Malicious Payload

Malicious Payload

Last Howl · February 6, 2021 · Hack and Slash, Shoot 'Em Up, Shooter, Sci-fi, Robots

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9 user reviews44% · 9
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lowest tracked $0.49
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Malicious Payload price by region

Malicious Payload costs £0.95 in the United Kingdom, $0.99 in the United States, $0.99 in Georgia (USD), €1.09 in Europe (EUR), CA$1.19 in Canada, A$1.40 in Australia, NZ$1.59 in New Zealand, R$3.99 in Brazil and zł4.15 in Poland right now.

Cheapest Malicious Payload offer in each region, in local currency
RegionBest priceOfficial storeKey shopStores
United Kingdom £0.95 £0.95 — 1
United Statesyour region $0.99 $0.99 — 1
Georgia (USD) $0.99 $0.99 — 1
Europe (EUR) €1.09 €1.09 — 1
Canada CA$1.19 CA$1.19 — 1
Australia A$1.40 A$1.40 — 1
New Zealand NZ$1.59 NZ$1.59 — 1
Brazil R$3.99 R$3.99 — 1
Poland zł4.15 zł4.15 — 1

Each row is a real price from that region's own stores, not a currency conversion, so the figures are not directly comparable. Switch regions in the header to shop the one you buy in.

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About Malicious Payload

Malicious Payload is a Story based Sci Fi Arcade Shooter game. There are two modes in the game: Story and Survival mode.

Story


You're a security guard on Minutor-CCXVI. You're having a boring day and you fallen asleep in the security room. Suddenly the computer shows security alerts. You check the security cameras and you can't see anything. But the system is captured by the space pirates, they sent a virus called Malicious Payload to the mainframe. The ship undergoes a loss of energy and begins to drift through space. You come out of the security room to understand what happened, but the miner-bots have turned into lethal robots. You think you can save the ship?

Survival


The longer you stay, the more successful you are. You can increase your reputation on Leaderboards worldwide. Malicious robots comes in waves in increasing form, will do anything to terminate you. Take the guns from robots you killed, or choose one you want from Holo Menu.

  • Rail Pistol

  • Rail Rifle

  • Akai Hakko Katana

Malicious Payload — 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.

✦ AI summary

Players praise the colorful synthwave neon aesthetic and the wave survival gameplay when it functions properly, with some enjoying the slow-motion dodge mechanic. However, the game suffers from significant technical issues across multiple VR platforms including broken controls (inverted gun holds, non-functional reload mechanics), poor AI that avoids players predictably, inconsistent aiming systems, and a story mode that either doesn't progress or confines players to early areas—combined with weak audio design and a condescending tutorial narrator, these problems make the overall experience fr

Not recommended Feb 5, 2020
Watch my video here https://youtu.be/MY_QT2d7xFI Graphics are OK nothing amazing. Colourful and some decent particle physics. Guns look good. Audio isn't the best. The robot tutorial narrator sounds like a younger brother putting on a robot voice while hating on everything you do. The guns sounds are lacking and could do with beefing up. Directional audio is just not great. At time I'm not sure where I'm getting shot from. Gameplay is fun as a wave survival shooter can get. It looks easy, but it does get hard and more fun. There are weapon buys through the survival mode to grab and health. At the moment survival mode is the only mode with story coming later on. I'm not sure have to work out of much health I had in game. It might of been there, but I couldn't find it. Shot the robot in the face and the drones in their jetpacks. The pistol guns over heats, this isn't fun and a little frustrating. I guess this was added to make the game a little more challenging. The game is very cheap and in early access so really it isn't as bad as it sound due to the fact it can change and grow. As it stands right now though I can't recommend this game.
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Recommended Nov 26, 2022
Good graphics, I like this synthwave neon style. Decent effects and a cool slow motion bullet dodge feature reminding me of Pistol Whip and Super Hot. One review says that you can't leave the first room which is incorrect. It's kinda time gated and then you have to press a button on a keyboard a few times, put on a helmet and press another button. Everything is indicated and there is for the most part a path telling you where to go. I fully finished the story in maybe 25 minutes. So the bad: - weapon rotation was very weird on Quest 2 which made it hard to hit anything - the AI just misses you when you move sideways all the time - some small graphical issues like incorrect reflections, pixelated glowing lines and bad texture filtering in the main menu (grid plane) I got it during a sale for 0.99 € and that is ok for what it is.
6 found this helpful
Recommended Feb 29, 2024
game is good for the most part but when im holding any of the guns they dont work with me at all like when i hold the AR it gets held upside down and idk how to fix that i am using a quest two so that might be the reason but idk
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Feb 29, 2024
Pretty Cheeks game rn but if they showed some button layout and got the aim better then I would say it would be enjoyable, at its current state it's not worth it, but it could be a good game for the price if those things were changed
Not recommended Nov 8, 2021
Story mode doesn't work. There's no way out of the very first room. The rest is a simple sub-par wave shooter.
Not recommended Apr 30, 2021
This game is a complete and total broken mess. Absolutely one of the worst VR games I have ever tried. This is so bad that it really should be removed from Steam. Do not buy this game if you have a Valve Index because the controls are awful. You press the A button to grab a gun floating in the air then once you run out of ammo, that's it your game is over. There is no way to reload a gun with the Valve Index. You can also teleport through any closed door you want with no problem. Every place in this game also looks exactly the same. The whole thing feels like something made in a few days. Pass on this one or you will most assuredly end up regretting it.

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