OpenTyrian

Gerhard Stein

About this game

Port of the DOS game Tyrian - classical arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter.

4 full episodes, ship upgrades, storyline, powerful enemies, lot of action, without ads or in-app purchases.

Sources at developer site.

Ratings and reviews

I would say that, for a port, this is very good! The audio and visuals are excellent, basically running like its on an old windows PC . For the controls I am using touch screen on my LG thin Q and are pretty smooth and responsive, I would imagine a game pad would be even better. I only have one small complaint, when selecting a left or right sidekick, the game won't let me select some even though I have enough points. Other than that I love the game!

Buggy touchscreen implementation, certain menu options are unclickable or have no text display. Sidekicks are hard to use and do not have intuitive controls. The game worked great on my old Droid 2 when I had a physical keyboard to play with, but as a touchscreen only game it has some serious problems. The gameplay itself is solid, Arcade mode is perfectly playable, but Story mode is a buggy mess. These problems have existed for over 5 years now without a fix.

Glad this wonderful game got ported over... only a few problems with it, and most of them probably can't be helped with an update or patch...just because the nature of playing on a phone vs a PC. This is my very favorite ship shooter of all time, the music & comical yet tragic storyline and the weapon & ship upgrades system are the very best, in my opinion. Once you get used to the controls, this game hooks you like the original.

What's new

Using a more up to date SDK