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Steredenn – Action Game Review
Steredenn is a Action/Casual game from TyGAMES, first launched in 14th May 2017.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 558+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Steredenn Stand Out
Steredenn: Binary Stars is an award-winning mashup of a classic shmup and a rogue-like, carved in big beautiful pixels, with insane boss battles. Fly solo, fighting off the worst scourges of space in a never-ending struggle for survival.
Steredenn: Binary Stars is the critically acclaimed roguelike-shmup for PC/Mac, Xbox One, PS4 and Nintendo Switch, awarded "Best Shoot'em Up 2015" by jeuxvideo.com. With a user rating around 90% on Steam and an average press rating of 8/10, it is now available on iOS!
Steredenn: Binary Stars is the hugely expanded version of Steredenn. Enjoy infinite replayability and unforgiving gameplay through intense boss fights, (almost) randomly generated environments, twisted space events and a massive arsenal of weapons. Enhance your ship during your flight with upgrades aplenty, and forge your own path across the universe!
► Features
- QUICK, INTENSE SESSIONS: with rock-hard boss battles that’ll keep you coming back for “just one more run”.
- INFINITE REPLAYABILITY: Endless arcade action, where levels are (practically) randomly-generated.
- 4 PLAYABLE SHIPS: each with its own special ability and playstyle.
- MIGHTY ARSENAL: 42 weapons and 30 upgrades with tons of customisation options. Driller, ultralaser, giant saw, robots, hypergun? We got you covered. Next-gen abilities, mysterious alien powers, improved weapons? Yep, there's an upgrade for that.
- SCORING: beat your friends and be the best!
- BOSS RUSH: fight a weekly selection of epic bosses and work your way up the leaderboard.
- DAILY RUN: Try to get to number one in a special daily leaderboard where all players share the same run, guns and bosses. Be ready – you only get one chance per day!
- ARENA: Unlock a boss by defeating it in the main game. Then, train against it in a 1-on-1 duel. Your guns, your laws, your fight.
- THE ULTIMATE EDITION: Loads of new content, reworked balancing, scoring, optimisation & always more polish.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Steredenn is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 15th January 2019
Recent improvements include:
It's time. Binary Stars is here. And it's the definitive edition of Steredenn!
- 4 playable ships with unique abilities (Tempest, Fortress, Fury and Specialist). Each has a unique playstyle. New ships are unlocked after you beat certain bosses.
- Boss Rush mode. Fight a weekly selection of epic bosses and work your way up the leaderboard.
- New content: 18 weapons, 5 upgrades, 2 bosses, 6 secret bosses, 7 artefacts, 42 waves, 4 events, 14 environments and 3 audio tracks.
- Cargos can drop medkits.
- Improved UI, texts, balance and scoring.
Download & Availability
Steredenn 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:
Hands down this game is good, but we kinda wanted to see if the developers can add an archive mechanic in the game so you can see what kinds of weapons, enemies, bosses, Secrets, etc, you unlocked during each run you play, if this game can get it then this will be The Game of the Century of the Mobile Gaming Space.
One of the most fun games Ive ever played yet the Red Baron isnt on mobile. Ive seen talks abt how there would be control issues but we think it would be fine. Please devs. Just add it.
One day we will kick your butt, giant battleship! Buy this game if you love shoot 'em ups of the days of yore. We see the bullets in our sleep. We want the guided rockets and the helixer to bless our ship.
Tons of fun, great dynamic forms of enemies and bosses, despite its repetitive nature it doesnt get boring due the variability in outcomes each time through. Great game overall.
Do you know what will be cool if when you destroy the mother ship it wont blow up but that frigate that is destroyed at the beginning will fly in and shoot a giant laser to destroy it that would be cool also can you increase the heath on the fury because its a good ship and it has a really cool ability but it only takes like two hits from bosses to destroy it.
One of the best Updates in video game history. Its so much fun on mobile and Console. The New ships are amazing and all the new weapons and soundtracks are so cool, not to mention the secret bosses. Our small problem is we found out the Red Baron was a ship that you could unlock. So we found out how to get to this secret boss that you can unlock. We go on Mobile. We get to the Red Baron on our first try, and we beat the Red Baron on our first try… But then we dont unlock the Red Baron. We were really disappointed, but we can still unlock it on Console. We hope you guys read this and add the Red Baron to Mobile Version if the best Shmup Ever.
