectional shoot them up akin to Geometry Wars. Expect retro graphics, megatons of enemies, and a frame rate rarely achieved by other games.
On the other hand, don't expect a story: this game is for serious gamers.
There are FIVE different game modes:
• Pandemonium:
Some enemies explode when they die, and the other spin maniacally everywhere. Hide from the explosions or deftly go through them.
• Dodge this:
As you collect boxes, there are more and more enemies moving around. Naturally, you have to dodge them all.
• Assault:
You fight against waves of enemies. Spoiler: at the end, they win and you die.
• Chromatic Conflict (NSF color blinds):
Enemies of different color appear. You can only destroy the ones that are the same color as your ship.
• Asteroids:
Need I say more?
Features:
⁂ High frame-rate (honestly, this is what defines this game)
⁂ Finely tuned game-play (oh, and this too)
⁂ Online leader boards
⁂ Online replays
⁂ Some sweet music
⁂ Unlockable ships
⁂ Support Game Controller
⁂ No ads, no analytics. nada.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, PewPew is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th April 2016
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
• New rendering options (available in the settings).
• Game Controller support.
• Tons of small modifications.
Download & Availability
PewPew is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We grew up playing this game on our dads phone and was reminded of it recently. After downloading we were able to just jump right back in and Ive been playing for a couple of days now. Super fun with the right amount of challenge.
If you loved that game growing up get his game. Its that simple. Absolutely amazing out of the box.
You dont even need wifi to play and its awesome to just compete with your friends or play in the car or late at night.
We love it so much we play every day and its super fun to play, like geometry wars but free and more atari like game! Get PewPew if you havent! And no ads too.
This game is amazing, just downloaded it 5 mins ago and Im having lots of fun, its a very chaotic game and is really difficult.
We played this when we were younger on our tablet and we loved it we are so glad it is in the App Store now the nostalgia we are hoping you can put pewpew 2 on the App Store or update this game and add more features.
Played this at a hotel. Played this at home. Played this in the shower. Played this everywhere. All more than 4 years ago til now.
SO GLAD we FOUND THIS GEM!!!! KEEP THEM COMING!!!! 10 out of 10.
The only thing wrong with the game is its lack of publicity.
We love this game But, why can't we download pewpew 2 we like to play this game But we want to download pewpew 2. When ever we try to download that game, it says The purchase wasn't completed. Please help us out if you can.
Fun game! Also…what does the u.s. ITunes app store have against system optimizer apps, system memory refreshing apps, & battery boosting apps? Seriously! Every time we find one that does it all, inevitably the app store phases it out. These types of utilities are readily available in every other store, but not in the u.s. Store. It's as though apple doesn't want it's customers to be able to enjoy the benefits of this type of utility, and they don't have the right to decide that for their customers. (and yet they have done just that) hasn't anyone out there noticed this? We cannot be the only person.
We like that game because it is a starship shooter that goes through each level without stopping to regroup. The action comes at you from all around and leaves you pewpew out of control.
Please, creator. Please add a story please. (And make it offline please.)Ill change our review to 5 if ya do.
It is pretty good but where is pew pew 2.
This reminds us of Geometry wars. Very easy to pick up and play. Fast paced and extremely frustrating lol. But the game screen is shifted to the right so badly that we can barely steer and many options are unavailable. We have an updated iPhone 6. Fix this and for sure it would be an awesome game.
Overall great game been playing it for years. The main issue we have is the buttons for navigation, selecting a game, starting a game and using the keyboard to enter in name hotspots are off as much as a while key on the keyboard. Please fix this as it has caused frustration.
We had this game for our old android phone the nexus 5 and we loved it. We were so happy they re-wrote it for iOS but the screen is un adjustable so you cant steer or aim that well. A quick patch could fix this problem fast and earn it 5 stars.
IPhone 7 Plus, game is in lower left hand corner and buttons are off.
The game doesn't use the whole screen on pew pew or pewpew2 big letdown please fix.
Title says it all. But it looks like the resolution is capped to iPhone 6 and displays in the bottom left corner of the screen instead of scaling or positioning itself in the center of the screen.
A well made game. If you can, add customizable parts to modify ships for more shields or speed or add more ships.
This game had been one of our favorite apps for a while for many good reasons. Its fun, runs smooth, and looks great.
It's free!! Controls are perfect for us, any time we can move with one stick and multi-directional shoot with another. Thank you Jean-Francois.
We love it! It's the coolest game we think we've ever played.
We have unlocked all of the ships, we think they should give a different gun or something. Gonna try #2 Now :D.
This game is great. We really do recommend this game to people who like long hard games. If you like overwhelming odds but blast your way through them we encourage you to try this game.
We would totally rate 6 stars if we could. Pew pew is so frickin awesome!!!!!!!!! Nuff said.
This game is our favorite passtime as a joke we typed in pew pew in the app store and found this.
(Its Opposite Day)This game has terrible (amazing) controls , disgusting (super amazing) graphics , horrible (good) gameplay. , crappyist (best) amount of gameplay modes , its absolutely THE WORST (best) shootumup game on IOS besides r type Just kidding ITS GREAT.
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Works perfectly on our old iPad1. Tons of retro shooter Fun on this game.
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Nuff said. Pretty good game ^_^.
Love it! This game is so cooooooool! But please just add a 3D vision kinda thing when you are playing. Like the replay.
It's a great game, but after the update it deleted ALL our high scores. :(.
Wow, we're obsessed with this game, although we're afraid it's ruining our eyesight.
We absolutely love this game! It comes with different game modes & we cant put this down even though we should be studying for finals.
The game is awesome and so much fun! We can't get enough of it! :D.
This game is so cool!!! We love the music that they put with the game!!! This game is a must have.
Truly amazing game none like no other we really can not believe that we have not found out about this game earlier.
This game is sooooooooooo!!!!!!! Great.
The one game we truly missed from our Nexus 7. It plays great! We are so glad to have it back! Once we get warmed up again we are so buying Pew Pew II.
Much better than geometry wars.
Ive had this app for four years and we haven't gotten gold metals on all of them but we always use this app as an outlet to pass some time. Challenging at times but we enjoy it. Wish it updated regardless of PewPew 2.
Ok, if you read the title, you would've thought that that's all we would say about this game. WRONG! Pew Pew is a fun twin-stick shooter with 5 modes. Pandemonium is your normal, everyday Geometry Wars clone where you fly around and shoot enemies. Dodge This throws you into a room with boxes and a ton of enemies. You have to collect the boxes, but the catch is you can't shoot the enemies. Assault throws a crapload of triangle enemies coming at you. Asteroids is where you shoot space rocks and see how many rounds you can survive. The last mode spawns a bunch of color coded enemies that you have to shoot down near a… Triforce? We don't even know. This is a great game, but don't get it if you're not a fan of really hard games.
It is a good game, very good for waiting. It is really fun to play the different games and beat our family members on our family iPad.
It's fun but we're not a huge fan of this version.
Well made. Some balancing needed with spawn rate of blue triangles in later levels. Another huge thing that is needed is Invincibility frames after we are hit. Nothing too extreme like 5 seconds. Just long enough to ensure we don't lose 5 shield in .23 seconds. Other than that we enjoyed it. Although we can't give it a five star review because… Geometry wars. (we feel that is fair).
A friend recommended it. Didn't know at first, but now we're addicted! We're telling all of our friends.
We love Geo Wars its the same as this game and give it 5 stars because you can finlly play it on the App Store.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.5
- Size: 11.78 MB
- iOS: 9.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: Jean-Francois Geyelin
Last updated: 4th April 2016 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: Jean-Francois Geyelin