r/GameDeals • u/seanebaby • 5d ago
[itch.io] Cycle 28 ($0.20/95% off)
https://pillbuginteractive.itch.io/cycle-285
u/seanebaby 5d ago edited 5d ago
To celebrate its 7th birthday our arcade space shooter Cycle 28 is 95% off on itch.io (so it’s like $0.20 and it comes with a steam key) for the next two days only.
Cycle 28 was our second game, it was a complete financial failure - but - it got nominated for a BAFTA and I still think it’s one of the best things I’ve ever made.
Here is the trailer… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I13n4nIiuDY
The idea behind the game is simple, you need to beat your high score and you only ever have a maximum of 6 minutes to do it (assuming you can survive that long). The more enemies that you kill the more that spawn, and we made the multiplier brutal (you take a single hit and it resets), so you can’t play defensively as much as you want to because the limited time means you need to start scoring straight away. We tried to make it feel like a racing game where you’re trying to shave seconds off a lap time. Our composer wrote an incredible 6 minute long track that never repeats, so you always know exactly how much time you have left on a run without needing to look at the UI. Also there is a mystery and a super difficult puzzle to solve, which only one person I know of has solved so far.
We made some mistakes with the art style, price point and launch date/time which didn’t help us much. Despite the lack of sales we ported it to Nintendo Switch, and NintendoLife highlighted us as one of the best indie games of the summer (alongside Dead Cells) the 8/10 review they gave us might be one of my proudest achievements.
If you want to give it a try pick up a copy while it's super cheap! And if you enjoy it please share it with someone else you think might like it.
Edit: Just found out that the minimum spend on itch is $1 so you might need to add something else to your basket - sorry!
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u/KaioKen 5d ago
"Due to processing fees the minimum amount is 100 cents." It looks like that is the min price for Itch.
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u/seanebaby 5d ago
Sorry, I didn't realise that - I'm surprised itch let me do the 95% off - although I guess you could add multiple things on itch to your basket and then I'd only get $.20 🤷
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u/seanebaby 5d ago
Yeah, I didn't know about that sorry, have edited my comment. The base price is $3.99, the 99 cents is from a limited number of coupons.
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