Love the game but we wish that it supported the screen size of the iPhone X.
Im extremely offended by the amount of violence in this game! So much shooting and blowing up, we cant stand it. The developers should completely remake the game for kids 3 and under that educates the youth of this country.
Enjoyed it on Xbox, enjoyed it here.
Its a 4.75 stars for us but thats not an option so 5 it is. Its really fun and the controls are easy enough but they can be a little inconvenient and times with the accidental weapon swapping. Adding more ships would be great and even more weapons would be awesome too. We give it 4.75 because there is an RNG aspect and some bosses are harder than others and also depending on their attack pattern it can be harder or easier. Otherwise excellent.
We have literally no issues or complaints about the game. The soundtrack is hype. The ships are unique balanced and really cool in design. The amount of detail that was able to be put into a game of this 8bit style is astonishing. We never get bored due to the challenging ever changing bosses and the amount of unique weapons and upgrades (power ups). 10/10 would recommend.
Great game, every penny worth, we love it, we hope they will continue and make more games like this, compared to other shooters out there, this one is on the very Top.
Fast paced and glorious! The best part is, you always know that it was you fault when you die.
This is a great shmup for passing the time or intense gaming sessions.
Everything about the game is fun, accept black bars on the sides of the screen for the iPhone XS Max. Can you possibly fix that.
Shmup on touch controls done right; Only issue is that game starts in high sensitivity. Just the right amount of progression whether youre just playing a round to unwind or want to go hard into the loops. The massive and final expansion should be here at some point. Cant wait. Edit: ITS HERE GO TELL GRANDPA.
We love the game we had doubts about it because it didnt seem our type. But after playing it it quickly changed our mind. Do please make the screen fit for IPhone Xs and above please.
This game is so well done and put together. From the smooth and action-packed animation to the way the weapons work together. What a great game.
We leave about 1 app review a year and this game is it. So dang hard and so amazing. Id love to see this grow into something epic.
Wonderfully responsive and polished gameplay, addictive yet satisfying roguelike game mechanics, pretty graphics, and all wrapped up in a pay once package. We nasty micro transactions, grinding or coins to be seen. We play this game a lot out of pure enjoyment and desire to get better at it, not pressure to collect coins! PS thanks for making the upgrade to V2 free.
We had been aware of this game from Wanderbots YouTube/Twitch channel and got it when it first came out on iOS with version 1. Since then, Ive been a fan of the game. So far, we have access to the 4 ships and they really do add major gameplay changes. New power ups, new weapons and improvements on the old weapons too. Right now we have only one complaint is with the Specialist ship in later stages because we have observed performance drop with lots of bullets on the screen. It is especially bad if the device goes into night time mode and dropping bots and swapping them sometimes doesnt take with the touch controls. Movement also is buggy only for the Specialist with two booster drones and max bots. But this is just one of the ships and doesnt detract from the rest of the game.
By far the best game on our iPhone.
We beat the Red Baron, and because the playable version isnt in the game, it feels kinda worthless Otherwise a great game 5/5.
Thanks so much for finally bringinging Binary Stars to iOS! Ive been hoping for this for a long time now and Im really excited to dig into the new massive update. 5/5 Definitelly recommend.
The pixel style is colorful and offer a more detailed feel for the sci fi lovers. This game produces a level of excitement we dont usually feel for these types of space shooter games. You have more control over your weaponry than other shooters (that auto fire). The music deals the deal.
We just don't understand why there are no upgrades for the ships so we can already slowly progress. How am we supposed to get further if we can't level up anything after we've died. There are no permanent upgrades so we just always end up getting as far as we did before cos we're using the same level ship. And the upgrades we get during battle don't seem to do much. We usually only find 1 maybe 2 that we could really use. But we still like this game and we're still trying to get further. Trying to figure things out. Cos we mean we payed for the game. We should be able to get further we hope. Without upgrading ships.
Wheres that luscious yearly update, we really love it but the Red Baron isnt a playable ship, why is that.
