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Pliesnetsov Serhii · Published by Pliesnetsov Serhii · Official site ↗
Content notice: While the game overall presents minimal violence or horror elements, it contains scenes of combat with biomechanical entities and organic monsters, and destruction of piloted spacecraft implies potential death of pilots or crews. A character smoking pipe is a key character, a character hanging out with a glass of wine is also present.
4 user reviews — 100% positive (4 reviews) · 19 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Embark on a retro-shoot-'em-up task to fight space pirates, industrial equipment, archeotech and, probably, space gods. Engage enemies in increasingly cruel levels, fight vile bosses, uncover secrets and pursue the call of ancient technologies.
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Action, Adventure, Indie, Early Access · 2025 · More under £5 games
Explore ancient technologies and face increasingly cruel enemies in Compact Plasma Gears, an action-packed indie adventure set for release in 2025.
About this game
Compact Plasma Gears is a retro shoot'em up inspired by the NES-era classics. Pick a character to fight through ten levels, beat equal number of bosses and a significantly higher quantity of regular enemies.
The Preamble
An archaeological discovery in an independent mining system piques the interest of special services of Five Galaxies. Space Federation of the Second Galaxy rushes in to secure the finding and sends the Third External fleet under the ever unscrupulous command of Admiral Tai'nor Farth - though it seems local pirates also caught up the smell of profit, and if they did - so did everyone else.
What to expect from the game?
Pick up weapons to your liking (and try to keep them if you can avoid those space rocks)
Use score acquisition to fuel up your superweapon
Select a character to play as - the grumpy yet reliable chainsmoker Cap, or the volatile femme fatale Lady
Execute a potentially legal mission on behalf of Space Federation's Third External Fleet
Fight through space, mining facilities, space elevator, futuristic cityscape, and, of course, sewers
Note on language support
The game now supports not only English, but also Ukrainian, French, German and Japanese languages, with further support being in development. French, German and Japanese local versions are experimental and created using machine translation (the mighty Google Translate) to be updated further down the line
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 x64
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU at 2.5 GHz or faster
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible GPU
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 x64
- Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU at 2.5 GHz or faster
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: DirectX 11 compatible GPU
- Storage: 1 GB available space
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
World 8 Update - v. 14082026
Finally, the first main pass on the World 8 is complete, and it's out now. Quite a few new features concerning enemy behaviour was added, allowing for fully new obstacle types centered on the environmental hazards, and hopefully one of the most annoying enemies in shmup history are now here. Please do enjoy!Read full article on Community Announcements (Serhii Pliesnetsov)Patch NotesOfficial
Update v30072026 - More fixes, minor changes
Fixed incorrect text in some locale files (including English) leading to the word"Route" not being printed on Route Reset screen Reduced the radius of default player bullet and added offset for player bullet spawn point Reworked shotgun bullets so that their damage would falloff from 3 (which is a lot) to 1 within the 0.4 seconds of bullet existing, encouraging getting very up close to melt bosses while risking taking more damageRead full article on Community Announcements (Serhii Pliesnetsov)Patch NotesOfficial
Achievements Update: Mini-fix 2 - v22072026
Fixed the Secret on World 3 not being properly tagged as a SecretRead full article on Community Announcements (Serhii Pliesnetsov)Patch NotesOfficial
A slightly hot fix - v20072026b
Fixed incorrect font assignment for Achievements line in main menu for non-latin localesAdded achievement sync points to level startAdded more default bindings for controls (Z to shoot, X to use Special, C to rotate turret)Read full article on Community Announcements (Serhii Pliesnetsov)Patch NotesOfficial
Achievements update - v20072026
An update is being pushed out of our shipyard to integrate the Steam Achievements into the game! As is usual in the Early Access state of the project, it's all highly experimental both on the side of how achievements work, as well as how they are implemented in-game Steam API -wise.Now, onto specific patchnotes:- Added internal and SteamAPI based achievements in game. Internal achievement integration will be an extended process. Currently each level has victory and perfect completion achievement, plus some specific challenge achievements for certain levels.- Improved behaviour of superweapons to properly destroy all bullet types but only for enemy-launched bullets- Added Penitent Mode powerup to some levels. Penitent Mode doubles your firepower at the cost of reducing your HP to 1- Added point bonus for picking up health pickups at full HPRead full article on Community Announcements (Serhii Pliesnetsov)
