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DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours
Developer Pyramid
Dariusburst is a horizontal scrolling shooter developed by Pyramid and published by Taito. Forming part of the Darius series, it was released for the PlayStation Portable on December 24, 2009. Like previous Darius games, Dariusburst is an offbeat sci-fi shooter set in outer space with aquatic-themed (typically fish-shaped) robotic enemies. In keeping with tradition, the game also features branching paths instead of… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
188 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
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140 positive · 45 negative
95% range 69–81%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
677 of 822 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
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Reactions
60 of 188 · most liked firstI can recommend this game... if you know what you're getting into. Basically, this is a 2D space shooter, one which is packed to the brim with content. A combination of recycled content, and numerous gameplay modes. And a setup that is not made obvious, and basically has to be learned through use. This game is divided into two "core" gameplay modes - AC mode and CS mode. And AC ("arcade", basically) mode is further subdivided into even more gameplay modes. So I'll start by explaining CS…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't buy the collector's editon. It's just an art book with the base game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had this game on my wishlist for about 6 years now, and humble had a good discount. Figured it was time to check it out. Unfortunately, the CS mode is the same 6 or 7 levels and bosses remixed/reassembled to create the illusion of many stages and content. By the 2nd hour you'll see everything the game has to offer. There's also a massive grind to get new/better ships and weapons. Levels are boring. Bosses are boring. One of the worst aspects of the game is all the stages look almost exactly…
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positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel duped. I should have bought the base game first, and not all the addons, but the reviews fooled me. The game has only one positive, and that is it's appealing visuals, at first glance, but now that I've played 50+ levels, including a bunch of DLC levels, I can safely say this shooter is severely flawed and not worth any price. Why: 1 The levels are near empty, and crazy repetative. 2. There are maybe 10 levels, which are re-used in all 5000+ levels. 3. The levels are short, very short.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Three words: Native. 32:9. Superultrawide.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game isn't terrible... it's just really mediocre. I'd give it a neutral review if I could. The graphics are kinda ...meh. The music is ...meh. The gameplay is on par with your average side-scrolling SHMUP. The main difference is that it's in 3D and most aren't. There might be a lot of stages to complete in the various modes in this game, but the level designs and bosses are heavily recycled and you see the same assets used over and over and over. It gets boring fast once you encounter…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Man this game is the defenition of bland and boring.. 3000 stages lol, more like 3 stages you play a thousand times each.. same boss fights over and over. Tried it for 45 minutes and couldent stand it anymore. The gameplay and controls are also bad. Attacks you cant dodge because your ship is so slow and half of then have no telegraphing. Some bullets can be shot, other that look the same, cant. Did i get hit or did i not? who knows.. Am i damaging the boss or not? Who knows.. What am i even…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of those, "Do I recommend it?" reviews more than a "Is it good game one?" I got it for dirt cheap, and its exactly what I wanted for this evening. It's an arcade game that'll be great for one, single night and I wouldn't recommend it for a penny more than you'd pay for that. Starting with the good, the Arcade Mode is great and the gameplay itself is solid. I don't want to minimize this in my review because its a good enough shmup with a really great arcade mode. This arcade mode…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game straight up does not work for me once ever since I've bought it. I have tested this on both my desktop PC and steamdeck.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dariusburst is a port AND a new game at the same time, it brings to PC the entire arcade experience (sadly the game is missing the Another Chronicle EX+ upgrade that allows you to use the Murakumo on that mode and the online events that the arcade had and are available on the switch version), on the other side Chronicle Saviours is a full new gamemode with 186 missions and 9 different ships to choose from; As of writing this review I've clocked 97hrs and I'm still nowhere near fully clearing CS…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I do like the game, but it has "rinse and repeat" in the whole single player campaign. If you can handle that then it shouldn't be a problem. The stages are poorly design, and the presentation is vastly inferior than the classic Gaiden and Genesis Darius. What makes up for it is the music which has almost all tracks from the classic games, and obviously the bosses. (Note: I got this game key from a Degica promotion long time ago in a raffle from their twitch streams.)