Selaco

Fine Art. Thankful to have heard about this game from Mr. Sujano's youtube gamer news show

This game was so insanly fun to play that I´m exited for chapter 2. It really felt well polished while also beeing fair. The grafics have this retro look with pixels and I absolutly love it, it looks great at any point in the game. The game lagged at some pointsin the game, mainly outside, rain or smoke effects but I think at that point it´s the PC to blame. I honestly didn´t mind, low grafics and a smaller window made the game fine to play for me. I wan´t to add at the time of this review that in chapter 2 there are plans to rework some effects and stuff to make the game run better. Music is also nice, nothing too memorable for me but fitting and good. Weapon variety is good and they all feel good to use, there are also upgrade kits to give weapons new attacks or change them in a way wich was really fun to play arround with. There´s also smaller upgrades, some feel a bit meaningless like +1 damage or a gun beeing able to kill enemys without alerting others and I rarly felt like I had the chance to strike first. I think a bigger thing about this game is the enemys getting stronger over time and acting more tactical and honestly it was really fun. Overall the combat feels really good, I played on the second difficulty (Lieutenant) and it was not that hard. Yet you always have to watch out to not get surprised becasue you can die quite quick if not careful. The only thing here I found a bit dissapointing was the final area, it was quite easy and with all the stuff lying arround I expected to get overun by big waves of enemys, even the final room, so many things lying arround and it was over before it even begun. Also with Juggernauts, they´re really not that big of a thread at the end, I think they could use a Thread tier for themself like getting tankier, maybe getting some kind of rocket, something to make multiple of them feel like a major thread. Map desing and secrets are great aswell, I missed quite a few things and I bet I was blind by atleast half of them. Some clever ones, hidden stuff, look carefully, it was fun looking for them. And for the map desing, I just love this future city theme and it was really good in this game too, lots of fun areas. For the map you have an infocard telling you what you have found in this part of the map, locked doors or important items and uncovered secrets. I wish tho there was a bigger map showing what areas connecto to each other (like this map has 3 exits, one was were I came from, the other were to go and the third one was a dead end I had to go for a key item) just for navigating. Speaking of, the map is easy understandable.. And I love for completion that there is fast travel to multiple spots on the map to get stuff you may have missed. The Bonus level, optional to play but really really fun, I honestly hope to see something similar in chapter 2. It was quite more challenging and long with a cool reward. Really much just alot of fun. The game tells you about the point of no return very clearly and you can save before in case of completing some things. And I like the achievements nothing that is too hard or has at least a trick to compleding it. No need to 100% or go through a high difficulty. Edit: Just did the special campain run and honestly it was somewhat refreshing, made some moments really intense, random enemys can make stuff easier or harder, random waves has you always one ear up. The extra ressources make up for more and harder enemys. The only complain I would say is that it´s not that hard to get a good weapon and most of the time the drops are just worse, maybe the stats could get a bit higher and higher towards the end so I may consider more damage over a possibly good modifier. I found a really strong shotgun that carried me through some parts really early so I never had the need to take another one. Also didn´t took that long only another like 8h

I played the demo years ago, and the game left an impression. Someone said it was a combination of F.E.A.R and Doom(original) and that is a perfect description. Despite it's high review score, this IS NOT a game for everyone. If you can dig what the game is trying to do, then it's a good time. But it's not very relaxing and it is un-apologetically 'old school' in many ways.

I love this game, it's so good, it has everything I'd want in a game like this.

В каждой локации чувствуется что игра сделана с любовью. Уши современных портов Doom торчат отовсюду! Гигантские локации с небольшим бектрекингом. Последнее что так доставляло это карты Extermination Day в связке с Brootal Doom по сети на Zandronum. Только тут чуть более эстетично и размеренно с уклоном в Deus Ex.

Selaco is a tense and chaotic game that always keep you on your toes. Health is scarce and you will constantly have to swap guns to manage ammo while trying to make it out as unscathed as possible. (I played on hard) During encounters, I would be constantly checking all lines of sight for flanking enemies while my vision would get obscured by the environment, enemy and player muzzle flash, and explosives. The artstyle is a fun blend between retro and realistic, pushing GZDoom to its limits. $25 is a bit much for what is currently in the game (version 0.90) so try to get it on sale or in a bundle with something else you already have (i did both and paid less than $16) or wait until chapter 2 comes out. the burgerflipper minigame is pretty peak too