HyperParasite

HyperParasite

82% Very Positive
121 Positive
26 Negative
147 Total Reviews

A rogue-lite twin-stick shooter/brawler that never plays the same twice. Collect and control 60 different characters as the body-snatching alien Parasite with a grudge against humanity. Fight to the top of the food chain: possess the President, push the Big Red Button and one-up the human race.

$17.99
Available on: 🪟
Release Date: (5 years ago)

Game Details

Achievements
62
Estimated Owners
50000 - 100000
Metacritic Score
71/100 View
DLC Count
1 DLC
⚠️ Content Warning:

Being the game a twin-stick shooter/brawler, it's focused on fights that lead to cartoon/fantasy violence. Some background art depicts neon signs for adult-oriented nightclubs. There is one drive-in scene that mildly implies sexual acts inside vehicles. No acts are shown, only the vehicles can be seen bouncing. The game levels are procedurally generated, so this scene is not always present.

🌐 Official Website: www.hyperparasite.com
🛠️ Support: Support Page
📧 Support Email: [email protected]

About This Game

Invading a grime encrusted dystopia straight out the eighties, you're the monster the authorities warned about. Dragging your bloody tentacles on the greasy asphalt, you snatch body after body . You are the HyperParasite ; an evil alien with a bone to pick with humanity…just because it’s fun . Infesting the sickest corners of the most ass-kicking decade, you must fight your way to the top of the pop-cultural food chain, in order to push the Big Red Button and bring about the mushroom cloud of finality. Be the baddest, navigating the dangerous procedurally generated streets of a hopeless past, in this tough twin-stick roguelite brawling S.O.B. 'Long live the new flesh' Look at all those juicy meat-sacks going to waste on those grotty humans! As the HyperParasite you can make better use of them, snatching hosts with your tentacles, absorbing them and their different abilities . Once they die you can discard their skin, but keep on snatching, since one shot as the parasite and it's permadeath . That is, unless you found some nice upgrades , so keep your eyes open…or your feelers high...or whatever a parasite does. 'Hosting makes me feel good' Feed the parasite with over 60 different characters , as you collect and control hosts , each with their own unique attack and smack-down . Hunt down the host class boss, rip their brain off (they didn´t use it anyway), and take it back to Wito's, our ever-greedy shopkeeper . Using some very weird machinery to store the brain , you can then unlock the character with your hard stolen cash. There's even a storage unit for your already collected hosts to come back to in later games. 'Yeah, Downtown must be the friendliest place on Earth...' Since the game is procedurally generated , nobody knows what's waiting around the next dark corner. Can you survive the 5 Acts of this grungy-looking synthwave-filled world? Maybe yes, if you remember that what lies in the shadows is essential, as there are secrets within secrets to explore within its roguelite mapping system. And if you keep a tentacle out for the bosses , as they pack one mean punch! Pump up the volume! Original beats served by Van Reeves and Joe Kataldo, delivering a thumping score with a pulsating synthwave bassline, punctuating every snatch and kill. A friend in need... Trouble loves company, as you can bring a mate to deliver twice the carnage in two-player local co-op mode.
3 min read

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Categories

Co-op Family Sharing Multi-player Partial Controller Support Remote Play Together Shared/Split Screen Shared/Split Screen Co-op Single-player Steam Achievements Steam Cloud

User Tags

Twin Stick Shooter (236) Dungeon Crawler (230) Rogue-lite (230) Shooter (228) Perma Death (226) Procedural Generation (221) Difficult (219) Funny (217) Top-Down (212) Rogue-like (210) Action (199) Sci-fi (198) Pixel Graphics (196) Loot (183) Old School (181) Retro (179) 1980s (178) Dark (171) Multiplayer (160) Local Co-Op (153)

Supported Languages

English ✓ Audio
French
German
Italian
Japanese
Polish
Portuguese - Brazil
Portuguese - Portugal
Russian
Simplified Chinese ✓ Audio
Spanish - Spain
Traditional Chinese