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Acceleration of SUGURI 2

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Developer Orange_Juice

Acceleration of SUGURI 2 is a lightning-paced duel-style shoot'em'up from Orange Juice, featuring all favorite characters from the SUGURI universe. From the Steam store page

168 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 2, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

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66
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107 positive · 54 negative
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
979 of 1,256 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

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  • Deimiler!! @deimiler.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 7, 2025

    A small compilation of pixel 1 bit art I made from Omori Game music: Acceleration of SUGURI 2 Music: SwordFish by DEKU #ドット絵 #pixelart #1bit

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  • Steam user Steam user …3739Steam reviews · May 6, 2022 · 11 h played

    My Playtime: 11h (100% achievement, finished the game) Grindy Achievement(s): No. Optional Achievement(s): Yes (24 achievements). Difficult Achievement(s): No. Intro Acceleration of SUGURI 2 is a fighting game that is done in a spherical area in the sky. You have to shoot your enemy while dodging their attacks, similar to how SHMUPs are. It offers 3 modes: story, arcade, and versus. The first two are only accessible in single-player mode, although versus can be done with CPU or another player,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9782Steam reviews · Oct 31, 2021 · 1709 h played

    I want to preface this by saying that I liked this game and I probably still would, if it wasn't for the repeated poor balance choices that are being made. Aos2 has been a flawed game since release, it always had terrible matchup spreads with multiple 10:0 matchups being a thing in the game. Despite all of this the game has a very solid foundation; the movement and system mechanics are fantastic and incredibly fun, especially once someone gets more into it. The netcode, for its time atleast,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9280Steam reviews · May 30, 2023 · 561 h played

    AoS2 was a diamond in the rough, while previous balance patches always went in the wrong directions, the incredible work Fruitbat provided for QoL features made up for these issues. Even if I stopped being active around 2020, I still (distantly) followed the development of the most recent patch. While I may have been provocative to the current devs/community when trying to raise my concerns, I have never seen a so out of touch and chaotic development for a balance patch. To the point that for…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9485Steam reviews · Jan 23, 2022 · 16 h played

    Better than 100% orange juice. nuff said. Fruitbat Factory should make more game like this.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6140Steam reviews · Sep 4, 2021 · 49 h played

    i want saki to give me a hug

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  • Steam user Steam user …5759Steam reviews · Jul 3, 2021 · 110 h played

    send help before it gets worse update: it got worse

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  • Steam user Steam user …6951Steam reviews · Aug 12, 2021 · 13 h played

    This is the worst Orange_Juice game I have played so far

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  • Steam user Steam user …6358Steam reviews · Jun 27, 2026 · 42 h played

    10,000 Rockets.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3154Steam reviews · May 6, 2023 · 5 h played

    I am a 45 yo father, probably one of the oldest people playing this game. I am a single father to my Son, who is 14 now. My son got this game from his uncle, so we installed it on his computer and he started playing. By the end of the week he had 24 hours on this game. This was horrible for me, as it was already hard for me to find ways to spend time with my son, as he is always out with his friends or just watching YouTube. So I decided to make a Steam account and get this game to see if I…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4356Steam reviews · Apr 11, 2022 · 4 h played

    better fg than strive

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  • Steam user Steam user …8314Steam reviews · Aug 16, 2021 · 13 h played

    high heat players shall perish in my chains

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  • Steam user Steam user …7961Steam reviews · Jul 27, 2021 · 160 h played

    its all fun and games until you get meme comboed

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  • Steam user Steam user …3861Steam reviews · Jul 12, 2021 · 654 h played

    This is a pretty bad game

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  • Steam user Steam user …0724Steam reviews · Jan 26, 2026 · 3 h played

    Bullet Hell 2d fighter. Thumbs up for the interesting idea, but a combo list would be great

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  • Steam user Steam user …7694Steam reviews · Mar 18, 2022 · 44 h played

