Bartlow's Dread Machine

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This game definitely isn't a masterpiece, but it for sure deserves to be more popular. The game is quite original with different guns, perks, and a story. There are some cool bosses to shake up the gameplay every once in a while. The only negative thing about the game is how unbalanced some levels are. Buy this if you enjoy trying something new :)

The art and the music are good, but its a bad game. The camera hide enemies and make hard to the player to know where exactly the shots will pass above barriers and where it wont. The game constantly will put more enemies than space to move to avoid the damage. It makes enemies lock you and you cant move. Hitboxes are messy as well. This game has the most horrible menus i ever seen. It makes a work so bad with the enter/space thing that even when i finished the game, i werent familiar with it. Other decisions like doesnt have a quick menu to select phases, the unskippable 'cutscenes', etc make me think the developers didnt test this game. You can still have some fun, but there is a lot of better games out there.

Some good fun

Love the game, the only problem is that it's uncompatible with custom launchers due to the need of having steam open to be able to load the game.

perfecto en steam deck

Its a funny game and has a nice art style. Very unique game idea.

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This is by all means a great on-rails shooter where you play with your character stuck on a real rails. You get attacked from every angle and you blast them to bits. Gameplay is pretty awesome. Graphics are decent and the sound is good. If i would rate this, then i would give this a 7.5 out of 10 points. RECOMMENDED!!!

While checking out Bartlow's Dread Machine, for once, I didn't even bother reading the reviews first. The art looked so great and the on rails aspect looked so fun that I just hit purchase. Then I checked it out for a few levels and all my joy turned sour. While I do enjoy the old school characteristics of the movement, it just doesn't work because the controls are too slow to react to your inputs. Meanwhile, the melee enemies will close in on you FAST while the others shoot at your general direction. This means taking your time, losing the money since it disappears, and hoping your placement is correct or you'll die. Speaking of money, you will get a few dollars after each map to purchase unlockables, but nowhere near enough to gain anything impactful. Expect grind. A lot of it. Also, the control scheme is just terrible. Ammo being (quite) limited, keeping your finger on the trigger will not result in shots being done in succession. You have to release the trigger, and then shoot again. Which means dodging is a tad complicated since you gotta move, keep your concentration to shoot, and then aim at the same time. Said issues can be fixed by editing the control scheme in Big Picture and using a controller with a turbo function, but if you gotta use external tools to fix the gameplay, there's a problem. Now, there are a few cool things in the game but as an example, I love chocolate, cheese and red meat. Make me a soup with both of those and I'm absolutely certain to vomit after the first spoon. This is what the game feels like. Individually, I don't feel like the gameplay aspects are really an issue, but mixed together, they just don't work. Great concept, great looks, but poor execution. Sad!