Supplice

Hard-carried by Esselfortium

Marathon-esque boomer shooter with the best shotgun I think I've used in any game ever

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You know how runners get that sense of euphoria after a marathon? Supplice is that. Every map is long, every map makes me want more. The team is on their A game, which is saying something if you know who Mechadon/Essel/Jimmy etc are. Maybe it's appropriate each map is like a marathon, because this game really boils down to Classic Marathon But Better.

The secondary fire on this shotgun could blow the balls off of God. I'm playing on the hardest difficulty (I play a *lot* of classic Doom + Doom adjacent releases). It's incredibly fun. I played the demo as well way back and that was great. Mechadon is the king of long levels that don't devolve into tedium and he cooked with these. The fights are hard but fair, secret hunting is fun and the rewards are worth it. It has story if you want it. It's skippable but I'm getting into it. Kind of like if Doom and Marathon drunk banged.

Best game since Doom.

Great boomshoot, familiar and different with a great story wrapped up in there. Any ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ are minor, and sometimes it's easy to get lost in the architecture, but if you're used to Doom's esoteric map design you'll feel at home here. Awaiting chapter 5 with great anticipation.

A decent FPS with an excellent story. Moment to moment gameplay is very reminiscent of the original DOOM from 1993. The levels are extremely long and can feel like a slog at times, I recommend not doing more than one level per play session. Despite the early access tag, there is a surprising amount of content here, the game is already one of the longest FPS campaigns I've ever played and they still have 2 more episodes they want to add. Overall the game's arsenal is good, but they take a little longer than I'd like to give you the good stuff. It isn't until episode 2 that you get to start using the better weapons if you aren't good at secret hunting. Once those better weapons were in the mix, the moment to moment gameplay got significantly more satisfying. The real reason to play this is the story, which is a surprising thing to say about a boomer shooter, but it's true. The story is all told through computer terminals, and what starts out as a pretty standard alien attack on a human colony goes in some very unexpected directions I don't want to spoil.