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lilithkismet rated Cannon Father

A downloadable game for Windows and macOS.

While still rough around the edges, this alpha build is a fun, retro endless wave survival shooter. You are a retired pirate and your old defeated enemies (skeletons, giant crabs, demonic skulls) have returned for revenge. Armed with your trusty blunderbuss, you have to last against them as long as possible. In between waves of attacks, you can use the coins you earn defeating enemies to purchase upgrades and healing, or search for buried treasure. 

The title screen features a chiptune rendition of "Drunken Sailor" which perfectly establishes the flavor of the game. There's currently no music during gameplay, so I hope there will be more chiptune sea shanties on offer in future builds.

Right now the fighting can feel a little bit unbalanced - there are swarms of enemies after you in any given wave, some of which have pretty small hitboxes and almost all of which require multiple hits to take down, and the upgrades are almost all so expensive that they require multiple waves survived before you can afford even one. The skeletons in particular are hard to kill, and there are a lot of them. I still had a fun time trying it out, and look forward to playing it again when it's a bit closer to being finished.