1x1

1x1 takes place in a lab and factory full of hazards, where you play a lost soul trying to survive. You avoid obstacle patterns, defeat the boss that emerges from each door and move on to the next stage.

Barrages and bosses

The game alternates between barrages and boss battles. Doors normally stay closed; as you work through a stage’s patterns, its door opens and reveals the boss. Damage the boss according to its schedule to make it close the door and flee. Later barrages and battles return with greater difficulty.

Avoid and fight

Patterns call for more than dodging bullets, and you can switch between passive avoidance and active combat. Each boss uses a simple targeting method operated with one button. The bosses have robotic designs that fit the factory setting, and checkpoints occur each time a door opens and closes.

An infinite bomb stage lets you focus on bomb shelters without fighting.