Anomalous

I haven't seen this much screen tearing in anything in a long time, and I tried messing around with the options to get rid of it for quite a while. The feel of the guns is not that great. I don't like the designs of the enemies. The music is pretty nice.

I was going to recommend this game but a potential game breaking bug at the control level caused me to change my mind. This is a great single dev game that should be commended, rather than criticized, for what it has achieved. The issue is that the game has not been updated to resolve a problem seen by some players (reference the community section). As such, leaving the game at an unplayable state for customers who have paid for your product, even as an indie developer, is not a goold look. Byron Dunwoody, fix the game. You have potential.

Its not too bad but enemy hit detection is bad at times, grenade launcher doesn't seem to do aoe damage and you lose your weapons any time you restart a level so you pretty much have to quicksave. Some of the weapons feel a bit underwhelming to shoot like the shotgun. The game needs more framerate cap options, you can only lock it up to 120fps. Levels are okay nothing crazy, enemies are alright, its weird that the game seems to have a speed meter like you can bunnyhop and stuff yet for some reason you can't rocket jump. The ending was very underwhelming also but yeah other than that its an okay little shooter. 6/10 maybe get on sale.

BoomerShooter，就...挺无聊的。 游戏十分平庸，像是谁的处女作，找不到什么特点，有着千篇一律的金属音乐、疲软的手感、诡异的判定框、糟糕的地图设计、老套的找钥匙找门、大多没有用处的武器、神秘的优化、数不胜数的bug等等。还有记得要每隔十几秒快速存档一下，不然可能意外和迷路随时到来，再重打就麻烦了。 我其实挺喜欢去玩这类粗糙的游戏的，也能接受除了颜色小电影之外出现的“素人”“热情但无经验”的标签。 但是无聊就是无聊。

A lot of jank and quite some issues that make this look rather unfinished. Getting stuck on loads of little edges and thresholds limits the speed and fun of the gameplay. Enemies do silly amounts of damage on normal while their hitboxes are really weird at times. Needs a lot more work to be a recommendation. Decent effort for an indie title / passion project, but no competition to most other games out there.

Half-Life2的ディストピア世界観のPainKillerみたいな感じのブーマーシューターです。 世界観を感じさせられるマップの作り込みと高難易度の戦闘が好印象。 全体的に高難易度ゲーって印象です。 バグとして、マウスカーソルが画面外に行って自動でウィンドウが最小化したり操作が止まったりするのがちょっとつらいかな。 基本的に走り続けることとクイックセーブをこまめにすることを怠ったら死ぬって認識でやれば楽しめると思います。 RUN and GUN!

Intensywny i całkiem dobry jednoosobowy retro shooter FPS. Na przecenie można sobie potestować.

This game can easily be summed up in a single sentence: Really wants to be DOOM 2016, ends up being Serious Sam 2 instead. This is entirely because I don't think the developers realized what makes DOOM 2016 or DOOM in general good. Before we get into that, though, I want to get my petty squabbles out of the way. First off, the music. It's boring. It's just industrial power metal, again. Which, hey, if that's your thing then you will love this. But I really don't. Aside from that, I don't really like how this game looks on a micro level. On a macro level, sure, it looks good, but the decision to pixelate every texture instead of just having it be the proper size just makes everything look muddy. I think it would've fared a lot better if they just let the textures be smooth. For my final petty squabble I'd like to point out how they just took the "double ammo on easiest/hardest difficulty" thing straight from doom. Yeah, that's really petty, but that immediately signaled to me that this game was ultimately just gonna be really derivative. Now, let's get into the bigger "issues" (in reality your mileage may vary) that I have with the game. So, this game, as I said before, is completely derivative; it does things not because it services the gameplay, but only because it is cool. Why can you dual-wield the first 3 weapons you get? Because it's cool. Why does this game have both a crossbow and a sniper rifle? Or both a rocket launcher and a grenade launcher? Because it is cool. Why does this game have a bunch of jump pads and endless death pits? Probably because DOOM 2016 did it, but also because it is cool. Now, I don't think that inherently is the worst idea, just doing things because they are cool, but since it never actually serves the general gameplay it makes the game as a whole feel empty. Like yeah, dual-wielding shotguns and assault rifles is cool, up until you realize that because the enemies as a whole aren't hard to deal with, you can just spam those two weapons for the entire game and be okay. Like seriously, there's no reason to use the rocket launcher, or the super shotgun, or the crossbow, because the enemies are so weak that the basic weapons always get the job done. And THAT is where my ultimate issue with the game comes in: this game is balanced in such a hackneyed way that it literally just feels like a spiritual successor to Serious Sam 2. Now, because I actually liked parts of this game, it already has a leg up on SS2 and I feel comfortable calling this a better game, but that's not exactly high praise. To be more specific, though, all of the enemies have nearly the same health pool, act basically the same as each other, and have very similar sizes that there's no reason to do anything other than W+M1 your way through the whole game. Enemies are needlessly spammed throughout each arena, seemingly with no thought other than to overwhelm the player, and the player needn't much thought either as they can just spam dual wield shotguns or assault rifles and be done with it. Couple that with incredibly linear levels that don't have much to do other than walk forward and you have a recipe for a game that feels practically braindead to play through. I dunno, in a primal sort of way it's fun, but I want more than that in my games. I feel like if this game actually took the time to understand why DOOM 2016 was so fun and revered, even by me who's kinda jaded by FPS games ([strike]eternal's better tho hhaghahga[/strike]), then it could've turned out to be a fairly worthwhile game. Instead, however, we just get yet another boomer shooter that's no different than the 100s of others out there and doesn't really do anything special other than the absolute most basic of having a unique art style and level design. I'd really like to love this game more but I really can't muster up anything more than just saying it's okay. Yeah, at the end of the day, it's an okay game, like a 6/10 if I needed to simplify it. 6/10s though just don't really do it for me unless it's special in some way, which as I've said many times before, this game really isn't. But hey, if you love Serious Sam 2, then you might love this game as well, so don't take my word for gospel. I don't.

