Tyrian's full game mode features a credit and equipment-buying system, and the shield/armor hit points which are similar to game mechanics in Raptor: Call of the Shadows, another PC game from the same period. Before the player's starship is destroyed it must take enough damage to exhaust several points of shields (which regenerate over time) and armor. The game presents a variety of enemies (some flying, some fixed, some on rails) and bosses, with many occurrences of fixed and/or indestructible obstacles. The player controls a space ship fitted with different weapons (front and back, linked to the same button, and up to two external pods with their own buttons) and other equipment. It was developed chiefly as a homage to the works of Compile, particularly their Zanac series. Tyrian is an arcade-style vertical scrolling shooter. Now on MicroSol's hit list, Trent manages to secure a small, armed spacecraft and set out the free world of Savara.
MicroSol has discovered Gravitium (the game's brand of Unobtainium) on Tyrian and seeks to keep it a secret. Before dying Buce warns Trent that the drone belonged to the militaristic MicroSol megacorporation. While on the planet Tyrian, a hostile drone shoots his best friend, Buce Quesillac. The player takes on the role of Trent Hawkins, a skilled spaceship pilot. A free and open-source port of the game started in April 2007.
The game was re-released as freeware in 2004. Tyrian was programmed by Jason Emery, illustrated by Daniel Cook, and its music composed by Alexander Brandon and Andras Molnar. Tyrian is a vertically scrolling shooter developed by Eclipse Software for MS-DOS and published in 1995 by Epic MegaGames.
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