Severed Steel

The game can be conquered in a few hours :) That's a plus btw :D Memorable style, very good OST and decent gameplay. Fast, forgiving (on lower difficulty) but very entertaining. A great dose of "I've had a great time" without being demanding. There has is something to be said about the soundtrack and the Tron-like glow-y aesthetics. They mesh very well leaving a weird sense of calm in the short respites from the frantic shooting. It's not intrusive, constantly thumping in the background with electro vibes letting you plan the next move, aim and get in the tempo of the next shot or very much just roam the recently cleared halls. I very much enjoyed the experience :) Penguin enthusiast - it works well through Lutris and Wine. So far only one crash experienced at first launch.

I am too old for this. My reactions are not the best any more, and chaining fluid movement combos together like it's nothing while bullets fly around you in the thousands is too much for me now. Still I gave it a shot, and THANK YOU developers, for including an super easy mode, with unlimited slow motion. Thanks to this it was fairly easy going, and I could enjoy the absurd movement and ridiculous action without frustration. For the veterans here this game should be tough enough on higher difficulties to give you a challenge. I completed it in 2 1/2 hours, on easy. Worth the ten-ish Euro I paid, it was pure fun!

The main gameplay loop is pretty fun. The game makes you always push and move forward for several reasons. You are immortal while performing stunts like wallrunning, diving or sliding and you can only have one weapon at a time, meaning you have to kill/explore to find more. Combining the stunts with the on-demand slo-mo is the mandatory gameplay loop to maximize the time you get to aim and kill enemies. Reason being, they are extremely deadly at normal speed. Campaign is very short (3-4 hours) and consists of just a long chain of quite small levels. Absolutely no story, you get a couple still images every couple of levels or so with absolutely no explanations. Other than that, there is a lot of extra content. Extra community "campaigns", a rogue-lite mode which has you play through 8 random levels and offers you random modifiers after each one, or a mode where your goal is to achieve the highest score possible by performing stylish actions. All these modes offer unlockables, mostly irrelevant cosmetics and modifiers for a custom difficulty level. The problem however is, the gameplay itself does not really offer enough variety. Once you "crack the code" so to speak, you will be playing everything the exact same way. It was fun for the 8 or so hours before that happened, but once it did, boredom started settling in and that's where I called it quits. Wait for a discount and then the game is definitely worth it if you are an FPS fan. For the full price, I'd call it questionable at best. A decent 7/10.

Lots of fluid action fun, choice after-work de-stressor. Good replay value, loads of different ways to play. I got Mirror's Edge and Oni vibes, despite the near zero story which was fine. Critique: Flamethrower enemies are meh, flamethrower too, flames are irritating. Voxel melting is cool but rather have an acid cannon. A little more rounded story would have made it super-fantastic, still fantastic regardless. Kudos to the devs!

Ever played Mirror's Edge and Super Hot and wondered hmm this could use more guns and also want to be on a constant stream of dopamine cause it's a constant blitz of go fast do this run on walls kill everyone in your path cause the game does not let go of the go faster button . while this game has a story it's a loose description of a story and it honestly doesn't matter cause you'll be having too much fun just hop skipping about firing weapons . the game gives you a small tutorial of the basics of the control and then basically just let's you run wild cause you'll be given a objective and how to do that well that is up to you . 1 minor downside is the game is rather dark so there will be times you are bumping into a wall and you hardly notice it cause of all the bullets flying about . if you like a silly game that basically just gives you skills to wall jump and slide and hop and with all that a gun and just says Go wild then this is the game for you.