HELLDROP

HELLDROP is a flight shooter with a minimalist visual style. Each mission sends the player’s spaceship down into the interior of a planet, with the goal of reaching the core and setting off a nuclear bomb there.

The ship collects modules during play, and sets of four can be combined into skills. The skill produced depends on the shapes of the modules used, and the developer states that modules can be arranged into any shape during combat. Skills can also be tuned to suit the ship’s current configuration. Ore gathered on a run carries over and is spent on upgrading and modifying the next ship, so progress is kept even when a ship is lost.

Each planet contains bosses guarding their own lairs, and a core boss must be defeated to destroy the planet. At the time of writing, the game holds a Positive rating on Steam, based on more than ten user reviews.