The Citadel

Hey, beautiful artstyle, very good gunplay, good but adjustable difficulty. Yes, game is worth it, I recommend! Please bring the Sequel to GoG!

This rejuvenated my love of shooters. While there are many "boomer shooters" on the indie market, I struggle to enjoy them at their blistering and un-ending speed. This game lets you burst with speed, but is tempered with stopping and slowing down. Crouching and leaning encourage you to use cover, and enemies will not always rush you, allowing you to hang back a bit and blast from range. The aim-down-sights button also encourages slowing down to pick away enemies. At the same time, you can sprint very fast, slide while sprinting, and out maneuver all the enemies if you want to. You're encouraged to be careful when you want to but also burst through doors and empty a room when you're up for it. The controls feel excellent on mouse and keyboard, I cannot praise this enough. The game also gives you several weapons (not too many, which I often don't like), each with some sort of secondary shot. You also get timed grenades. I like this more than Dusk, Ion Fury, Amid Evil, and Prodeus. I enjoy the gunplay and level design in this more than all of those. I prefer the pacing in this over any of those. And I love the moody music and visuals in this most. I prefer this game over Doom frankly. Only thing that might put you off is the anime character artstyle, and the gratuitous gore. But these don't hurt it for me. Excellent level design, excellent controls and pacing. Unique art style and colour palette. Atmospheric music. This is a strong recommend.

Good gunplay and a unique style

The joke way to describe is this game has gooner artstyle to bring you in, but has good gunplay and mechanics for you to stay and finish it alongside a story that is more or less an excuse to 'Descend', and blow up a big bad. The honest way I could describe the game that is for people that wanted to have the wolfenstein 3D, that 1992 game, loved it but wish games took more or less that direction of gameplay but add more mechanics. The Cidatel give me something that I did not expect out from something that I orginally thought would just bank on its unique artstyle. This games has plenty of gunplay and mechanics that range from the type of weapons characteristics. Bullets will start to dip down depending how far the target is, alternative fires are unique and at times stronger against foes that take more and pumping down hundreds of rounds into them, and thus depleting the ammo you have for the other hundreds of foes in the same room. There are even mods you can by from a merchant using gold you gather along the way, and that doesn't even cover the special weapons that can't be in your inventory up because their so big, The mecha's you can pilot to solve bigger problems, and the fact there is a kick and lean button to take pot shots at enemies. The artstyle and level design is something I did not expect to be detailed where I wouldn't feel bored, frustrated or hinder my experience going through the game. Enemies, depending on where you shoot them, will explode into detailed gore without the blood. You can change the settings to where the gibbed enemies are still longer to appreciate the details the dev's work into a dead enemy, but it can be troubling to figure out the items are when the bodies are in the way, and there will be levels where there will be so many enemies your PC will start chugging due to many bodies in a single area. The enemies however are no pushover and will kill you if you are not careful. Hope sequel on GoG. Get this game when you have time/$.

Gunplay is great, atmosphere is great. Only downside is the store page says there's cloud save support, but that is not true.