I uploaded the Devader Demo a few weeks ago. Mainly in the hopes of getting some feedback and hoping for a bit of exposure. I did not get much of either, but it was still good to do.

Turns out a lot of people chose easy. I guess everything that looks a bit like bullet hell is assumed to be terribly punishing and hard. But easy in Devader really is meant to be easy.

Normal mode was the top choice. Even a few let's players gave it a go. The video I enjoyed best was recorded by Blended Threat Games, where they play Devader in 2 Player co-op.Blended Threats Gaming - Play Devader
One player gave me some very informative feedback. He had expected Devader to be more of a tower defense game + felt the early game was too repetitive. As "feature creep" is my middle name, I could not let this chance go and added a new button for "skill". There are 8 new skills to discover right from the start, that can strongly influence the way you play the game, or at least give you different options. Among the new choices are player enhancements (~dodge roll), weaponry (bombs) + additional defensive tools.

Furthermore I've removed one of the difficulty options. Normal was the one mode I personally felt was most useless for a long time. Due to the new skills, normal mode became entirely obsolete. Skills are not available on easy, so nothing changed there, but normal was suddenly too easy. So the old Hard is the new Normal and I am happy to say it's a good improvement.

I won't be updating the demo and will probably remove it in the coming days. It has always been a limited view of the game and now even more so. Plus I have enough to do with the main build and don't want to provide support for both.