Steam’s shoot-’em-up library gets stronger with Deathsmiles

I’m a pretty big shoot-’em-up fan, but one of the worst parts of liking these games is finding good releases. It’s not that designers have been creating crappy games — it’s that some of the big-name developers enjoy releasing limited runs of arcade versions. With digital distribution now being a normal thing, I just don’t have the patience for this antiquated idea of a game being difficult to locate and play.

One of the most notorious shoot-’em-up developers guilty of limited releases is Cave. Luckily, it seems to be coming around to the idea of digital distribution. With the help of Japanese e-commerce and publisher Degica, Cave is gearing up to release Deathsmiles on Steam in the spring of 2016.