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WRATH: Aeon of Ruin

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Developer KillPixel Games, Slipgate Ironworks

Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is a 2024 first-person shooter developed by KillPixel Games and Slipgate Ironworks and published by 3D Realms and Fulqrum Publishing. It is built on a modified version of the Quake engine, making it the first major game release on that engine in nearly 20 years. The first episode was released on Steam Early Access on November 22, 2019, and was fully released on February 27, 2024. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

261 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 7, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works

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Mostly Positive
2,150 of 2,991 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

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  • Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 20, 2025

    I now provide clean versions of "Asura's Wrath" game cutscenes (20-min) animated by Studio 4°C in 2012. - "Episode 11.5: Forging Ahead" by Shinya Ohira. - "Episode 15.5: Defiance" by Kazuto Nakazawa. Full videos + credits >> www.catsuka.com/news/2025-01...

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  • Catsuka @catsuka.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 22, 2025

    Some rare production artworks from "Asura's Wrath" game cutscene (Shinya Ohira, Studio 4°C, 2012).

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  • Imran Khan @imrankhan.bsky.socialBluesky · May 7, 2026

    [Jon Cartwright voice] Did you know...Stranger than Heaven is the third game in the highly acclaimed Stranger trilogy, beginning with 2005's Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath and continuing with Final Fantasy: Stranger of Paradise.

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  • Pat Stares At FOREVER @patstaresat.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 16, 2024

    Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous is *finally done* Game came out in September of 21' and they've been updating it with stuff every few months the entire time. Maybe I can play Rogue Trader in 26 or 27

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  • "Online Rent-a-Sage" Bret Devereaux @bretdevereaux.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 20, 2025

    One of the cleverer bits of video-game story design that always makes me smile a bit, is that in Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous, the Azata's mythic theme - and only the Azata's theme - is diegetic. Like, yeah, the heroic avatar of chaotic good gets their own in-universe theme music. Fits.

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  • Rose_Waltz 🏳️‍⚧️ @rosewaltz.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 14, 2026

    It’s Drunk Stream Time! I’m live now finishing up Asuras Wrath! The end of this game is insane if yall have never seen it :3

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  • Rylan Woodrow @rylanwoodrow.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 14, 2025

    Colorized portrait of an NPC from an old Wrath & Glory game, Rasvaine of the Marauders. He was unhappily conscripted from his chapter to serve as the personal body-guard to an Ordo Astartes Inquisitor mysteriously tied to his long-forgotten mortal origins. . Commissions open!

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  • Nightdive Studios @nightdivestudios.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 23, 2025

    We spotted another killer remaster recommendation from @gamerant.bsky.social who recently suggested we remaster Nosferatu: The Wrath of Malakai. What do you think? 🤔 gamerant.com/the-thing-no...

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  • Steam user Steam user …1913Steam reviews · Dec 26, 2025 · 3 h played

    You royally c0cked this experience up with your sh!tty launcher that doesn't let you bypass it, despite having a worthless option that trolls you into thinking so. Morons. To run WRATH: Aeon of Ruin without the Fulqrum Launcher, you can bypass it by setting a custom launch option: 1. Open your Steam Library. 2. Right-click WRATH: Aeon of Ruin and select Properties. 3. In the General tab, find the Launch Options field. 4. Enter the path to the game’s executable followed by `%command%`. For…

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  • StrongMoist @strongmoist.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 22, 2026

    Asuras Wrath singlehandedly proves that "hype moments and aura" is enough to make an excellent video game

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  • Pearlmania500 @pearlmania500.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 11, 2024

    I went on the Save Your Game podcast and talked about Wrath of the Gods! A game that made me swear off point and click adventures for nearly 30 years. Check it out: open.spotify.com/episode/42G1...

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  • Puke is already a Halloween Name @puke.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 16, 2026

    Japanese TV commercial for Nessa no Hoshi on PlayStation in 1997. A strange mixture of first-person adventure and fighting game? Developer B-net's only game, though several on the team would continue in game dev, working on games like Asura's Wrath #gaming #retro #fgc 🎮

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  • Pelly @pellylicious.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 1, 2026

    🔴 𝙇𝙄𝙑𝙀 𝙉𝙊𝙒 𝙊𝙉 𝙏𝙒𝙄𝙏𝘾𝙃!!! Happy Gay Wrath Month!! Game: Marvel Rivals ⏩️ www.twitch.tv/pellylicious #Twitch #Gaymer #Gay #Pride #Muscle #Pits

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  • Steam user Steam user …7742Steam reviews · Jan 29, 2026 · 6 h played

    game is great, but their new publisher decided to stick their tumor of a launcher on it. imma leave it on negative till it dies

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  • Owlcat Games @owlcatgames.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 10, 2025

    Pathfinders! We’ve walked a long road together. Read about the years spent developing Pathfinder: Kingmaker and Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous together with our community in this major article: steamcommunity.com/games/118437...

