Prodeus

No glory kill crap here. If Ion Fury is the Neo Boomer shooter for Duke Nukem, Dusk for quake 1 and Amid Evil for Heretic/Hexen, then this is the one for doom. The graphics are a great blend of sprites and 3d environments, the music and sound are solid and the guns feel nice and chunky. Theres also a built in level editor and menu for playing community maps and campaigns. Really this feels like the true successor to doom than what ever ID was doing. And this is comming from someone that loved doom 2016 and enjoyed doom 3. But anyway, I'd love to give this a 5 star but there are some flaws that keeping it from joining the absolute top of the Neo Boomer Shooter scene. The most notable is the save system. It may break the game for some players. It works like the Vita chamber from bioshock or medbays from system shock. Once you activate a checkpoint and die, you respawn with the only penalty being having to walk back to where you died, though you also take a hit to score and don't get the end level icon for finishing with out dying. I found the gameplay to be fun enough that it didn't bother me and just did my best to get as many deathless runs as possible, though I do wish it had a traditional system in it. Other than that, there are some performance issues, and the enemy variety could be better. The game also ends a bit suddenly and with blatant sequal/DLC bait despite having a minimal story. Plus you have to register and go online to do anything outside of the main campaign, so a bit of drm in the level editor and multiplayer side. Still, if they address the issues with a sequal, they could have something that surpases both modern doom and many other neo boomer shooters.

Think if DOOM classic got a remake with the 90's sensibilities built-in. This is a very good shooter. The guns (Best pistol in any game to date) have amazing feedback, and the damage they deal on the enemies is brutal. Level Design varies from good to great, although I haven't dabbled in what seems to be a amazing level editor. Music is good, although the ambient and impact tracks for the opening levels get a bit monotonous after a while. My main critique is the enemies themselves. They are clear imitations of their Vanilla DOOM counter parts, but they dont look unique or striking in anyway. I hope this gets updated before the game goes live. This is the Boomer Shooter of choice for me at the moment. Worth the asking price, highly recommended to anyone who is a fan of DOOM.

These guns make me feel like an Italian chef who is tasked with supplying his entire town with passata in an unreasonably short amount of time and absolutely nailing it. It's awesome.

The game's marketing says it's a retro-inspired shooter, but it's filled with very modern mechanics. Relaoding, checkpoints, linear levels, and progression systems. It's a game that feels extremely conflicted in it's design. The enemies barely move, and half of their attacks seem to miss on purpose. But they deal a significant amount of damage when they do hit (at least on Very Hard). So the game has a very unusual reverse tension.. Where you can fairly easily clear several encounters without taking any damage, and then take a bunch of hits at once and die. The game is also extremely stingy with health pickups, so if you don't die you're whittled down over time because each time you do get hit you're losing around 20 to 30 HP, but pickups only give back 10. The game also lacks quick saves, and instead has an extremely generous checkpointing system that respawns you with full health but does not reset the enemies. So you can just die without consequence and win via attrition... Or restart the entire level when you die. Both of which aren't necessarily great options. You can also lower the difficulty, but then the game becomes too easy so it devolves into nothing but shooting lackluster enemies and mild platforming. The levels are also rather linear and straight forward, and don't feel like they're inspired by the more open level design of retro shooters. The game also has a progression system that requires you to get currency to unlock weapons, and items to unlock levels. It's so out of place for a seemingly retro inspired shooter. It's just weird, I don't recommend it.

it has the run and gun philosophy of doom 2 with the level design of quake 1 and 2 with a really good set of weapons. Highly worth the asking price. Although the enemy designs are a bit ugly