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Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition
Developer Entity Medialab
Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition is a hardcore, uncompromising vertical scrolling bullet hell/invader hell shooter (shmup) that doubles as a techno-based lightsynth, triggering bursts of funky invaders at the pulse of a relentless beat. From the Steam store page
182 reactions from 1 source (Steam reviews) · newest Mar 15, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
78
LovedLoved
142 positive · 40 negative
95% range 71–83%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
327 of 405 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 182 · most liked firstThis game has so many flashing lights it might turn you away from flashy retro games in the future. Move left and right, firing happens automatically. I forced myself to play past level 2 but couldn't stand it any longer. Repetitive sound, music, level design--the cliche cheap indie game feeling is present in full.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Oh god my eyes are literally burning. It's kind of like being hit by a solar flare. I don't really feel like I have much else to say about this one. :-(
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Frantic shooter that might resemble Beat Hazard like experience with Space Invaders gameplay. Game have about 12 tracks which are not very distinctive and have no substance whatsoever. Gameplay part is ok, except it's very chaotic and as you play you gain new buddies to support your firepower which gets overwhelming to be honest. Not a bad game just the music isn't that great and doesn't change much overall. In the meantime Beat Hazard was all about the music where waves of enemies increased…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →One glorious shmup. It has all the colours and then some more! It needs the mother of all photosensitive epilepsy warnings! I have a feeling my eyeballs are going to hate me tomorrow, but they love me today. Oh, they love me today! If you look at the trailer, you will have no idea what's going on. At least, I didn't. What's happening is you're a little shooty thing that forever shoots upwards (autofire! nice and relaxing!), and all the hundreds of other things on the screen heading downwards…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition is a truly outstanding arcade shmup that finds the perfect balance between precision shooting, strategy, and trippy chaos. Well worth the small asking price. Dim the lights, crank up the volume and get comfortable with a controller, and enjoy the awesome experience. Essentially, in this schmup, you only need the left stick and a button. Shooting is on auto, so all you gotta do is dodge. As you kill stuff and collect 'souls', your main weapon becomes…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →EPILEPSY LSD yay
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →WARNING: THIS GAME CONTAINS FAST AND BRIGHT LIGHT EFFECTS. There should be a warning in game or on this product page. That can be f****** dangerous. This game was bought during Summer Sale 2016 for 0,49 Cents, which is a fair price. The full retail of five Dollars is to much for the content this game delivers. What you get are around 7 playable levels based on the technotracks that blast in the background. The Gameplay (=number of enemies) seems to fit the music curremtly playing. Gameplay…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I no longer have the need for LSD, Thank you for developing this amazing cure.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seizure Simulator The game is cool for about an hour or two but once you get to about LVL03 it becomes seizure simulator. The game tries to make you feel like you're a god when you play this game by making bullet hitboxes MUCH SMALLER than they actually appear to be. I didn't catch onto this till that first hour or two was over. The hitboxes become an issue once theres tons of crap on the screen because you literally can't even see what you're shooting. Considering the game is a bullet hell…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →whenever you see a mildly interesting game for 49 cents, remind yourself that there are many many free games on the internet
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It has beautiful bright flashing colors and techno music and if I press the buttons correctly it validates me by saying that I succeeded. The controls are crisp, the responses perfect. This is all that I ever wanted from a video game. I feel that this can be the Space Invaders/Galaga equivalent of Geometry Dash. All it needs is community ability to make and distribute levels/music.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Seizure simulator should be called because they are so much enemies on screen that from level three and later i am like this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ho94A0sspEc plus the computer cant handle the thousands of enemies in screen and slows down making the controls horrible, soundtrack is good though!!! Dont buy it if you dont like a lot of flashing lights on screen and thousands of enemies making it impossible for you to understand what is going on on screen!!!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition pros: //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 cons: //some difficult battles/boss battles //some enemies are overpowered //good game Personal Suggested Purchase Price: $0.49 Or Less During Sale
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As a shmup... unfortunately this game is a shallow, clusterbarf of flashes and colors that ultimately just requires you to start tapping your power button while strafing back and forth without much thought. Only makes you feel powerful in a decievingly simple situation. I hate to be "that guy," but it's the perfect bullet hell for anybody that can't play bullet hells... No need to "Git Gud" The real challenge in this game comes from actually being able to see what's going on and not have a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition is an extremely flashy combination of Space Invaders, Galaga, and Cave-style bullet hell shoot 'em ups like DoDonPachi. It's a fast paced shooter that is both hard, yet somewhat forgiving since you can easily destroy and shield yourself from some bullets. All levels are entirely based on the tempo of a techno soundtrack and enemy waves and patterns are procedurally generated. HIIIPE severely needs an epilepsy warning, but some gamers will be able to adjust…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You'll want to skip this one if you have problems with flashing lights. The video and screenshots don't make it justice, during the whole gameplay your screen will be flashing more than those old flash videos that purposely tried to trigger epilepsy attacks on people. Epilepsy attacks aside the game is pretty neat. It's a fast paced bullet hell with a single button that turns your auto-firing attack into a laser. Your laser is stronger than your main attack and it can destroy enemy projectiles…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I feel like I'm in a rave, while taking out hoards of aliens with lasers of mass proportions. 