Twin-stick shooter crossed with survival horror that never gels together well. The game is slow-paced which makes the twin stick mechanic feel out of place and almost the entire game can be easily played with the infinite-ammo pistol, making the "survival" aspects feel moot and most of your arsenal irrelevant. The story is largely incoherent and, again, feels made up of a bunch of different threads that never come together into a full plot: cultists, gene-experiments, a power station thing, a living organic "building", etc. You have zombies but then you have snakemen and machine-gun wielding skeleton soldiers and walking trees and the overall feeling was a stewpot full of "This would be cool" concepts but not enough time to cook into one dish.

There ARE some cool ideas in the game if they had picked one theme and leaned into it. And I enjoyed how environments played into the game such as traps that could hurt monsters, destructible fences leading to secret areas, accidentally destroying street lamps and plunging yourself in darkness, etc. Given more time to cook -- more action, more need for other weapons making ammo conservation a factor, a more solid story -- this could be a decent game but it's not there yet. Right now it's more lackadaisical gameplay unsupported by a story to make you want to get through it (or conversely, good enough gameplay to make you ignore the flaws in the story).

Twin-stick shooter crossed with survival horror that never gels together well. The game is slow-paced which makes the twin stick mechanic feel out of place and almost the entire game can be easily played with the infinite-ammo pistol, making the "survival" aspects feel moot and most of your arsenal irrelevant. The story is largely incoherent and, again, feels made up of a bunch of different threads that never come together into a full plot: cultists, gene-experiments, a power station thing, a living organic "building", etc. You have zombies but then you have snakemen and machine-gun wielding skeleton soldiers and walking trees and the overall feeling was a stewpot full of "This would be cool" concepts but not enough time to cook into one dish. There ARE some cool ideas in the game if they had picked one theme and leaned into it. And I enjoyed how environments played into the game such as traps that could hurt monsters, destructible fences leading to secret areas, accidentally destroying street lamps and plunging yourself in darkness, etc. Given more time to cook -- more action, more need for other weapons making ammo conservation a factor, a more solid story -- this could be a decent game but it's not there yet. Right now it's more lackadaisical gameplay unsupported by a story to make you want to get through it (or conversely, good enough gameplay to make you ignore the flaws in the story).