Dead Effect

Silly little game with decent gunplay and over the top voice acting that made the journey for me entertaining till the end credits. I like the idea of every map have a certain amount of achievements as extra side objects.

Dead Effect is a straightforward science-fiction first-person shooter that blends zombie action with survival-horror themes aboard a spacecraft where an ambitious mission has gone disastrously wrong. Developed and published by BadFly Interactive, a.s., it favors fast combat, weapon upgrades, hostile corridors, and escalating enemy encounters over complicated storytelling or tactical simulation. Its smaller scale is immediately apparent compared with major FPS productions, but the focused design gives it a distinctive arcade-like quality that suits players looking for an accessible horror shooter. The story takes place aboard the ESS Meridian, a spacecraft intended to carry humanity toward a new world using advanced faster-than-light technology. Instead of arriving as planned, the player's character awakens from cryogenic sleep to discover that something terrible has happened aboard the vessel. Members of the crew have become dangerous creatures, normal operations have collapsed, and the ship has effectively transformed into an enormous hostile environment. As a member of the elite Unit 13, the player must investigate the disaster while fighting through the infected population. Co…

Dead Effect is a half-hearted stab at making Doom 3 but with what feels like 10% of the budget, and it was clearly a mobile game first. It functions okay, but you'll need to map your own buttons via the in game option if you want to use a controller. Kind of a nuisance, but honestly it's nice that they added the option for their PC port. The gameplay is fine, up to a point where it became unbearable for me. There are zombies who throw grenades at you, or can run towards you and blow themselves up, either one can easily be an instakill even if you're at full health. If you die your options are to restart the level which could waste up to half an hour of your time or pay out a very large sum of in game cash. On the level I died at right near the end when those grenade guys were introduced, it was about one third of all the cash I'd collected in that level. Fortunately I still had enough to buy the weapon I was saving up for, although barely. I would be very surprised if this wasn't done to squeeze microtransactions into the mobile version, it really feels like that was the entire point of such a punishing death system. The writing is terrible, from what little I could tell. I most…

Man that was just terrible. It feels like a mobile game at times with the menu layout and rare collectable currency needed for the OP items. Feels stiff when moving and janky when aiming. Outdated even for its time.

I appreciate that someone put a lot of work into this, but even when discounted to $1 it's not worth playing. This belongs on Newgrounds for free, not on Steam for any amount of money.

Actually ... pretty bad. Poorly designed, very repetitive, boring. Wasn't able to find one good thing to say about this game.