Hot Tentacles Shooter

[b]TL;DR[/b] A really solid shoot 'em up with some really solid art, a love letter to traditional arcade shooters with a lewd twist on it. + Really comfortable and intuitive gameplay + Music is atmospheric and appropriate + Lewd art is plentiful and well made, especially with multiple outfits to choose from + Gameplay promotes a more aggressive and risk-reward approach without being too unfair - No tentacle-related sexual content despite it being pretty hinted at - Missiles feel rather useless to use ----------------------------------------------- [h1]--- Overview ---[/h1] Hot Tentacles Shooter places you in the role of Alish, an ace pilot hired by Queen Aka to rescue 20 female warriors captured by alien tentacles. Battle against waves of alien enemies ever-increasing in their threat and defeat enough of them to free the captured warriors from their tentacled foes! [h1]--- First Impressions ---[/h1] The game starts on a great note, giving you the option to choose what degree of clothing you'd prefer the ladies wear. They can wear nothing at all, some swimsuits, or presumably their soldier uniforms but I couldn't get that part to actually work. You start off with a short text crawl giving you all you really need to know, get a refresher on controls, and then are placed in the main menu with some really appropriate music. I found the sound design to be on point, really doing its part to make the game feel like that arcade shooter it was looking to emulate. Shots sounded good, explosions weren't overly bombastic, and it just stayed true to that minimalistic shoot 'em up you'd find in an arcade cabinet. [h1]--- Character Design ---[/h1] With 22 girls (including the main girl and the Queen), you'd expect there to be some issues in body type. Surprisingly, the game does a great job of providing a variety of different faces, body types, breast size, and even the welcome addition of some other visual characteristics such as moles, glasses, heterochromia, pubic hair, and muscle definition. I really found that each girl looked unique. The interesting character blurbs you get upon freeing each girl is really nice to have. The dialogue in it can be a tiny bit rough or incorrect in terms of grammar, but nothing too overly important as it is still perfectly coherent. With just these short bios on the characters, we learn all we really need to know about them. [h1]--- The LEWDS ---[/h1] To my surprise, there is no actual tentacle porn in the game. Instead, during the levels, girls are merely covered with a tentacle overlay, not being violated or anything, merely covered up. Upon rescuing them, the tentacles vanish and the girl is revealed. If you are playing with nudity enabled, you'll only get full-frontal nudity with some varying poses and facial expresses of the girls. If you are playing without nudity enabled, you get some tasteful yet personality-appropriate swimsuits for them to wear instead. I found the lewds to be tasteful if perhaps not a bit too tame. The girls are absolutely plenty cute enough to stand on their own, but I did feel like the overtone of the game being about tentacles and tentacled enemies left perhaps a bit of an expectation of actual tentacle sex, but alas, no such thing is in the game as of yet. The gallery is great, allowing you to quickly view each character and the final two full-screen scenes involving Alish in what is the only time she can show up nude, but I do kind of wish I also could view the character bios from the gallery as well. [h1]--- Gameplay Overview ---[/h1] I found the gameplay to be really enjoyable. It doesn't challenge you immediately, instead starting you off really easily to understand the controls and what does what. It gradually adds new elements into the game until it eventually gets to the point of being overwhelming and chaotic, meaning you have to start focusing and really thinking through a lot of your actions, taking damage when necessary to perhaps get to a more advantageous spot. You do get a few upgrades and abilities that you can use, as well. Picking up weapon-related upgrades in the mission gives you better types of ammunition to be used against enemies and while this is awesome by itself, I found the fact that you'll lose that upgrade and have to pick up a new one if you get hit to be a great balance and a smart way to curb the player just plowing through later levels, even if they still aren't terribly difficult. You also have a shield that you can use to plow through enemies and deal some damage to bosses while simultaneously being invulnerable for the duration of the shield. This is a great last-minute save when the screen is full of enemies and is a good way to get a breath of air in what can otherwise feel like a hopeless situation. Perhaps the worst upgrade you have are the missiles, which you need to stop firing normally in order to activate. While they deal a decent amount of damage, they are slow and rather unhelpful in the missions aside from perhaps some early damage against the bosses. For the most part, I can't recommend using the missiles. Unlike a lot of these types of games, you don't complete missions by making it to the end. You complete missions by defeating enough enemies to fill up a gauge to fulfill the objective and continue to the next stage. I think this is a great way to incentivize the player to go with a more aggressive playstyle and is something I found to be really well thought-out. [h1]--- Issues / Bugs ---[/h1] · The store page calls the main character "Sofia," except the main character is named Alish, also refers to her as male at one point [h1]--- Final Thoughts ---[/h1] A really enjoyable shoot 'em up against an alien race revolving around tentacles, it's a fun experience made only better by the cute girls it rewards you with. While there is only nudity and no true sexual content, there is a fantastic sense of balance between the gameplay enjoyment and the delightful nudes you get out of it. Overall a solid experience and one I'd love to see expanded upon in the future. [b]If you like my stuff, you can view my curator page [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40740064/] HERE [/url] c:

