Abort, Retry, Fail

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"Abort, Retry, Fail" is an unusual 2D retro pixel top down shooter with a gimmick where you need to "program" your own weapon to get through the incredibly short gameplay. What do you do in the game? Wave survival style shooting in small procgen levels. The game is quite short, and can be run through in just 10 minutes at best. The lack of content here makes it hard to suggest it's worth spending the time to add to your library and download. This features really godawful pixelcrap "art" instead of real graphics. It's hard to say if this was because the developer didn't have the skill to do the job of creating 3D visuals, or couldn't afford to hire someone who does, but it also doesn't matter. What matters is that this looks much worse than most other games because of that decision, and that's a major deterrent to gamers. Games like Terraria and Stardew Valley succeeded [i]despite[/i] the bad graphics, not because of them. The developer chose not to do the job of a real game developer and create meaningful bespoke levels, narrative based gameplay progression and so on. Instead, they decided that "Procgen IS content!" and lazily tried to use procgen algorithms to create inf…

Mildly recommended. This has a nice retro vibe to it. The graphics are pretty simple, same with the level design and the world around you. The combat is pretty good, but you can only shoot in the four cardinal directions. It's very short, but for free, might be worth a quick run.

very fun and short roguelike. definitely a lot of replayability. the controls feel good and the different items are pretty neat

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