Free or cheap, with trading cards
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“Now the Remastered is for free, so you lose nothing by picking it up.”
Steam review · 9.9 h played ↗
RADical ROACH Remastered
Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.
Mixed · 62%Mixed · 62%Dried Lemons2014Action · Casual · Adventure
Free to play
Open on Steam ↗US Steam price, checked 5 h ago
The verdict
A cheap Flash-style side-scrolling shmup with charming hand-drawn art and a silly cockroach premise, but shallow and repetitive. Skip it if you want depth, power-ups or scoring.
Great for
Shmup fans wanting a short, quirky, hard arcade challenge for free or very cheap
Main risk
Repetitive, barebones gameplay with cheap-feeling difficulty and no sound options
What players love
Challenging old-school difficulty
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“Classic side-scrolling shoter, very difficult but fair.”
Steam review · 6.7 h played ↗
Charming hand-drawn art style
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“I really dig the art style, the name and the slight craziness of this game.”
Steam review · 7.1 h played ↗
Good soundtrack
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“The soundtrack is great and you get it with the game.”
Steam review · 1.3 h played ↗
Fun, silly cockroach premise
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“takes a completely ridiculous concept and turns it into a surprisingly fun action experience”
Steam review · 80.3 h played ↗
Remaster added easier modes and regeneration
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“It got better after the remaster, and the entry barrier is lower.”
Steam review · translated · 9.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Repetitive, shallow gameplay
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The levels are all the same, with tons of enemies just thrown at you in a seemingly never ending barrage.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗
Cheap, unfair difficulty and bad hitboxes
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews
“The difficulty feels more artificial than skillful, with oversized hitboxes, instant-kill obstacles that feel cheap”
Steam review · 6.6 h played ↗
No power-ups, scoring, or upgrades
Mentioned in ~1 in 8 negative reviews
“There is no scoring mechanism (which for the life of me I can't understand in a shoot 'em up)”
Steam review · 1.4 h played ↗
No pause, checkpoints, or skippable cutscenes
Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews
“no real pause function (hitting Escape dumps you back to level select), and unskippable cutscenes”
Steam review · 6.6 h played ↗
No sound options or mute
Mentioned in ~1 in 14 negative reviews
“so you think fine i'll just turn down the volume NOPE no sound options”
Steam review · 2.5 h played ↗
Poor controller support and no remapping
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 negative reviews
“Can only use D-pad to move on 360 controller”
Steam review · 3.9 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: Playable350 MB
Minimum
OSWindows
Memory1 GB RAM
Storage350 MB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 10, 8.1, 8, 7, Vista, XP
ProcessorQuad Core
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsDirectX 9.0 Compatible
Storage350 MB available space
OSWindows
Memory1 GB RAM
Storage350 MB available space
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