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  • Steam user Steam user …0103Steam reviews · Nov 18, 2025 · 5 h played

    game just added an entirely unnecessary launcher whos "always launch the game directly" option doesnt work, lovely. You can skip the launcher if you use wrath.exe, wrath-sdl.exe and wrath-steam.exe in the install folder. if thats annoying then you can go to the games properties in steam and set the launch option to "-one of the other exes where ever your game is installed-" %command% and the play button will launch that exe instead of the launcher. so for example i put…

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  • Wario64 @wario64.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2025

    Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered is $9.99 on US PSN buff.ly/4aexjrM also on Game Pass Standard

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  • Houseplants in Videogames @houseplantsinvg.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 30, 2026

    Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Wrath of the Darkhul King (2003, Game Boy Advance)

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  • Steam user Steam user …2916Steam reviews · Nov 18, 2025 · 1 h played

    Nah. Fk this game and Fk this publisher. Slipgate / 3D Realms and now whoever this Fullrum publishing are. They release a bunch of half baked rushed games early that have a host of issues and then fail to properly patch and fix every one of them. This is your business model? To not give your dev team enough time or resources to do a decent job. For every single game you released over the last year or so to feel under cooked and unfinished and to contain bugs To stop patching your games. And…

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  • Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.comBluesky · Mar 18, 2025

    ASURA'S WRATH (X1) $3.99 via Xbox (Game Pass Price). ow.ly/5jvn30spcFB

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  • Tori 🎮 @itstorigalvin.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 15, 2025

    Todays game: Ni No Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch ✨🎮 #NintendoSwitch #StudioGhibli

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  • Eric Lang @ericlang.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 28, 2026

    Playing Wrath of Fire Mountain first time in a few months. I love this game so much.

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  • Dragon Cobolt @dragoncobolt.bsky.socialBluesky · May 10, 2026

    I... Okay, so, like...I will note, the game comes pretty firmly down on "genocide = bad", even if it waffles around that point. It's not "the genocide game", that's Stellaris, you're thinking of Stellaris. .............and Kingmaker and Wrath of the Righteous.

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  • Cheap Ass Gamer @cheapassgamer.comBluesky · Nov 14, 2024

    Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch Remastered (X1/X) $19.99 via Xbox. ow.ly/AyMk50TGkM9 Game Pass via Xbox. ow.ly/Cz5o50TGkMb

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  • Beta @betasheppy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 25, 2026

    Good news: Crash Bandicoot Wrath of Cortext is still a banger game and I still want Crunch to annihilate me 🥴

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  • Steam user Steam user …4634Steam reviews · Nov 29, 2025 · 3 h played

    Broke the game on Deck by adding a trashy me-too launcher.

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  • mcc @dryad.technologyBluesky · Aug 13, 2025

    I was going to ask if you had ever played the "bluescreen video on 3d rendered environments" point and click CD ROM game Wrath of the Gods but I just discovered holy crap the entire game is on the Web. They converted the whole thing to HTML5 it just runs in the browser www.wrathgame.com WTF

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  • Steam user Steam user …2947Steam reviews · Feb 10, 2026 · 4 h played

    - Tried launching this game after buying it in Early Access so long ago. - Was greeted with a publisher launcher. - Clicked "just launch the game directly from now on" from the launcher. - Game crashed while loading. Complain all you want about 3DR, but at least they never shoehorned a needless launcher into their Steam releases.

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  • I R A @roira.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2025

    Oh this is cute. Get to know me: Game edition First Game: Sonic & Knuckles 🦔 Last Game: Pathfinder Wrath of the Righteous 👹 Favorite Game: Parasite Eve 🧬+ Transistor 🎙️ Worst Game: Gachas Game I've Played Most: Online? FFXIV. 💎 Offline? Mass Effect. 🪐 Most Surprising: NieR 🤖 Next Game: Octopath 2 🎱

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  • aj 🧃 lyse’s wife @fellyse.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 12, 2025

    GACHA GAME FANS WILL SUFFER MY WRATH

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  • woke stifler @yelix.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 11, 2025

    the only video game that should exist is Asura’s Wrath. we could live without the others

