Syder Arcade News

Ready for more furiously overcharged, hybrid shmup action?
Syder Reloaded is coming to Steam!

From Spring 2021, Syder Reloaded revives the Syder series in this love-letter to Amiga shmups with upgraded graphics and refined gameplay.

Existing Syder Arcade players will still be able to play the original iteration, and will receive a very special offer in picking up the new game. More details revealed soon!

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[h2]👉 WISHLIST SYDER RELOADED ON STEAM 👈[/h2]


Be among the first to play the game on Steam in the Steam Autumn Festival from October 7th – 13th. We’ll have a playable demo live on the new Steam page here, showcasing one of the challenge levels and five playable ships.

We will be livestreaming during the course of the event, and you can find our stream schedule here.









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[h2]What’s New? [/h2]

• ‘Tis But a Scratch: Introducing grazing! Fly in the face of danger and keep your score multiplier alive by flying close to bullets.
  
  
• Pick Your Poison: Shoot powerups to cycle your options. Forget otherwise perfect runs being ruined with random weapon drops. Now you make the call.
  
  
• Make Mine a Multi: Bullet cancelling partially refills the multiplier reset counter. When your special weapon is charged, earn extra score based on your multiplier.
  
  
• A Fresh Coat of Paint: All new graphics and improved level design, boss battles and enemy behaviours.
  
  
• Expanded Roster: Get ready for battle with 4 new playable ships.
  
  
• Settle The Score: The scoring system has been redesigned from scratch, rewarding the most skilled players.
  

[h2]Key Features:[/h2]

• 6 Legendary Levels: A challenging Campaign Mode packed with guns, glory, and buckets of adversity for you to overcome!
  
  
• Choose Your Ship: Even more superb starships ready to be commanded, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. Choose wisely!
  
  
• How Far Can You Go?: 3 different Survival and Challenge Mode levels, perfect for pilots wishing to showcase their skills.
  
  
• Online Leaderboards: Take control of the all-new scoring system and make your mark on the Global Leaderboards, or go personal and fight for bragging rights at the top of your friends list.
  
  
• Play with What You’ve Got: Pick up a controller or reach for your keyboard, how you play is up to you.
  
  
• Travel Back in Time: Apply a suite of retro graphic filters to change the way you see the game and bring that wonderful hit of nostalgia from the 90s!
  
  
• No Grind, Just Glory: Earn your place among the elite, winning badges and high scores based on skill and ability, not hours invested.
  
  
• Big Bosses Await: Go head-to-head against monstrously-sized ships. Will you overcome these alien invaders?
  
  
• A Challenge with Choices: Pick from up to 4 levels of difficulty, so you can set your own challenge. Rise to the maximum as you master your ship!
  

Hello community!

It's been a while since our last announcement, but finally we have a chance to come back and give you an exciting update. As some of you may already know, we recently announced Syder Reloaded, a remastered and improved release of Syder Arcade for Nintendo Switch.

A few years after the initial release of Syder Arcade we had to abandon the project, as the size of our team at the time made almost impossible to split our efforts between many projects. However, even if we couldn't schedule official updates, we never forgot this title and the community behind it. The Syder universe has a special place in our cold and evil developers' hearts, and so we kept slowly and secretly working on this game. Every time one of us had some extra energy, we put it in fixing bugs, upgrading old code and adding new things, between all the projects that keep our company afloat.

It was an unpredictable and unreliable process, but we finally got to a point all our extra work took shape. The stars finally aligned, and Syder Reloaded for Nintendo Switch was born. This is a very good chance for us to go back to our old shmup and make up to you for our absence. Now, we are unable to announce anything official for Steam yet, but we are actively looking at all the options we have to make this happen in the best possible way for all Syder Arcade fans.

So, stay with us a little longer, starfighters!
And thank you for all your continued support over these years. If you are interested in what is new in Syder Reloaded, take a look at the website or follow us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

We are excited to announce that Syder Arcade is now part of the 9th Humble Bundle for PC and Android! Paying above the average, you will get nine DRM free games for PC and Android. All the games in the bundle are available on Steam and you are free to choose how much you want to pay for all of them.

We also just released a small patch to fix some achievement bugs reported by the users. The patch includes:
- “Death Dealer III” and “Dodge This” achievements fix;
- Fixed a bug that was preventing some enemy waves to spawn in Shield Nebula and War Stories levels;
- Unepic “baby dragons” pods have now slightly less health;
- Overseer wraiths pods now fire orange bullets instead of white bullets;
- The Overseer has now a “cast” animation when firing its special weapon.

In the next few days, we will finally align Syder Arcade version on all the other platforms to the Steam release. We will release a bigger update that includes new content and fixes very soon, so follow us on Facebook, Twitter to know what’s coming next.

We are excited to announce that Syder Arcade is now part of the 9th Humble Bundle for PC and Android! Paying above the average, you will get nine DRM free games for PC and Android. All the games in the bundle are available on Steam and you are free to choose how much you want to pay for all of them.

We also just released a small patch to fix some achievement bugs reported by the users. The patch includes:
- “Death Dealer III” and “Dodge This” achievements fix;
- Fixed a bug that was preventing some enemy waves to spawn in Shield Nebula and War Stories levels;
- Unepic “baby dragons” pods have now slightly less health;
- Overseer wraiths pods now fire orange bullets instead of white bullets;
- The Overseer has now a “cast” animation when firing its special weapon.

In the next few days, we will finally align Syder Arcade version on all the other platforms to the Steam release. We will release a bigger update that includes new content and fixes very soon, so follow us on Facebook, Twitter to know what’s coming next.

Syder Arcade is 75% off for the rest of the week and what better occasion to announce a new community challenge? The rules are simple, the final prize is a big one: new in-game content! If this tweet will be retweeted at least 100 times before January 27th we will introduce in the next update a new spaceship.

You can find more information (and you can help us choose an awesome name for the ship) in the apposite thread!