meh

Nobody will read my review so I Will Eat 1 Tablespoon of ketchup For Every Like this gets

It's really a very sloppy job of a game.
This was worse than a school project.
A buggy game with no realistic value.
Games like this one shouldn't be sold.
I don't recommend buying this trash.
This wouldn't be even good for free.
It's just pure garbage, nothing more.
Really an awful execution of a game.
You truly should avoid it at all costs.
I have to give it my negative review.
Every aspect of it is just truly awful.
There are no positives in this trash.
It's just a mess and that's about it.

Games like this one shouldn't be sold.

I know I haven't played much, but just look at the screenshots. This game doesn't have gamepad support, you can't customize controls (they're really awkward, WASD for movement, C and V for attacks). There's only two attacks, a melee attack and a special attack that has a pretty long cooldown, so all you end up doing is spamming the same button over and over until one of the players die.
Also, unrelated, I have no idea how this game got into my library
Not even worth a dollar, doesn't have steam cards so you can't even refund it with them.
Do not buy

EDIT:
Apparently this game now has cards.
Still not worth it.

Tags: Combat Arena & Smashbroesque
Additional Tags: Delete Local Content & Remove from Library

TLDR: There are at least half a dozen better examples of the 1-screen only sidescroll platformer wave defense. Nearly all of which support gamepad and some even allow Player 2 to jump in just by tapping the controller.

But they all fall victim to the eighties insipired limited game design, repetitive action. Most of the competition likes to rely on retro sprites and nostalgia appeal. While this relies on brute force low production values with flash grade everything, unsatisfying jump, boring foe attack patterns and shared-keyboard local co op.

I am 32 years old.

My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old.

When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand—the hand I worked with, played games with, and used to carry my children to bed—the hand I desperately needed to ensure I could continue providing.

Upon learning the severity of the self-inflicted damage, I became almost suicidal. Keep in mind that just a few months before this, I was the happiest man, with no history of depression or anxiety. I had never experienced anger outbursts, nor was I the type to break down and cry, but I was in a tough situation that truly prevented me from seeing the light on the other side.

With nothing better to do, I looked for a game I could play WITH ONE HAND while recovering. Somehow, I stumbled upon this game and read some of the comments. I decided it was worth a try... I must admit I didn't beat the game, nor did I play as much as some of you. In fact, I may have played this game for only a day or two. That being said, after doing so, I had a new joy and hope for life. I managed to leave behind the pain and suffering that had been thrust upon me. I could experience the joy and happiness of other people. I relaxed for 5 ♥♥♥♥ minutes listening to this music, long enough to realize that I would be okay.

After realizing this, I turned off the game and went back to work. My hand hurt a lot, but I was motivated. I stopped feeling so sorry for myself and became the father I needed to be at that moment, not the weak boy I was behaving like.

Today, I am close friends with the mother of my children. We don't fight, argue, or say hurtful things to each other. We are parents and friends.

Now I have 3 children. My third child is, wait, ALSO 4 YEARS OLD. The woman I am with was going through a very similar situation at the time of my separation, and we just unexpectedly stumbled into each other's lives. We have been dating for a year and are very happy together.

Moral of the story: you never know what life has in store for you, and if I had given up when all odds were against me, I wouldn't be where I am today. This silly little game helped me realize that.

Thank you.

It lacks 1920 x 1080 resolution and other stuff. Also, sound preferences are reset at relaunch.

On this first look I thought this game must be terrible. But something seemed appealing. Probably the amateurish feel of it. Then as I started playing it was actually quite fun in it's own way. Latter on I had a friend over, we had few drinks and we ended up playing it for hours as we were settling the score and yelling at each other like mad man.

Do I recommend this game? Well if you are going to play it alone it probably isn't that great. Unless you have fetish for amateurish feeling games like me. But if you are planning on playing with it with friend, this is where I can strongly recommend it as it provides a lot of fun and challenge with fast paced fighting and short matches.

Deadly Animal Duel is a lazy shovelware 2D retro pixel single screen wave survival brawler slapped together with Unity Playmaker, an addon for Unity that removes any requirement to know how to make games in Unity, turning it into a basic construction kit, which explains the deplorable quality of this garbage. I can see the developer wanted to have an array of interesting monsters with unique attacks and so on, but just had no idea how to implement that in such a way it would make a decent game (hence the use of Playmaker, what a surprise, devs who don't know how to do the technical parts of making a game, usually can't manage to do any of the other important parts of game design properly either). Thank goodness Valve added trading cards to Steam, so talentless publishers who rub shoulders with asset flippers can still get sales.

Taking this shovelware seriously as if it was a genuine attempt to make a game, it doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard.

A choice was made to use obsolete, decades old retro pixel "art" as a substitute for contemporary PC graphics. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget or talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low as a result.

While there are options to change the resolution for the game, all this does is scale up the simplistic 2D art assets used to make the game, which makes little or no difference to the graphics quality. Without any other substantial graphics tweaks, it's not possible for gamers to improve the lacklustre 2D visuals.

The game only displays in 4:3 pillarboxed aspect ratio. It's possible they developed this using an old CRT they found in a dumpster, or this game has been specifically designed for people gaming on PC's from 1995... either way, this isn't really acceptable in the modern era of PC gaming.

The controls and game handling are notably very clunky and unsmooth here. It's janky and unsatisfying to play... and any experienced gamer will tell you, the handling, responsiveness and general gameplay feel of the control scheme must be well polished for this kind of game to succeed. Unfortunately, this is something the developer seems to have phoned in, with little to no apparent gameplay testing. They dropped the ball on this one.

The controls can't be customised, which will be an annoyance for many, but it can also render the game unplayable for differently-abled gamers.

These technical defects push this game below acceptable standards for any modern PC game.

Reviewing SteamDB to check how popular this game was with players reveals a surprise... there's a very healthy spike in player counts for the game. But this only appears around the same time that trading cards were applied to the game... so this is just card idlers getting their cards and moving on. A closer look at the numbers shows the game just has a couple of players every week running up the game and idling it for cards, then deleting it. We must ask how it benefits gamers for there to be so many games like this, with no merit as a serious game, that only generate sales from people idling and selling the trading cards.

It's also important to note the "developer" here has connections to a number of shady Russian asset flippers (such as Mihai Morosanu) who show an organised pattern to scam and defraud gamers with fake reviews and asset flipping the work of others for profit. While reviews are about the games, gamers should be informed when developers act unethically. Whether these connections are the same developer using multiple accounts, or just working closely with other unethical developers, gamers should be warned about the harm to gamers by this developer and their associates. Buying games from unethical developers puts your money at risk.

Deadly Animal Duel is relatively cheap at $1 USD, but it's not worth it. Given the defects and quality issues with the game, coupled with the unrealistic price, and the questionable ethical nature of the developer and/or their associates (as outlined above), this is impossible to recommend.