FREAKHUNTER

Buddy, if you're the kinda person who see's a game called FREAKHUNTER for four United States dollars and you don't click buy, you're no friend of mine. But let's say you need additional convincing - imagine a world where Etrian Odyssey had nice, chunky guns instead of RPG combat, and splashed a couple puzzle challenge levels in there.

FREAK STATUS: HUNTED

Wipe them all, slaughter every single one, purge the freakness from their souls.

when i see freaks, i...just wanna shoot 'em! dump 'em in a...filthy ditch!

Freakhunter is rad Neon fear in the dark halls, Violet arms nearer. Trundling corridors, whacking Floating freaks with emerald eyes.

Gets pretty frustrating in the end, but *man* is that gameplay loop intoxicating. Goop Lord if you are reading this I would pay a significant amount extra for an editor to make evil disgusting levels and force people to play them like Jigsaw.

Edit: Played with keyboard and mouse. The music is awesome. The level settings are neat. Gameplay is fun, I like the shooting mechanic. It has a sudo-lightgun feel. I recommend turning on the "visualize mouse aim" option. Difficultly can be unforgiving at parts, especially the end when you're running around in a dark maze trying to figure out where all the switches are under a time limit. I enjoyed the puzzle segments even if they were a little hard. Took me about 3 hours to get to that level (possibly the last level?). I was sick of the game at that point. There's many times where I'd either run out of ammo, get lost and run out of time, or briefly struggle with the controls and get swarmed by freaks. Couldn't bring myself to finish it. There's an input bug(?) where your player will move as many times as you spam the movement buttons, so if you press the forward button 10 times in 2 seconds, the player will move that many times even if you've stopped pressing the button. Not good when you're trying to run away from the freaks and every step counts. Good amateur dungeon crawler, especially for $4. I bought it based on the visuals and attitude of the description, however the game's tone is more serious than the Steam page lets on. I'm looking forward to future projects from this dev.

After long reflection of how much of a chud I am I finally beat it and have to say this game is lowkey goated!