Apricity (2024)

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"Apricity" is one of literally thousands of retro top-down/twin stick shooters infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere... and I'm not kidding. Searching for "top-down shooter" on the Steam store page yields over six thousand results! Is this one of the best of those? Absolutely not. This is possibly one of the worst top-down shooters... nay, one of the worst games on Steam. It's a laughably incompetent mess. The visuals you can see in the screenshots are, unfortunately, cherry picked, and the in-game graphics are even worse. You really do control things like boxes. There was an attempt to give characters different abilities, but any effort along those lines is completely wasted when the technical execution must be a joke... I mean... nobody would seriously publish this with a straight face thinking this is what gamers expect in 2026? Right? In the modern era of high quality bleeding edge PC gaming, these kinds of flat, lazy, lackluster top-down shooters just don't cut it. This is a dead genre for a reason. Even though this is "free", it failed to attract any interest for gamers here on Steam Direct for obvious reasons. This is a multipl…

almost impossible even on normal mode but i like it

very cool indie game that deserves more recognition