Apricity (2024)
Luke Veltum · 2024 · Action Roguelike, Top-Down Shooter, Twin Stick Shooter, PvE, Tutorial
PC
Positive93% · 14
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About Apricity
Apricity is a top-down shooter designed to be played with friends.
Heat System
When you deal damage, you build Heat, and at 100% Heat you become HOT, increasing your attack speed. After a few seconds of not dealing damage, your Heat drops to 0 almost instantly. Reloading (reloading is just the term for a special action, you can fire your primary weapon infinitely) conserves Heat and recharges your abilities, unless you are injured, in which case your Heat is expended to rapidly heal you.Importantly, enemies drop orbs on death that heal you and recharge your abilities, often forcing players into a choice: do I back off and reload, or just keep shooting and hope I can heal from the orb?Classes
Apricity has 11 character classes. Each class has a different weapon, passive, and two activated abilities.Classes interact with each enemy type and item differently, and each class has a special relationship with the Heat system.Gamemodes
Apricity has two gamemodes. The first is Adventure, in which players make choices in a text adventure in between combats. Winning combats equals success in the text adventure. The ultimate goal is to destroy Catrapos.The second is Endless, a simple but fun score attack mode that appeals more to singleplayer users.What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
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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
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