Cathedral 3-D
Unfinished Games · 2020 · First-Person, Violent, FPS, 3D, 1990's
PC
Mostly Positive72% · 25 📉 Recent reviews down 57%
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About Cathedral 3-D
👹 Get it off your chest – Enjoy unique gameplay focused around protecting the box that contains your heart.👹 Moves like scragger – Master the super-fluid movement system with double jumps, strafing, rocket jumping, and shotgun flying.
👹 1, 2, 3, you’re dead to me – Use the three attack modes – rapid-fire, cluster shot, and firebombs, to paint the walls red with vermin.
👹 You learn something every day – Unlock special new abilities by staying alive as long as possible.👹 It’s not a game anymore – Upload your score to the leaderboard and compete with monsters all around the multiverse.
👹 Without a glitch – Transport to the 90s thanks to the custom game engine with an old-school rasterized look complete with unfiltered textures and jagged animations.
👹 A unified vision – Marvel at the harmony of handcrafted graphics and sounds working in unison with a custom engine, all created by a single developer.
You are the boss of this CathedralPuny humans, bugs under your feet, have invaded your lair. Time to teach them a lesson and defend your domain. Use your incredible agility to run circles around them and your fiery breath with 3 attack modes to set them ablaze. Turn your foes into ash or blast them into gory bits and show the world who’s the boss of this Cathedral.
Heart on your sleeve
Your heart is hidden in a chest. No, not your chest, think wooden box used for storage. Anyway, the humans are weak but they are cunning. They will try to destroy your heart just as rapidly as they’ll try to destroy you, so you need to protect it. That chest is also where your store the essence that allows you to keep barraging the uninvited guests with fire, so make sure to have the box with you when collecting ammo.
What year is it?
Cathedral 3-D draws a lot from the 90s era arena shooters. The beautiful flying cathedral where you’ve made your lair is presented with meticulously designed retro-inspired visuals, and the gameplay derives from the arena shooter traditions of the ones like Quake and Catacomb 3-D.
Multiverse of carnage
Survive as long as possible and get your name on the leaderboard where you can compete with versions of yourself from parallel worlds. Become the most terrifying monster in the entire multiverse and the boss of all the Cathedrals!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
✦ AI summary
Cathedral 3-D is a free arena shooter with a unique box-carrying mechanic that forces players to choose between attacking and collecting items, backed by a distinctive retro-pixelated visual style that some find appealing while others consider dated. Players appreciate the novelty concept and atmospheric visuals, but criticize the game for being repetitive with limited content, feeling more like an incomplete tech demo than a fully realized experience, and many consider it poorly thought-out despite its free price tag.
[h1] Feels more like a tech demo of sort. Gameplay is your typical arena shooter where you fend off incoming waves of humans in this case. Visuals are the biggest pro here, pixelated textures and low poly 3D mixed with high screen resolution (just like in emulators). Graphics is the most interesting part of the game. Repetitive after a while as there's only one level but interesting enough to check it out. [/h1]15 found this helpful
Cathedral 3-D is absolutely game for fans of arena shooters and retro-style action games. If you enjoy fast-paced shooting, give it a try—and it’s completely free! [h3]Setting[/h3] In a YouTube developer interview, the creators mentioned their inspiration came from id Software’s Catacomb 3D, though I personally see little resemblance beyond one detail: the tutorial mentions the player’s heart is stored in a box. Yes, the player carries a box—with a key twist: holding the box prevents attacking but allows item pickup, and ammo regenerates slowly. Dropping the box lets you attack but blocks item collection. This mechanic persists throughout the game. [h3]Art Style[/h3] Visually, the game leans into dark tones. The purple backgrounds and cool-colored architecture create an atmosphere of mystery, tension, and subtle horror, reminiscent of early cult-classic games. Players battle enemies in fantastical, eerie church-like environments. The pixelated graphics—with visible pixel grain on hands, buildings, and objects—evoke the look of early first-person shooters, placing it firmly in the “retro arena shooter” genre. [h3]Gameplay & Controls[/h3] Players can pick up yellow ammo and red he…3 found this helpful
"Cathedral 3-D" is a weird conceptual boomer shooter, basically a Quake ripoff with a gimmick, you carry a box around and you have to defend the box as part of the core game loop. That's it really. Visually, this has some fairly mediocre/dated looking graphics that will understandably be a turn off for a lot of gamers, and it's a big contributor to the failure of the game to attract gamers despite having no up-front cost. It's free... now, but it wasn't before. The developer was charging $5 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It's a nice gesture for the game to be given away for free, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. Even though this is "free", it failed to appeal to the 120 million+ gamers on Steam. SteamDB showed the game peaked at only 13 concurrent players... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Bearing in mind that free games don't add +1 to your game collector count, should you bother adding this to your library and downloading it? This is a "maybe" experience... if you have a lot of free time on your hand…1 found this helpful
It isn't thought-out well.
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Игра Cathedral 3-D — отличный ремастер классической головоломки. Готическая графика, уютная атмосфера и увлекательные задачи, требующие логики и пространственного мышления. Идеально для любителей неспешного и вдумчивого геймплея.
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