Super Crate Box

it's alright. to me, leaving a negative review on a free game means that it's actively a waste of time. super crate box is not that. it's very hard, but at least it's consistent and somewhat polished. something marginally interesting to do for a few hours. in almost every way, it feels like a remaster of an NES game. simple, snappy controls. a LOT of replaying a very small amount of content - exactly three maps and three types of enemies. it's also quite difficult. unfortunately, half of that difficulty is from a series of minor annoyances that there's no easy solution to, other than lots and lots of practice. - a quarter of the weapons are practically useless, and almost all of them have limited verticality. falling and floating enemies are very annoying. - there's no indication of when enemies will spawn, or when your weapon has reloaded. these are big problems in a game where everything kills you in one hit. - the controls are so snappy that it works against you a lot of the time. the fire pit, deceptively, requires almost perfect precision to jump across. maybe the biggest issue is the static difficulty. you have a few seconds to collect the first 3 crates, and then the enemies begin pouring in at full force. they will never slow down. their hitboxes are not very generous and barely scraping one means instant death. there's absolutely no reward for surviving a certain length of time or killing X enemies, just crates, crates, crates. so have fun if a crate spawns on the dreaded upper layer while you're working with a peashooter. some other design decisions are just mean, not hard in a fun way. but hey, it's free. this was a fun piece of history as someone who really enjoyed nuclear throne. i also love the aesthetic of grungy cartoon violence. they pulled off super meat boy's look (and spelunky's music) almost better than the original did.

great game, my fingers hurt and the best score i've got is 8 but 10/10 would play again

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Far too good a game to be free, so go buy any of Vlambeer's other games (frankly, they're all damned good). :)

Sadly this game is unplayable unless you change your refresh rate to 60 fps, I assume. The game is one of those that depends completely on frame rate. So if you have a 180 hz monitor like me, the game is at 3x speed. And it doesn't have a dedicated FPS limiter, which is quite the oversight. I do have fond memories of playing this game for a bit but it was too hard for me as I was very young when first playing this. Since it's free, I can't give this a thumbs down. Half an hour played and I still remember this game very well.

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Игра 'Super Crate Box' – это взрывной коктейль из аркадной ярости и пиксельного хаоса! Не ждите захватывающего сюжета или глубокой прокачки, здесь все заточено на одно – выживание и набор очков. Бесконечные волны монстров надвигаются на вас, а единственное спасение – волшебные ящики с новым оружием. Но есть подвох: каждое новое оружие меняет вашу тактику и заставляет адаптироваться. Игра невероятно динамична и реиграбельна. Простое управление и стильная пиксельная графика в стиле ретро создают ощущение возвращения в золотую эпоху аркад. Высокая сложность заставляет попотеть даже опытных игроков, но при этом игра невероятно аддиктивна. Каждая новая попытка – это шанс улучшить свой рекорд и открыть новые виды оружия, добавляющие игре разнообразия. Единственный минус – это отсутствие сохранения прогресса, но это лишь подстегивает к новым, еще более безумным забегам! 'Super Crate Box' – это идеальная игра для тех, кто хочет быстро и весело развлечься.