Slayer Shock

It's a really good concept and they have a lot of cool mechanics BUT the game has soooo many flaws. First off, the game is a 5-10 dollar game disguised as a 20 dollar game. Super minimal, not a whole lot of variety in content, and overall doesn't stay fun for longer than maybe 30 minutes (after dinner mint kinda game). There is also a bunch of bugs! Constant crashing with no sort of bug report system or anything of that sort which really sucks. The sneaking the game relies on heavily is absolute and utter ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The guns do little to no damage unless you get "bracelets" which sometimes don't show up in the shops so you're basically screwed in range combat. The vampires are so frequent and everywhere that it defeats the purpose of EVEN SNEAKING IN THE FIRST PLACE! I would recommend it if the game was maybe 5 dollars or something cause I still think its kind of cool but ♥♥♥♥ 20 dollars for this???? HELL NAH

Slayer Shock is a thing of wonder. A diamond in the Mixed. It won't be for everyone, but if you're like me, and you grew up on way too much of Thief, during the years when it was new, then this game is worth your time. (And frankly so is everything else this dev has made, if that's the case.) The fact that I've heard of Eldritch quite a bit, and Neon Struct a fair bit in past years/best-of stealth lists, if not so much lately, makes it seem like Slayer Shock, which I'd heard nothing about, is the sort of ugly duckling of the family, but if you remember that story, the ugly duckling grows up to be a beautiful vampire immersive sim-lite whose wings are dope 90s acoustic numbers.

If you like Buffy the Vampire Slayer, you will like this. Not too long, 100% run took me 8 hours, I had fun all the way through. You can blast people with garlic salt shotgun shells, katana-spree, and bunny-hop people to death.

Slayer Shock is like an Eldritch-meets-XCOM melee FPS with goofy weapons like toy dart guns and even sports stealth mechanics with damage sponge enemies in the late-game, but I straight up just run up on them leeches. I can't sneak around for jack. You have to find the Vampire Nests with research which costs currency in the place of Vampire Dust, which lets you play the finale [strike]on Cydonia[/strike] wherever the mission takes place on the map. If you fail missions too much or let mission areas become overrun, the [strike]aliens take over geoscape[/strike] vampires take over Lancaster and you fail. After you complete it, you proceed to the next Season like every mission is an episode on a vampire-killing TV show and keep all upgrades, weapons, and unlocked abilities. Tererererers or whatever they're called don't drop enough dust for the amount of damage they need to take before the player wins. Yeah those swole-ass mufukus should be dropping Bens worth of dust like it's national Yanggang day and you got your neetbuxxxxx. #PatchItIn Each map is procedurally generated but lack variety in terms of buildings, not enough variety, and too much thorn vine land mines. Those ground thorns keep me on my toes, hell I don't even walk on the grass no more, it's even growing inside office buildings, I hate it. #PatchItOut Would recommend on sale, pretty groovy tunes, definitely upbeat for a halloween themed London refugee crisis simulator. Very fun afternoon! #HellYeah

Within my 0.3 hours I was sick of the repetitive music (about 1 minute of it, it sounded like?), sick of left-clicking on enemies who were completely unaware of my existence, sick of some enemies just being arbitrarily hard to kill while dealing massive damage through closed doors, and especially sick of spinning my mouse cursor around (in the form of a lock pick) while listening for a rattle which didn't always seem evident. The scariest thing about the whole experience for me is that, full price on Steam right now, it's $15. The mind boggles.

Not for $20

This game is basically Buffy with the serial numbers filed off. Your slayer has her own scooby gang that have random events happen as the game progresses. This makes the "seasons" feel very unique. Somewhat repetitive but still really fun.