SATAN

This is really a good games! Retro boomer shooter well done and with great atmosphere! It has also 3 different endings! You really should try it

I don't know if the deep-fried sprites are supposed to be a deliberate style choice, but it's not really working for me. The crosshair in particular looks pretty bad, with some white pixels clearly visible amongst the red. It just looks lazy, & being the crosshair, it's just in your face the whole time. The first boss fight kept glitching out; sometimes I would start with the tommy gun & sometimes I wouldn't. When you damage the first boss they make an ouch sound, & it sounds like the sound is coming from the player, which is very confusing. Having the tommy gun fire only in bursts felt pretty bad. It kind of undermines the whole point of a machine gun. It took me a while to realise that the small potplants on the ground were healing me. Are they Christmas trees? Am I being healed by the power of Christmas? I'm so confused. I once heard a developer say, "Just make it, & then worry about making it good later.". I feel like the main problem with this dev is that they never get to stage 2. They just move on to the next game. Please spend more time polishing your turds bro.

A glitch where the sensitivity changes constantly makes this unplayable to me.

SATAN is a "boomer shooter", basically an attempt to recreate the 1990's glory days of shooters like DooM and Wolfenstein 3D only without being aware that it's the 21st century and such games are now obsoleted by far more contemporary takes, like DooM Eternal. Plotwise this one is an attempt to make a weak thematic ripoff of DooM meets The Exorcist as you take on satanic cults and demons, so the plot is considerably less interesting than Doom, and the gameplay is also worse, and that's a huge problem given you can get the old Doom game for free but the developer wants money for this weak ripoff. Other games from this developer showed a complete miscomprehension of how old games like DooM work, being melee heavy and with weak map layouts and so on. At least this game lets you use guns and has appropriate pickups located on the somewhat mediocre map layouts. On the upside, the game does feature customisable controls and resolution, so at least some of the basic, minimum requirements have been met. Unfortunately there's a number of other technical defects and shortcomings which contribute to the game being difficult to recommend to gamers. The game lacks polish, and while movement is smooth, hitboxes are pretty bad and sensitivity and other settings aren't dialled in quite right, so it's not as fun to play as the original games this is ripping off badly, despite being the 21st century now. The game features lazy low-polygon "retro" assets with crap 2D retro pixel "art" textures on them, making this look like a barely functional 3D game from the early 1990s. This very poor quality visual style is a method that lazy devs often use to disguise their lack of talent/interest in doing the graphics properly and trying to disguise it under the name of "art", or "We made it look bad on purpose", which really isn't something gamers should have to put up with. It's unclear why the developers weren't willing to arrange high quality, high polygon count contemporary assets and high resolution textures for the game. It looks bad as a result of their decisions, worse, it doesn't authentically recreate the 1990's vibe the developer is hoping people will accept instead of doing their job properly, and that's just another reason to avoid it. I think it's also worth noting that while other boomer shooters from this developer at least featured "clean", if ugly pixelcrap textures, the ones on this DooM ripoff are a muddy, ugly mess. 4K support does not save this. Those technical issues put this game beneath what is expected from a contemporary, professionally developed PC game. The poor quality of this game is reflected by how many people spent time with it. At the time of this review, SteamDB shows the all-time peak player number was only a dozen or so players. This is a remarkably low number, and now, the only player activity occurs once or twice a month, presumably someone loading it up to see what it is then quickly uninstalling it. Considering there's over 130 million gamers on Steam and well over 140,000 games for gamers to choose from, the overwhelming lack of interest in this low quality game is to be expected. So, should you buy this game? Is this one of the best of the 140,000+ games on Steam? SATAN is relatively cheap at $3 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, this is impossible to recommend. This is also competing with over 14,000 free games available on Steam, many of them far better than this paid product. [quote][b][url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/marketing/profile]Profile Features Limited![/url][/b] Valve have marked this game as "Profile Features Limited" at the time of this review. This is usually caused by poor sales figures and low community acceptance for the game (to date). Until this status changes, this game will not give you +1 to your Game Collector badge count, appear in profile achievements or any other Steam meta-accomplishments, nor can it be displayed in some profile showcases. If these factors are important to you, it may be worth holding off before buying this game.[/quote]

Naprostá špička ve svém žánru a hru mohu s klidem vřele doporučit! Pokud máte rádi svižné retro FPS, tohle vás bude bavit. Za cenu jednoho kafe dostanete nefalšovanou akční jízdu, která si na nic nehraje a skvěle odsýpá. Vývojář odvedl parádní práci a už teď se těším na druhý díl!!!

The white flashing when you pick up items is so irritating that it makes the game unplayable.

Seems very good! Really enjoying it!

Yeah just don't waste your time with this. I'm not sure why it has a very positive rating right now, but this game is unbelievably unoriginal and I can't grasp anyone's praise for this game. The movement is not good, the combat is yawn-worthy, the level design is basic and boring, the plot is nowhere to be seen, the music is bland, all of the sounds feel bugged to play after any animation has concluded, the weapons aren't fun to use, the bosses are boring bullet sponges, and on and on. Just an unfinished, unpolished mess. The game does nothing to stand out in a sea of other boomer shooter inspired FPS, and you would be better off playing the original Doom from 1993 instead of playing this.