Very cool, I'm surprised more haven't played this. Maybe try changing the itch's icon to something else to make it more attractive because I think the gameplay is solid, the graphics are nice, the music and the sound effects are on point, and the simple "ram into your enemies" rather than shoot them is very fun. The open space makes it a little dull to find your targets sometimes, though it is not hard since you can follow where the rockets came from, but maybe a mini radar of where the target is relative to you might be beneficial too.

I had some amazing fun playing this. There was some crisp pixel art combined with great music and sound. At first, it was difficult to control it but then eventually it got better. Shooting the flares from back to damage was a great idea. The game was a little difficult for my taste but still, maybe I am not good at these kinds of games. But I could still see the hard work poured into this. I have a lot of love for pixel art and this game did it simple and right. Congratulations on creating a great game!!

Please consider playing and rating my game as well. I would really appreciate it! Thanks!!

This game has a great concept that's executed super well. The boost feels super impactful and juicy, and the particle work you did also really shows. I also really enjoy the design choice of letting the player choose every level so they can experience all the content regardless of their skill level - it's a great feature especially for jam games.

However there are a couple cons as well:

1) The game was a tiny bit hard to understand at first: if there was some kind of text that described the bars at the top that would greatly help (also in the tutorial level I kept thinking that I had to boost INTO enemies rather than AWAY from them).

2) Developer syndrome, the game was balanced to be too hard.

3) The most glaring issue is that sometimes when I was holding down the thrust I couldn't boost. Simply put: it was super frustrating and instead of feeling like it was my fault for dying it was the game's.

Besides that I had a great time playing. Nice work!

It's cool but a bit too hard for me :)

Enemies variety is really great!

Love the variety of enemy types, all really well balanced. Really cool take on space combat. 

This game is great! Loads of levels and different enemies which is cool given the short time. I really liked the boost mechanic, thought it worked well! General artwork was brilliant too, can't really fault anything!

Thanks for the feedback on my game too!

Great submission, tough game but I had fun trying :-) 

A simple but great application of the theme as a mechanic. Really smooth and fun gameplay aswell! Just one thing I noticed was that I would sometimes get hit by an enemy, my boost would increase but my health wouldn't decrease, effectively negating the main mechanic of the game. Great work overall though!

Nice game! A lot of fun to play around with :) For me the game didn't quite fit on my browser screen, but other than that really nice