Selaco

Don't review games angry. Changing my initial review to a thumbs up. There is a lot to like about Selaco. The visuals and the level design are great. Lots of little nods to other games that are inspirations and favourites of the developers. But there are some issues that make it frustrating. Enemy spawns don't always seem logical or well telegraphed, the visuals do get in the way of seeing clearly and enemies aren't always easy to see. The open levels can be hard to navigate, there is too much backtracking.

Selacooning it

Insanely good boomer shooter, it clearly took inspiration from F.E.A.R., you can hear the enemies communicating with each other to try to flank you or rush you, every fight feels dynamic and it's gonna get even better with the release of Chapter 2 from what I saw. There's a lot of possible interactions with the environments, switching on or off the lights, closing or opening shutters in some rooms to block access which allows you to more or less control the flow of the fight, explosive barrels of course, fire extinguishers that you can shoot and have the same effect as a smoke grenade after they detonate, some props that you can push or turn around to take cover, and dozens of other small objects. The story's kinda paper thin for now but there's many datapads to find that adds a bit of lore and it relies more on environmental storytelling, the atmosphere's really great. Many different weapons from an assault rifle, a SMG, a shotgun, a sniper rifle, a plasma rifle, a grenade launcher, etc... that you can customize, the gameplay's really satisfying af. I'm on my 2nd playthrough for which I chose the randomizer which is so cool to add replayability, dozens of parameters to customize it exactly the way you want, 1 that I really like is that it makes the weapons' location totally random and adds a rarity system with different stats and different bonuses a bit like a looter shooter. There's 2 more chapters to come and they're gonna add some kind of horde mode I think which is so damn great then again regarding replayability, genuinely can't recommend this game enough if you're into boomer shooters.

MOARE!!!!!!!!!

ABLSOLUTE PEAK

I played through the first level only but.. from that amount of time, you can sense the passion behind this game. It oozes style, handles well, level design and interactivity is top notch. Solid FPS that can stand next to AAA titles and still shine.

Noodle reminded me that this game is fun (I mostly bought this game as an investment for when it’s finished lol)