Top-tier pixelbooba.. but that's not all this game is about. Solid casual STG, a great example of including adult content in a tasteful way that doesn't detract from the core gameplay. Fantastic pixel art and audio! Gameplay wise was fine but could be improved: * Ship hitbox is way too big (feels like a square on the sprite model at times)- smaller internal hitbox is usually more fun :) * Boss stages of very similar "get rid of these 3 things" became boring once you figure out the patterns. Limited replay. I had a fun and refreshing experience and would love to play more games like this. Cool devs & publishers, really nice art, let's go 👍

Pretty nice shmup, very simple, not too difficult. The pixel art is gorgeous. I enjoyed reading the descriptions for every girl. Unfortunately all you get here is nudity, for being about aliens and tentacles theres a complete lack of good old tentacle hentai.

Fun game, nice art style (not just the P**n, but the enemies and UI as well), good music/sound effects. The later levels are very unbalanced though. Since the (horizontal) conga lines of small enemies completely block every shot of your basic weapon the stronger enemies can stack up behind them, showering you with bullets and giving you NO space to move at all. You can clear the screen with the barrier, but the weapon upgrades are sometimes so rare that the screen gets filled up with enemies before you get a new one. Possible improvements: -) smaller hitbox; the ship feels bigger than it looks -) some weapon that shots at a bit to the side so your movement isn't completely blocked by the vertical conga lines -) a few i-frames when picking up an upgrade. So many times I thought I could grab a weapons upgrade to get some breathing room, but I get hit instantly and loose the upgrade. -) something else, I don't know, I'm not a game designer??

The girls are cute enough, but it's not enough to save what is just an extremely short poorly designed shmup. I beat the whole game in just over 30 minutes, and the levels towards the end were just pure luck and become pretty BS to deal with. ran into multiple menu and audio bugs as well.

Fun with a classic feel. Starts off simple and then gets tyrannically hard. Would have never known about it as there is almost no ads for it. Glad to have picked it up. If you like a cheeky shump that harkens back to yesteryear for a good price. Give it your support.

This program is a Trojan according to Windows Defender! Bad, very Bad. As for the game its a very rudimentary Shmup, better stick with more polished games like Raiden series, but I guess you get what you paid for....

It's short, and it gets harder the farther you go. Though this may be on a different console, the one thing that's great about the PC version is that you get to be aroused by the erotic nakedness of all these fair maidenz. These devs sure have a lot going for them. And I hope to see more of what they got.

It's a SHMUP, it's retro, it's bullet-hell, it's got power-ups, it's lewd, it's got nakie babes, it's got tentacles! 😊 Any questions?

On Playstation I got the Platinum Trophy for bragging right and on Steam I got nudie pics for cultural rights. Pick your dessert, gentlemen.

I love dumb horny anime stuff but this is by far the absolute worst controlling shmup I have ever played.

The ship's hit box is huge but this game is definitely a good one.

currently, Windows considers the application to be a trojan.

Hot Tentacles Shooter is an intense game that strikes a balance between being nostalgic and creative. Gameplay has players moving their starfighter around the screen as they take down the enemy ships while dodging their attacks. Along the way; you will pick up health and power-ups that will give you a slight edge. Once each mission is complete, a hostage is rescued revealing them to the player. At the end of each stage, players will then go one on one with the boss. Unlike the other foes, the stage boss will present their own challenges that will require the player to think fast. Do expect to die multiple times before having a good idea of your enemy. After that, you just need the right strategy. 

Simple, but fun shmup with good art. Different body types are another positive trait of this rather short game. A bit challenging at the end, but not overly complex.

My German friends can't buy this so it makes playing it all the sweeter.

Game play is repetitive, needs more ships.