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After playing the Darius series for 30 years I still finding myself picking up the controller again and again. The super smooth Japanese design and soundtrack are unique and stylish. The game-play with multiple ships, routes, endings and power-ups also make that necessary difference to set it apart from many retro style shooters. If like old school arcade games, a real challenge, Japanese design, perfect game-play then this game is for you.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the greatest shmup packages in history. The content on offer here is insane. Not only that, the game is tremendous fun. The map layout is ingenious. There are easy routes for beginners, difficult routes for more seasoned players. The game contains a plethora of ships with different abilities to choose from, gloriously huge bosses, hi-score tables - and this is just the arcade mode! There is another mode with hundreds of levels (or more) to help you refine your play. There are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →More a technical warning than a review of the game itself - arcade mode has an extremely wide aspect ratio, and unless you have an ultra wide monitor or dual monitor setup, the game will be squashed right down with massive black bars on the top and bottom. I learned later that this is due to the Dariusburst arcade cabinets having a very wide screen, so the game is wide by design. Unfortunately, they haven't made any elegant solution for translating this to home play. I have a standard ratio…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Shmups have always been a part of my gaming career. I was never good at them like all the experts going for high scores and 1CC runs, but I always tried to prove my worth regardless. I also always looked at shmups as a 'David vs. Goliath' scenario; a small, one man fighter versus entire fleets and empires. And what better game to start my shmup career on Steam than Dariusburst Chronicle Saviors? Part of Taito's Darius series and home console / PC version of Dariusburst, there's a lot of content…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A truely epic shmup with gorgeous graphics and music and a solid gameplay. Loving the arcade mode and the short format. This however constrasts with the CS mode which is a marathon and turns into a burden as it is highly repetitive (the purple levels are just too much). Also, counter-bursting with most burst ships is annoyingly tricky in my opinion. Could be improved but remains a great shmup overall.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →can't get over how good the music is, but also how much the dlc mode gameplay adheres to the systems of the originals games they are based on. sure, it's expensive dlc, but they do put in effort into them - but they go on sale. anyway good game
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dariusburst CS is just a great, fun horizontal shootemup with a ton of gameplay. There are three different modes of play all of which are good and differ from each other: Arcade - in it's original ultra widescreen. (Would like to see more games using this resolution with widescreen displays being the norm these days) Chronicle Saviours (CS) - in 16:9 DLC - also in 16:9 with ships that can be purchased extra with DLC specific missions to use them on (or original ships if you prefer). There…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →dual screen support for my two monitors is the sexiest thing a shmup has done to me yet. completely worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm new to the Darius games and I had no idea what to expect after buying this version on sale today on Steam. This game is awesome so far! Epic boss fights, tons of modes and variety, up to four players, Steam remote play, leaderboards, achievements and more! This game is instantly one of my favorite shoot em ups on Steam. I have only just gotten my feet wet but there appears to be tons of content and bang for the buck, especially at the 14.99 or 70 percent off current sale price. I am…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay way overpriced
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An excellent Darius game with a ton of content, an amazing soundtrack and a very addicting gameplay. This pretty much my 3rd favorite Darius so far, only behind G-Darius and Darius Gaiden, I 100% recommend it, especially now on sales, it goes pretty low this days!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think The Electric Underground said it best in his DDP DOJ rerelease overview. Something along the lines of “you can *feel* the quality in a game by touching it despite its age, an enemy doesn’t just blow up, it explodes into a dozen little pieces with different sizes for every enemy. Everything is (touched up) to make you feel good.” Dariusburst did not feel that way. I’m being less harsh on it because it was a genuine desire to revive the series that created the original PSP title, but if…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is Potato Friendly if you run on 1366x768 or lower, and the control is... bit difficult. But I recommend to check the [url=https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=575302379]Guides first, it can help you to improve the ship's control. :> Also yeah, i bought all the DLCs except odyssey digital book, They have unique ships and also the each plane has different controls. The first time I saw this game was in 2010 because I used to focus on bullet hell/shmup