Guardians of Victoria
Tall Story Studios · 2016 · Casual, Indie, Fantasy, Steampunk, Adventure
PC
Mostly Negative32% · 123 📉 Recent reviews down 24%
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About Guardians of Victoria
✦ AI summary
Race through a steampunk sky city as one of three unique Guardians, platforming and fighting your way to the end while evading Jack the Ripper's relentless pursuit and deadly electric attacks. Master free-roaming exploration, tactical combat, environmental puzzles, and character-specific abilities across replayable levels with multiple difficulty tiers and upgrade systems.
Guardians of Victoria is a running game with multiple twists, taking conventional running gameplay and creating something unique! Testing your reactions, planning, and timing in an action-packed multi-tasking race to the end without being caught by Jack the Ripper.
Play as the Guardians as they fight their way through the Steampunk city in the clouds, collecting items and defeating the allies of the ever-chasing destroyer- Jack the Ripper. You must stop him!
The game features:
Play as the Guardians as they fight their way through the Steampunk city in the clouds, collecting items and defeating the allies of the ever-chasing destroyer- Jack the Ripper. You must stop him!
The game features:
- Free-Roaming: Unlike most running games you can actually stop, and run left!, allowing you to explore the environment a bit more. Not recommended on the hard mode!
- Racing against a chaser: To keep you moving along and fighting tooth and nail, The Ripper chases with his giant cloud of thunder. The higher the difficulty- the faster he moves. Be wary though, as Ripper can shoot electric bolts!
- Using mechanics: To keep you in the sky and alive and well, you must avoid gas leaks, control crane platforms, put out fires, and more!
- Multi-characters: There are three characters with their own uniquely designed levels across various locations. Brella, Cutlass, and Firearm- members of the Guardians. The leader of the Guardians, a small flying robot called Zeal, also follows the characters on their missions. Each character has their own back-story, personality, and platforming ability (such as Brella using her umbrella to glide)!
- Shields-up!: Utilise the player shield by collecting the fireflies for their dust around the city. Using the shield protects you from Ripper attacks, enemy blows, fires, gas leeks, and anything else that might damage you!
- Tactical fast combat: Each character has a very unique fighting style. You can test them out in the arena/tutorial area, and really be tested in the city.
- Multiple replayable levels: Platform your way across many levels including ‘The Factory’, and ‘Daylight Victoria’. Each level features 3 different difficulty star ratings and a timer system! Simply survive to the portal at the end!
- Indoor running: Forget traditional rooftop running! Run indoors too! Some floating buildings can be entered! Jump in through windows or tunnels or use and find the secrets within!
- Steam bonuses: Steam users will also collect trading cards.
- Extra levels: The game also features an arena with character selection, and a combat and platforming tutorial. I also look to addship flying levels!
- Upgrade! Conquor! Earn skillpoints through take-downs and collectables and upgrade your characters, speed, jump, attack and health! There is lots your can do.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Just garbage of a "game". I have played far better flash games than this.10 found this helpful
Gas Leeks
I knew this game had bad reviews. I read them. I still launched it anyway. Big mistake. The first thing you notice is that nothing feels right. The menu already fights you like it’s the first boss — buttons barely respond, UI looks like random assets glued together, and the music overlaps like five tabs playing at once. You finally get into the game… and instantly regret it. Controls feel delayed, like your character is thinking about jumping instead of actually doing it. The screen keeps moving, the visuals are messy, and half the time you can’t even tell what’s a platform and what’s just background decoration. So yeah — you die. A lot. Not because it’s hard, but because it’s broken. Performance? Somehow worse than expected. Low FPS, random freezes, and for some reason the game tries to eat your RAM like it’s running a AAA title in 8K. But the best feature? The game doesn’t close. You exit → it’s still running. You stop it → it’s still running. You check Steam → congrats, you’re still “playing”. At this point it feels less like a game and more like malware with a platformer minigame inside. There is a cool idea here — steampunk setting, different characters, some attempt…
I picked this up for a few cents thinking I'd found a hidden gem — the Victorian steampunk aesthetic and character-switching mechanics genuinely sounded interesting. But the game is fundamentally broken: constant RAM bloat, inputs that register seconds late, falling through platforms, and a game-over screen that greets you almost immediately. To make matters worse, the game refuses to actually close, silently running in the background and eating up memory long after you've quit. Even the developer themselves posted a negative review admitting this isn't a good game. Save your pennies.
Guardians of Victoria is a running game with multiple twists, taking conventional running gameplay and creating something unique! Testing your reactions, planning, and timing in an action-packed multi-tasking race to the end without being caught by Jack the Ripper.
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