10/10 would slay Aliens again.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Do my fellow reviewers actually have ears, or have they just evolved a rudimentary hearing that can only hear endlessly tedious and repetitive noise? The so called "music" that the other reviewers dribble on about is so annoying I had to remove my headphones within seconds of starting the game. Expect the same not repeated for 5 minutes without any real pattern. In terms of the rest of the game: it is not only offensive to the ears, but painful on the eyes and it's not even fun to play. Avoid.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Are you epileptic? If so, only purchase this game if you want to f*cking die. And I mean in real life. I'm not sure how long I played for before writing this review. I don't consider it a bad thing if it took me two minutes or thirty minutes to come to the conclusion that this is a psychotic rave party in outer space where dodging the things you're supposed to pick up is more than a bad idea: it's a fatal mistake. Touhou? Why the hell would I want to shoot anime girls when I could shoot a…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its like drugs but better 10/10 i want MORE
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a very fun game. It's challenging but accessible, varied, aesthetically pleasing... the works. But I've played 19 minutes and experienced five fatal crashes. I can't in good conscience recommend a game that's basically a teaser for itself. I hope this gets fixed, because it is a recent release and it has so much potential. With workshop support this could easily become one of my favourite games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ye gawds, my poor mortal eyes. Okay, so you move all around the screen and crank up your score multiplier without touching enemy fire or ramming a baddie. You gain some powerups and there are several different "ships" to pick from with varying shot types. So, I am terribly fond of "shooters"(I'm antediluvian, so I call the other games "FPS's"), even though I suck at them. I like to think I'm somewhat forgiving of the genre, yet I can't recommend this one. Is this terrible? Nope. Controls well…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hyperspace Invaders II: DX is an arcade-style bullet hell shooter that embraces chaos, rhythm, and relentless intensity. Developed by Entity Medialab and published by Plug In Digital, the game is designed to overwhelm the senses with its fast-paced action, pulsating electronic soundtrack, and visually striking presentation. It takes inspiration from classic vertical shooters but injects its own unique identity through procedural level generation and rhythm-based patterns, ensuring that each…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, and a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers... and also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of Budweiser, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls. Not that we needed all that for the trip, but once you get locked into a serious drug collection, the tendency is to push it as far as you can.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition is a very mediocre ripoff of Space Invaders with next to no effort put into the graphics, and the gameplay is totally on par. All you do in this bullet hell/shmup is scroll left and right as your autofire mows down waves of enemies, dodge a few bullets if you can see them (the devs apparently never played a video game before so aren't aware you need to see what's happening on screen to play the game). The whole thing looks like it was made with Flash, but…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Hyperspace Invaders II: DX is similar to Pac-Man Championship Edition DX or Tetris 99 in that it takes the formula of a well known classic/retro game and pushes it to its logical extreme. This game is a lot of fun and very challenging. I'm not usually the biggest fan of bullet hells but the music, sound effects, visuals and tight controls make this stand out from other titles in the genre. I did eventually hit a wall in the last few levels that would probably require me play a lot more of…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love sound-colors, but this was outright visual assault.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's a "brain overload" shmup that makes you ask: "what's going on?" In terms of play action, not much.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very similar to Space Invaders Extreme (which came out for consoles and the PSP in 2008 but, for some reason, has just hit PCs this year). Unfortunately, the floaty, non-configurable controls and non-existant options (as in: there aren't any options. At all.) make this not worth your time or money. Also, it doesn't exit properly, and remains running in the background. Not recommended.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It saddens me to thumb this down, because it's a very cool modern SHMUP, but I only do this in two cases and those are: 1. The game has game-breaking bugs and problems. 2. The game flat out blows. In this case, it was the first case, as I kept getting "out of memory" errors and similar issues, despite the fact that I meet both, the minimum and the recommended system requirements. A great, chaotic SHMUP, but sadly tarnished by technical issues.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got epilepsy 9/11 edition
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Space invaders on drugs. Awesome.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is my new favorite game all yall looking for a AWSOME PIXELATED game this is it its well worth bying and for such a cheap price too and its simpil to play you have a huge variety of levels and an arcade style game its great for everyone old and young just buy and enjoy, now if you excuse me im gonna waste hours of my time playing this game :3 byeee
