Desolate Shores

Desolate Shores

Roden8 Games · May 12, 2022 · 3D Fighter, Shooter, Third-Person Shooter, Action, 3D

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About Desolate Shores

Desolate Shores is a classic single player shoot-em-up game based in a Mars of the future. Control your soldier to defeat the growing alien hoard and escape with the aid of the Colonel! Landing on a desolate futuristic Mars, you'll be left to fend for yourself against the incoming waves of attack from deviant creatures trying to protect their eggs.

After making your way down from the building where you parked your shuttle, your immediate goals will be to collect tokens to help operate the lift system and get to the control centre where you will receive further instructions from your superior officer.

Back Story
Terraforming has transformed the planet, creating a breathable atmosphere using plants and bacteria. Cities were built. At first things prospered, but the scientists did not anticipate how much ice was buried below the surface. Soon parts of the planet were flooded and the settlers converged on the parts that were on high ground.

Not all those converging on the high ground were humans. Alien life lived below ground, an ant-like colony of humanoid creatures guarding their eggs. They too found refuge on high ground, bringing their eggs with them. You have responded to a distress signal from a cut-off island and have landed to try and find survivors. Follow instructions from your superior officer and then try and escape back to base.

Desolate Shores — game info

Platforms
Windows
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Recommended Mar 30, 2023
[h1]Before I played Desolate Shores, I had a small pp, no friends, no gf, depression, and no life. These things havent changed, but the game is pretty good[/h1]
1 found this helpful
Recommended Mar 2, 2023
Noice.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 27, 2022
The crosshair doesn’t appear until after you start shooting, jumping is just an animation which doesn’t give you any height whatsoever, there are missing textures on almost every building, and the gun is projectile based (Not hitscan). Also, for some reason, your boss has Amazonian proportions. You can probably walk off the edge of the map if you really want to, which is strange because the dev clearly started to take precautions against that and seemingly just… Gave up? That said, if you ever accidentally walk off that one edge (You’ll know the one), you can either walk around to the beach on the other side or just hold sprint and spam jump for a nice airboost glitch. The soundtrack is nice, but given the quality of the rest of the game, I’m inclined to believe it’s a third-party asset.
1 found this helpful
Recommended Jan 17, 2025
Good up and coming game, great fun! However the mini aliens in the eggs are very creepy 10/10
Recommended Jul 6, 2024
a great game! jumping part should be better, eg, higher and less glitchy but overall an amazing start to a, im sure, sccessful buiness, good work
Recommended Apr 10, 2024
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