Retro

Released: Feb 27, 2020
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Last updated: 15 Sep 2026, 12:04 GMT

Updates & announcements

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05 Jan 2026Developer post
Retro is now only $1!
Hello everyone! It's been a couple of years since the last update. I wanted to let you all know what the future of Retro looks like. I've been busy finishing my college degree and working on other projects. So, it's unlikely Retro will be receiving any updates in the future. Howe
21 Oct 2021Developer post
Retro October 20 Update
Fixed a bug where the "corruption" stage of the story mode wouldn't let the player progress when they hit the score requirement. Have a great day! -Matthew :)
16 Oct 2021Developer post
Retro October 16, 2021 Update
Hey everyone! I made a couple of changes to Retro recently, here it is! Difficulty changes Helicopters in Dogfight now have less health Decreased the point requirement to progress from Ball Protectors in story mode to 100 Gameplay changes If two bullets collide in Dogfight, they
Hey everyone!
I made a couple of changes to Retro recently, here it is!
Difficulty changes

Helicopters in Dogfight now have less health
Decreased the point requirement to progress from Ball Protectors in story mode to 100
Gameplay changes

If two bullets collide in Dogfight, they will both be destroyed
Bugfixes

Fixed an issue where a distortion effect wasn't applied in the intro of the story
Fixed an issue where the player won't be told when they can progress during the "corruption" portion of the story
And a lot of optimization updates
I went through nearly all of the code in the game and revised it to be a bit more performance-friendly.
Thanks
Thanks for playing Retro! I'll talk to everyone later!
-Matthew
I've been working on my next game! You can follow my progress on Twitter.
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19 Aug 2021Developer post
The music update has finally arrived!
Hey everyone, it's Matthew. Music Update history Back in September of 2020, I promised an update for all of the music in Retro. The main menu music was replaced when I announced it and I was working on replacing or updating some music. For the time being, I temporarily replaced s
Hey everyone, it's Matthew.
Music Update history
Back in September of 2020, I promised an update for all of the music in Retro. The main menu music was replaced when I announced it and I was working on replacing or updating some music. For the time being, I temporarily replaced some music with the songs I was more proud of.
Fast forward to April of 2021, I canceled the music update. I've been busy with school, work, and working on my next game so I just didn't have the time to work on Retro.
Recently, I revived the music update and here it is! To kick off the update, Retro will be 80% off for 2 weeks (starting tomorrow, Steam wouldn't let me start it today for some reason)!
Changes in this update:

2 new songs: Hired Guns and Carbon. These are used for Zombies and Ball Protectors.
All arcade songs have been updated.
The soundtrack has been updated with these new songs.
Fixed a bug that allowed objects to appear before the player was supposed to be able to see them.
Minor optimization improvements.
Come talk to me!
If you run into any bugs, want to ask me questions, or just want to chat, please email me at [email protected] or shoot me a DM on Twitter! I'd be more than happy to chat!
Love yourself
These past couple of years have been rough for everyone. I know it's super easy to feel bad right now and be upset with the general state of the world. I just want to say that I'm super proud of each and every one of you for persevering through this time. I really hope you are in a good mental state as it is extremely important to stay positive in a time like this. But most importantly: love yourself, even if you don't feel like loving yourself. If that's hard for you, please reach out to someone who can help. I really want everyone to be happy so don't be afraid to ask for help.
Thank you and talk to you later!
I can't thank everyone who has played Retro enough. You all really mean so much to me and I am so thankful for all of you. I really hope you have a fantastic day and I'll talk to everyone again when I release the settings update!
-Matthew
P.S. I've been working hard on my next game. You can see more about it and check out my progress on Twitter.
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26 Apr 2021Developer post
Retro April 26, 2021 Update and Announcement
Hey everyone! It's been a while. I've been busy working on my next game ( you can check out my progress on my Twitter ). I got word about some bugs in the game, so I took some time and fixed them. If you run into any more bugs, please email me at [email protected] a
Hey everyone! It's been a while. I've been busy working on my next game (you can check out my progress on my Twitter).
I got word about some bugs in the game, so I took some time and fixed them.
If you run into any more bugs, please email me at [email protected] and I will get on it as soon as I can! Please tell me what the bug does and how it can be recreated so I can fix it. You can also email me about anything else, I'd love to chat!
I can't believe it has already been over a year since I released Retro! It feels like I just released it last week. Since the launch, I've been busy working on a couple of different game ideas. I've worked on about six different game idea and gotten to a playable version for a couple of them. However, I lost interest in each of them but I think the project I've been working on for a couple of months now is something really unique and I'm pretty confident I will finish it! So, keep an eye out for that!
Because I'm already busy with my other game and other stuff, I'm not sure I will be able to get the music update finished any time soon, if at all. I do want to get it finished but don't get your hopes up. Sorry again.
Now to the changes in this update:

Fixed a bug that caused the boss fight to be unbeatable. Sorry to anyone who wasn't able to beat the game because of this.
The player can no longer go off of the screen on the boss fight (I have no idea how this happened, but it's fixed now).
Cleaned up some unnecessary objects in various mini-games.
Minor optimization improvements.
I hope you have a great day and I'll talk to everyone again soon!
-Matthew
Original post
24 Sep 2020Developer post
Music progress update
Hey everyone! I've been working on new music for Retro and am working on replacing the music for the main menu, Zombies and Ball Protectors. The main menu music is finished, so I replaced it and while I work on the music for Zombies and Ball Protectors, I have replaced their musi
24 Aug 2020Developer post
Retro August 23-28, 2020 update notes
Arcade: -Removed the requirement for players to reach a certain score to unlock the next game -Increased the player fire rate for Dogfight -Story: -Decreased score requirements for each game: Unlocking Ball Protectors: 500 -> 400 Unlocking Submariner: 300 -> 200 Unlocking S
Arcade:
-Removed the requirement for players to reach a certain score to unlock the next game
-Increased the player fire rate for Dogfight
-Story:
-Decreased score requirements for each game:

Unlocking Ball Protectors: 500 -> 400
Unlocking Submariner: 300 -> 200
Unlocking Sector Breach: 1000 -> 500
Unlocking Dogfight: 800 -> 500
Corrupted Zombies Story Trigger: 500 -> 400
Corrupted Ball Protectors Story Trigger:: 300 -> 200
Corrupted Submariner Story Trigger: 1000 -> 500
Corrupted Sector Breach Story Trigger: 800 -> 500
Corrupted Dogfight Story Trigger: 600 -> 300
-Corrupted Arcade:
-Fixed an issue where the player isn't able to open some games from the corrupted arcade menu
-Fixed an issue where the corrupted arcade games wouldn't give the player a game over when they should
-Fixed an issue where in Sector Breach where the station would be white when damaged instead of red
-Achievements:
-Updated the images for the following achievements

Unlock Corrupted Arcade
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Uh oh...
I should probably download an antivirus...
-Created 2 new achievements to accompany some recent changes
Other:
-Added a lens distortion effect to make the game more like it's being played on an arcade cabinet
Bugfixes:
-Fixed an issue where the right row of turrets in ball protectors would be facing down instead of the center of the screen.
Reasoning:
-I believe that the score requirements for the arcade mode locked players out of finding a game they enjoyed if they couldn't meet the score requirement for the previous game.
-For the story mode, simply removing the score requirements would have a major impact on the story, so I decreased them because I felt they were too difficult to meet.
-The lens distortion looked cool
Be expecting a music update (hopefully) really soon!
Have fun :)
-Matthew Bridgeman
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07 Jun 2020Developer post
Retro June 7th update
Hey everyone! Recently, I've been making a few changes behind the scenes for retro. You shouldn't notice much except for a small performance boost. Here are the (short) patch notes: Cleaned up some scripts to be better optimized and perform better. Update to how high scores are c
Hey everyone! Recently, I've been making a few changes behind the scenes for retro. You shouldn't notice much except for a small performance boost. Here are the (short) patch notes:

Cleaned up some scripts to be better optimized and perform better.
Update to how high scores are changed. (Shouldn't affect gameplay)
The main menu now has announcements that will say certain things on certain days of the year. (e.g. Halloween or New Year's)
The story has become better optimized.
A lot of code has been condensed which should result in a smaller file size.
Fixed the "missing executable" error.
Have fun!
Expect a few more changes coming up soon.
Original post
27 Feb 2020Developer post
Retro has graduated from Early Access!
Retro is now officially released and 40% off! Get it while it's on sale! It's been a long and tiresome process working on Retro, but I've loved every minute of it and I hope everyone who plays it has as much fun playing it as I had making it! If you run into any bugs or issues wh
15 Feb 2020Developer post
Retro is now in Early Access!
Retro is now in early access and is currently 20% off! Get it while it's on sale!