    It's pretty good if you want to reconsider your friendships. The gameplay is simple, but it can be a bit confusing at the beginning. I recommend remapping your keybinds and getting used to cute girls beating your ass.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3801Steam reviews · Mar 5, 2022

    i have no idea whats happening its so unreadable help

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  • Steam user Steam user …0814Steam reviews · Jan 26, 2022 · 1 h played

    An interesting game where it's a versus bullet hell battle where you shoot projectiles and use melee attacks to reduce your opponents health to zero. I like how each character has its own style of combat, however the problem is the balance. Unless you are a god, you'll realize that nobody in their right mind would choose a character like Kae or the other melee oriented characters because up against Sumika or Nanako you are boned because unless you can constantly keep up the pressure in close…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4384Steam reviews · May 23, 2021 · 22 h played

    This one surprised me quite a bit, when I read duel style bullet hell I thought of Touhou Phantasmagoria of Flower View in that sense that it is two players playing their given level but also defending against and sending disruptions at the opponent's screen similarly to how Tetris 99 does it. But no, this is more of a fighting game with more ranged attack options and the possibility of the game turning full on bullet hell if both players get to low HP and break off to opposite side of the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8394Steam reviews · Aug 31, 2026 · 12 h played

    Ships clash in fast bursts Bullets bend around the fight Speed decides the war

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  • Steam user Steam user …5383Steam reviews · Jun 2, 2026 · 1 h played

    My favorite series in the top-down arena fighter subgenre! Dodge missiles, graze beams, make reads. Easy to pick up and play with friends! Received lots of balance patches which I haven't tried yet.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3538Steam reviews · Aug 24, 2025

    Game Marathon. Day #1 Honestly, I don't even remember how I got this game. I think there was a key giveaway, probably... I've never been interested in this type of game, but because of the marathon, I decided to take a risk. Graphically, the game is... okay? There's no "wow" effect, but it's hard to say the graphics suck. For a 2018 game, it could have been better, but since I'm not familiar with other games in the series, I'll assume this style was an intentional choice. The first thing…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6832Steam reviews · Aug 10, 2025 · 23 h played

    I bought this for the extra content in 100% OJ, and what I got was a bullet hell fighting game. It's the first I've seen, and the mechanics are great. One criticism is that clearing story-mode on hard unlocks absolutely nothing, despite the final boss being insanely difficult.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5696Steam reviews · Feb 3, 2023

    The game might be fun, but to me the starting experience was complete garbage. Sort of a mix up between a fighting game and a shooter from what little I played of it. My starting experience was: Story/Normal (Have no idea how to play, die quickly). Found a training option in main menu. The training is just a large text dump, with buttons that are not explained (yes I figured out what dash and primary/secondary etc attacks were by hitting buttons). There is a practice mode that apparently…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9458Steam reviews · Mar 7, 2022 · 1 h played

    Dodging? who needs dodging when you have swords and homing rockets? edit: i loved the sumika fight, very reminiscent of a touhou last word

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  • Steam user Steam user …8325Steam reviews · May 31, 2021 · 1 h played

    Honestly it's not bad, it isn't good either. The lack of a real tutorial is brutal to learn the moves, there is a move list but it doesn't help much with how to activate hyper moves. I eventually just swapped characters until I found one with better attacks then the others and I was able to be the story mode. This game needs a real introduction to the game, the bullet hell aspect is fun, dashing and dodging enemy fire, but it is not keeping me interested in this game to play it more then the 1…

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  • Steam user Steam user …1037Steam reviews · Sep 20, 2026

    "I don't understand what's happening in the most wonderful way" Not a bad game... i mean, im not a real fan of bullet hells anymore, not after Touhou drained my soul (god bless ZUN). Its a pretty basic game all things considered but it was a fun experience, specially after i had this game dormant on my library for god knows how many years. Not much else to comment besides being a "fast paced duel bullet hell against another cpu or human" which, works. Score: 7/10

