I don't believe that these throwback shooters are bad, or that being a throwback shooter makes them worse, god knows Overload is the best FPS released in the past decade or two, but I can already foresee how this trend is going to progress and how after a year or four we'll be completely sick of these kinds of games once the more soulless hacks start latching on. The last indie shooters to really break the mold were Devil Daggers and DESYNC, the first one being a 10/10 arena survival shooter that realized the concept in a way no other survival mode shooter ever quite did, and the second one being an FPS with arena level design about killing things with style which was kind of rough around the edges, so I showed the developer my review of it and he told me on Discord that he was making a big redux patch for some time which might incorporate some of the things I said, so who knows how it's going to turn out in the future. So if you're into singleplayer first-person shooters which are actually about shooting, these are pretty much the only choices you have. That may not seem like much, but then the total amount of indie singleplayer first-person shooters released per year isn't as large as the amount of side-scrollers released per year. That's counting games with actual hand-made levels, no procgen roguelite crap. There's Overload, Amid Evil, Ion Maiden, Dusk, Project Warlock, Hellbound, Quarantined: Viscerafest, the Descent reboot (if being part of an actual old school FPS series counts), HellScreen, Apocryph, Intrude, this game.
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