Rex Rocket is a Retro-Inspired Metroidvania Action Game by Castle Pixel LLC.
Rexford/Rexanna Rocket is a war veteran turned spaceship captain who spends his/her days ferrying scientists across the galaxy in his/her spaceship, the S.S. Montana. Their newest mission is to transport a species of bio-engineered Blob Monsters called Terra-Oozlings to an uninhabited planet across the galaxy.
However, while everyone is in hyper-sleep, the Terra-Oozlings escape containment and get into everything, including the ship's A.I., making it go insane. Now Rex and his/her crew need to stop the computer and save the day.
The game was funded on Kickstarter on May 6th, 2013. It was released on Steam for PC on August 5th, 2014. It's also on Mac and Linux.
Rex Rocket contains examples of:
- Alliterative Title: Rex Rocket
- Amazing Technicolor Population: The skin of Rex, and everyone else in the game, is yellow.
- Blob Monster: The Terra-Oozlings are green blobs of various sizes (but all quite dangerous).
- Hologram: Lauren, the ship's A.I. projects an image of a woman to communicate with people.
- Ludicrous Gibs: Some of Rex's death animations involve him/her exploding into little red pixels.
- Mini-Mecha: Rex can pilot robots to battle enemies.
- Pinned to the Wall: Some crew members and scientists can be seen stuck to the walls in the background with green ooze.
- Protagonist Title: Of course, the game is named after the Player Character.
- Retraux: The game is meant to evoke the look, feel, and
DIFFICULTY LEVEL of 8-bit classics like Mega Man and Metroid.
