Selaco

It's amazing what the developers behind this game have been able to accomplish with GZDoom. Great gunplay, rewards exploration with plenty of secrets, great visuals, various elements of immersive sims are present. and the enemy AI is also pretty impressive as well. I did end up having a problem with the game crashing after an update, but I used the official Discord channel and the developers responded promptly and my issue was resolved pretty quickly which is something I think is rarely seen. Some other things to note is that the roadmap has been very clear, the devs have been very transparent and consistent about their updates and have delivered on the promises made. I think this game is well worth your money if you like boomer shooters with elements of immersive sims and gives me a sense of Half Life as well. Excellent game imo.

Love it! it runs great. the music's great. Brings me back to the early doom days, highly recommend

very good boomer shooter, very punishing I like the exploring part too, although initially the mapping was a bit confusing running around with map open, should perhaps be better explained to newbies

An incredibly fun FPS with good movement, shooting, and lots of little goodies to find (if you care)

Doom mixed with modern day movement mechanics, I like it a lot.

Selaco is a brilliant game in many ways. The weapon balance is phenomenal, and so many of the weapons are fun to use. I'd give it a 10/10, just as a person. I just really like Selaco. And from a critical standpoint, I'd give it a 9.5. The weapons are fun and crunchy, enemies are aggressive and powerful, and everyone is constantly exploding under barrages of shotgun shells, trip mines, grenades... the occasional turret. It's very entertaining, and it reminds me a lot of Half Life, but without the horror element. Selaco has great mobility too, and Dawn -- the protagonist -- can slide across a room and kick an enemy into the next universe. But while these engagements are really fun, they do feel somewhat sporadic. I think Selaco would work best if it felt kinda relentless, but there are long periods of not getting in firefights while you wonder where the hell you're supposed to be going. This could be remedied with a GPS system, or by keeping up the game's tension by having enemies around when you're back tracking and having them drop health and ammo. Or, by adding more of the item supply machines in and making the "save only at Gwen machines" a default game mode, keeping the tension up when no-one is around, but not making things too punishing. (I'd still pepper a few stray guys in when you backtrack, even then. You gotta keep the players on their toes.) There is also a weird caveat in the item supply machines. They hold an upgraded melee attack for 4000 credits. You can also buy medpacks for 200 credits. I have played through this game TWICE now without buying medpacks because I was saving up for the melee attack. IT'S SUCH A DUMB WAY TO PLAY AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I KEEP DOING IT. The upgraded melee is cool, but it's not game-altering. HAVING A STEADY SUPPLY OF MEDKITS, HOWEVER, WOULD BE. Anyway, I'm just dumb. -- Spoilers about weapon types follow -- What are also game-altering, however, are some of the upgrades you can get for your weapons. I began on Selaco's Commander difficulty and then played through on Captain, and Captain -- while technically significantly harder -- wasn't all that bad because I finally read the freaking weapon descriptions and stopped getting swarmed by robot spiders, thanks to the melee stun attack on the submachine guns. A few other things that made the game a lot easier were that I also used the nail gun's turret, saved acid grenades -- which I had zero awareness of the value of on my first playthrough -- for juggernauts, and I used the slug attachment for the shotgun. Let's talk about the slug attachment for the shotgun. I LOVE the slugs. You can headshot a dude across a room as if you were standing right next to him. It's so powerful that, while on my first playthrough I used the DMR frequently, and slid up to guys to shotgun them point blank, on my second playthrough I just used slugs. It kinda ruined the game, even though I did it to myself. But it's an easy fix -- just make a limited ammo type. In that case though, I'd make one click of the right mouse button load the slug, and the second click fire it, while allowing the left click to always shoot a close range round. That way the player is still encouraged to get in close without worrying about wasting a slug round. And being able to fire off a sudden headshot-round at any moment would mitigate the nerf a lot. I think this attachment and the turret should maybe should be available in vending machines too; leave the secrets, but let people buy them in case they miss them first time through. They're just so useful. In conclusion, Selaco is an amazing game. If they add in stories and make the world feel more lived in, and if they make enemy encounters more consistent or find an organic way to keep the player from getting lost while preserving the puzzle elements, I think it will end up more and more of a classic title.

woah!!! fun

Finally, a worthy successor to F.E.A.R