Originally posted a longer review on Steam, to read a fuller breakdown go here:
https://steamcommunity.com/profiles/76561197976091020/recommended/673130/
AMID EVIL comes with a lot of replayable fun content, is highly polished, just absolutely gorgeous and ends with a bang.
Gameplay is your proper fast-paced old-school FPS with a variety of unique weaponry, enemies and environments.
What sets AMID EVIL apart from many other passion projects is perhaps the different atmosphere, visuals and style it goes for.
Music is fantastic, fits the alien worlds, Andrew Hulshult (along with Leon & Simon) put a lot of passion and love into this project, the dynamic nature of the ambient and combat music is well handled. The fantasy theme has allowed some beautiful use of colours with strong purples, blues, greens and reds, while also designing most landscapes to be strange and eerie. It gets progressively more abstract, surreal, intense & trippy towards the later episodes. Gameplay is worth it already on its own. Story isn't the main focus of the game, but it's still handled pretty well for an old-school FPS, and there's more lore in the codex and messages sprinkled around.
It rivals a lot of AAA stuff out there, high quality, and its unique presentation allows it to stand out as a different flavour above the rest.