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  • Steam user Steam user …9156Steam reviews · Aug 29, 2026 · 40 h played

    the combat is unique and fast and complex the community is the nicest i encountered the music is really cool too its very unique it has this realy nice steady calm pace and nostalgic while also weirdly feeling weirdly sorta fast 奇跡の魔法少女 - Magical girl of miracles is my favorite ost followed by accelarator i suppose

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  • Steam user Steam user …1054Steam reviews · Sep 8, 2025 · 4 h played

    my cup of tea hi nana hi glitch

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  • Steam user Steam user …0332Steam reviews · Jul 31, 2025 · 9 h played

    alte slp spark saved me from the fire

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  • puppybytes: 🇧🇪; 🔞 @perfectlygeneric.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 25, 2025

    Acceleration of SUGURI 2 playtime: 6 minutes rating: 7/10 This game is sold as a shoot 'em up but seems to be more of a touhou-style fighting game. I don't usually play fighting games and thus got absolutely demolished during the match I played.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9454Steam reviews · Jan 21, 2025 · 10 h played

    hyper fast projectile focused fighting game. I like my hands so I don't play it much but it's sick af

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  • Steam user Steam user …8309Steam reviews · Oct 1, 2024 · 11 h played

    An incredibly sick VS Shmup - the union of fighting games and shmups. It's got fairly intuitive controls, based on the delightful free-movement system from SUGURI, and a wide variety of characters from Suguri and Sora. Basically the idea is "what if you could play as all the bosses in Suguri?" So it came out pretty sick. The Heat gauge lends this really exciting dynamic to the basics of dodging and shooting, where you get penalized with extra damage taken if you overuse your Dash. But…

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  • 🦇Fruitbat Factory @fruitbatfactory.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 19, 2024

    ✨Fruitbat Factory will have a booth at Tomar Game Festival on February 23! If you're visiting the event, come play 100% Orange Juice and participate in an Acceleration of SUGURI 2 tournament! www.gamescola.pt/tgf challonge.com/events/TGF20...

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  • Steam user Steam user …6949Steam reviews · Sep 13, 2023

    Look, fighting games aren't my cup of tea, so keep that in mind as I say this: I found the learning curve here to be too steep. If the tutorial and initial stages of the story mode slowly introduced mechanics over time, perhaps I would have found this more approachable.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7723Steam reviews · May 21, 2023 · 177 h played

    I've noticed a trend that I, can't understand the points of most the negative reviews the ones i can kind of understand is the skill gap based ones but for me that is something that exists in most of the games i tend to play anyway, but bad controls no tutorial maybe but i don't think its as much of a problem as people let on if I, can learn it i'm sure its not that complicated, the CPU will probably bully you for awhile if your new to this type of game trust me i was when i first started but…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9948Steam reviews · Feb 2, 2022 · 47 h played

    A pretty good game, fighting against CPUs is easy, even in hard difficulty. But fighting against actual players is a whole different story

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  • Steam user Steam user …5762Steam reviews · Jan 9, 2022 · 886 h played

    i wanted so badly to love this game On a casual level, the game can be fun on occasion, and its a game with perhaps with the highest peaks of any fighting game I've ever played, But the majority of the time spent in this game will never even remotely come close to enjoyable. Bad netcode, bad balance, bad dev lead, and bad core game design / framedata. its a pretty game, and you cannot argue that theres any game that plays like aos2, both for better and for worse. However it's simply not a…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7473Steam reviews · Apr 30, 2021

    First impressions mean everything, there is no tutorial and I couldn't figure out how anything works, not even looking at the controls will help you. All I could figure out was how to attack and move, the rest is a complete mystery to me. Even on Easy, which it says is for beginners, the game still mops the floor with me.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6497Steam reviews · Feb 18, 2021 · 4 h played

    i am clueless XD

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  • Steam user Steam user …0396Steam reviews · Feb 5, 2021

    No mouse support. Clunky kbd controls.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1542Steam reviews · Sep 11, 2026 · 5 h played

