pure fun

Great, actually. Really unique concept and while a little iffy on story and pitch, it's one of the few steam games I picked up and replayed

For its price, gotta say, easy pick

Cool idea but wayyyyy too short. A common theme with this dev, unfortunately.

Amazing gameplay, feels great to run very fast and impale enemies on your sword.
Only about an hour long, too short to buy at full price.

Some things are trash: FPS is capped at 60, FOV is capped at 69 (haha funny joke dev).
How to modify FOV:
1) open file at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Daemonic Runner\core\ed_ini.txt
2) find the 11th line (#10#128,...)
3) change the number after "128," to a big number (my line looks like this: #10#128,110)
4) save & exit

FPS is unfixable due to game physics being tied to it.

A strange, unique game that plays like the mishappen lovechild of Quake, the medieval practice of jousting and Sonic the Hedgehog. The rather minimal story concerns an astronaut who manages to crash his spaceship on a planet crawling with hostile entities who inexplicably look like medieval knights. Our hero grabs a rusty sword and, having apparently never seen such a weapon before, decides to hold it out in front of him and charge into battle, impaling his enemies by running into them at full speed. The levels are set up to allow this, mainly consisting of large circular pathways with plenty of room to build up a decent speed. It's pretty fun, on top of being filled with a heavy, vaguely oppressive atmosphere, with no music whatsoever and level architecture that recalls the grand gothic halls of Quake, filled with dense rusted metal corridors and bottomless pits. There's a surprising amount of skill involved as well, since keeping up momentum requires a good amount of timing and precision, especially later on, when the game really starts to crank up the number and density of its enemies. But it's at about that time that you'll come into contact with Daemonic Runner's fatal flaw, which is that it simply ends far too quickly. The storepage talks about 1~2 hours of playtime, but that's probably pushing it, since a singular playthrough is unlikely to take more than ~45 minutes. And while there is some level of replayability due to randomized enemy placement, the overall amount of content is still nowhere near satisfactory, especially given the game's pricepoint. At least this means that you can run the whole thing through once or twice without leaving the refund window, so maybe give it a shot if the base idea appeals to you.

Cool concept, cool visuals, very short.

Daemonic Runner is an enjoyable game which gives a blend of Quake, Chasm: The Rift and Half Life feel to it. Very short and sweet where you basically run up to your "enemies" by stabbing them until you receive health, sword power and shotgun ammo. There's a twist ending in case you didn't know already. The developer has put in effort of what he's doing and should work on more projects in the future.

Overall Rating: 9/10

Fun gimmick but very short, just as i figured out that you're meant to find a loop in a level to just run in circle and kill everyone the game ended.

Extremely minimalist design that leads to something that is easy to pick up and have a good time with!

i sometimes love games with brown colors and they remind me of Quake which i love, this game was so nice and it had a great story, this game is fun!