Kreed

a truly great game, available on steam after many long years. finally. welcome to kreed

Disclaimer - despite giving this a thumbs up, I can't honestly say it's a good game overall. There are many rough edges and confusing level designs, a story that feels unfinished and bad voice acting. Despite all this - Kreed is definitely worth playing if you love liminal aesthetics and weird, niche science fiction. It has a lot of atmospheric and surreal areas and the amount of variety in the environments is surprisingly large. The soundtrack is also experimental and very good in places. The overall vibe of Kreed is somewhere in the grittier end of "y2k futurism", maybe falling into the "cybergunge" aesthetic or something like this. I'm not sure exactly how to describe it but it's a niche style I never get tired of. Sort of like Quake but with a more liminal, weird flavour. I got this on sale for around £1 and it was definitely worth the price. Bonus tip - I'd recommend playing the easier difficulties because the action is clunky and not what makes the game fun; I think of Kreed more as an exploration/walking sim with light action thrown in. If you approach this game wanting to focus on the combat, you probably won't enjoy it.

I love narrative-focused sci-fi shooters that emphasise big set-pieces and tight combat encounters in controlled environments just like any good samaritan. Whether it be the tentpole releases like Half-Life or Halo, the ones that flew under the radar like Prey or TimeShift, or the ones that fell by the wayside due to either a limited release, a small budget, having been ripped to shreds by critics, or a combination of all three like Gene Troopers, You Are Empty, or Rat Hunter — what I'm trying to say is I can stomach most anything the FPS genre throws my way, and can overlook potential transgressions if the game gives me something solid to chew on. I'm an avowed jankmeister — one look at my profile and you'll see that I've subjected myself to an overwhelming amount of FPS slop primarily released during the dark ages, the 2000s — but even I have my limits. Kreed may just be my limit. There are far worse shooters out there from this same time period — They're Alive!, Steam Slug, and Patriot: DemocratiZation just to name a few — but there are seldom few video games that aim to antagonise the player THIS much. The aforementioned dregs combined would take me less time to beat than it d…

Just as terrible as it was 13 years ago. Legend has it that completing this game on Very Hard renders you immune to Chernobyl radiation zone. 10/10 would kwit weening again.

what the ♥♥♥♥ am i doing to myself to complete this game in one sitting? kreed is genuine torture. actual suffering. if i was an evil prison warden i'd subjugate inmates to this game everyday. everything is hateful or without thought. quality of life has no meaning to kreed. enemies cruelly instantly shoot you and run circles around cover to prolong gunfights, while all your weapons will be waterguns, limpdicks, or suicidal. limbo through consecutive repeated halls, rooms, and ventilation shafts— repeated between levels too, mind you. kafkaesque punishment where veterans of the genre (specifically this era of fps games as well) are continuously reprimanded for simply guessing which way is forward. trying to score extra supplies or see if a room has a button to press? oops, sorry, that was actually just a room to be a room or a needlessly large monster closet (but you wouldnt notice at first since those enemies decided to wander out instead of waiting for you). even old classmates of mine couldnt have pulled off this ♥♥♥♥ in the butt-ass game design program i graduated from. fork upon fork upon fork in the road with endless dead ends and megastructure-like size. then you'll start to…

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