Blood: Fresh Supply

I want to be clear that this review is for Nightdive's KEX engine port of Blood, not the game itself. Classic Blood is one of the best first-person shooters ever made and it still holds up today even if you're playing it on DOS. Now the port: Nightdive has done some good work in the past but this port feels a bit off to me. I remember playing the older version of Blood that used to be on GOG and I never recall having any issues, it worked flawlessly to my memory. I preface all of this by saying that you might not have any of the graphical bugs happen to you that I experienced on my PC. This version seems to have something wrong with certain maps, specifically the cryptic passage maps seem to have graphical issues. I've tried a bunch of settings and nothing fixed it. I even tried running the game files with Nblood and still had graphical issues, like there's something wrong with the actual game files. This really stinks because those were the maps I was most excited to play, as I have played Cryptic Passage the least of the add-ons and that's probably the case for most people. There are definitely quality of life and graphical improvements in the port (ambient occlusion is a great upgrade) but none of that matters to me if I'm getting unplayable screen-tearing for 15% of the maps, that's just unacceptable. Everything else is just dressing. If you look up 'Blood: Fresh Supply bugs' online, I'm definitely not the only one getting graphical bugs. "It's something wrong with your computer". Yeah obviously dude, but that's the whole reason I'm buying a modern port; it's meant to work on modern systems. I'm running a $1600 3-year old HP Omen here, it's not some ancient ThinkPad or something. Why is it my problem to solve? That's on the developer. You might try Fresh Supply on your PC and it may work perfectly fine, but I can only review my experience, not someone else's I'm upset that I spent $3.99 on this game, I would be very angry if I bought it at $10 or more.

Don't buy this game. It's an unfinished mess currently. Buy an older versioon, you'll be better off

Doesn't get much better than this, one of the best first person shooters ever made. Aged beautifully well especially with this Nightdive Studios remaster. It's just pure fun.

It seems they didn't have any QA people. The game constantly crashes & freezes. + It has a lot of visual bugs and a reduction of gore for some reason... I'm a big fan of the original, but this so called " remaster " has absolutely no excuse of existing in the current shape. If they fix all or most of the major issues, I will change my review.

Blood: Fresh Supply gets everything right...except support for Linux. Fortunately, this Blood reboot includes the DOSboxed version of Blood for Linux (a previous feature of the original gog.com release of Blood). Higher graphics resolutions? Check. Modern WASD controls (no need to reconfigure in DOSbox)? Check. Gamepad support? Check. All boxes are checked and, given Nightdive's track record, Linux support may get a check in the near future. All-in-all, worth getting on gog.com.