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  • Steam user Steam user …4025Steam reviews · Dec 18, 2025 · 6 h played

    They added a launcher 2 years after the game's release, where upon clicking on the tiny, grey "Launch the game directly" button buried underneath the launcher button, the game simply simply doesn't launch. You can bypass this by going into Steam Properties -> Launch Options and copying the folder path where your .exe file is, and adding "%command%" at the end of the path, and the game will run by itself, properly. Onto the game itself: It feels more like a collectathon with randomly spawning…

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  • Old Hound @oldhoundderby.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 30, 2025

    I figured it out: War on the Rocks. As soon as I see WOTR, my brain thinks of Wrath of the Righteous, the Pathfinder video game.

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  • Rare Corgi @rarecorgi.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 2, 2025

    Void Knight? More like Wrath Knight, Zamorak's Chosen Inspired from a D&D character I played in a friend's game :P

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  • Lor @canephoracrafts.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 16, 2025

    Finally coloured this! Irabeth Tirabade - Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous. Mash up of video game and original AP art designs! #pathfinder #wrathoftherighteous #irabethtirabade

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  • Steam user Steam user …3474Steam reviews · Dec 30, 2025 · 4 h played

    Fulqrum Publishing and Slopgate Ironworks attached themselves to this game like a leech and made it horrible by adding a launcher that PREVENTS YOU FROM PLAYING THE GAME. This newer version is also detected by multiple antivirus programs as SENDING OUT MY COMPUTERS DATA TO THE PUBLISHER. This is unacceptable and a breach of privacy. Anything that Slopgate Ironworks touches turns to trash, they are a shady and corrupt company that will do anything for a quick buck. I used to like this game, but…

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  • Tangle 🏳️‍⚧️ @tanglingbat06.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 4, 2025

    The Wrath of Cortex is still a really meh game to me but I can't deny the soundtrack is really good

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  • Liam @ GamingOnLinux @gamingonlinux.comBluesky · Jul 10, 2026

    The great RTS game Tempest Rising has a big The Veti's Wrath DLC announced #TempestRising #RTS #Gaming #PCGaming

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  • Beta @betasheppy.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 23, 2026

    My first Crash game was Wrath of Cortex is that bad or something? X_X

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  • Steam user Steam user …9310Steam reviews · Jan 2, 2026 · 5 h played

    -UPDATED REVIEW- Solid boomer built on a modified Quake engine. The devs added a launcher that borked it on the Deck, where you'd have to hunt down the exe in desktop mode and add it as a non-Steam game. That's since been 'fixed', but the game still requires proton fixes to boot, which I feel doesn't qualify it for "Verfied" status. Nonetheless, I do recommend the game. I just hope they get their act together with this kinda stuff because the fans never react positively.

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  • 🪐space draws🦎🦜🦕 @space-salaman.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 2, 2023

    T'ai Fu! Commission. It's an old game character :} 🐯 Tai Fu: Wrath of the Tiger #marubahrt

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  • QueequegTheater @queequegtheater.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 27, 2026

    No, don't you know? Wrath of the Righteous, DMCV, and Dark Souls 2 are the same game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9780Steam reviews · Feb 17, 2026 · 19 h played

    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ publisher ruined it by suddenly requiring you to download their launcher. stop holding our games hostage. you're never getting me to install, nobody has

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  • Steam user Steam user …2162Steam reviews · Feb 21, 2026 · 28 h played

    I bought this game back when it was in early access, just after Dusk and Ion Fury made a splash on the scene. It jumped on the resurgence of boomer shooters, but the development time was prolonged. When it finally saw release, the hype for boomer shooters had passed its peak, the initial resurgence over. Doom Eternal had released, I believe, and to my eyes this significantly changed the scene. Now shooting veterans dug their claws into Ultrakill and Turbo Overkill, among other Eternal-likes.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2856Steam reviews · Sep 2, 2026 · 4 h played

    Beautiful to look at, but getting lost killed it for me. I've just come out of playing Quake and its expansions, including Dimension of the Machine, and I've been meaning to get around to WRATH: Aeon of Ruin for ages. It had been sitting on my 'I'll play that eventually' list for quite a while, and given how much I enjoyed the dark atmosphere, level design and exploration in Quake, I thought WRATH would be right up my street. Unfortunately, after around 3 hours of playing, I've come to…

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  • SuperRAD 🍋 @superrad.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 13, 2026