games. Five…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Review starts at 34:15 https://youtu.be/EnT_dpHRDbs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible Optimization Requires an ultrawide moniter just to play arcade mode, or else you have to squint your eyes like to just stared into the very depths of the sun as the game is not made for native res. And the story mode is equally bulls.h.i.t. I only get limited lives. So if I suck at the game I cannot progress any further just because I am stuck at that one level. What is this nonsense??? I paid for the whole game at least let me see the ending. The ships in the game, can only be…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →had the game for years. bought off of nostalgia. can barely be bothered to hit 43 hrs so far? the level design is poor. beyond being repetative it comes down to just memorising the "correct" way to beat them, it hardly feels like bullet hell when the only way your succeeding is watching a guide that you timed to 2 seconds in advance so you know where your supposed to be.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Does not run on latest Windows 11, High Spec PC. Graphics is totally broken: Sprites are just blocks, or not visible at all.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Recalling Your Childhood Memories. I didn't personally played this but surely seen it somewhere. The big fishes were unforgettable.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →An ode to the famous horizontal space fish shmups. Fun for new players and veterans alike. Base game is packed and big amount of optional DLC. Bosses look great, levels a bit basic. Audio is amazing. Listed on the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40858110-Shoot-%2527em-up-Database/]Shoot 'em up Database
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It stopped running - tried multiple installs - not sure what else to do it won't start
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very disappointing. No effort put into level design, I was hoping for more.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →way cheaper than my $7,000 arcade and you have access to dual screen
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →best shmup of probably 2015 gold star
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After participating in the recent scoring contest and revisiting the game in a more serious form, I decided to re-write my review, is still a recommended one, but let me get through all of this. This game was a port of an arcade-only 2-screen STG/Shmup/Pew Pew game, so, yes, this thing can take advantage of your dual-screen or super widescreen monitors. I'm gonna start with the perks because there is a lot: >Even if the main attraction of the game is the "AC (Arcade)" port which will use the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very polished shooter with tons of content to chew through. A perfect comfort game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Hey, Mikey?" "Yeah?" "Whaddya think woulda happened if 'R-Type Final' was actually 'Darius?'" "I think it would have been something like 'DARIUSBURST Chronicle Saviours,' Paulie." Or, to restate, it was shortly after I started playing this that I thought, "This is Taito's 'R-Type Final.'" Although, with less variety of ship choice, and a different graphical style. But some of the similarities were pretty eerie. "DARChroSav" is definitely an arcade port. It's meant to be a devourer of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FIREFOSSIL IS APPROACHING!!! If you played the original, then you know just how badass this game genre is, otherwise, it would probably be too primitive for you by today's standards. This bullet hell side scroller was the shiz back in the day. Chronice Saviors is just more of the good stuff, more new ships, satellite pods with extra powers in expansions, etc. Get a controller and get ready for those armored sea creatures, because they are COMING FAST.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I am comparing this to G-Darius and this is trash. Sound quality is trash Gameplay is trash Pace and content is trash Visuals are trash Where are my capture balls? Why can't contest bosses' beam attacks? Why is the UI so complicated? What's with the flash game level sound quality? pew pew pew pew??? You see the same Daius fighter is all there it is to it, there is no soul to this game. People who made this game have to be ashamed of themselves. This game can't even compete against a 30 year…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It runs in 1920x1080 and 3/5ths of the screen is a black border.. [First CS mode - which is what the game's name is] The price for what you get is why this review is negative. It's a classic from arcades that you would visit to put tokens into the machine, {taito] But this just isn't right for a PC game, - that cannot even use the full screen!? It's great that it's here, but let me use 1920x1080 if that's what you allow?!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Add online multi player CO-Op and then we will talk about a great game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A truly classic shooter, excellent play mechanics and endless game modes. Really great soundtrack and very good graphics, this is the very best of it's genre out there currently ... highly recommended to any fans of the classic scrolling side shooter - and evil fish, of course.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One of the best shooters ever made. While some may not like the music, I thought it made the game that much more unique and better. Absolutely fantastic on super wide screen monitors.