Not really sure why this game is Mostly Positive, it feels more like a tech demo than an actual game.
Meander around a 6DOF maze with no map, hoping the enemies you take down drop enough ammo to take down more enemies because your starting weapon is a peablaster that you'll lose all your starting health with after dogfighting a few enemies with - unless...
It's cool and one of the songs is absolutely sublime. Wish it was longer. The game not the song. Also the song.
This is a very interesting 6DOF game build on the idea of the great Descent games by Interplay (1995 & 1997 If my memory serves me well) which I love very much (yes I am old). Here we have procedural generation to keep things fresh and mixed. I enjoyed very much the fact that you can replay a random level as many times as you like - kudos to dev for...
Pixelpunk XL is a “six degrees of freedom” shooter in the vein of Descent. The audiovisual aesthetic is of that era as well – you pilot through a very bare, industrial setting with lots of corridors. The atmospheric music is reminiscent of Metroid and the resolution is distinctively low. This is billed as a rogue-like but that seems a bit of a stretch...
