Bloodshots

⠀

somewhat top down free game with an interesting mechanic that you sell health for ammo and to update the map. Some of the monsters are zombie like, some are weird spiderlings that spit at you. its a blend of do you kill everything and need to keep spamming through all your health vials to keep your ammo stocked up, or do you run past things and through doors into the next sections to save your health and ammo? After dying a few times to various things we started leaning into the second as health packs don’t respawn if you pick them up and while your ammo stays whatever it was when you found the latest piece of lore that caused a game save, all the friendos do respawn again. im sure you could purge a chunk of your freshly respawned healthbar to top up the ammo but is it worth it when theres no health kits for a while? Its an interesting gamble. And while the game overall does have a few faults and issues, like the “hit the button, run to the door” mechanic being an almost hilariously tight window and the mouse aiming being a bit wobbly at times, it’s a free game. Play it, give feedback and hopefully its makers use this strong start to make better games, but for free? You really cant…

Bloodshots is a small-scale survival horror game that combines mutant-infested laboratory exploration with third-person shooting and resource management. The game was developed by Italo Yupanqui, Mateo Cayo, Diego Campos, Luana Sotelo, Nicolás Reyes, Percy Castañeda, Leonardo Colán, Cesar Ramos, Sthefano Catpo, Renzo Evangelista, Joaquín León, Roberto Janampa, and Christian Aguilar, while Rocket Cat Studio serves as the publisher. Rather than attempting to compete through enormous environments or complicated progression systems, Bloodshots concentrates on a straightforward horror scenario where limited resources, hostile creatures, and an increasingly dangerous facility provide most of the tension. The story takes place in 2010 within the Abderc biochemical laboratory in Texas. Something has gone catastrophically wrong inside the facility, leaving its corridors occupied by dangerous mutants produced through disturbing experimentation. Players control Joseph Alexander Blackwell, a survivor whose reason for entering this nightmare is deeply personal. His daughter is dying, forcing him to search the laboratory for a way to save her. This motivation gives the adventure more purpose th…

I'm mostly recommending this for the sole fact that it is a student project and was free, if it had been released by more experienced devs or had a price tag attached then things would be different. Bloodshots is a case of a fantastic concept executed poorly. The combat, visuals and sound design are all pretty solid, and this was enough of a foundation to ensure I mostly enjoyed my 30 minutes spent playing. However everything else was lacking, from the exceptionally poor voice "acting" (although I do respect the fact that it was clearly someone with English as a second, or maybe even third language) which provided line delivery more wooden than my desk, to the uninteresting and generic story, to the often bad level design. Lots of pointless rooms that largely look the same, timed doors for no reason and awful rooms filled with poison that saps your energy, then your health once your energy runs out. It goes really quickly too. The timed doors I can tolerate, however the poison rooms do nothing to improve the game and at one point actively detract from it. There is one such room where one seems to need to solve a puzzle, but the effect of the poison doesn't pause while interacti…

A pretty good top-down Metroidvania-like with Resident Evil inspiration. Got about an hour of fun our of it. Some models were a little rough around the edges but still worth a chill playthrough. 6/10

Хорошая игра ! Своя нотка есть и история тоже захватывает. Дает идею свою