    PvP bullethell and it somehow works, an insane idea but I dont think anyone is playing it, get it with a friend to play 1v1's. Besides that game is really cool and has suprising amounts of fighting game aspects to it. Fast af gameplay with bunch of unique characters with unique playstyles and attacks.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6953Steam reviews · Sep 3, 2026 · 2 h played

    So, I knew this was a Bullet Hell Shoot-em-up… but I did not realize it was going to be a Bullet Hell Shoot-em-up FIGHTER. That’s right just you and one boss in a literal ring duking it out until the other expires or time runs out. I’m not exactly the best at these games, I can usually get by, but this just did not click for me. Maybe because I was dead set on using a controller but the button configuration felt off. Often needing to press the square+circle/B+X buttons among other combinations…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6041Steam reviews · Aug 21, 2026

    I don't have enough adderal for this.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1481Steam reviews · Jun 10, 2026 · 33 h played

    bullet hell duel deadge thats actually pretty fun lol

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  • Steam user Steam user …6094Steam reviews · May 24, 2026

    Maybe I'm getting old but even on easy it is too hard.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1967Steam reviews · May 19, 2026 · 12 h played

    This game is pretty fun, definitely gives a lot of arcade vibe and nostalgia, i can tell you that.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9709Steam reviews · Apr 5, 2026

    Some crazy battle system I'm not invested enough to learn.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7995Steam reviews · Feb 9, 2026 · 531 h played

    developer is japanese

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  • Steam user Steam user …2013Steam reviews · Jan 10, 2026 · 6 h played

    This magical girl game is very impressive. Love how it defies gravity.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0653Steam reviews · Dec 30, 2025 · 10 h played

    This game is a one of a kind. I wish there were more like it, but with a bigger playerbase.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2776Steam reviews · Dec 30, 2025 · 4 h played

    this game has great combat and it's intense and engaging, it's absolutely dead though but worth playing with a couple of friends to battle it out!

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  • Steam user Steam user …6251Steam reviews · Dec 15, 2025 · 6 h played

    im so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ bad at bullet hells and fighting games and they mixed this game together to cause me immense hell but somehow im having... fun? what is this? anyway i love suguri 10/10

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  • Steam user Steam user …3299Steam reviews · Aug 25, 2025

    I don't understand that kind of games

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  • Steam user Steam user …9048Steam reviews · Jun 20, 2025 · 1 h played

    I can’t say much about this game or the franchise as a whole, but it's just not for me—I get the idea but I don’t care for the concept of aerial fighting shoot-'em-ups.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0804Steam reviews · Apr 27, 2025

    NOT RECOMMENDED. This a niche variety game most non-Japanese people will not like. I can imagine the otaku sweat of the average intended player of this game. To quote a wise man: "This game will make the average casual player cry like an anime fan on the prom night." :) How on Earth can you have dozens and dozens of "Training" and "How to Play" info screens about technicals without actually telling... how to play and win at the game in practice. There is no direction there. You have this…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9001Steam reviews · Jan 17, 2025 · 184 h played

    This is not a Shmup. It's an arena fighter. Playing with the community means accept that you're going to have to learn combos instead of just being able to play nuetral. If you want a REAL versus Shmup, something more pure, there are other options. As much as I've been hurt playing this game, it's still a good one if you can accept what you've read above.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6526Steam reviews · Nov 25, 2024 · 23 h played

    Cool as hell shoot em' up turned into a fast-paced fighting game. It is glorious. Highlight of my year.

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  • ScissorMangione @genericsoda.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2024

    So the week of April 1st, one of our TO's brought in his desktop ("desktop" but that's a whole other story) with a bunch of random games on it and said that night was whatever you agree on is the game for that round. Grand finals was Acceleration of Suguri 2.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6023Steam reviews · Jun 28, 2024 · 1 h played

    Fun fighting game with relatively easy to learn mechanics. Combat takes place in midair with a variety of projectiles, as well as some melee options. Each character has their own unique moveset. Plenty of room for skill and also fairly friendly to new players. Highly recommended.

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