Selaco

First the gameplay feels SO satisfying, the guns sound powerful and crunchy, when you melee bad guys they go flying and even have an animation for hitting a wall right after. When you melee bigger guys, like the gunner, they actually slide on their feet for a while before hitting a wall, which looks great. The enemy AI feels remarkably competent ie throwing a grenade at your last position and going around to flank you right after while the gunner suppresses the corner they last saw you turn. To sum up the AI it feels like it's trying to figure out while it's fighting you which actually kinda blows me away :o Last the levels have a boat load of detail in them, every environment looks like they were all meticulously crafted from beginning to end and are all packed with secrets to find. Even if your not much for finding secrets just kinda keeping an out for inconsistancies in each level you are sure to find a hand full still. This game is not even finished and it already feels like you are getting aLOT of bang for your buck. I look forward to what the next 2 chapters bring.

Yeah like, you guys SHOULD play this

I rarely review games unless they stand out to me as truly exceptional in some way, and Selaco absolutely clears that bar. The elevator pitch for the combat loop would probably be "F.E.A.R. without bullet time," which sounds like it shouldn't work. But the knife's edge balancing of mobility, arena design, enemy behavior, and the exquisite arsenal make every single encounter tense and engaging. The pacing between exploration and combat - especially if you aren't secret hunting quite as obsessively as I did - keeps the game from getting as fatiguing by the end as I found, say, Doom Eternal. The music, sound effects, visuals, everything about the presentation is phenomenal. The attention to detail in every level is ridiculous; there's a reason this game *on the Doom engine* takes up 2+ GB of disk space. There's scads of content here, too, and this is just Chapter One. In addition to a 10-12 hour campaign there are modifiers and remixed versions of levels, with a horde mode apparently still coming at some point before Chapter Two drops. Plus apparently the devs pissed off some Nazis at some point, and that's always a plus in my book. If I had to find something to complain about, it would be primarily that the game is simply unfinished. As mentioned, this is still only one chapter, so it ends on a cliffhanger, and it's clear some systems aren't going to be fully fleshed out until more chapters dropped. That's mostly a problem because the development is moving glacially. Not to say that I think they're sleeping on the job or anything, but the level of perfectionism that is clearly being poured into the game means that you're probably going to be waiting a long time for a conclusion to this story. Regardless, I can strongly recommend the game even for just what is here today, nevermind that more stuff is coming later for free.

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Some of the most fun FPS combat I've played. Enemies feel dangerous, guns amazing and the enemy AI is challenging. Their pathfinding and strategies go well with the sprawling maps, leading to varied encounters. And oh, the guns feel great. Punchy, crisp and varied. Not a single dud in the arsenal. "Early access", but feels like a complete game. I think I spent 12 hours on chapter 1 in my first playthrough. Chapter 2 is coming as free DLC in 2026! It works well on steam deck performance-wise, and the team has been updating to increase performance which shows. Gyro-aiming helps, but the game feels totally different with a mouse+keyboard. I can recommend it either way!