Playing A Game Steel Storm: Burning Retribution PC

I feel for the Humble Indie Bundle guys. It's a good thing they're humble, because most of the bundled games aren't very good -- of course I enjoyed VVVVVV, and Braid which was in the last bundle, so I already own those. And most of the others - And Yet It Moves, Crayon Physics, Cogs, Machinarium, Osmos - are games I've demo'd before, and just didn't find very interesting or good. But I threw some money in for the charity angle, and Steel Storm was a pleasant surprise.

Not that's it's great: the gameplay is simple, the campaign difficulty spikes unexpectedly, and the level design is intensely repetitive. But the bullet- and laser- and explosion-filled chaos makes for a pretty fun time, even when I'm dying as a result of it.

That being said, I don't know that I'll bother coming back to the game for Episode 2 ("Burning Retribution" proper), because even in the first episode's short campaign the primitive mechanics and lackluster level design got stale by the end.

Progress: Gave Up -- Finished Episode 1

Rating: Meh