ComicBook.com is hooked on Star Fire: Eternal Cycle, delivering a rave review that highlights the gameplay and its strong sense of nostalgia. The fast-paced roguelite sidescroller from developer Ethereal Fish Studio and publisher Indie Herb Games is available now on PC via Steam.

Star Fire: Eternal Cycle has all the hallmarks of an action roguelike game, being fast-paced, action-packed, and always changing, and here, you have some control over what the next stage can drop, even if the options are randomized. 

Star Fire: Eternal Cycle brought me back to the days of playing arcade games at the mall, hoping that I could get through them with the limited number of tokens I had to work with. However, it puts a modern polish on the familiar side-scrolling style of many arcade games and keeps you moving through the action with its beat ’em up combat.

Read the full review by Melissa Sarnowski here. Star Fire: Eternal Cycle is out now on PC via Steam. For more information, follow @JensenHu on Twitter/X.