You can steal the powers of you enemies. Well, not so much 'steal' or even 'can'. More like 'receive' and 'do'. You do receive the powers of your enemies.
Gene Thief is a twin-stick arena shooter where you are forced to become the enemy that hurts you.
Controls: Move — WASD/Left Analog Attack — ↑←↓→/Right Analog Exit — Escape
Fixes since submission: Added close key Fixed melee attacks not working on diagonals Minor tweak to fix last-minute unbalancing of AoE enemies (you couldn't beat them using their own power)
Known Issues: Analog sticks not working properly on Linux
Minimalistic, but pretty fun. Although close button would be really useful ;) As simple to implement as: if(Input.is_action_pressed("ui_cancel")): get_tree().quit()
Fun game! I had a blast :) I like how they give you their shape and you kind of have to deal with the new play-style unless you want to "pay" one life to get the one you were playing back, by getting hit again that is.
Fun game but the theme-related part comes more as a punishment than a feature and it's really confusing! Also I find it weird that ranged enemies basically suicide into you while melees are slower hehe I was kicked out of the screen though :(
interesting take even though it took me a while to get the hang of keyboard controls (but i'm not used to the arrow keys) It's quite fun to play all in all :)
Although close button would be really useful ;) As simple to implement as:
if(Input.is_action_pressed("ui_cancel")):
get_tree().quit()