Game2015

Echoes+

ActionIndie

Developer Binary Zoo

Echoes+ is an intense retro action space shooter that will test your reaction and concentration levels to the max! From the Steam store page

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Very Positive
789 of 857 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

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  • Steam user Steam user …0429Steam reviews · Feb 2, 2018 · 7 h played

    There are not so many people around knowing what the oscilloscope is. Even less are numbers of those who can get it working, and the fewest are those who can run the games like "Echoes classic" on their oscilloscope screens. So, it is really geeky stuff we're talking about. Now, just like the other game from the same developer, Echoes+ is a very narrow-focused project, made for people who love 2d twin-stick shooters like they were in the 80's. You just thrash about in some locked screen,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9965Steam reviews · Sep 5, 2018

    Echoes+ is an intense retro action space shooter created with App Game Kit 2. It will test your reactions and concentration levels to the max! Fight your way through wave after wave of neon coloured space enemies, leveling up your score multiplayer and shields as you go. The onslaught just keeps on building with new challenges the further you progress. You'll need to be super focused if you want a place on the global high score table, one blink and it can be all over!

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  • Steam user Steam user …9485Steam reviews · Jul 21, 2017 · 7 h played

    One of the best game I play this year. The outerspace theme is so mesmerizing. The rush feeling from the intense gameplay is priceless.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5690Steam reviews · Sep 22, 2018 · 1 h played

    Seriously worthy and challenging Free to Play arena twin stick shooter.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3012Steam reviews · Apr 25, 2021

    It's free, so have a go if you want a hyperactive asteroids, but the screen shake is ridiculous, obnoxious, and has no option to reduce or disable.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8180Steam reviews · Aug 27, 2019

    Echoes is a game in the purest Arcade style, simple controls and a single objective, destroy everything that moves and earn score every time surpassing you more. It is a game to pass the time and also has a good difficulty.

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  • Steam user Steam user …5611Steam reviews · Jan 14, 2020

    Perfect Great Decent ☑☑☑ Painfully Average ☑☑☑ Garbage Play this if u want to get epylepsia]/h1]

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  • Steam user Steam user …5625Steam reviews · Nov 9, 2015

    This colorful and well working hardcore twin-stick shooter in a box has got rather shallow and unnervating gameplay. Your vessel instantly follows the mouse and shoots in 8 directions. The abstract shape enemies behave quite differently (some just rebound off walls, others deliberately persue the player) and you are constanly emerged in a randomized bullet-hell area you can't escape, so you beat high scores while trying to survive the carnival. Эта яркая и хорошо работающая жестокая стрелялка…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3436Steam reviews · Jul 14, 2017 · 1 h played

    The classic 1979 game on steroids and bright neon lights. 10/10

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  • Steam user Steam user …9343Steam reviews · May 17, 2017

    Simple, yet fun. `Nuff said.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9202Steam reviews · Aug 18, 2016 · 1 h played

    Not the most original or well made twin-stick shooter, but it's free! And it's still better than some of the paid ones! There's actually quite a lot of game modes and I'd happily play this a bit longer if it had Steam achievements.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1990Steam reviews · Aug 20, 2021

    whats the point? xD

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  • Steam user Steam user …3758Steam reviews · Feb 2, 2018 · 1 h played

    simple pretty good shooter

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  • Steam user Steam user …9317Steam reviews · Jan 19, 2017 · 1 h played

    Echoes+ is Free for all Steam users, so you're better off playing it yourself than hearing me ramble. But if you want a quick rundown, it is something of a hybrid of classic Asteroids and beloved Geometry Wars, made to showcase the ability of the AppGameKit engine it was made in. There are five modes that are well described on the store page. My personal favorites are Meteor Storm, where a line of astroids come from one side of the screen and your strategy is to dodge them and rack up…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4540Steam reviews · Apr 5, 2016 · 3 h played

    Addictive And Fun, that is why you play videogames right? 10/10 just play it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7022Steam reviews · Jan 10, 2016

    Amazingly Addictive And Fun!!!

