You use the powers of your suit to escape, and your goal is to find your wife and defeat the new alien force. Coincidentally, a new threat to the universe has arrived just as you're captured by a small force. On her way home, all communication with her ship has ceased. Your wife, an ace spaceship pilot, had successfully defeated an evil empire that's threatening the life of the universe. The premise is both familiar and a bit over the top. What's even more bizarre is that instead of landing on the PC and other platforms, the updated version known as Gunlord X was released on what can be considered one of the friendliest indie platforms to date: the Nintendo Switch. Instead of taking aim at the PC, the developers at NG.Dev made the game for the Neo Geo before porting it to the Dreamcast - in 2012. The original Gunlord, however, followed a path few would take.
That makes perfect sense, as the digital distribution prevalent on the platform and the ease with which developers can publish their games on small sites (before Steam and Epic) meant that it was fertile ground for people to trot out their new, retro-inspired titles. When you think of indie games that mimic the classics, you tend to believe that they were originally PC titles.