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."
PC
Reviews
- The game offers a satisfying experience once you set up your build properly and drill through enemies.
- Great art style and variety of weapons, making it enjoyable for fans of the genre.
- Good value for the price, especially on sale, and provides a fun time-wasting experience.
- Lacks originality and doesn't bring anything new to the genre, making it feel like just another clone.
- Gameplay can be shallow and repetitive, with a lack of variety in enemies and mechanics.
- Some technical issues, such as optimization problems and a lack of sound effects, detract from the overall experience.
- graphics6 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. Reviewers appreciate the aesthetic quality, noting it enhances the overall gameplay experience, despite some criticism regarding the game's content and variety.
“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.”
- gameplay5 mentions
- 40 % positive mentions
- 0 % neutral mentions
- 60 % negative mentions
Gameplay is generally seen as a mixed experience; while some players appreciate the art style and find the gameplay improves over time, many criticize it for being initially boring, repetitive, and lacking depth. The map design is considered plain, and players quickly identify which weapons are effective, leading to a sense of limited engagement after a few hours. Overall, the gameplay may appeal to some, but it suffers from a lack of unique mechanics and variety.
“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.”
- optimization1 mentions
- 0 % positive mentions
- -200 % neutral mentions
- 300 % negative mentions
The game is visually appealing and enjoyable, but it suffers from significant optimization issues, with players experiencing drastic frame rate drops, such as going 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 :(”
“The game has great potential, but the optimization is a disaster. Frequent frame drops make it nearly unplayable.”
“I love the concept, but the optimization issues are frustrating. It often lags and crashes, ruining the experience.”