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very thick. The game is worth for the AC mode alone and its multitude of bosses and endings. CS mode, however, though the content is nice, it's too repetitive and thick for its own good. AC mode is a blast, but thread CS mode carefully. To save time, don't be cocky and don't use the preset, use a pre-upgraded ship in that mode instead.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →darius is the pinnacle of the genre nearly limitless content it has a darius soundtrack 3 monitor darius i'm a little dizzy oh my this is pretty much the whole genre, you don't need to buy any more modern shmups. wow. if it can't be tate on a crt with my saturn, it might as well be like this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →P R O S - More things to do than any Darius game. - Plays extremely smoothly. - DLC ships from other titles make this a homage to shooters in general. - Great if you have an ultrawide monitor for the authentic Darius experience. C O N S - Overall enemy design and backgrounds are lackluster compared with previous titles. - Taito are very cheeky with the price they are asking for this.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Much like my beloved G-Darius, this new iteration doesn't disappoint. Loads of content and excellent replay value.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →confusing, weird, unfun? there's a million options, and while the mechanics are straightforward, you just feel like you chain levels without purpose. scoring feels pointless, stage design is an afterthought, and bosses get exhausting real quick. on top of that, nothing is explained to you! you can just go in some weird chronicle mode and pick a route / area from some weird grid but none of it makes sense. there's some seemingly classic arcade mode but it also feels very dry. this is a bit more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's arcade action. So if you don't get driven to replay shmups and break high scores then you might not be satisfied with what's offered here. I enjoy it. And for the sale price of $12.50 I'd say it's very much worth it. I need more Darius in my life even if I suck at these games. And it's a great way to get more use out of my ultrawide monitor : ) I also like the DLC offerings here, something I rarely care for due to marketing practices of companies ever since DLC started becoming standard.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The best for Daiurs fans, especially its DLCs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The Dariusburst series are great games. But the developer needs to make sure its game will work on a PC before put a price tag. Just look at the community hub how many people can't make this game run on actual hardware.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There is a lot this game does right. The graphical interface and layout, the soundtrack, and a variety of ships. However, there is a lot that it does wrong. Repeated boss fights get boring. The levels are insanely short and many are just boss fights. If you run through the game you will be fighting the same 11 or so bosses a dozen times each. This is cool at first but then gets 'old hat' very quick. The scoring system is basically non existent. You get points for no miss and extra ships at…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have not been able to get this to work on three different computers now. It worked for one of mine when I first purchased this years ago, but nothing has worked ever since. The launcher opens, I start the game, and nothing. Maybe you'll have better luck, but it's not worth the purchase to me. I bought this through GameStop, so unfortunately was never eligible for a refund.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's basically three massive games rolled into one package with amazing crossover DLC. A must-own for shmup fans.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The ultrawide support is really cool. Nothing else about this really gets me excited. I know, I know.. lots of "content", but it feels like a lot of filler. I'm sure for the right player this is bliss, for me it's a pass.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unfortunately does not have the style that its predecessors on console had. Gaiden and Genesis in particular had wonderful music, stage design and cool bosses. This game in comparison feels like a cheap cash-grab with bland assets. The addition of craft from other iterations of the series and other shmup games is a nice touch but still part of the cash grab. All of the different modes recycle stages and bosses, it's all different permutations of the same tedium. I bought it on sale for $15 and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wide screen mode is incredible
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great STG! Been delving into the shoot'em up genre the 8 months or so, and Darius franchise is one of the heavy hitters. Dariusburst is among favorites together with Darius Gaiden and G-darius. This game is worth every penny. Great epic music, Epic boss fights, great shooting and scoring mechanics. Great for beginners like me and also challenging for advanced players playing for high scores. I even double dipped and bought the Cozmic Revelation release on console for Switch ( it has replay…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Classic, but beautiful. Brings me back to the days of inserting (way too many) quarters at the arcade!
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