HROT

This game seriously needs more recognition.

this game is amazing. great flow and gun play .

Fun retro shooter taking inspiration in its aesthetics from Eastern Europe's past under communism and from Quake alike, apparently taking place after some sort of nuclear catastrophe. The game is fast, controls well and is quite unforgiving and merciless on the harder difficulties. Resources seem to be more scarce than they are in other shooters of its kind and enemies deal serious damage on the higher difficulties, so I found myself with relatively low health and sometimes low ammo more frequently than I'm used to. Still, it's a pleasant challenge for the most part. I am a bit disappointed in a few aspects of the game, however. The biggest issue to me is that most of the weapons don't really feel great. They're not bad, but the weapons available are pretty much what you'd expect given the genre and style, yet it feels like I've used a better, more satisfying implementation of each gun in a different game and at the same time HROT doesn't really do anything unique or innovative with its arsenal. Some enemies don't seem to really provide enough feedback to know what they're about to do either and in certain larger fights, I also felt like the game overuses enemy teleportation with them simply popping in randomly in the arena. Overall the combat isn't quite the well-oiled machine it is in other similar shooters. Still, despite the issues I'd say HROT is easily worth 4/5 stars and it's easily worth recommending. If this is a shooter sub-genre you enjoy, definitely give this game a shot.

From the creative choices in engine, art style and gameplay, HROT looks to truly stand out and stand the test of time.

I played the demo version, now started first level of full game. I think that overall shooting experience has been improved and feels very good. Weapons have power and enemies are answering well for the bullets. I started on hard and I it seems that I need to focus, especially of health running out and lacking medkits. This kind of gameplay really pushesh the player to best performances. Blood, bodies and all the mess seems to remain on the floor long enough (I didn't see level beaing cleaned after a while but I cannot tell it is not happening yet). This adds more to overall atmosphere. But what about how this game looks and feels? It is exatly what you can see in trailer or official screenshots. Game with grim atmosphere while providing humor and good shooting. Decent gameplay, interesting setting mixed with humour and some historical referencess. Must buy.