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Steam Deck · unrated

FromSouthGames · Twin Stick Shooter · Jul 11, 2022

Worth it for the right player.

It's at its lowest recorded price, $0.74.

74%
Mostly Positive
145 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Gameplay: 21 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Audio: 14 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Graphics: 11 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 14 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 5 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 145 player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 82 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
38% of themes are praise37% are divided25% are caveats
Gameplay
Players who bring up Gameplay mostly praise it.
This is a one-shot one-kill top-down shooter taking gameplay inspiration from Hotline Miami, and aesthetic inspiration from cyberpunk-centric media e.g.
21 of 82 sampled reviews raised it
Audio
Players who bring up Audio mostly praise it.
All the gun sound effects are fantastic and become quite addictive to hear before long.
14 of 82 sampled reviews raised it
Graphics
Players who bring up Graphics mostly praise it.
I’ll highlight that they are great aesthetically, with high-quality visuals and a good variety of the environments on display, from a dingy warehouse on the side of a desert road, a cyberpunk augmentation clinic, and various shabby backstreets housing the homeless of this bleak universe.
11 of 82 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love3 themes
Gameplay21 reviews
Audio14 reviews
Graphics11 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Story and characters19 reviews
63%
Performance5 reviews
40%
Interface3 reviews
33%
Players complain% still recommend
Combat14 reviews
50%
Bugs5 reviews
40%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Lowest ever recorded

Currently $0.74 (−85%). That's the lowest price we've ever recorded.

6 points recordedtoday · $0.74

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
74%
Mostly Positive
Playing right now
Achievements
24
total to unlock
Rarest-achievement stats coming soon
Average playtime
Not tracked yet

We’ll surface hours-played once playtime ingestion ships.