The Citadel

At the time of me writing this I have played for over 13 hours. I have beat the game twice. While there is not a whole lot of variation aesthetically throughout the game, it does keep a pretty good atmosphere. The overall vibe of the game is pretty unique, sort of a industrial dystopia. The movement in nice, and the platforming in the game is done well. Almost every one of the weapons feels nice and varied, the submachine gun is really the only one I did not enjoy using. The gore system is a good addition to the game, it really gives weight to your shots when they reach their mark. I did have some minor bugs and a few crashes, but I never lost much progress from it crashing. Overall it is a very well done game made by someone who clearly has a passion for old school fps games. I really reccomend anyone try it out.

Exactly the balance I want in most games. You die quick and the enemies die quick too. Very well made sprites make easy to tell which enemy is which and all the guns I've tried so far differentiate themselves well. I wouldn't recommend if you can't handle girl gore but if you can get over that I would highly recommend.

This is a rough game made even more difficult by the jank of a single developer but it is still a decent play. I'm ranking it with 5 stars because it was a colossal project for a small dev team. The art style fits the 90's aesthetic but the anime is a bit jarring and I also thought this would be a little more risque from a playthrough I watched earlier. The weapons are fun to use and imaginative except for the "SMG." The secondary is made horrible by the horrifically long/ugly reload animation and should be thrown away and its ammo sold off once the "Chaingun" is found. Enemies are... enemies. They fit the 90's aesthetic in variety, deployment and AI. The S'Pht Compilers were a nice nod to Marathon. The inclusion of enemy mechas also reminded me of the Juggernauts in Marathon and were always a terrifying shock whenever encountered. The Flamers, like the "SMG", can go to hell. Finally, level design was extremely fun with many varieties between open cityscapes and outdoor guerilla warfare to clausterphobic indoor facilities and CQB. The Jank/Gameplay can be extremely fiddly. The forced manual reloading itself is inconsistent and makes combat with small ammunition capacities rough and having to manually initiate reloads is inconvenient. Reloading is made worse because belt fed ammo is DISCARDED when the reload button is spammed. Discarded ammo can be picked up again with the USE button. All this attention to reloading hearkens back to Marathon's reloading when everyone else ignored it. And had me habitually reloading my battleaxe. Money for supplies is easily farmed with a possibly intentional exploit. Ammo you are topping off, with map pickups, will not remove that pickup and any level with the merchant can be sold for a substantial amount relative to farming off of minions. The 2nd and 6th boss maps have ammo pickups next to the merchant and are good farming spots. This little trick is also good for conserving ammo and maining a weapon.

buy it on sale

Unique style and gameplay elements.