Steredenn is a great game with many wonderful aspects. The new update has improved it grately, however it has come to our attention that mobile doesn't have the red Baron ship, all other platforms do. That's our only issue, but other than that, grate game.
We liked the game ang waited for an update. We really like its difficulty, very hardcore but as we wated for an update, the screen is still not at full screen on our iphone x -.-.
As one would expect with any SHMUP type game with touch controls this one is held back from greatness by the control scheme. The placement of the pause button is troublesome as well, especially when playing as the Fury ship, it takes 3-4 presses to finally register and by then Ive already either taken damage that we shouldnt have or Ive teleported across the screen into a hail of bullets. It is a really fun game despite that.
We are a big fan of this game, the only things that we could complain about are the stubborn drag to move controlls and the fact that this game is not scale to fit the iPhone X. If you fix these two things the game will be perfect.
Awesome games but it tends to heat up our phone regardless if our phone is on Airplane Mode, WiFi is off and the screen brightness is low. Please fix ASAP.
Super fun old school shooter with metal soundtrack. Never gets old. Cant be beat.
This game is truly amazing, and in all honesty we believe that it deserves a sequel.
Clearly a labor of love, pulled off with skill & style. Accumulating powerups as long as you survive is addictive in the best way. We've only been playing for a few days but we're hooked + looking forward to more.
Not usually a big fan of this genre, but this game is awesome. Some of the guns we avoid 99% of the time or even start a run over if we see something awful for our first gun drop. Id say we put in 10-12 hours before getting the #10 iOS score. It gets progressively harder the farther you go, in a very balanced, good way. Fun-to-learn patterns give this high replay value. If youre skeptical about the controls, this is also available on Steam, but we rarely had problems with the intuitive touch controls.
Doesnt seem like this game gets a lot of play. A shamea hidden gem for shoot em up fans.
We bought this on iPad and iPhone, same Apple ID. Its asking us to pay 3.99 again on our iPhone, even though its installed on our iPad. Whats the deal?? Please fix bug.
Really awesome game. Make coop.
For those who like old arcade games, this is a modern version of a side scroller that is amazing. So much fun to play.
You dont play because its easy, and thats the same reason we went to the moon. This aint for the faint of heart, its for people with bravery in their soul. See you on the battlefield. Commander, signing out.
Very good game, had us restarting over and over again, yet we can't find ourselves getting angry at it. Excellently crafted.
Not quite Like the PC like others but the simplest things just confuse us, why doesnt it have the same features?… Would be nice if we could fight the boss we discovered and want with the weapons we discovered and want on arena.
Best game this year. Its nice to play a game that doesnt want you to spend money as you play.
This game is the perfect game to play when youre bored or even when youre not. Its fast paced, exciting, and visually amazing. Hoping there are more updates in the future though, like the ability to use more ships or to customize your current ship.
Should we start out by saying we never leave reviews, but for this game…? Umm nah . In short, this game is pretty amazing so far. Old-school mixed with some enticing new weaponry, phenomenal pixel art, and a metal soundtrack? Sign us up! Two super minor complaints and then Ill shut up. 1) The Arena seems to be just one boss fight and done? A Boss Rush mode similar to Beat Hazard would be gosh dang swell. 2) Were in space. Bullet casings dont just fall straight down in space Im pretty sure. Cmon devs . Seriously though very nice work with this.
We've been playing this game on over since it released and loved every part of it The fact that we can play this on the go is even better,even if the controls are a bit odd.
"we had to say we love your game, it's classic, joyful and last of at least sick boss battles with awesome weapons, but we wish if you guys can give this game a campaign Function, so that way many players like we would enjoy the storyline and including upgrades for the ship, and abilities to make it more epic, we hope this will be the idea for you guys to make your game even better than before".
Great game. Levels are randomly generated which makes each replay enjoyable. We purchased for a pick-up-and-play game for short bus rides, but we will play at home for hours.
We'd almost almost buy a controller just for this game. Controls are as good as they can be for being on a touch screen.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 2.0.0
- Size: 403.35 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: TyGAMES
Last updated: 15th January 2019 | Genre: Action, Casual | Developer: TyGAMES