Silver upgrades are flat enhancements like Damage, Rate of Fire, and Spare Ammo capacity.
Gold upgrades are interesting enhancements that change how the weapon works.

Pistols and SMGs have reload mechanics, but no other weapons have this except for the double-barrel shotgun with a gold upgrade.

There are 3 ability icons: Melee Throw, Regen Bow Ammo, and Dash. To make better use of these, there should be an instant attack button for "Melee Throw" and for the Bow. Additionally, the number of arrows should be shown on the Bow's icon. The Bow regenerates its own ammo and has its own icon.

The maps seem a bit too big and there is no map. The fear of missing any upgrades kills the flow of the game.

Pistol/SMG ammo and shotgun ammo are clear, but the other ammo types are hard to understand. You mostly use pistols, SMGs, and shotguns because there is plenty of ammo for these weapons laying around. Also, it is hard to find the right weapon if you don't start the fight with it higher than 4.

All in all, I enjoy the game but not enough to finish it.

Dread Templar is a game of mixed quality.

The levels in episodes 1 and 2 are great, while in 3, 4 and 5 they vary from good to borderland terrible. The devs could easily have cut 70 - 80% of the maps in episodes 3-5 and combined the remaining maps into a longer great final episode.

The weapons are similarly mixed, there's lots of them and they're quite varied but in order to make most of these guns even remotely viable in the later episodes you need to upgrade them. This is a fine system on paper, the problem is that most of the really good upgrades are hidden behind incredibly obscure secrets, as in borderline impossible to locate without a guide obscure.

I did my 1st playthrough on hell difficulty with a guide open to find all these secrets and with the loot and upgrades from these the game generally felt very well balanced. If I didn't have the guide open I guarantee my guns would have hitting like wet noodles and I'd constantly be on the verge of dying from the lack of heals and ammo. It's a strange choice balancing your highest difficulties around locating secrets.

Another choice I don't understand is the lack of quick saves, quick save/quick load spam is a key part of any good boomer-shooter, Cultic, Doom, Dusk, Ion Fury all great games and each allows you to save anywhere to your hearts content.

It's not all bad, some of the levels are very good, the ability to freely change your weapon and character upgrades at any upgrade alter is great, the boss fights are surprisingly good for an fps. Though I did end up using only 3 main weapons for most of the later episodes every weapon except maybe the trap launcher along with the alternative RPG and Infernal Gauntlets all fill a niche use. I was having to swap weapons frequently to deal with different enemies which helped keep the game engaging.

7/10, Dread Templar is absolutely not a bad game but it does suffer from the overall quality declining the further through the campaign you go and a couple of questionable design choices hindering player enjoyment.