Mist Slayer
- August 17, 2023
- Moju Games
Get on Steam"Mist Slayer" is a fantasy action-adventure game where players can choose from 4 distinct characters, each with unique combat styles. The game offers both single player and multiplayer modes, with the option to switch to offline play. Look forward to future updates including new characters, levels, and bosses.
PC
Windows
Reviews
- The game offers a fun and engaging combat system with intuitive mechanics that encourage skillful play.
- The randomization elements and talent system provide fresh experiences and strategic depth for players.
- It can be an enjoyable game to play with friends, making it suitable for casual gaming sessions.
- The game feels unpolished and low-budget, with issues like poor sound design, buggy mechanics, and frequent crashes.
- Performance problems, including lag and FPS drops, significantly detract from the overall experience.
- The online-only requirement for single-player mode and frustrating boss mechanics can lead to a disappointing gameplay experience.
- gameplay16 mentions
- 19 % positive mentions
- 63 % neutral mentions
- 19 % negative mentions
The gameplay in "Mist Slayer" is described as genuinely fun, featuring exhilarating combat mechanics and diverse enemy behaviors, though it suffers from a lack of optimization and feels low-budget in certain aspects. While the game offers unique environments and varied class playstyles, it lacks streamlined gameplay and boss mechanics, making it less polished compared to similar titles like "Risk of Rain 2." Overall, the potential for greatness is evident, but the execution leaves room for improvement.
“The combat mechanics are exhilarating; however, there's room for a bit more optimization. Mist Slayer could truly shine as a gaming masterpiece.”
“Gameplay is genuinely quite fun.”
“Enemies have different mechanics and attacks, classes play differently, and environments are pretty unique and don't tend to feel old.”
“The devs seem to have prioritized expressing what they want the intended combat gameplay, game flow, and how they want the game to be fun over optimization and graphical fidelity.”
“Signs of a good studio that need more money and manpower to release an excellent game are painted all over this game, and the only downside to me is that it feels low budget in all the low budget ways except having a competent gameplay design team who probably made the graphics as well because this reeks of a small team that's communicating to release a game.”
“Bosses also feel like they don't have a stagger or break mechanic where you get a chance to hit them at all.”
- optimization12 mentions
- 17 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 33 % negative mentions
The game's optimization is notably lacking, with frequent performance hiccups and significant frame rate drops that detract from the overall experience, despite achieving high FPS readings. While the combat mechanics are praised, the developers appear to have prioritized gameplay over technical performance, leaving room for improvement. As it stands, many users do not recommend the game due to these optimization issues and the absence of region-specific servers.
“The developers seem to have prioritized expressing their vision for the intended combat gameplay and game flow over optimization and graphical fidelity.”
“I'm getting over 120fps, but the game feels like it's running at 40 or 50. This could be tied to animations or network performance, and there are frequent fps drops of 20-30 frames every few seconds, which dramatically hurts the experience.”
“The combat mechanics are exhilarating; however, there's room for a bit more optimization. Mist Slayer could truly shine as a gaming masterpiece.”
“I'm getting >120fps, but the game feels like it's running at 40 or 50 (could be tied to animations or network performance?). There are frequent fps drops of 20-30 frames every few seconds, not minutes, which hurts the experience dramatically.”
“I don't suggest the game with the performance problems and lack of region-specific servers as it stands.”
- graphics4 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The graphics in the game reflect a low-budget aesthetic, as the developers prioritized gameplay mechanics and fun over visual optimization and fidelity. While the design shows potential and a competent gameplay team, the overall presentation feels underfunded, indicating a small studio striving to deliver a cohesive experience.
“This game feels low budget in all the low budget ways, and while the gameplay design team is competent, the graphics suffer from a lack of resources.”
“The graphics in this game are a clear indication of a small team trying to do their best, but it ultimately feels underwhelming and cheap.”
- stability2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
The game's stability is severely lacking, with numerous bugs causing issues such as attacks occurring during cutscenes, unfinishable tutorials requiring multiple restarts, and significant lag and frame rate drops even on capable hardware, leading to a frustrating experience for players.
“It's an incredibly buggy mess, between attacks killing you during cutscenes such as when you defeat a boss, to a tutorial that can't be completed without restarting the game 3 times, to a very lag-filled and fps-drop filled experience on an otherwise good computer. The time in it is far from fun.”
- character development2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Character development in the game is criticized for being shallow and repetitive, with players noting poor character design and animations, frustrating dialogue prompts, and a lack of meaningful progression. The gameplay loop feels monotonous, offering minimal upgrades and little incentive for players to engage with the characters or story.
“Choppy button mashing combat, horrendous character design/models/animations, terribly annoying dialogue prompts, unskippable cut scenes, basically the same map every time, kill some guy, get some charge, clear mist, get tiny upgrade, repeat.”
- humor2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
Users consistently highlight the humor in the game as funny, quirky, and enjoyable, noting its unique and entertaining qualities.
“I can't remember the last time I saw this - they are funny, quirky, and pretty awesome.”
