Feudal Alloy is an action-packed metroidvania game set in a medieval world where robots live. Play as Attu, a small but determined robot farmer, who embarks on a quest to save his village from a band of pirate robots. Navigate through intricate levels, battle enemies, and upgrade your character with new skills and equipment.
The game features a charming and unique art style that enhances the overall experience.
Gameplay is engaging with a classic metroidvania structure, allowing for exploration and ability unlocking.
The combat system, while simple, provides a satisfying challenge and encourages strategic play.
The game suffers from a lack of variety in enemies and bosses, with only two bosses present.
The map design can be confusing, making it easy to get lost and frustrating to navigate.
There is minimal story and lore, leaving players without a deeper connection to the game world.
graphics
115 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
59%
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The graphics of "Feudal Alloy" are widely praised for their unique and charming hand-drawn art style, which enhances the game's immersive medieval atmosphere. While the visuals are considered beautiful and detailed, some reviews note a lack of aesthetic variety in environments. Overall, the art style and animations significantly contribute to the game's appeal, making it a standout in the metroidvania genre.
“Feudal Alloy captivates players with its visually distinctive and charming 2D art style, creating a unique and immersive world.”
“The graphics contribute to the game's overall atmosphere, immersing players in a unique and vibrant world.”
“Feudal Alloy has a unique and beautiful hand-drawn graphics with well-crafted various enemies and amazingly detailed backgrounds.”
“While not pushing graphical boundaries, the art style enhances the gaming experience with its creativity and coherence.”
“The areas may be a little bit too samey but the graphics are charming and it's all buttery smooth at whatever high refresh rate you set your monitor, resulting in flawless scrolling that's sadly so rare to see in most indie games.”
“The detailed art style and love of the genre drew me in, but the very limited number of music tracks, clunky inventory system, and lack of story had me yawning.”
gameplay
113 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
28%
65%
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The gameplay of "Feudal Alloy" is characterized by classic metroidvania mechanics, featuring exploration, combat, and character management with a unique overheating mechanic that adds strategic depth. While the controls are responsive and the art style is praised, players have noted issues with confusing maps, a lack of guidance, and repetitive gameplay that can become tedious over time. Overall, the game offers a solid experience for fans of the genre, though it may not stand out among its peers due to its simplicity and limited enemy variety.
“The game boasts solid mechanics for a metroidvania, with responsive controls that contribute to the fluidity of movement and combat.”
“Feudal Alloy successfully integrates different gameplay mechanics, such as puzzle-solving and exploration, creating a well-rounded gaming experience.”
“Gameplay is great, controls are tight, the art style is unique and beautiful, and you get solid 10 hours of fun at a small price.”
“The gameplay itself is quite simple, which allows people of different ages to get involved in it.”
“Excellent theme, nice music, looks ok (levels are very bland looking), game does not explain itself well, unsatisfying, tedious, repetitive gameplay.”
“Boring world, boring monsters, boring gameplay.”
story
102 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
13%
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The story in the game is widely criticized for being minimal and lacking depth, with many players noting that it consists of only a brief introduction and conclusion, leaving a significant informational void during gameplay. While the game's universe is visually appealing and intriguing, the absence of lore, character development, and engaging narrative elements detracts from the overall experience, making it feel forgettable and underwhelming. Overall, the story is seen as a missed opportunity that could have elevated the game significantly.
“The entire universe of the game is interesting, well constructed, and intriguing; everything catches your attention due to its unusual nature. Even a minimally interesting story would make this visually rich universe even more powerful.”
“Love the original story and the medieval-mechanical concept.”
“A beautiful game, the graphics are simply gorgeous, the gameplay is simple and intuitive, the story/plot is good too and fits this very cozy/feel-good vibe the game has overall!”
“The lack of story downgraded the game to a good but forgettable game.”
“But really the game's biggest flaw is its complete and total lack of story, lore, and worldbuilding.”
“There is no story, lore, or writing between the intro and the outro.”
music
69 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is generally described as atmospheric and fitting for the medieval theme, enhancing the overall experience during exploration and boss fights. However, many players find the soundtrack to be overly repetitive, with only a few tracks looping continuously, leading to frustration and a desire for more variety. While some appreciate the initial charm of the music, it often becomes monotonous and intrusive over extended play sessions.
“• The soundtrack is generally chill when exploring the world; however, it becomes more intense in enemy challenge rooms and boss fights, which feels fitting.”
“• The artwork is incredible, the soundtrack is amazing, and the gameplay is so much fun.”
“• The hand-drawn environment, unique enemies, and pleasantly fitting music create an overall experience that begs the player to come back for more.”
“You have to play it without music volume if you don't want to be mad; only one music track in a loop (it seems to be on an elevator).”
“The soundtrack is very short and repetitive, and besides the boss and arena songs, there are only 3 very short songs that repeat over and over, and it drove me insane.”
