DUSK reintroduces you to a world where butchery and bloodshed must be mastered... if you're to survive 'til dawn. Inspired by Doom, Quake, Blood, Heretic, Hexen, Half-Life, Redneck Rampage and all your '90s favorites, while featuring a soundtrack by metal music mastermind Andrew Hulshult.
In th...
DUSK reintroduces you to a world where butchery and bloodshed must be mastered... if you're to survive 'til dawn. Inspired by Doom, Quake, Blood, Heretic, Hexen, Half-Life, Redneck Rampage and all your '90s favorites, while featuring a soundtrack by metal music mastermind Andrew Hulshult.
In three distinct campaign episodes hand-crafted from straight outta the '90s, players will battle through an onslaught of mystical backwater cultists, possessed militants and even darker forces and attempt to discover just what lurks beneath the Earth. Featuring a vast arsenal of badass weaponry including sickles, swords, crossbows, rifles, dual-wielded and double barreled shotguns and incredibly necessary grenade and rocket launchers, DUSK brings unapologetic retro action from start to finish.
In addition to the main campaign, DUSK features an Endless Survival Mode, putting you front and center against wave after wave of merciless enemies.
And for those looking for an extra challenge, DUSK also offers the chance to go head to head online to battle your friends in DUSKWorld arena multiplayer, where darkness hosts the worst of humanity in surprising new ways...
DUSK features cross-play multiplayer and the exclusive THE GOGATIORUM map for endless mode.
There are some levels that are sluggish and on lower quality settings the shadows are incredibly dark--I feel like the flashlight could be just a bit brighter. It would make certain game segments easier to navigate, especially in tight corridors. However, overall I feel it more than holds up to the old greats like Blood and Doom.
Had fun with this one.
Lots of levels, and lots of secrets.
The enemies are challenging, the weapons are fun and the level design is creative.
I found this game pretty challenging, remember to quick save a lot ;)
Sadly I did have some small technical difficulties, but nothing game breaking.
I used the Linux build on a steam deck, and the control bindings were mixed up.
Worked around it by using steam input to bind the keyboard and mouse controls to the controller.
The multiplayer button on main menu is broken (The game is looking for the wrong file name to execute, symlinking the right one to the wrong name worked around the issue).
Also the DUSK HD file comes without any instructions, do I just extract into the install directory?
a README file would be nice.
If I had the chance, I would pass legislation that every person is legally required to play Dusk.
Mechanically, its dead simple and thats to its benefit. You run and you gun. The star of the show is the level design, where the developers have lavished the kind of attention that was previously relegated to the passion of saints. Everything is so well balanced, tightly designed and lovingly crafted. If you want something more in depth, go watch Mandalore's video.
For anyone who likes shooters of any stripe: Play Dusk. If you are not those kinds of person, play Dusk anyways.