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Nitro Express is a 2D side-view gun action game where cute pixel-art girls shoot assault weapons with 360° free aiming in the streets of Japan!
Nitro Express is a side scroller, 2d platformer and shooter game
developed by Grayfax Software
and published by PLAYISM.
Released on May 18th 2025 is available on Windows, Steam Deck and Steam Machine
in 4 languages: Japanese, English, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.
It has received 1,072 reviews of which 804 were positive and 268 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.2 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.
The Steam community has classified Nitro Express into these genres:
Side Scroller
2D Platformer
Shooter
Beat 'em up
Runner
Female Protagonist
Arcade
Platformer
Cute
2D
Mechs
Tanks
Action
Pixel Graphics
Anime
Military
Atmospheric
Singleplayer
Indie
Here is the detailed breakdown of supported languages for Nitro Express:
| UI | Subtitle | Audio | |
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| English | |||
| Simplified Chinese | |||
| Traditional Chinese | |||
| Japanese |
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: 64-bit Windows 10
- Processor: Intel Core i5
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 660
- Storage: 500 MB available space
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In a world where the Japanese metropolitan police have infinite money use lasers, rifles and an RPG we got off the Yakuza to destroy rogue robots and save the citizens of Tokyo and decimate the local fish population (this is a fishing minigame with guns and it's actually quite good Anyway, good little game can't recommend more
Its price is a little steep but its a charming game for all of its thorns, a good game to snag on sale and play for a few sessions for ten or twenty hours. The characters and art are very cute, the story is pretty decent and had a strong ending, the gameplay is pretty decent with a decent amount of variety in weapon/gadget loadouts and unlockables. The soundtrack is BANGIN. There's a handful of touchy issues you should be aware of: [*] Framerate locked to 30 FPS makes the action a little chunky and difficult to follow sometimes. [*] Identifying where your character is in the chaotic mess of everything exploding can be a challenge. The game's art direction does a pretty decent job of distinguishing most things at a basic level, but areas can get extremely busy and hard to follow. [*] Controls and responsiveness could have used some work. Jumping and landing has a recovery period that can make it awkward to cleanly dodge things. Rolling is tied to crouching and moving in any direction, which can be problematic when trying to jump a specific direction from a roll. Gadget slots are tied to weapon slots which was not immediately apparent and makes it rather clunky to use the gadget you want for the specific situation. [*] The game has a somewhat odd choice of encouraging the use of stable stances for damage bonuses (crouching does more damage than standing and moving, for example). This leads to a lot of times where you want to momentarily crouch to deliver high damage and then need to move right after, but as mentioned the somewhat clunky and overlapping controls do not make this feel intuitive. [*] Lots of actions like melee lock you in place or cancel existing animations which makes their use not feel very fluid. Not being able to swap weapons in the middle of a reload is another thing that makes controls feel clunky. [*] The game is somewhat short. There's 8 story missions and 20 "bonus" missions which are mostly just challenge scenarios that follow somewhat similar layouts or boss usage from the main mission with an added twist or added enemy spawns. All that being said the game is not overly insanely difficult or punishing but it was certainty enough for me to need to restart a few times and consider alternative weapons for the level. Once I was able to find gaps or strategies that worked I could usually do the levels pretty easily, but I never really felt like I was being pigeonholed into a singular loadout or strategy.
A short and neat twin stick shooter. It has a good variety of weapons to unlock, as well as secondary special items. The default control scheme can be a tiny bit weird until you get used to it, or you can choose alternate ones. The animations and art are very good. Sadly it is locked to 30 fps, but there's mods to modify it so it can run at 60 fps.
Pros: -Fun Metal Slug-esque shoot em up. -Side mission system is encouraged for bonus cash to purchase new weapons or upgrade your unlocked arsenal. -Despite all being royalty free to use, music is charming and energetic. -References, when used, are a nice touch, and don't hamper the story. Cons: -Main story is short and one note. -Many of the side mission boss fights become tedious due to the mob enemy spawns. -The basic ground drone is the worst enemy of the game. It is often spammed on some of the more interesting missions or fights unnecessarily, while having an attack that is in melee range and being outside your kick hitbox , and it's main attack has no audio nor visual cue . This doesn't sound like much, but it becomes very annoying during boss fights where you have to split awareness between boss attacks and these thing. -Controls are somewhat clunky for gamepad and M&K. Aiming with mouse felt egregious where I had to increase my DPI more than I usually do, while there's no option to drop through platforms with a prompt like with jump. Solid 7.5/10. It has issues, but for an indie title, it was fun, and my frustrations with the game weren't enough to make me rage quit.
Pretty solid run and gun game. The dev couldn't get this to be 60fps but someone made a mod for it (its in Steam Discussions). Played the whole game in 30fps and its still good, probably smother at 60 but the guy that made the mod said there were some gameplay issues because of it (mostly just faster shooting making the game easier as you can do more damage so maybe that's why the game got locked at 30). Regardless, its very fun, it took me 7 hours to complete the game 100% even when there aren't any achievements which is a damn shame. Its probably way shorter if you play in Normal [Balanced] or Easy [Hero], i played the whole thing in Hard (Weakling) except for mission 20 since that one was too unfair otherwise difficulty only gives you more/less health and reduces or increases your score but it really barely matters so play in whatever difficulty you enjoy. Also controls aren't janky, they are really responsive both KB&M and Controller, they just take some time to get used to. Really recommend getting this one at least on a sale.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Nitro Express is currently priced at 12.79€ on Steam.
No, Nitro Express is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 12.79€ on Steam.
Yes, Nitro Express received 804 positive votes out of a total of 1,072 achieving a rating of 7.19.
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Nitro Express was developed by Grayfax Software and published by PLAYISM.
Yes, Nitro Express is playable and fully supported on Windows.
No, Nitro Express is not playable on MacOS.
No, Nitro Express is not playable on Linux.
Yes, Nitro Express is playable and fully supported on Steam Deck.
Yes, Nitro Express is playable and fully supported on Steam Machine.
No, Nitro Express does not support VR.
Nitro Express is a single-player game.
No, Nitro Express does not currently offer any DLC.
No, Nitro Express does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
No, Nitro Express does not support Steam Remote Play.
Yes, Nitro Express is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for Nitro Express.
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| Steam price | 27 October 2026 04:17 UTC |
| Steam reviews | 20 October 2026 16:00 UTC |
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Developer
Grayfax Software
Publisher
PLAYISM
Release
18 May 2025
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