“Prepare to hear the same song in the background for the whole game, which slightly changes during the boss fights, but it gets extremely repetitive and annoying pretty fast.”
grinding
14 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The grinding aspect of the game is often described as tedious and repetitive, with players frequently backtracking and engaging in combat that can feel punishing. While some find the experience manageable due to a player-friendly death system and optional upgrades, many express frustration over the slow progression and lack of meaningful choices in skill development, leading to a grind-heavy gameplay experience that can detract from overall enjoyment.
“Secondly, the action also becomes repetitive after some time due to how much backtracking you have to do to get to the next section; it seemed really tedious.”
“There is a lot of grinding, and I mean a lot: when it reaches a point where you can't progress because of a particularly tough arena fight, you will go over the same old rooms time and time again, slowly collecting the scrap you need to get the next upgrade... shame the one you want is the next step up on the skill tree though, so be prepared to grind all over again!”
“Aside from that, the game suffers from janky platforming, tedious exploration and backtracking, and awful cooldown-based combat that only serves to make your playing experience worse because you'll dread having to fight enemies constantly.”
humor
9 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The humor in the game is highlighted by its quirky medieval setting, featuring amusing elements like fish-powered robots and a whimsical art style. Players appreciate the clever and surprising concepts, such as small animals controlling the robots, which adds a layer of hilarity to the adventure. Overall, the game combines funny visuals with light puzzles and engaging action, making it a delightful experience.
“This is a hidden gem, with fine action, beautiful art, funny, surprising, and spiced with a few very light puzzles.”
“The concept is a nice touch with the robots all controlled by small animals (which is hilariously never mentioned in the game).”
“Feudal Alloy is a funny action adventure with Metroidvania elements that features a mechanical medieval robot with a fish tank instead of his head.”
optimization
7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Overall, the game runs smoothly with tight controls and no significant performance issues, making it accessible for lower-end PCs. However, the impact of upgrades on performance is minimal, and players have noted inconsistent difficulty levels and poor fight performance. The graphics and technical aspects received a moderate rating of 6.5/10.
“All in all, the game runs smoothly and controls are tight, but sometimes the difficulty scale can wobble erratically at times, but it was a lot of fun playing it.”
“There were no performance issues and the game does not require a high-end PC to run.”
“Performance & stability are commendable, contributing to an enjoyable gaming experience.”
“Upgrades of swords or armor make no or very little difference in performance.”
“Poor fight performance.”
“Graphics, performance, and tech analysis rating: 6.5/10”
atmosphere
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The atmosphere in the game is generally praised for its immersive soundtrack and vibrant graphics that enhance the experience, creating a unique medieval setting. However, some players find the background design lacking and the music repetitive, detracting from the overall enjoyment.
“The graphics contribute to the game's overall atmosphere, immersing players in a unique and vibrant world.”
“The atmospheric soundtrack of Feudal Alloy enhances the overall gaming experience.”
“Overall, I really liked the game; the atmosphere is really nice and I enjoyed it a lot.”
“The atmosphere and background design are extremely lackluster and boring to look at.”
“That song totally fits the medieval atmosphere and reminds you of the knights' era, but it gets extremely repetitive and annoying pretty fast.”
character development
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Character development in the game is generally perceived as shallow, with a lack of depth in the narrative and limited complexity in character arcs. While the character designs are visually appealing and charming, they do not compensate for the overall lack of meaningful development in the story.
“Absolutely adorable character design.”
“The main character design is cool looking, and the armors you can wear are also interesting and unique.”
“Feudal Alloy showcases a visually appealing 2D art style with charming character designs and detailed environments.”
“The game's narrative may lack depth, with limited character development and story complexity.”
“Character arcs feel rushed and underdeveloped, leaving players unsatisfied with their growth.”
“There is a noticeable absence of meaningful choices that impact character development throughout the game.”
replayability
5 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game's replayability is mixed; while some players appreciate the optional play styles that enhance the experience and provide different approaches, others feel that the overall replay value is minimal, with the main focus being on the initial experience rather than repeated playthroughs.
“+ optional play styles allow for more replay value and different ways to tackle the game, even for hardcore enthusiasts.”
“Replayability is perhaps not a focus, as the experience itself is the main attraction.”
“Even though the game should take around 15 hours to complete, the alternative play-style options allow for replay value as well.”
“Replay value is basically nonexistent.”
stability
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
75%
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Overall, users report a generally stable experience with no major bugs or glitches, although some have noted occasional freezing when hit and issues with certain armor stats not functioning as intended. Additionally, there are minor concerns regarding hitbox accuracy with specific enemies and a lack of support for ultra-wide resolutions.
“Beautiful graphics, a very pleasant storytelling voice, perfect controller support on Xbox One, no glitches, no awful translation, and no technical problems. The only thing I noticed was the missing support for ultra-wide (21:9) resolution, but this game should be played on a large TV anyway!”
“The game runs smoothly without any crashes or bugs, providing a seamless experience that keeps you immersed in the story.”
“I appreciate how stable the game is; I haven't encountered any issues that disrupt gameplay, making it a joy to play.”
“For some annoying reason, whenever you get hit, the game freezes for a solid second.”
“I assume there are glitches, as certain armor stats seemed to have no effect, and some enemies (mainly the large fly) would bypass my sword's hitbox and easily kill me.”