GUNPYRE

Pretty fun. Would love to play the full thing.

Nice game! I like using my enemies has bullet, and the power-up system!

Nice fast paced twin-stick shooter based on a high risk-high reward system. For a free product I recommend it.

Very fun and fast-paced gameplay

неплохая игра занявшая у меня 77 минут неплохой ♥♥♥♥♥♥ с боссом

"GUNPYRE" is a student project that has been published on Steam Direct. It's from Accademia Italiana Videogiochi in Italy. Student projects might look better than amateur shovelware, but they aren't real games. This is just a glorified homework assignment. It lacks the depth and value you get from professionally developed product because it was made for a grade, not for players. Schools shouldn't be using Steam to show off student projects. It might be fine for the school's marketing, but it clutters the Steam store with pollution... we have to sort past all these short student tech demos just so we can find real, full games from professional developers. This is a case of a game dev college putting its own interests before the interests of gamers. The students made an unconventional shooter game that revolves around a gimmick where your guns are little "vampiric" entities that are fuelled by blood. So to "reload" your guns, you suck all the blood out of your enemies. Different blood types give you different ammunition effects. Often, these student projects do carry very inventive ideas. Many of them, like this one, could have been truly successful on Steam... if they were fully made, fully tested, and fully complete video games. However, we meet our disappointment here because this is just a short student demo and not a full game. We are teased once more with what might have been but will never be. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Insultingly, the developer insists that you should play this with a console peasant children's toy gamepad instead of KB+M. You cannot play this without a console peasant children's toy. Developers should try to be aware which platform they're designing games for. It's the responsibility of the developer to ensure the game runs well on the platform they're selling it on, with the primary peripherals that PC gamers use. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create infinite, samey, repetitive, soulless levels, because that's a lot less work. As a result of this poor decision, the game gets tired and repetitive almost immediately. Developers must learn that procgen is a terrible substitute for creating real content. It should not be used as "ez-mode" for content creation, as the developer tried to do here. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. It would be unethical for students to try charge money for their homework assignments, so you don't have to pay any money for this. But you'd still have to spend your time downloading this, and "time is money", as they say. There's the other problem, too... as a student project, this wasn't made for gamers. There's no requirement for them to polish and balance the game properly, all they need is something to show the faculty so they can get their grade and move on. Let's once more ask... why is that good for gamers? It's obviously not delivering a solid product. Yet here it is, on the store page, and here you are, reading my review for a student demo that's going to waste your time. While genuine amateur developers who made real products get ignored because they have to compete with this stuff. In some ways, this deluge of student projects on Steam is harmful to everyone. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 130 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB shows this peaked at [b]only 6 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. This student project/tech demo/glorified homework assignment provides no Steam profile benefits, no +1 to your game count, and little value to gamers (because it's just a small, unpolished student project), so I can't recommend this over the thousands of full, professionally made games on Steam.

This game is just alright. Nothing too special but also nothing to write home about. Pros: - has decent graphics - runs smooth - good premise - good difficulty Cons: - not much replayability - limited settings - lacking in content - controller only Overall its a good game. Fun for a few minutes to a couple hours. And of course, its FREE so I would recommend picking it up, even if its just for a few minutes because you might enjoy the game more than I did. I definitely can see how people would enjoy this game so give it a try. 6.3/10