{"id":60594,"date":"2014-02-14T11:43:57","date_gmt":"2014-02-14T09:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=60594"},"modified":"2025-07-02T00:52:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T07:52:54","slug":"classic-shoot-em-up-ikaruga-arrives-on-steam-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/classic-shoot-em-up-ikaruga-arrives-on-steam-next-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Classic Shoot &#8217;em up Ikaruga arrives on Steam next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ikaruga, the classic vertical <a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/b\/shoot-em-up\">shoot &#8217;em up<\/a> that first appeared in 2001 in arcades, but was perhaps most loved on Sega&#8217;s Dreamcast console, will be released for PC via <a href=\"http:\/\/steam.en.softonic.com\/\">Steam<\/a> on February 18th.<\/p>\n<p>Ikaruga is famous for its polarity mechanic: enemies and bullets come in black or white, and you can change your polarity to be able to absorb one of them. It&#8217;s an example of &#8216;bullet hell&#8217; games, where the screen will fill with bullets and you have to skilfully weave around them to survive.<\/p>\n<p>Ikaruga hasn&#8217;t been the easiest game to get; it was last released on Xbox 360 in 2008, and was also available on the Nintendo GameCube. It is also available on Android, but without physical controls you don&#8217;t get the best experience. Steam should give the game a bigger audience, and an &#8216;authentic&#8217; shoot &#8217;em up experience. <\/p>\n<p>Developer Treasure has said Ikaruga is only the beginning for PC. 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Ikaruga is famous for its polarity mechanic: enemies and bullets come in black or white, and you can change your polarity to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/classic-shoot-em-up-ikaruga-arrives-on-steam-next-week\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Classic Shoot &#8217;em up Ikaruga arrives on Steam next week&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-60594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60594","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60594"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60594\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331338,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60594\/revisions\/331338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60594"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=60594"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=60594"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=60594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}