Played in 2024. Wow, that was a hard game. If I wasn't saving and loading 4-5 times during each level I would never have finished it. At the Easy setting, at that. However the game is very rewarding. The feeling of annihilating the enemy ships with the Plasm weapon is awesome. The ship upgrades are pretty neat too and add to some versatility and additional strategy making. The best strategy I could find was certainly getting the best weapons in the game. Lots of fun. About 5-6 hours of gameplay.