Steam game

Aqua Populo

Pilot your sub through waves of angry sea-life and punishing bosses in this aquatic twin-stick shooter.

$3.99 June 20, 2022

By Newbuild-C

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Aqua Populo - Newbuild-C. Popular. Released June 20, 2022
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Overview

About this game

How deep can you go?

Pilot your sub through 100 waves of angry sea-life and punishing bosses in Normal Mode or see how long you can survive the mounting pressure of Timer Mode.

Normal Mode:

You will descend through 100 challenging waves facing 10 punishing bosses as you progress through Normal Mode. Enemy spawn points and bonuses are randomized on every run.
Complete Normal Mode to unlock Survival difficulty with no 1-Up bonuses from standard enemies and dedicated leaderboards.

Timer Mode:

In Timer Mode the waves are endless with bosses triggered by timer rather than wave count. The boss encounter rate and HP increases as you descend.
Try your luck and see how long you can survive...

Features:

  • Normal Mode.
  • Timer Mode.
  • 10 Bonuses.
  • 10 Bosses.
  • 4 Difficulties.
  • 4 Leaderboards.
  • Keyboard or Controller.

Bonuses:

  • Shield: Protect your sub for a limited time.
  • Mines: Clear the area with a ring of explosives.
  • Boost: Temporarily increase your subs speed.
  • Spread: Torpedoes split to smaller projectiles.
  • Triplets: Fire three torpedoes at once.
  • Pulse: Fire a wide pulse beam.
  • Axial: Torpedoes fire in four directions.
  • IR-Beam: Fire a forward beam at incredible speed.
  • Homing: Fire two extra homing torpedoes.
  • 1-UP: Unlock an extra sub.

Difficulties:

Easy:
  • Lowest Boss HP.
  • Spawn point warnings.
  • Slowest bullet speed.
  • 5 starting lives.
Normal:
  • Default Boss HP.
  • Default bullet speed.
  • 3 starting lives.
Hard:
  • Higher Boss HP.
  • Fast bullet speed.
  • 1 starting life.
Survival:
  • Highest Boss HP.
  • Fastest bullet speed.
  • 1 starting life and drop only from bosses.

Controls:

Movement: Arrow Keys/Left Stick/D-Pad
Fire: WASD/Right Stick/ABXY
Mines: Spacebar/E Key/Left-Right Trigger
Shield: Q Key/Left-Right Shoulder
Fullscreen: F11
Exit: Escape/Select

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