Demo Review: Fun Demo, Bad Game

[Phony]

For anyone thinking about playing Soulslinger's demo I will say it's definitely worth a play. It checks the boxes when it comes to a FPS Roguelite.

However, this game is like 2 years away from it needs to be. This game is not very optimized (which isn't a knock right now, since we're playing a demo). The game's cutscenes are incredibly awkward to watch, and the dialogue is pretty stiff as well. This game feels like it's trying to take a lot from Doom and Duke Nukem, but fashion it into a wild west, gunslinger. While that's not bad idea, the gunplay feels so awful. The gun sounds aren't rewarding. The monster's AI is underdeveloped (i.e. you can literally walk circles around them and never get touched). The Dash is omega-broken. This all culminates into a pretty poor combat experience.

There's something here, but if this game is slated to be released soon please don't. Put this game in Early Access, it's so far from what it needs to be. If the game desperately needs to be released as a 1.0, then I hope to god the devs just steal Evil West's gunplay and melee mechanics.

[Dark Master]

Originally posted by (sleeping):

For anyone thinking about playing Soulslinger's demo I will say it's definitely worth a play. It checks the boxes when it comes to a FPS Roguelite.

However, this game is like 2 years away from it needs to be. This game is not very optimized (which isn't a knock right now, since we're playing a demo). The game's cutscenes are incredibly awkward to watch, and the dialogue is pretty stiff as well. This game feels like it's trying to take a lot from Doom and Duke Nukem, but fashion it into a wild west, gunslinger. While that's not bad idea, the gunplay feels so awful. The gun sounds aren't rewarding. The monster's AI is underdeveloped (i.e. you can literally walk circles around them and never get touched). The Dash is omega-broken. This all culminates into a pretty poor combat experience.

There's something here, but if this game is slated to be released soon please don't. Put this game in Early Access, it's so far from what it needs to be. If the game desperately needs to be released as a 1.0, then I hope to god the devs just steal Evil West's gunplay and melee mechanics.

Hey there! Thank you for your feedback!

The game is currently at version 0.39 and is looking at an Early Access release soon.

Out of curiosity, what is broken about the dash? Just asking because you haven't gone into details there.

[Phony]

From a balancing standpoint the dodges are too strong and can be used too often. However, there are times on the rope bridges where you can go through the side-railing. If that's intended then fair play, that just didn't seem very intuitive to me. I thought it should be like an invisible wall.

Glad to know you're going into EA. Hope for the best.