GameCrate: "Dystoria strives to create a fun and original experience and, in a lot of ways, it succeeds in doing so. It's a shame that the game stumbles along the way because there's a lot of unrealized potential, as well as some unsavory quirks. Even then, there's something about Dystoria that kept drawing me back to it, even after I'd walk away from it in frustration."
Ben and Skewed and Reviewed has posted a positive review for the game Dystoria. He liked the mix of retro gameplay and action.
DYSTORIA is at its best when you're just cruising through levels, when it tries to become a pure shooter it falls flat.
DYSTORIA starts with a randomly working arcade machine appearing in a back alley. Once you touch it you're taken onto an alien ship where they ask you to train on a simulation device. Not everything is as it appears, at first you get emails congratulating you on completing stages. Yet as you progress, the messages you receive seem a bit more ominous.