Ok, this comes for the minimum price on Steam, 1€/$.
But still it's awful.
Probably everyone has bought this one due to a 90% coupon, but anyways..
And yeah it has no trading cards as most say.
Graphics are completely terrible, probably the whole game took an afternoon from scratch to be completely developed, I don't know.
It's sort of a platformer in which you go automatically up a gutter of an infinite house.
From the windows you'll have witches and cats attacking you, and you will keep on clicking and killing or avoiding them. You just can go up and down, and left and right by moving your mouse (controls are awful for what concerns this thing, you'll see!!), no other options.
You can play on keyboards (completely unplayable) or with the mouse: left button to shoot, right button to throw firecrackers, and the middle mouse wheel to go up or down.
"Bosses" are just Halloween clichés shown as big faces in the upper part of the screen. After you defeat a boss, you simply "complete" the level and another one exactly the same to the previous one starts, and so on.
And this is really everything, this game has nothing more to offer. No replayability value and no fun at all in playing it.

What is there to say about this game? Well, I'm going to say that this game is eh. I only bought it for 10 cents with a coupon. It's eh. You shoot monsters, monsters throw stuff at you, cats attack you. Giant pumpkins and Draculas are about. Not my kind of game, and I can't see this being anyone else's kind of game.

There are currently three Hooligan Vasja games on Steam: This one, the original, and the Christmas version. Halloween version was originally a DLC of the original but it is basically its asset flip, with slight variation on the bosses. Christmas version does change the gameplay in various ways.

At the core, all are very similar: Vasja is a kid who runs up the rain gutter of houses to wreck their windows and inhabitants with shot projectiles, like a slingshot (he's essentially a Bart Simpson clone). After a certain score, a huge creepy boss appears and needs to be shot down to complete the level.

There are 5 levels, each of which introduces new enemies that only differ in appearance and damage their projectiles do - otherwise, each enemy works similarly, throwing a single object down the building at Vasja. Vasja has to both dodge these objects (to avoid getting damage) and the obstacles on his way, as hitting them even once is an insta-death. Some power-ups, like infinite fast ammo and kill-all rockets help on the way.


Controls are the same as in the original game.

Vasja is controlled with mouse, and mouse only. Cursor and mouse is used to shoot the slingshot and also control, on which side of the gutter he's running up. Keep in mind that there are no gamepad or other control options available. As such, in my opinion these controls work just fine.

It takes a bit to get used to everything that's happening on the screen. Switching sides of the gutter is instantaneous but learning to dodge both the projectiles and the obstacles takes some time. After a while it becomes quite intuitive, although sometimes there are unavoidable attacks.


For a game from 2016, it is perhaps surprising that Hooligan Vasja: Halloween runs only in window or in low resolution in fullscreen. In fullscreen mode, there are input-less regions in the sidebars, in a widescreen monitor anyway.

I played in fullscreen because I'd imagine that clicking outside the window could spell death, it is fast-paced enough for that to happen.

At least the appropriately creepy music and sound can be muted from within game, and adjusted separately.


There's very little changes, other than graphics, from the original Hooligan Vasja in this Halloween version. Grandmas, cooks, and clowns are replaced with witches, vampires, and skeletons, but gameplay-wise the only change is with the boss fights: instead of three hit locations, they typically have just two. And they shoot candy.

As I had already completed the first game, Halloween version was a breeze, although I still had to try a few runs to beat the final boss. It took only about 90 minutes to beat this version (because of the practice with the first game), after finishing the first one.

Is it worth it? I would say barely if you also enjoyed the first game. To be fair, you'd probably buy all three in the Steam bundle anyway, as it's cheap enough. If it cost anything more, I'd give it a straight pass.

~Twistorian Curator~

- Bought this game cause had 90% discount coupon.
- look at the whole game on store page, it has steam achievement and trading cards.
- thought that it's worthy even i don't like the gameplay at all.
- after i bought it, i realized that the game didn't have any trading cards. it not shown on badge / market page. (it does, read the developer comments below).
- decided to not refund cause it has steam achievements

This game is fun for halloween!!

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Game description key-points: vertical runner


Overview:
non-stoppable movement up and clunky controls with the mouse
monsters and obstacles to beat

doesn`t feel fun :(

I paid 10 cents for this game and probably somebody else did the same. Still better value that winrar and i would give this game 4 days of development. Sure, don't expect a lot from a game that costs 1€ but look at orion prelude which is actually good game. It's a no from me, besides you don't get trading cards as promised

Very good game!!! All the advice! :D

This game is fun for halloween!!

♥♥♥♥♥♥ game, I only got it because it was 90% off because of crafting a badge and getting ♥♥♥♥ from it.
Don't get it waste of money and I'm just gonna refund it now.
(Only costed £0.08 with my 90% discount).
Btw I ticked it for free because it pretty much was free for me.