Angel's Gear
Scumhead · 2023 · Metroidvania, Side Scroller, 2D Platformer, Survival Horror, Souls-like
PC
Mostly Positive72% · 267
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About Angel's Gear
Game Features:
- A unique combat system - unconventional movement that rewards precise aiming and mastery over strategy, patience, and quick thinking.
- KO enemies with melee attacks, stomp them for ammunition, use that newfound ammo to shred through enemies with a variety of interesting bullet types.
- Switch between Demon and Angel mode for unique additions to combat and exploration.
- A short but sweet horror adventure through the depths of an apocalyptic wasteland.
- Monstrous Boss Battles to test your limits, barely scrape through with your limbs still attached… hopefully.
- Explore a vile and beautiful interconnected world.
Story:
The Brothers Heathcliff and Locke invent a weapon of mass destruction, The Gear. This mechanical disease devours matter, digesting said matter into more of itself. I.E. It is a self replicating machine that uses every living and nonliving thing as a fuel source.
A universe is eaten in it’s entirety.
In a desperate gambit for more fuel, The Gear invades another dimension, The Godhead.
You are a Soldier, unwillingly drafted into a horrible conflict. At the height of battle, a monster is born from the moon. The Gear is unleashed in the Godhead, and now it’s on you to fix it.
- Untangle the Web of how The Gear came to be.
- Meet ghoulishly endearing characters who will help you on your journey.
- Grow closer with them through sidequests.
- End the nightmare of The Gear, once and for all!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Could've been neat
Saving in this game is broken. A real shame because the game has such a cool vibe and aesthetic going for it and the gameplay is perfectly sound. But as it is the game is broken unless you're committed to beating the game in one sitting. There's also other strange technical issues like the game over screen only being shown in half, or the "Exit Game" button literally being unselectable. Seems like the dev cut his losses which is a real shame because why leave such a cool and inspired game so defunct?
Mainly bought the game for the artstyle, beat it within 3hrs along with what I'm positive is seeing everything the game has to offer. I just can't recommend this in the state that it's in. Firstly, I lost an hour of progress because the game wouldnt load my save for reason after launching the game again. Everytime I launched it, I had to remap some buttons for my controller. The settings UI is horrendous as well. For some reason can't exit the game from the menu either. Melee seems more or less unnecessary, like I get that it's to mainly get ammo back but you only get it if you kill enemies using melee, so not really worth it with how weird some of the hitboxes are. Especially since the bosses just give you ammo if you run out. The story at the end and the final boss fall a bit short. Atmosphere, music and sound effects are the strong parts here. Especially the atmosphere. Overall: 4.5/10 (Average-ish)
Riddled with bugs, some pretty serious. I can't even exit the game through the menu, I can't navigate to it. Save points didn't actually save, or at least, it's not letting me load my save. Whether that was due to my inability to quit without force-closing, I don't know, but I don't want to treat this like an NES game and do it all in a sitting. There is controller support, even though it claims otherwise on Steam, but it's kind of janky. It's an interesting enough metroidvania with some cool mechanics, but I don't want to play it anymore.
Short and sweet. It's rough around the edges in terms of platforming and some questionable instakills from the enemies but overall fun. The art direction is dope I do wish there was more to the soundtrack to really bring home the atmosphere.
This game is fun but has been abandoned by the developer. There is no way currently to exit the game when playing via a controller. This was a known issue that the DEV hasn't fixed. Reported it several years ago.
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