Anomalous is a game that really nails a unique mixture of old Soviet grey concrete dystopia, and cyberpunk. There are a lot of reasons that I could recommend this game: amazing level settings (if you're into brutalism), awesome horde carnage, decent weapon selection, secret hunting, etc etc. But, this game has two major flaws that I think will make most players stop halfway through or so. Number one, the health restores are incredibly unevenly spaced apart. In most modern FPS games, you have some kind of additional mechanic to restore health, be it regeneration or health packs or maybe some kind of rechargeable heal, or as with Half-life that had breakables spawn health sometimes. The reason we moved on from the placed health packs paradigm way back in the 90s was precisely because of the problem this game has with it. Health "debt" in a level is horrible when you've had some bad scrapes, and since most enemies in this game are ridiculously accurate, you're going to end up this way in many levels, forcing you to save scum or restart the level, losing progress. Number two, for some inexplicable reason, the game has the most annoying grapple system I've ever encountered in a game. Yes, that's unfortunately what I'm going to remember the most from this game, the terrible grappling system. The way its set up is that when you tab the use key on a target, you'll get boosted, but the boost is extremely erratic and you can't hold down the key to continue boosting, it's just tap and off you go. Usually it ends up with you randomly falling into pitfalls that are instantly going to kill you with zero recovery options. Air control is also horridly bad which in normal gameplay isn't much of a problem, but when you have to chain together several grapples to gain height, you'll more often than not fail because of the above mentioned reasons. The simple way to fix this system is to make grapples hold based, or make them consistently have you overshoot your target with a lot more air control. Then there's enough play room for the player to turn around and move in the air and hit the platforms they're trying to reach. The final boss as well is an extreme bullet sponge, which normally wouldn't be a problem except the final arena where you fight said boss has zero health restoratives. So yeah, you're looking at maybe ten minutes of running around the arena, plinking at it. And, if it hits you a few times, you die and have to restart the whole tedious fight again. In my case, I gave up after I tried save scumming and the center of the arena became inaccessible due to clipping walls. (This is a simple script fix really) After that, I turned on god mode and just hammed it up just to get through it all, because I was beyond frustrated with the game at that point. So while I ultimately want to recommend it only for the mood, I can't in good conscience do so since it's so incredibly janky and frustrating. I do hope the dev continues refining their skills, because there is so much good in this game that I want to see more of. EDIT: Also, I completely forgot about the music in this game. THAT is actually something that was thoroughly enjoyable throughout the whole thing. Honestly hat off to the composer, there's a nice range from Retrowave to darkwave to synthwave and then some good ol Gordon metal thrown in to spice it up.

Was fun.. until I suddenly fell out of the map even though I was just playing normally. There are many HL2 and quake map packs that are free and more polished than this.