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  • Steam user Steam user …5304Steam reviews · Jan 9, 2016 · 1 h played

    This is like one of those old retro games played on a some kind of arcade machine, but with modern graphics. If you like this type of game, you'll love Echoes+

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  • Steam user Steam user …6166Steam reviews · Jul 2, 2024

    Kinda reminds me of Nucleus mini game for PS3. Pretty fun for about 30min

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  • Steam user Steam user …4765Steam reviews · May 16, 2024 · 2 h played

    I hate the snakes!

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  • Steam user Steam user …4608Steam reviews · Mar 17, 2023 · 5 h played

    Echoes+ - It's basically a bullet hell shooter when you rack up score by destroying everything.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1285Steam reviews · May 8, 2018

    Still better game than Star Wars Battlefront 2. Coz no microtransactions!

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  • Steam user Steam user …0796Steam reviews · Sep 20, 2016 · 1 h played

    It's Geometry Wars for the people that can't afford Geometry Wars. This includes, but is not limited to, a well-built interface, tight and responsive controls, incredible optimization, and little to no flaws no matter how long or how little you play. For a bullet hell, this is really more like heaven.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4055Steam reviews · Mar 19, 2016 · 8 h played

    Asteroids turned up to 11! This is a time eater of a game…. Just one more go to see if I can beat my high score.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1345Steam reviews · Jan 3, 2016

    An amazing Bullet Hell game really similar to Asteroid: you control a little round ship and you have to shhot the big asteroids that come torwards you, when you destroy one it splits into smaller parts and the pieces do so until they're too small and they just disappear; but there are some cool additions to the formula like Power-Ups for your shots, a healt bar and bombs you can use to get rid of everything near you, also different are the stage's boundaries (as you can't traver trough them)…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5752Steam reviews · Sep 26, 2015 · 1 h played

    Free Retro Game that is a great shoot'em up, looks sorta like old video game Astroids. Has a classic Astroids mode, and comes with 4 other game modes. Controls can be keyboard and mouse, mouse, keyboard, Has a gamepad controls, but called joystick. Has interesting but repetative music and options to play your own music. Try this game if you like arcade games. for more info: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2mjpZZYgcHI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ocsii7koo4…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3509Steam reviews · Apr 2, 2023

    Fun game, my eyes hurt now tho

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  • Steam user Steam user …5412Steam reviews · Nov 7, 2022

    Pretty simple Top-down Bullet Hell Shooter. There are other free options on Steam I prefer, for example, the Waves games.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4015Steam reviews · Nov 21, 2021

    Echoes Plus is a basic Asteroids (from 1979) ripoff with ugly neon line art used instead of contemporary PC graphics. It was slapped together with the godawful AppGameKit, which I think is a product made secretly by Yoyogames just to try make their terrible GameMaker Studio look almost like a decent game construction kit (it isn't). Based on the way the developers put links to the AppGameKit store page on Steam in the blurb for the game, I think this is as much an advertisement for…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2905Steam reviews · Nov 4, 2021

    Free twin-stick arena shooter. Tight controls and frantic gameplay. Nice colorful neon graphics, great music and nice explosive sound effects. Online leaderboard for high scores. Listed on the [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/40858110-Shoot-%2527em-up-Database/]Shoot 'em up Database

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  • Steam user Steam user …3080Steam reviews · May 6, 2021 · 3 h played

    Fun, Cool aesthetic. I would recommend this game to all of my comrades. I really feel like i am in an old fashioned arcade!

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  • Steam user Steam user …8153Steam reviews · Jul 2, 2020 · 7 h played

    A little gem of an arcade twin-stick shooter. And it's F2P too, so there's little excuse not to try it if you're into a little 'Asteroids'-style highscore chasing. Responsive controls; pleasant art & sound design; and easy to pick up and play for 20 minutes at a time. Any more than that and the 'Tetris effect' starts to kick in a little. Definitely worth more than the 0.00 money units it costs.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1697Steam reviews · Apr 30, 2020 · 2 h played

    asteroids on steroids

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  • Steam user Steam user …2373Steam reviews · Nov 29, 2019 · 1 h played

