R-Type Delta: HD Boosted
Your nightmares, now in High Definition! R-Type Delta HD Boosted brings back the dark, iconic shooter with modern enhancements, new music, razor-sharp graphics, and all the intensity you remember.
R-Type Delta: HD Boosted is an arcade developed by City Connection, released 20 November 2025 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PlayStation 4.
What R-Type Delta: HD Boosted is
R-Type Delta: HD Boosted is an arcade game developed by City Connection and released in 2025. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Your nightmares, now in High Definition! R-Type Delta HD Boosted brings back the dark, iconic shooter with modern enhancements, new music, razor-sharp graphics, and all the intensity you remember.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action and science fiction. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 23 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the R-Type series
R-Type Delta: HD Boosted is the 20th of 23 entries we hold in the R-Type series. It arrived 12 years after R-Type II. The next entry was R-Type Tactics I & II Cosmos in 2026. Its critic score of 82 is 10 points above the series average of 72. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
R-Type Delta: HD Boosted holds a critic score of 82 out of 100. That places it above 83% of the 2,164 rated arcade games in our database, which average 70. Games released in 2025 averaged 78, so it scored 4 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Core i5-6500, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 2GB.
What it launched against
R-Type Delta: HD Boosted launched on 20 November 2025, within three weeks of Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, ARC Raiders, Routine and Kirby Air Riders. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Metroid Prime 4: Beyond, ARC Raiders, Routine, Kirby Air Riders.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for R-Type Delta: HD Boosted yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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