Dead by Death
- July 18, 2018
- WILLSH
Get on Steam"Dead by Death" is a retro-style platformer with 36 adventure dungeons, filled with traps, secrets, and powerful weapons. Encounter various enemies, upgrade skills with treasures, and utilize different strategies to defeat them. The game offers a challenging experience, reminiscent of classic series like Mario and Shovel Knight, testing your ability to control characters with specific resistance and inertia.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game features excellent art and a great variety of foes and surprises.
- The upgrades and crafting system is pleasing and adds some depth to the gameplay.
- Some players find the game surprisingly compelling and fun, especially if they enjoy challenging platformers.
- The level design is rough, lacking variety and often leading to frustrating gameplay experiences.
- The controls and graphics are criticized as poor, with awkward movement and bland, ugly levels.
- Many players feel the game is reminiscent of outdated flash games and lacks the depth and features expected from a modern title.
- graphics8 mentions
- 13 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 38 % negative mentions
The graphics have been criticized for their generic Castlevania-inspired style and inconsistent visual quality, leading to a clash in proportions among the diverse enemy designs. Many users noted that the overall aesthetic feels poorly executed, particularly on lower-end hardware, resulting in a lackluster visual experience.
“The levels are vast labyrinths with generic Castlevania graphics populated with a mishmash of eclectic enemies.”
“The levels are vast labyrinths with generic Castlevania graphics populated with a mishmash of heteroclite enemies.”
“The enemies are very varied, but the graphic styles and proportions sometimes clash, and a small bat can be deadlier than a huge werewolf with dual sabers.”
“They seem to have used a game creator such as Construct 2, and it's not very good on my integrated graphics laptop.”
- gameplay6 mentions
- 33 % positive mentions
- 33 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The gameplay has been criticized for its lack of depth and engaging mechanics, with many finding the moment-to-moment experience to be poor and reminiscent of outdated designs. While there are various weapons and upgrades available, they fail to add significant interest or excitement to the overall gameplay.
“I may have only played 8 minutes, but whatever depth this game might develop past that could not possibly save the terrible moment-to-moment gameplay.”
“I don't think we can talk about any depth in gameplay with this.”
- grinding2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Players find the grinding aspect of the game tedious and unenjoyable, citing awkward movement mechanics, repetitive and uninteresting enemies, and lackluster level design. The slow combat and poor animation further contribute to a frustrating experience that detracts from overall engagement.
“Awkward movement, boring enemies you tediously kill with your slow guns, bland and ugly levels, crappy tween-based animation.”
- story2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game lacks a compelling story or narrative elements, failing to provide the thematic depth or engagement typically expected from a console-quality title.
“There is no story, theme change, or any other narrative reward to keep you interested like you'd expect from a console-quality game.”
