Turbo Overkill is a retro First Person Shooter similar to Dusk or Amid Evil, where player character Johnny Turbo must fight through hordes of Human and Cyborg enemies to stop a rogue AI from taking over the world.


• Movement speed is very fast.

• Good weapon variety including magnum, assault rifle, shotgun, double barrel shotgun, minigun, rocket launcher, plasma rifle, sniper rifle and ion cannon. Most weapons have a secondary fire mode.

• Your leg has a chainsaw attached, which lets you slide through groups of enemies, instantly killing weaker enemies. This can be upgraded to restore your health and armour with each kill.

• You’ll also gain a slow motion ability which is very useful for dealing with more dangerous enemies. Killing enemies during slow mo will make them drop ammo pickups.

• Customise your playing style by equipping upgrades such as increased maximum health, triple jump, and nearby ammo/health pickups being magnetised towards you.

• Level design can be annoying at times. This is one of those games that has lots of small platforms where you’ll need to jump, double jump, air dash, double air dash, wall run and grapple hook over bottomless pits. Thankfully the airborne gymnastics is fairly lenient (there were times where I felt like I missed a jump but the game decided it was close enough). But sometimes the level layouts are confusing and I’d spend a few minutes trying to figure out where I’m supposed to go next. And I lost count of the number of times I accidentally fell off a small platform while trying to shoot enemies.

• Hard difficulty is nicely balanced for an experienced FPS player during episodes 1 and 2 (each episode contains several levels), but episode 3 at times felt a bit too much. I got through it, but it was less fun. Most encounters involve being trapped in a small room with not much space to dodge and even less cover, while having to defeat multiple large waves of enemies. Eventually one of the rocket launcher wielding enemies would spawn right next to me and kill me before I had chance to react, sending me back to the start of the first wave. Probably more enjoyable on normal difficulty.

• I also want to give a special mention to the final level, which has several encounters where you have to defeat multiple waves of enemies within a strict time limit, or you’ll die instantly.

• Boss fights are mostly just bigger waves of the same enemies you’ve spent the whole game killing, while occasionally shooting the boss between waves.


• Story is nonsense. There’s not much of an intro to explain things and there are several occasions where NPCs refer to past events that I’m not familiar with, which made me wonder if this is actually a sequel to a game I never played. (I don’t think it is).

• Voice acting is fine.


• I finished the game in just under 17 hours.

• Controls are fully rebindable and work great with mouse and keyboard.

• I didn’t have any problems with bugs, crashes or framerate.

• Default field of view is too high. I don’t think I’ve ever changed my FOV in any game before, but everything looked really weird while I played through the first level. After consulting the forum and changing FOV from 90 to 74, everything looks normal.


Turbo Overkill is a good game that fans of retro FPSes should mostly enjoy, if you’re in the mood to just turn off your brain and shoot things. Worth buying on a small sale.

Better than watching my friend stream sex with hitler on discord at like 3 frames per second

VERY good. Similar puzzle-y combat system like Doom Eternal, but knocks it back a lot so you have more freedom to choose what weapons to use. The combat is so unique and satisfying, and the vibes are immaculate.

Only gripe is I get a random bug where my frames will drop from a steady 60, down to 12, and its only fixed it I reset my graphics settings. Other than that, this has been my favorite game of the year. 9/10