Spelp
- January 31, 2023
- Yawee
- 9h median play time
Get on Steam"Spelp is a single-player Science Fiction Shooter arena-survival game with roguelite elements, offering around 9 hours of playtime. The game features 2 maps, Stardust and The Lab, each with unique challenges and enemies. Players can choose from a diverse cast of characters, each with unique weapons and gameplay, and build their loadouts with a variety of upgrades. Cool boss fights, 20 minute runs, and 5 difficulties are included."
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Reviews
- The game offers a satisfying experience once you set up your build properly and can effectively drill through enemies.
- Great art style and variety of weapons, making it enjoyable for fans of the genre.
- It's a fun time-waster and provides good value, especially when on sale.
- The game doesn't bring anything new to the genre and can feel repetitive and shallow.
- Lacks sound effects, which diminishes the impact of gameplay and makes it feel mindless.
- Some players find the gameplay boring and the runs too long, leading to a lack of challenge.
- graphics12 mentions
- 83 % positive mentions
- 17 % neutral mentions
- 0 % negative mentions
The graphics of the game are consistently praised for their clean and appealing art style, particularly in the design of monsters, characters, and weapons. While the visuals are noted to be impressive, some reviewers mention that the game lacks content and variety. Overall, the aesthetic is well-received, contributing positively to the gameplay experience.
“Great art style on the monsters, characters, and weapons with a clean UI.”
“I love the aesthetic!”
“Awesome vampire survivor-like game - nice art style and for the duo's first game; it's great fun.”
- gameplay10 mentions
- 40 % positive mentions
- 30 % neutral mentions
- 30 % negative mentions
Gameplay is often criticized for being initially boring and repetitive, with a shallow loop and plain map design. While some players feel it improves over time, many find that after a few hours, there is little left to engage with, and the lack of unique mechanics and special events detracts from the overall experience. Despite these issues, the art style is praised, and some players find the gameplay acceptable, albeit slower than preferred.
“Great art style, great gameplay.”
“Slower gameplay than I like, but pretty okay.”
“One may argue that it gets better as you progress, but expect some boring gameplay for a good while at first.”
“Some other negatives are shallow and repetitive gameplay loop, plain map design, lack of special events, and no unique mechanics.”
“You figure out which weapons are useless and which aren't pretty quickly, and then after just 9 hours of gameplay, there's nothing left to do.”
- optimization2 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- 50 % neutral mentions
- 50 % negative mentions
The game is visually appealing and enjoyable, akin to a vampire survivors alternative; however, it suffers from significant optimization issues, with players experiencing drastic frame rate drops from 144fps to as low as 2fps.
“Pretty and very fun vampire survivors alternative, but the game seems to have some serious optimization problems. I went from 144 fps to 2 fps :(”
