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Hold your houses

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29%Game Brain Score
Most mentioned positive aspects:music, story
Most mentioned negative aspects:optimization, gameplay
29% User Score Based on 59 reviews

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About Hold your houses

Hold your houses is a single player survival shooter game with a violence theme. It was developed by WhackAKey Games and was released on January 31, 2017. It received negative reviews from players.

Have you ever been in a robbery and didn't have weapons to defend yourself and your house? Well now you can, with hold your houses you have a variety of weapons to use to help you defend yourself, your house and take on those unwanted robbers. The robbers are highly skilled and know how to gain access, they carry weapons such as a pistol, assault rifles and shotguns. Buy your weapons out of cupboa…

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29%Audience ScoreBased on 59 reviews
music1 positive mentions
optimization6 negative mentions
  • The game offers a unique mix of FPS, strategy, and tower defense gameplay where you protect your home from waves of enemies.
  • Some players found moments of enjoyment and motivation, especially appreciating the game's music and atmosphere.
  • The game includes collectible trading cards, which some players find valuable.
  • Severe optimization issues cause extreme lag, crashes, and poor performance even on powerful PCs.
  • Enemy AI and hit detection are broken, with enemies shooting through walls and spawning unfairly close, making the game frustrating and often unwinnable.
  • The game is buggy, unfinished, and largely made from recycled assets, resulting in an unpolished and unplayable experience.

  • optimization

    7 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    14% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 86% negative mentions

    The game suffers from severe optimization issues, causing frequent lag and poor performance, which significantly detracts from the experience. While some users acknowledge its potential, the consistently negative feedback highlights that optimization is one of the game's weakest aspects.

    • “The game is not optimized, it lags a lot.”
    • “Game is bad, optimization is one of the worst ones I've personally ever seen.”
    • “Very bad optimization, don't even try.”

  • gameplay

    3 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The gameplay is widely criticized for poor design, including problematic enemy spawns, broken hitboxes, and frequent unfair deaths, making the game frustrating and largely unplayable.

    • “Gameplay is equally terrible; you spawn effectively with enemies right next to you, and of course the hitboxes are all broken so shooting often doesn't help and you die and have to retry.”
    • “This game is broken, do not buy. It is not very playable; people run through walls and shoot you from far away within 5 minutes of gameplay.”
    • “Gameplay is as bad as it looks.”

  • graphics

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The graphics in this game are poorly optimized, resulting in extremely low performance even on low settings. Visual quality is described as bad, and gameplay issues like enemies shooting through walls further detract from the experience.

    • “This game is not optimized at all, and runs poorly; also, the graphics are bad and enemies shoot through walls.”
    • “I can run Borderlands 2 at 62 FPS on high graphics settings, yet this game runs at 1 FPS even on low settings, and exiting the game took a long time.”

  • stability

    2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    0% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 100% negative mentions

    The game suffers from significant stability issues, including frequent crashes and numerous bugs, rendering it largely unplayable in its current state.

    • “It's super buggy, unplayable in its current state, crashes frequently.”
    • “It's a buggy, unpolished mess.”

  • music

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The music is praised for its calming and soothing effect, helping players feel relaxed and reassured during gameplay.

    • “I relaxed for 5 heart-filled minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.”

  • story

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The story conveys a powerful message about perseverance and the unpredictability of life, emphasizing that overcoming adversity can lead to unexpected success.

    • “Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today.”

  • humor

    1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
    100% positive mentions, 0% neutral mentions, 0% negative mentions

    The humor in the game is centered around its chaotic and absurd moments, such as awkward bot animations and unexpected, overpowered attacks, creating a hilariously frustrating experience.

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Hold your houses is a survival shooter game with violence theme. Common tags for Hold your houses include first-person, 3D, trading, female protagonist, tower defense and others.

Hold your houses is available on PC and Windows.

Hold your houses was released on January 31, 2017.

Hold your houses was developed by WhackAKey Games.

Hold your houses has received negative reviews from players. Most players liked Hold your houses for its music but disliked it for its optimization.

Hold your houses is a single player game.

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