Another rare example of a truly ORIGINAL horror game that has the courage to propose a fresh gameplay approach that, to my knowledge, has never been seen before. Deformed can be best described as a survival horror that borrows a few game mechanics from Dark Souls. In this game you have to survive in a dark and filthy underground lab populated by horrifying monsters that look like the nightmares of an individual who had the misfortune to spend a weekend in Silent Hill. BUT, and here comes the novelty, instead of fleeing and hiding from them, you are forced to face and destroy them with firearms. The entire game is designed as a boss-rush against a cheerful team of deformed monstrosities. And if you die, you won't lose any progress, because everything you do is permanent, just like in Dark Souls. Regular enemies respawn, but bosses do not. Once they're out, they stay dead. The downside, of course, is that once you spend XPs they're gone forever. If you waste all of them in resources, you can't upgrade your character, and vice versa. You just have to stay focused and carefully think before making purchases, that's all. Overall, this formula works PERFECTLY! At the beginning you may feel lost and disoriented, but once you get the grasp on the core mechanics, this game becomes incredibly fun and rewarding. Blasting your way through the nightmarish lab with loud gunshots feels exactly as cool and satisfying as it sounds. For once, we are not forced to just run away like bunnies, on the contrary, we can show our enemies who is the true boss! And speaking of enemies, I immensely appreciated each one of them. They are scary, putrid, genuinely disturbing, and each one of them has its own set of abilities, so that each fight requires a different strategy that can be refined with each playthrough. And, again as in Dark Souls, you can choose to face them in any order you prefer. Each boss rewards you with an additional resource or ability that, guess what, may become essential to defeat another boss much more easily! Strategy, ladies and gentleman. This is a game that, rather than being cheaply and artificially difficult, forces you to use your brain and rewards you for that. It simply respects your intelligence, as every single videogame on Earth should do. And on top of that, this game also offers a surprisingly deep storyline, that even succeeds in making you wonder who the true bad guy is. Such storyline is narrated both through the gameplay itself, and through AMAZING cutscenes, whose incredible quality genuinely astonished me!
Overall, a very nice surprise indeed, an amazing horror experience that I strongly recommend to all true gamers and to all horror lovers.
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for reference, i used a controller emulator and re-binded cause I like third person shooters, especially a soulslike with controller. this game is a good price, especially the introductory offer and it is actually pretty scary and pretty fun. it's a corridor type of game, but it's not very hard to find your way through or get extremely lost like some other horror games. i liked the bosses, the shooting isn't bad, the jumpscares were AWESOME I must say dev you did a really good job with those for a first game like this and one that is lower budget, which there is nothing wrong with. this game has plenty of replayability as well if you're looking to shoot some bosses, escape and ♥♥♥♥ yourself late at night. pretty fun and short game i enjoyed it man!!

This game is terrifying