Echoes+

Echoes+ is a retro space shooter in which you fight waves of neon-coloured enemies, dodge attacks and try to raise your score. As you progress, new challenges appear. The game includes six modes and 25 additional Zoo Trials, with challenges across four difficulty levels.

Game modes

Echoes mode has 10 levels, each introducing an enemy with different strengths and weaknesses. Taking a hit costs energy, which you can restore by collecting green power-ups; hits may also downgrade your weapon. Killing more enemies increases the number of power-ups dropped.

In Time Attack, score as many points as possible in 3 minutes. You have unlimited energy, but each hit incurs a points penalty. Score multipliers are key to building a high score: enemies can drop multiplier power-ups, shooting stars always drop one, and the points lost when hit are linked to your current multiplier.

Survivor Mode challenges you to last as long as possible without taking a hit; score does not matter. Your weapon powers up automatically over time, and destroying planets can provide shields that protect you for 10 seconds. Since time is your priority, shooting enemies may not always be the best approach.

Classic Mode has simpler gameplay and modified controls to give it a more 1980s-style feel. Meteor Storm Mode pits you against increasingly frequent and dense meteor waves; destroy golden meteors to collect score multipliers. In Asteroid Belt Mode, you face snakes of energy that grow in number and length with each new level.

Mode-specific rules

Meteor Storm and Asteroid Belt both start you with a fixed amount of energy that cannot be replenished. In both, hits reduce your energy and weapon power cannot be increased. In Meteor Storm, getting hit also makes you drop some score multipliers; in Asteroid Belt, the score multiplier depends on the number of asteroid belts at the start of the current level.

In Classic Mode, use smaller, more controlled movements than in the other modes, stay away from the edge of the play area when possible and listen for warning sounds that signal an approaching saucer.

Zoo Trials

Zoo Trials, also called zoots, are 25 additional challenges. Each can be attempted on any of four difficulty levels, and only the highest difficulty you complete for each challenge counts toward your total completion percentage: Easy gives 1%, Normal 2%, Hard 3% and Insane 4%. To reach 100%, you need to complete all 25 zoots on Insane. Each zoot is available only in specific game modes, and the Pause screen shows your progress towards them.