Baseless is a challenging planet-jumping shooter that defies gravity. Shooting = Movement: blast from planet to planet with 360° gravity, creatively demolishing every enemy in your path to save your family. Fire powerful weapons, adopt cute friends, and discover a galaxy worth fighting for!
On balance I very much enjoyed Baseless and I honestly can’t pick many faults at all. However, the strenuous gameplay will prove make or break for some, especially when the control niggles only make things more problematic.
This is an inventive and ambitious platformer built around a striking movement system that turns shooting into traversal, rewarding precision, experimentation, and patience once it clicks. Its colourful presentation, varied encounters, and flexible upgrade systems show clear confidence and creativity, but the demanding movement and uneven difficulty...
Baseless hooked me with its fast combat, varied weapons and satisfying upgrades. Each zone ends with a great-looking boss fight, and the hub adds some fun side activities even if a few mini games and objectives can be a bit uneven.
Baseless' main mechanic takes getting used to. There is no way around that. Anyone who plays it on its own terms and learns to harness the physics will find it rewarding. Most of the time, using a high-powered space gun to control movement feels like trying to tame a wild beast. It's understandably unwieldy, yet mastering it under one's dominion is...
Baseless is one of the best indie games of the year with its unconventional and well thought-out gameplay complete with many facets that'll keep you pushing your skills further and further. It looks lovely to boot and how cute are those scarves? 🧣