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →hypercore great wow only superlativesssssssssssssssssssssss thanks devs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Way too chaotic and flashy. I wouldn't mind, if it weren't for the fact that I literally can't get even halfway through level 3 without the game crashing from all the madness going on. There is an option to turn down/off the GFX in the settings but that doesn't seem to matter. Tried out a few other levels to see if things would be any different, but as the levels get higher the game seems to freeze and crash faster and faster. Even when things are going well I'm just distracted by the worry of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's like Touhou and Space Invaders had sex and the result was this. The soundtrack its really amazing, getting me pumped and I just can't stop bobbing my head to the beat. Seizure inducing though for those of you who are epileptic. Nevertheless, it got me very addicted to it when I first got it. It does get a bit slow on some parts when there's just too much bullet on the screen, my computer can't take it. I'm a big fan of bullet hell type games, and if you are too. Check this game out. As…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →if you like 50 cent seizures give it a go
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game literally slows down and crashes for me because of so much ♥♥♥♥ happening in the screen. I mean I can't even play the levels after 2 because they all crash wow.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Installed this game a few minutes ago. Ended up not breathing for at least 2 minutes. I went into shock. As I fell to the ground all I saw was flashing lights and pixels coming at me at high velocity. After 3 minutes I had learnt there was no point in life that is why you are given 5. After dying around 30 times I decided maybe this is too fast which then lead me to think what the harder levels are like. My eyes oh god my eyes. Why? how? what did you think would happen if you added that many…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starting from stage 3, crashes at literally every game attempted.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely fun game, imagine space invaders but with 4 billion times the particle effects. Very great price for 0.50$ (at the time this was purchased, it was on sale for that much)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →awesome game for price makes you feel like your on drugs that is all!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →firstly ill admit im not good at this game so ive likely missed a part of its charm. Regardless of that though it leaves one hell of a first impression due to the sheer awesomeness of waves being slaughtered which is a lot of fun. the controls are not favourable, it doesnt work with my controller and i honestly dont know what "button 2" is so i cant get to the options screen. pressing h seems to crash the game for some odd reason and i have no idea why but its not a gamebreaker due to h…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →While looking for games similar to Space Invaders Extreme this game came up. I didn't actually fancy bullet hell games when I bought this, but it helped the genre to grow on me. It's easier than most more traditional bullet hell games. To my surprise the game is actually quite good if you're into arcade games like me, it has nice retro graphics and the music is alright. On the level select screen you can move left/right to choose one out of three characters each with their own weapon…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game lags over time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome game with some.... herbal influence.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What just happened to my eyes? After less than five minutes, I no longer blink. The Psy-Trance and Psychedelica could be akin to watching Winamp visuals on mushrooms. 10/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The most satisfying game ever for me. I mean really, if you enjoy playing simple games when you got bored that's the game. All these lights, effect and epileptic (also this game involves some dangerous scenes to epilepsies) visuals. I love it. Definetly worth it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Obnoxious flashy lights: The game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →love it fun little game :)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →eyes.exe has stopped working
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Scoring system is completely irrelevant because the RNG is everywhere. And game keep crashing because there's litteraly too much stuff on screen (and I know my computer can normally handle bullet hell and most other ressource-intensive games) Has pretty colors (WARNING : CAN CAUSE SEIZURE), and music can have it's fan. Otherwise, don't get this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a shoot-em-up. You need controller support for this genre of game. The store page lists it as "Full Controller Support", but my Logitech USB controller doesn't work, and I'm not the only one with this problem - check the discussions. This is a game-breaking problem. I've asked for a refund. Buy this if you excel at playing shoot-em-ups on a keyboard.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesomest game to cause headache to your friends. 5/5
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this Game 5 mins, my eyes are burning and my brain is damaged. 10/10 Massive Effects
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I picked it up on sale for $0.50, and it is absolutely an arcade game I would drop 2+ quarters into, so it was a good buy. The music is not stuff I'd listen to on its own, but it works well with the game and the visuals to augment the intense feeling. The shmup-feel is good, difficulty curve is good, controls are fine. There is a mechanic where you can drain your drain your overall shot level to fire a laser that does high damage and also destroys enemy bullets. Except when it doesn't. Some…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this is one ♥♥♥♥♥♥' psycho game. those tracks.. wtf!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome game! Take the original Space Invaders and some highly energic and psychotic drugs and you'll get Hyperspace Invaders II: Pixel Edition. Great techno music, superb graphics, superb arcade gameplay. You should try it for a few bucks.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's Space Invaders if you took a few tabs of LSD. Save money on drugs and buy this game instead.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you be up in yo crib high as hell and know the rules of this game, nuggah you gonna love it! Pros: • Fun • Addicting • Cost Friendly Cons: • Nothing really
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