Grompula

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It's a masterpiece

Words can barely express how impressed I am with this game. The stunning hand drawn renaissance esque art style paired with impeccable level design and a heart-wrenching story makes for an extremely enjoyable experience that you will not forget. Shout out my homeboy Evan. ---{ Graphics }--- ☑ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☑ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☑ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☑ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second live for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐Good ☑ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☑ Average ☐Long ☐ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☑ It's free! ☐ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☑ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☐ 8 ☐ 9 ☑ 10

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the best free to play game with low spec requirements that kept me playing it for 3 hours straight

[b]Grompula[/b] é um jogo criado por uma única pessoa onde, desde seu lançamento, recebeu somente uma atualização, que foi pouco mais de um mês após essa data. Ele foi mantido praticamente intocável deste que foi disponibilizado, ou seja, de forma incompleta. Com somente um mapa, falta de conteúdo e uma história bastante rasa, se apresenta como apenas um episódio piloto de um jogo que jamais foi concluído. [code]| [b]Build:[/b] [url=https://steamcommunity.com/games/904500/announcements/detail/1693804055979349687]Small Patch (Ago. 24, 2018) – Beta[/url][/code]

Grompula is a 2D retro pixel top down wave survival shooter that's been slapped together with the godawful GameMaker Studio video game construction kit from Yoyogames. You control a blue rectangle and shoot oncoming waves of green rectangles and slightly larger green rectangles. The green rectangles are zombies or something, nobody cares. There's some pretense of a plot but the game is mostly just aimless. The gameplay here is tiresomely shallow and unoriginal. At best this is some kind of kiting sim you could play if you never played a video game before, in which case it would appear remarkable, but compared to most video games, it certainly isn't. The game features obsolete retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result. Resolution and controls are locked, so there's no way to improve the very poor visual quality or the control scheme. These flaws push this game far below minimum acceptable standards for PC. GameMaker Studio is a very poor quality game construction kit, and unsurprisingly results in products that have little to no value as games, especially when compared to the work of professional developers who create genuine products for gamers. Using a video game construction kit requires little to no talent or skill as a game developer. Very often, GameMaker Studio is used to make shovelware and lazy cash grabs, although in this case the game is completely free. Nothing speaks more to a developers belief in themselves and their product than making their game available for everyone without remuneration. This is certainly a gesture that shows dedication to the gaming industry. It's a shame in this case that the implementation is below the minimum standards a dedicated PC game should offer to enthusiasts. There's no "maybe" option in Steam, unfortunately, but I hope to see more work from this developer, perhaps as part of a professional game development company that can make full use of their talents without needing to make budget/quality compromises like pixel art and using off the shelf game templates and construction kits.