LUFTRAUSERS

The skies will be set aflame and the seas will overflow with wreckage in Vlambeer’s stylish arcade shooter LUFTRAUSERS! Select from over 125 combinations of weapons, bodies, and propulsion systems and take to the skies to battle enemy fighter planes, battleships, submarines, and rival aces for glory, honor, and high scores.

LUFTRAUSERS is a indie, bullet hell and arcade game developed by Vlambeer and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on March 18th 2014 is available in English on Windows, MacOS and Linux.

It has received 4,404 reviews of which 4,009 were positive and 395 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 9.75€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified LUFTRAUSERS into these genres:

Indie Bullet Hell Arcade Action Pixel Graphics 2D Shoot 'Em Up Great Soundtrack Singleplayer Retro Shooter Fast-Paced Flight Addictive Difficult World War II Simulation Replay Value Score Attack Rogue-like

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows XP
Processor: 1.2Ghz+
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatibale + 256MB Video
Storage: 200 MB available space

MacOS

OS: OSX 10.8+
Processor: 1.2Ghz+
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatibale + 256MB Video
Storage: 200 MB available space

Linux

Processor: 1.2Ghz+
Memory: 1024 MB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2.1 compatibale + 256MB Video
Storage: 200 MB available space

Reviews

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Oct. 2024

--originally played on playstation vita-- i've already spent hours in this game, and felt like buying it on steam when it went on sale. this game is incredibly fun and addicting, the gameplay is smooth and top notch, and once you pick it up, you can never put it back down until you've sunken hundreds of ships and jets, it's insane just how refined this game is compared to its flash-based predecessor. the soundtrack, as well. it adapts with every ship you unlock, making for many, many MANY different combinations. it sounds incredibly good, impactful but subtle effects like the music increasing in volume and echoing when you're almost dead are hard hitting and feel amazing. blasting down enemies makes you feel incredibly powerful along with the music, the pixel art style is simple yet very distinct and optimal for a shoot em up like this. it all feels incredibly designed, and i'd say it's worth the money, even at its regular price.

Oct. 2024

Incredibly fun arcade game that keeps you playing again and again because it's just so damn satisfying. Most weapons in the game are very fun to use and allow for a lot of different play styles. The main issue with the game I find is that - should you want to play this completionist style - the balance is off. Some weapons, bodies and engines are wildly overpowered, others are just a novelty or practically unusable. If you want to complete all the missions in the game, the difficulty of missions varies greatly. For example, "Kill 100 enemies (in total)" as an end-game mission is too easy. Within three games you're done. But the earlier mission to kill a blimp with missiles? That'll take you several play sessions, simply because the weapon is so underpowered. Other missions center around killing special enemies that have a low (1.6%) chance of spawning. In those cases, you'll be testing your patience more than your skill, unless you opt to change the easily editable spawn rules in the games files. (Though that does feel like cheating.) SFMT mode, a mode that amps up all the enemy spawn rules, is once again a fun novelty that wears off quickly. It's utter chaos. It's silly, and while I welcome a hard mode, but it's so over the top that I never reached a point where I felt like I could actually get good enough to survive for longer than a few minutes. The game just throws too much at you for you to ever stand a chance. And unfortunately, if you want to get all the missions done, you'll be spending a LONG time in this mode trying to check some boxes. By the time you're done you'll be very sick of it. Overall, this is a great game. I had a ton of fun with it. It holds up, the art style is great. It has some issues, but the less seriously you take it, the more fun you will have.

Aug. 2024

fun and simple. great to pick up and put down occasionally and weirdly addicting. try it out??????

Aug. 2024

'Luftrausers' is an entertaining arcade shooter that is a lot of fun due to the numerous variations. The game only requires 5 keys to play. The arrow keys and X. But that's more than enough. Each game lasts a few minutes, or longer depending on how good you are. You play a plane that consists of 3 individual parts that you can change and unlock, which always opens up new possibilities to defeat the hordes of planes and ships, which is the primary goal of the game. Definitely worth buying for a few bucks.

June 2024

if you for some reason dont have this and you can stomach a bullet hell game done sideways then this is a great game despite age. I can't praise the rough 'bullets everywhere' action enough. Great game to pick up and go even after a long pause. There is always something to aim for with different missions coming up when using different ship combos.

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