The views expressed on this page are those of the author, not CBS Local Chicago or our affiliated television and radio stations. You're going to die a lot in Galak-Z: The Dimensional. Developer 17-BIT ...

Galak-Z: The Dimensional, the sci-fi 2D shooter from Skulls of the Shogun developer 17-Bit, began life last year with a relatively standard structure: distinct, handcrafted missions spaced out with ...

At best, you can only decide what type of stress you want to submit yourself to. This brutal space shooter requires precise shooting and tactical maneuvers to survive each and every fight. If you fail ...

Some of the best games — and some of the most difficult — create their own language. It’s a dialect borne out of patterns, of habits and of good ol’ fashioned ...

An indie game-maker does not face pressure from those which holds its purse-strings to build on proven-profitable IPs. Therefore, the next game which it makes can be altogether different from its ...

Galak-Z: The Dimensional is a game that seems to hate you. But once you play it for a while, you’ll learn that it loves you. Developers 17-Bit made some design decisions that are off-putting at first, ...

At a glance 17-BIT’s Galak-Z looks like nothing more than an arcade space shooter. You fly in between asteroids and down tight corridors, all while shooting lasers ...

Space shooting roguelike Galak-Z is secretly also a mech combat platformer-thing, developer 17-Bit has revealed less than two weeks ahead of its 4th August launch on PS4. Switching into Mech form ...

Last year, Seattle-based developer 17-Bit released GALAK-Z: Variant S, a free-to-play Switch sequel to its much-loved 2015 PS4 game GALAK-Z: The Dimensional. While Variant S was reasonably ...

In Galak-Z: Variant S, players trek across the universe as A-Tak, the last surviving human pilot, who is fighting to take the universe back from the evil Baron’s Imperial forces. Using a sleek and ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. Galak-Z is a game of tense moments and heavy decisions. Its first expansion The Void, to its detriment, is one long adrenaline rush from start to ...

Challenging but immaculately calibrated controls power an exciting and enormously rewarding sci-fi roguelike. PC Gamer's got your back Our experienced team dedicates many hours to every review, to ...