    This game was a total surprise. It gets pretty intense. I like it a lot. It made me smile. My ex-wife may not call it a smile, but I call it a smile.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6955Steam reviews · Jul 26, 2018 · 1 h played

    Echos+ is a FTP twin-stick shooter that has no microtransactions. That is godlike. It is very hectic with different modes to test how much of a high score you can get, but would you want to do that? Let's find out! These parts are getting shorter... Plot: N/A Gameplay: Like I said, this is a twin-stick shooter, left stick moves, right stick shoots. Simple enough right? Well, this game takes the insanity to a new level! You have the usual in every shooter: Powerups! Kill enemies and you can…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6784Steam reviews · May 16, 2018 · 1 h played

    Extremely addictive! Even at easy mode, it starts go get pretty hard after a couple of levels. Excellent minigame! Like every Binary Zoo game!

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  • Steam user Steam user …6855Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2018

    Nausea-inducing graphics with the developer's trademark fire-and-forget action create a mostly forgettable experience.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4119Steam reviews · Jul 22, 2017 · 1 h played

    Echoes+ fast game with modern day graphics with easy controls that moves from location A to B to C and so on, good amount of action and special effects, good game. Personal Suggested Purchase Price: $0.49 Or Less During Sale

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  • Steam user Steam user …3394Steam reviews · Apr 28, 2017

    Slick, Quick. Odd shooting system, but very playable

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  • Steam user Steam user …9520Steam reviews · Apr 24, 2017 · 5 h played

    great game a perfect mix of old gameplay with good graphics

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  • Steam user Steam user …2351Steam reviews · Mar 9, 2017 · 1 h played

    10/10 would play bullet hell again

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  • Steam user Steam user …7662Steam reviews · Feb 20, 2017 · 46 h played

    If I want to spend my time playing Echoes+ for FREE, then damnit I will. Not much to speak of graphically. Sound is reduced to not much more than a low (SUBWOOFER!) rumble. The action is blistering and relentless. Beat your high- score, if you are good enough.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1954Steam reviews · Mar 1, 2016

    I will say only one thing about this game it's just a waste of time

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  • Steam user Steam user …7977Steam reviews · Jan 16, 2016

    It's free, it's addictive, it's a time killer and a waster. I use to play this game a lot, back in the day when it was only brand new. Recently I discovered it on Steam, my day was instantely made. There are some changes with the older version I knew best but that doesn't matter. Just play it, it's free anyways. Most free fun you'll ever have

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  • Steam user Steam user …0895Steam reviews · Nov 25, 2015

    Echoes+ is an extremely intense arcade-style "bullet hell" game. It's graphics, sound design and overall theme are all very appealing and the game itself controlls seamlessly, which is an important detail for a game of this genre. It is also a free-to-play game which makes it even more tempting to download; if you're a highscore-addict, then you might as well stop reading reviews and go download this game ASAP! Overall, this game is very fun and completely free!

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  • Steam & Epic Games | Daily @steamandepic.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 3, 2026

    Ghost of Yōtei got a Complete Edition for its first anniversary, $69.99, or $14.99 to upgrade 💸 It packs the base game, co-op Legends, the Deluxe content and new stuff: the Echoes of Sekigahara story expansion with flashbacks to Atsu... #SteamAndEpic #Sekigahara #Echoes #Complete #Edition #Legends

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  • The 🫠 ᴘʀᴇᴛᴛʏ BBC Radio 3 🎶 #NowPlaying Bot @[email protected]Mastodon · Sep 13, 2026

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  • Steam user Steam user …1798Steam reviews · Aug 22, 2026 · 11 h played

    Echoes is a fast-paced arcade shooter experience developed and published by Binary Zoo that focuses on intense action, quick reflexes, and score-based challenges. Rather than building around a traditional story-driven structure, it delivers a pure gameplay-focused experience inspired by classic arcade design while adding a modern visual style. The game emphasizes survival, reaction speed, and mastering its mechanics, making it a title designed for players who enjoy short but highly replayable…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5802Steam reviews · Aug 21, 2026 · 2 h played

