You take to the skies in your custom-made plane. It doesn’t turn on a dime, but it’s got the extra armor and firepower you like. The smaller enemy aircraft up here are little more than cannon fodder, and you weave through their bullets with ease. The battleships on the sea below give you a bit more trouble, but you don’t panic–at least, not until the airship arrives from above and makes quick work of the very vessel you used to take down nearly a hundred others.

So goes Luftrausers, a game that would fit right in next to arcade classics like Time Pilot and Sinistar. It’s got a similar (and similarly compelling) quick-play format to an earlier game from developer Vlambeer, Super Crate Box, but it gives you more control and purpose, resulting in a game that keeps you chasing high scores for even longer.