    Asura's Wrath is the game FFXVI wanted to be

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  • Steam user Steam user …8761Steam reviews · Nov 4, 2025 · 29 h played

    It's really great game, but very hard and quite long, it has three worlds that you go through, unlocking each one after completing the previous, the maps are huge and level design is complicated though. i completed the game at 29 hours. The game is very similar and faithful to Quake, even using the same engine. The only negative part I didn't like was the save system and the somewhat weird menu, but that's a minor issue. Overall, the game is still very good. There are two types of saving:…

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  • Tempest Rising @tempestrts.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 27, 2026

    Oblivion for all. The Veti's Wrath 11-mission campaign expansion launches in two days! The third faction will also be FREE to play in MP and Skirmish modes for all base game owners.

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  • TarZangief @tarzangief.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    The best Western setting video game of all time is Oddworld Stranger’s Wrath not RDR

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  • Steam user Steam user …1271Steam reviews · Nov 18, 2025 · 1 h played

    added a trash and annoying launcher nobody asked for.

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  • Sol, Spookily Chuffed @mrbadguy.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2026

    Me, playing Asura’s Wrath, a game ostensibly about punching the shit out of things: ohhh he’s gonna super jump up to that ship isn’t he <Asura proceeds to punch the ground so hard he rebounds off it into the sky> Ah. Yes. Of course. How stupid of me to think he’d do things NORMALLY, that’s on me.

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  • Pixel Crushers @pixelcrushers.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2026

    Final 2 days of Unity's Autumn Sale. If the Dialogue System for Unity or Quest Machine (used in Disco Elysium, Citizen Sleeper, The Way of Wrath, etc.) are on your list, get them for 50% off before the sale ends. assetstore.unity.com/packages/too... #unity #gamedev

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  • Steam user Steam user …2211Steam reviews · Feb 12, 2026 · 2 h played

    Random launcher. Boring.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6003Steam reviews · Jan 6, 2026 · 1 h played

    ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ Ironworks somehow got their filthy and worthless hands on this game. You *could* play the game through directly launching the executable and not the ♥♥♥♥♥♥ launcher, but that doesn't 100% fix the issue of it being there, because that's exactly problem: It IS there. Nobody new to steam or computers is gonna know how to do this even, and that makes this even worse because little do we all realise, there are people who technologically inept. That's who that launcher is meant for too.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0341Steam reviews · Feb 13, 2026 · 1 h played

    Wrath: Aeon of Ruin is a fast-paced shooter, labeled a boomer shooter due to its inspiration from older titles like Doom. The pixel art is fantastic and the weapons look really cool, but that’s about all the positives I could muster during my time with it. Right from the start, the game demands an annoying third-party launcher, something that is always a bad sign. The gunplay itself is very boring; every enemy feels like a health sponge, requiring a large number of bullets in a game where ammo…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2924Steam reviews · Feb 7, 2026 · 5 h played

    Like killing bunnies with a battle axe. Remove the 3rd party launcher or i will rocketjump yer nan.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1830Steam reviews · Nov 30, 2025 · 24 h played

    I actually like the game a lot more than most people: sure it's kinda too long and therefore drags somewhat but the weapons are real nice especially the shotgun and the campaign overall has a lot of fun to offer. Unfortunately, like many others are saying the publisher launcher thing is absolute garbage. I mean it's not too much of a hustle to turn it off (you can go to the setting within the launcher and then it's one click to turn it off) but the "always launch the game directly" option they…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9060Steam reviews · Nov 20, 2025 · 2 h played

    Nobody asked for your dumb launcher. Remove it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8589Steam reviews · Oct 20, 2025 · 19 h played

    Ruin of Quake Jeremy KillerPixel Fox has been hatching plans to create a spiritual successor to Quake since 2019. The development of Wrath: Aeon of Ruin was supported by the Slipgate Ironworks team and two publishers. Bjorn Jacobsen, whose work is known for Cyberpunk 2077, was responsible for the sound design. The soundtrack was composed entirely by Andrew Hulshut, who previously worked on the music for Quake: Champions. The DarkPlaces modification for iD Tech 2 served as the basis for…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7930Steam reviews · Jun 7, 2026 · 1 h played

    This game uses the Quake engine (specifically the source port DarkPlaces), and is often compared to Quake I. When the game is playing like Quake, it is at its best. Weapons feel good, movement feels good, and combat in tight corridors works. Where the game falls apart is when it opens up into large spaces, filled full of excessively tanky enemies that are spamming ranged attacks from across the map. Unfortunately, the game is much more of the latter than the former.

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