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Reviews
- The game offers a fun and challenging experience with engaging gameplay mechanics and smart AI.
- It features a unique art style and dynamic gameplay that encourages replayability through customization and various game modes.
- The price is very affordable, making it a great value for the entertainment it provides.
- The sound effects, particularly for the guns, are overly loud and can detract from the overall experience.
- There is a lack of an options menu and clear instructions, which can make it difficult for new players to understand the controls.
- Some players feel the game could benefit from additional content, such as more perks, multiplayer options, and varied environments.
- gameplay11 mentions
- 45 % positive mentions
- 27 % neutral mentions
- 27 % negative mentions
The gameplay is engaging and challenging, featuring a variety of guns with unique perks that enhance loadout customization. Players appreciate the formidable AI that adds difficulty, while the overall mechanics are fun and straightforward. However, there are calls for more environmental variation and additional gameplay settings to enrich the experience further.
“The guns all have some upsides and downsides, so to make any loadout you pick more interesting and effective, you have two perk slots, which is an awesome game mechanic.”
“The premise is simple, the gameplay is challenging, and the style is fun.”
“But formidable AI that take cover, suppress, flank, and surround the player makes the gameplay very difficult.”
“The base game works well but needs some variation to the environment, gameplay, and objectives.”
“Combining perks is an easy way to shake up gameplay.”
- graphics5 mentions
- 40 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 60 % negative mentions
The game's pixel art style is praised for its smooth performance, especially in couch-coop streaming, and is described as clean, polished, and ingenious. Reviewers appreciate the great 8-bit graphics and animations, highlighting the overall visual quality as a significant strength of the game.
“The pixel art style allows the game to run very smoothly on Steam's couch co-op streaming.”
“Additionally, the art style is ingenious, and it is apparent that the creator took their time in making the game look adequate and practical.”
“The pixel art style would allow for the game to run very smoothly on Steam's couch co-op streaming.”
“The visuals are clear.”
“The art style is clean and polished.”
- music5 mentions
- 60 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 40 % negative mentions
The music in the game is generally well-received, described as simple, nice, and fitting with a cute acoustic style that enhances the overall experience. However, some players noted that the loud sound effects, particularly from the gun, can overshadow the music.
“The music is simple and nice.”
“Great 8-bit style graphics, really nice animations, reasonably hard progression, and a cute soundtrack.”
“I like these sorts of small gameplay projects, and I enjoy the feeling the acoustic music adds to the game.”
“The player gun sound effects are very loud, drowning out the music.”
“The soundtrack is cute, but it often gets overshadowed by other sound effects.”
- story2 mentions
- 50 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The story aspect is noted for its basic mission structure involving the repulsion of various enemies, but many users feel that the experience would be significantly enhanced with a more intense and engaging narrative element.
“If there was a more intense story element, this would be incredible.”
- replayability2 mentions
- 100 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The game offers significant replayability due to its player customization options and randomly generated battlefields, making each playthrough a unique and challenging experience. Many users express hope for its popularity to attract a larger player base.
“There's a lot of replay value, and I hope this game gets popular so more people can check it out.”
“Throw all that together, add player customization and randomly generated battlefields, and you have a replayable shooter that is quite the fun challenge.”
- stability1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 100 % negative mentions
Reviewers highlight that the stability of AAA games is often compromised by significant bugs, particularly in AI performance, which detracts from the overall gaming experience and makes these issues more frustrating.
“It makes how buggy and terrible the AI is in AAA games even more unforgivable.”
