Yars Rising

its pretty fun and I can play the OG Yars revenge on switch

I had low expectations for this game and I was pleased beyond compare. It expands the lore of original Yars, introduces a fun new protagonist, has great music, visual style, hidden secrets, and the hacking mini games are Yars challenges. This could have been a throw away cash grab but wasn’t. It is a fun, entertaining, next step in the Yars-Verse.

A new take on one of the granddaddy of shooters.

Great music and art style. Fun and challenging boss battles and solid gameplay. The one real problem I have is the story falling a little short and not the most exciting

To begin with, I really like this game. It’s exciting and funny story! I also like the music, it’s so great to listen to! I play it on Steam and on the Atari VCS. I recommend this game to play and I hope there will be a sequel! Thank you Atari and WayForward for making this fantastic game!

This was a much better game than I was expecting it to be. It starts off simple enough but quickly builds into becoming a solid metroidvania style game. Great gameplay and story, highly recommended.

I didn't have any expectations before playing Yars Rising but I ended up pleasantly surprised! The gameplay is really fun, the music is soooo good and visually it looks pretty nice. This adds a lot of lore to the universe and overall I think Wayforward did a great job of modernizing a beloved classic.

Great way to reintroduce a favorite in modern times.

Arrive sooner than I expected really fast shipping

Great game

Any Atari fan worth their salt knows the name "Yars' Revenge" and fewer still actually know what the game actually is, meaning what you, Yar, the fly, are doing, and why you even wanted revenge in the first place. Am I getting too in depth for a game that came out before I was born? Possibly. Anyhow, back to this game; when I first installed it, I thought I had made a mistake initially, and was feeling a little let down. It seemed like a typical side scroller, "Metroidvania", a bit on the kiddie side of game design. Bright neon colors, some over the top voice acting, some songs that I didn't enjoy playing in the background, I just wasn't having a good time, but...I couldn't stop playing it. I kept thinking to myself "Man...this is really boring. I don't like it." But I kept playing, and then I was humming the songs...and then I was laughing at the characters joking with each other, and then I started LIKING the writing, and then, to my surprise, the game took a HUGE difficulty spike! Spoiler territory from here on out: A couple hours into the game depending on how you play, it all turns into aliens, and bio hacking. Man, I was hooked! For clarification, I'm a 32 year old man, and I'm sitting here talking to my wife telling her that I hope Yar just tells Anthony she has a crush on him already while I'm blasting away at these robots and slugs! And don't even get me started on the stupid Black Widow fight! I completely forgot about the grasshopper legs and ended up dying way more than I'll admit here. Suffice it to say...I haven't played a game that made me feel like I was a kid since I was a kid, and I can't believe that it took a game about a girl working for a shady corporation, who wanted to make some money, who got visited by an alien, who hacks computers by playing an old Atari game from 1982 to do it. Oh yeah, you play a little Yars' Revenge mini game every time you hack a computer console, so that's a great touch. I can't recommend this game enough. Seriously. Oh, and the music? It will never, ever, EVER, leave your head. I have been perpetually humming "human connection hacking my brain" for days and I don't regret it one bit. If anyone at Atari is reading this, team up with WayForward make a vinyl of the soundtrack, will ya?

Didn't realize this was the next chapter in this exciting game. Atari, keep restoring nostalgia.

Great fun game

Great game. Happy to have a physical copy and didn't pay a premium for it. Shipped fast too!