Rysen

Rysen is an old-school 2D shmup with one round of seven stages. You focus on avoiding bullets and firing at enemies, with no bullet-hell patterns, bombs, combos, buzz, gems, medals or other bonus items, or complex scoring system. A simple bonus system rewards you for annihilating enemy formations.

Stages and difficulty

The game has three difficulty settings: normal, hard and insane. Practice mode lets you select a stage. You can also fine-tune a range of game settings.

Controls and options

You control your fighter with an analog stick or D-pad and use Weapon1, Weapon2, speed change and credit insertion. Weapon2 is unavailable while deploying a shield. Keyboard, XInput and DirectInput controls can be configured, and XInput players can adjust the analog stick's dead zone.

Options include windowed or fullscreen display, window size and position, fullscreen vertical scaling, brightness, BGM and SFX volume, and V-sync for fullscreen. You can also adjust menu help messages, remember a player name in an ini file, reset local leaderboard data and restore default settings.

Customisation

You can change the player fighters' colours, the transparency of their borderlines and whether their collision areas are shown. In-game options let you choose font colours and shadows, position or hide weapon-stat icons and messages, and switch enemy-attack sound effects on or off; some attacks still play sound effects regardless. You can toggle shard effects when enemies are destroyed, smooth scrolling, sprite rotation, FPS information and enemy damage blinking. Explosions cannot be turned off.

A playlist editor lets you replace the BGM with your own OGG files.

Online features

Rysen supports Steam Leaderboards, Steam Achievements and Steam Cloud.