Orion: The Eternal Punishment

"Orion: The Eternal Punishment" is a genuinely, but unfortunately poorly made attempt at a boomer shooter. What do you do in the game? The story involves a hunter, Orion, who was turned into a constellation after his death and tasked with hunting corrupted stars. You are given an automatic crossbow and a blunderbuss, and use special abilities and gadgets to progress like a grappling hhook swing. Unfortunately there's almost no polish here, gameplay is slow, sluggish, uneventful and unengaging. It'a amazing that someone worked out how to make a first person shooter into a boring experience, but here we are. The game is really simple and unambitious in terms of implementation, more of a tech demo or one of those cases where an amateur developer spends $100 to publish something on Steam Direct to see if it's possible. Yes, obviously it's possible. A proof of concept, tech demo, or something that's less than a little blip on the radar isn't offering anything truly valuable to gamers. The graphics aren't great, very low quality assets trying to look "retro" but just look bad. That's understandably a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. Gaming is a primarily visual medium, and if developers want to succeed, they must understand that it's not an area for compromise. You deserve better than compromises. On the matter of pricing and value for gamers, most "free" games on Steam aren't really free. There's often nasty mobile app cash shops, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of shady pricing schemes that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable, or something you might want to spend your time on. Despite having no up-front cost, this failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 3 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? Not this time. This isn't worth downloading. While this won't cost you any money, you get what you pay for, and sometimes, even when the game is free, it's still not enough.

Not a bad game has a nice retro feel to it,Controls are spot on,aiming and movement are very responsive. There are somethings i felt could use some improvement like when coming off of the hook shots it feels like you're going to fall off the cliff side and in some cases i did indeed fall off,the enemy AI could use some major tweaking witch in turn would make the gun play more fun and last but certainly not least when you shoot your crossbow sometimes it shoots and sometimes not. In closing it's fun,it's free and if you like Fps games Retro or otherwise then it's worth checking out.

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Take this game as serous as the price. good overall, the controls function well. I look forward to seeing if the creator can expand into the "lore" of the game.

Короткая с одним уровнем по сути демка игры, но графика сильно устаревшая, управление топорное, да и геймплей не затягивающий с глупыми врагами. По сути учитывая, что Бесплатно, рекомендую опробовать, но не более. Мой видео осмотр: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKCblLK8bTk

El juego es bastante cortito, y la IA un poco torpe, hay zonas en las que si te colocas ni te pueden golpear, pero la verdad me lo he pasado muy bien usando el gancho para dar vueltas y salirme del mapa, si tienes una horita de sobra en la que te gustaría jugar algo diferente, te recomendaría pasártelo, diría que llegas a los créditos en unos 15 minutos, yo me habré pasado el juego 3 veces y dado vueltas un rato más me hubiera gustado encontrarme algún easter egg en mis aventuras fuera del mapa.