Caster is a minimalistic indie shooter with a mix of arcade. At the start of the game you choose your avatar and are drafted of to blast baddies. And baddies in this case are some insectoids by the name of Flanx.

I can not deny that I liked how the game looks and the action was fun for the time being, but there are two big problems with the game that incited to give it a low score.

First of all I called the game minimalistic and while this approach works to some degree for the gameplay, the total lack of comprehensible plot doesn't. Sure, you get some briefings before every mission, but they are so uninspiring as the total absence of them would have been better. Secondly, while, as I mentioned, gameplay is fun at first, very quickly it degenerates into using maxed out "Orbit" and "Seeker" over and over again. The total lack of mission objectives doesn't help either and while more varied missions are introduced in the second part of the game, it's too little too late.

To sum up, I bought this game during the sale, so I do not feel that I wasted my money, but I wouldn't pay the full price for it.

A great pick-up-and-play game. Playing Caster takes me back to arcades in the 80s, when a game wasn't expected to have a plot, and WAS expected to provide your quarter's worth of entertainment. Caster is a lot of fun in a small package at a great price, and like the best arcade games, proves immensely satisfying to master.