    Echoes+ is a fast little arcade space shooter that is basically all about surviving waves of enemies while trying to push my score higher. I control a small ship in an open arena and have to keep moving while neon enemies close in from all directions. The idea is very simple, but the game gets much more intense as the waves build up. I like that it does not waste much time getting me into the action. I can start playing almost immediately and the difficulty gradually turns a simple shooting…

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  • Games Japan @[email protected]Mastodon · Jul 4, 2026

    https://www.wacoca.com/games/1412461/ ホラー作家・雨穴氏がYOASOBI、キタニタツヤ氏らを擁するレーベル「Echoes」に参加。アーティストとしてデビュー – 電ファミニコゲーマー ##GAMING #Echoes #Game #GameNews #games #GamingNews #ゲーミング #ゲーム #ゲーム攻略 #ゲーム最新情報 #なごみ #ニュース #雨穴

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  • TwizzyDizzy @[email protected]Mastodon · Apr 9, 2026

    Playing a few tunes from 4PM at Strandbad Plötzensee. April 18th, from 4PM to midnight. #dub #echoes

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  • Steam user Steam user …7218Steam reviews · Apr 8, 2026

    It's Asteroids on steroids. Very arcade. Very fun.

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  • Don Curren 🇨🇦🇺🇦 @[email protected]Mastodon · Feb 27, 2026

    "The sprawling, 23-minute suite ' #Echoes' is its crowning achievement: a mesmerizing journey of texture, sound effects, and musical dynamics that defines #spacerock" #psychedelic #music #PinkFloyd #MusicSky RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5zca2ola2zxpkw37w4f3wxtu/post/3mftspuizes2a

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  • Steam user Steam user …9342Steam reviews · Feb 15, 2026 · 2 h played

    Super duper ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fun! I boot this up on a whim every few years and play (1) round and then forget about the game and then repeat the process and it's always good. It's a free game, so playing this is basically just playing like, a minigame, lol. I recommend downloading this! You'll have a blast. Even if you don't play it that often!

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  • Steam user Steam user …3601Steam reviews · Oct 29, 2025 · 1 h played

    Игра 'Echoes+' – это невероятно атмосферное и захватывающее приключение, где переплетаются элементы визуальной новеллы и головоломки. Погружение в историю происходит моментально благодаря прекрасной стилизации, минималистичному, но запоминающемуся визуалу и великолепному звуковому сопровождению. Особенно хочется отметить оригинальную механику восстановления воспоминаний через обрывки аудиозаписей и визуальных подсказок. Это не просто головоломка, а настоящий детектив, где от твоей…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6199Steam reviews · Aug 9, 2025 · 2 h played

    It plays great on Steam Deck and looks great on an OLED screen. There's not a lot to it, but hey, it's free.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1509Steam reviews · Jun 9, 2025 · 3 h played

    It is hard but fun i really enjoy playing this game so much

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  • Steam user Steam user …1999Steam reviews · May 19, 2025

    Only 53MB? How is it possible? Seizure warning! ( I didn't have one myself, thanks for worrying, but I can see that it could be very possible ). Great controls ( use joystick ), decent music. The challenge can be somewhat alleviated by staying in the corners. If an enemy approaches from behind put your guns forward and blast away to the next corner otherwise you will be a dead duck very quickly! I enjoyed the game, definitely worth a couple dollars. Only downside is that it's so old now…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8843Steam reviews · Mar 28, 2025 · 1 h played

    The only game in my library that wont open and Im dying trying to figure out why because it was so much fun D:

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  • Steam user Steam user …0252Steam reviews · Aug 13, 2024 · 6 h played

    A frenetic dual stick shooter that is a hybrid of the classic games Asteroids and Robotron 2084. As the player, you find yourself trapped in a small arena surrounded by increasing numbers of dangerous asteroids with only a limited amount of shield energy and a small number of smart bombs to keep you alive. When your energy reaches zero you are done for. Luckily, coloured power-ups occasionally drop from destroyed asteroids to increase your firepower, replenish your energy, give you brief but…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9095Steam reviews · Mar 30, 2024 · 2 h played

    I could understand why nobody plays this game anymore but at least since it's free, I don't have to worry about getting all the Steam Achievements wrecking my game completion ratio.

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