The Communist Dogifesto

After beating the game I found many things: The communist Dogifesto is a cute but mature game for its sense and style. It has traits of system shock, space age crafting supplies by finding loot or materials set into categories and reminds me a bit of bioshock or System shock with the augments you can install. While a bit difficult and honest of a shooter it was fun to play and once beating it I enjoyed it alot but was sad. It was good, honest and system of pixel like fps with some good ideas and design, sound and music too that made me feel there was more to be this. TCD runs smoothly, rarely crashing on me. My only regret was not being able to enjoy it the same way as knowing everythign about the game I kind of wish for another take on it. Maybe something with randomly generated levels, interacting with the levels or objects a bit more. But this is a good game and I loved it a lot for what it was worth.

Has the gameplay of the venerable System Shock game, except for the mouse-driven crosshairs. If you are like me, and really loved that playstyle, then you might enjoy this, despite the problems. It is a short game where you shoot floating dog-heads and craft health packs. There are even a few fun upgrades. Maybe get it on sale, because the developer did some interesting work. It might even be worth a couple bucks to check it out. Unfortunately, the game has some really big hits against it. First the little annoyances: The game uses Quicksaves for saving progress. There is no in-game map. The one video resolution is very, very low. Then, more importantly, it crashes occassionally when loading a quicksave, and the Y-invert does not work for gamepad controllers. And why no Russian language anywhere? Many rooms are pitch-black dark, and that means looking at a small flashlight spot on the screen, while it quickly gets dimmer and flickers. And the lack of light also causes problems with the ton of craft material that is picked up. My biggest annoyance is, when enemies die, fire randomly appears, and you are simply dead if it is under you. This game is certainly playable, and I enjoyed it more than other dreary exploration games here on steam. I played this on Ubuntu Linux 16.04 with radeon mesa drivers, and it worked pretty well. However, it does not have the playstyle that I expect for the price. Without voice-overs, cutscenes, sound effects, or graphical flourishs, this game plays more like a tech-demo or a game from twenty years ago. I think it is a first attempt of an aspiring developer, though. I hope he goes on to make more things. I was very impressed after looking at the local (GPLv3) files.

bork bork bork bork!!!!!

Short and cool. I am a fan of System Shock, so this one hit all the right nerves; and even though it clearly was inspired by the greats, The Communist Dogifest is still original.

Totally worth full price. Short, quirky, somewhat challenging, in short exactly what an indie game should be. Pros: - Unique and engaging story. - Rewarding gameplay: it's fun to figure stuff out by yourself and the game really doesn't handhold more than absolutely necessary. - The assets have nice little touches. - Funny bits here and there. - Simple in a good way. Cons: - The UI could use some work, though it's functional enough. - The flashlight mechanic doesn't add much, I ended up forgetting about it. All in all, good length for the kind of game it is, but I would totally play a longer version of this. Well done, Joshua Giles! Make more!

The best game on steam

Is system shock, but with dog. Best dog!

Mouse dont work properly in inventory menu - it just crazy move around screen. Game unplayable.

This is such a strange title. I was gifted this by my best friend as a bit, apparently they went to the oldest games on my wish list and pulled this out. I don't remember adding this game to my list like at all. Or when i found it for that matter. This game is obscure, when you look it up on Youtube the engine automatically tries to look for videos on the communist manifesto, thinking you misspelled it; theirs exactly 4 videos. The game's trailer on an now abandoned Youtube account the developer owns and a re upload to a Spanish trailer channel. These were from six years ago, the other two videos are from three years ago; they are just gameplay vids and neither channel ever finished the game. I noticed the game had no steam grid art so I went to SteamgridDB to get custom art, only to find it had no uploads at all. I knew that this game was at that moment gonna be an experience. It's too bad it was a terrible one. This game isn't very good, it's honestly not good at all. It's a system shock esq adventure fps; where you play a survivor on a derelict space station taken over by robot (or bio engineered i think?) dogs. The games premise is actually interesting, a what if scenario where lakia actually returns from space alive and gains some form of super intelligence, and then turn on the humans, you know like system shock with SHODAN, well kinda. The problem is the gameplay is just awful. Your slow as dirt, and main enemy of the game is real fast moving sentry drones that whittle your health away. The gameplay loop is basically just shoot things and eat health kits so you don't die. The game apparently also didn't have manual saving at launch and the auto saves are super far out, I didn't even reach on in the time i played the game. The environment is grey and more grey, and there is no lighting to speak of, everything is so ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dark, you can't see most of the time. There's a crafting system as well, but you can only craft at the sporadically placed terminals in the map and you have to find recipes that are also sprinkled throughout the world. I didn't beat this game, I couldn't. After getting to the power station which is like the 3rd area of the game, i was completely spent with the games systems and loops. The two lets plays didn't even get to this part btw, the longer one got to the door for the area but didn't have the code to enter. meaning that literally nobody on youtube has beaten the game. This game is a hard pass from me. I really hope the developer is still making stuff as this is the only game they have put out on steam, but this game just feels like someones first big project they put out to the world and its just filled with a bunch of issues. It's a game with a great concept that's ruined by its actual gameplay. if your the type who likes playing games that have no traction of just sort of fell under the radar then maybe you'll dig it, but I cannot recommend this game to anyone.

Started playing, having a blast! Definitely a wonderful game!