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[Grildon Tundy]

Public Service Announcement: This game is awesome.

It's like a mix of real-time Superhot, Max Payne, Mirror's Edge and the modern Dooms. Cyberpunk aesthetic with a great soundtrack of electronic music with Squarepusher/Aphex Twin-style drum beats. Fully destructible environments. No voiced cutscenes with unending dialogue. Just gameplay. Some of the best movement in gaming. Sound design is excellent. Graphics are slick and the game runs flawlessly. It's the whole package.

It's pretty rare for me to get a stupid, cheesy grin on my face, but this game did it in the first combat encounter when all those elements came together.

You don't even have to be good at it to feel like a badass. But here's an example of someone who really knows what they're doing:



Overwhelmingly positive reviews on Steam. I picked it up in the autumn sale for $2.50, and I think you should, too, if it looks at all interesting to you.

 

[BennyBlanco]

Went to buy it and I already own it

 

[mèx]

Bought it a few days ago after finding out the same dev made the more recent Echo Point Nova (it's worth checking out, it's more expensive though).

I haven't played Severed Steel yet, but it looks awesome. Will play it for sure.

 

[od-chan]

mp arena shooter with that kinda movement/visuals would be amazing (pls someone revive that genre finally)

 

[IFireflyl]

I'm sorry, but am I expected to believe that a female protagonist with only one arm is capable of mowing through a bunch of men? You really expect me to pay $2.50 for this woke garbage??

Purchased. I'm gonna shred some dudes with my girl power.

 

[Punished Miku]

Its fast. The demo was great but I really want to play it with gyro. I think Switch might have it enabled.

 

[Guilty_AI]

It's not as cheap, but take a look at Turbo Overkill next

 

[Nankatsu]

For 2 €?

 

[Buggy Loop]

Yup, it was my first recommendation in the steam sales thread.

Totally insane action

 

[IAmRei]

hey thanks, cool game!

 

[Big Baller]

Double dipped

 

[YeulEmeralda]

Reminds me of Syndicate.

 

[grvg]

How is the game on a controller?

 

[Grildon Tundy]

How is the game on a controller?

I think the general points hold true: M+KB allows for more precise & quick movement and aiming. I typically play with controllers on PC, but I decided to challenge myself to use M+KB for this for that reason.

Regardless, it's available on Xbox/PlayStation/Switch and plenty of people play it on Steam Deck, so controller seems fine. It allows for button re-mapping, and apparently it has controller gyro support, too, if you're into that.

 

[Alexios]

Classic FPS fans have been eating good for several years: Dusk, Ultrakill, Turbo overkill, Maximum Action, Mullet MadJack, Sprawl, remastered Quake 1 & 2, Powerslave & Doom 64 finally freed from the old consoles and tons more greats before going down to ace-but-not-as stuff like Doom Eternal!

Can't forget amazingly well done & fitting VR ports breathing new life to stuff like Half-Life 1 & 2, Doom 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Prey (the original), most Doom engine FPS (complete with mods for 3D weapons and what not, please ignore videos using flat sprites, lol) and much much more.

 

[Guilty_AI]

Classic FPS fans have been eating good for several years: Dusk, Ultrakill, Turbo overkill, Maximum Action, Mullet MadJack, Sprawl, remastered Quake 1 & 2, Powerslave & Doom 64 finally freed from the old consoles and tons more greats before going down to ace-but-not-as stuff like Doom Eternal!

Can't forget amazingly well done & fitting VR ports breathing new life to stuff like Half-Life 1 & 2, Doom 3, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, Prey (the original), most Doom engine FPS (complete with mods for 3D weapons and what not, please ignore videos using flat sprites, lol) and much much more.

And i also like how this trend is gradually expanding into immersive sims

 

[Grildon Tundy]

And i also like how this trend is gradually expanding into immersive sims

What are some examples, if you don't mind? Cruelty Squad comes to mind, but don't know of many others.

 

[Alexios]

What are some examples, if you don't mind? Cruelty Squad comes to mind, but don't know of many others.

Gloomwood, Shadows of Doubt, Peripeteia, Lonely Space, Beyond Hanwell, RetroSpace, ETOS, Weird West, Fallen Aces, Aqua Metsis, Ctrl Alt Ego, Spectra, Corpus Edax, Athanasia, Sorceress, Parkside, Blood West, Neverlooted Dungeon, The Crimson Lyre, Voltage High Society, Monomyth, Maliguard, possibly Industria 2, adjacent Thief-likes like Filcher & Neon Struct...

 

[DragoonKain]

I played it for several hours and never ended up finishing it. I couldn't get into it. It wasn't my thing, but I may go back and finish it one day. It gave me bad motion sickness too.

 

[Guilty_AI]

What are some examples, if you don't mind? Cruelty Squad comes to mind, but don't know of many others.

Adding to Alexios :
System Shock Remake, Stay Out of the House, Amnesia: The Bunker, Sonar Shock, Fortune's Run and probably a few others i'm forgetting.

There are also a whole bunch of more 'esoteric' shooters that don't exactly follow the classic DOOM or typical boomer shooter formulas and add some alternative elements to it, like Hedon: Bloodrite, Ashes 2063, G String, Selaco, Mullet Madjack, Sprawl, Overload or Severed Steel from your OP.

 

[Grildon Tundy]

Gloomwood, Shadows of Doubt, Peripeteia, Lonely Space, Beyond Hanwell, RetroSpace, ETOS, Weird West, Fallen Aces, Aqua Metsis, Ctrl Alt Ego, Spectra, Corpus Edax, Athanasia, Sorceress, Parkside, Blood West, Neverlooted Dungeon, The Crimson Lyre, Voltage High Society, Monomyth, Maliguard, possibly Industria 2, adjacent Thief-likes like Filcher & Neon Struct...

Adding to Alexios :
System Shock Remake, Stay Out of the House, Amnesia: The Bunker, Sonar Shock, Fortune's Run and probably a few others i'm forgetting.

There are also a whole bunch of more 'esoteric' shooters that don't exactly follow the classic DOOM or typical boomer shooter formulas and add some alternative elements to it, like Hedon: Bloodrite, Ashes 2063, G String, Selaco, Mullet Madjack, Sprawl, Overload or Severed Steel from your OP.

Thanks, dudes. I've now wishlisted a bunch of these.