Praesidium

Praesidium

ShieldWork Studios · 2021 · Action, Runner, Sci-fi, Singleplayer, 3D Platformer

PC
Mostly Positive76% · 87
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About Praesidium

Praesidium is a third-person, speedrunner, action platformer set on the rooftops of a futuristic city. Make your way through the city with the help of your advanced shield that can create hovering gravity fields to launch you forward. Dodge and block turrets as they try to stun you and slow you down. Move as fast as possible through the level to set your best time.

Features

  • Play as the runner in a high-tech armored suit that keeps you agile while protecting you from high velocities
  • Use your shield to destroy electric stun turrets and breakable walls or to create multiple hovering gravity fields to traverse long gaps and find new shortcuts
  • Multiple replayable levels within neon-lit sci-fi environments
  • Track your best times within the menu and try to beat your fastest run
  • Original Synthwave music tracks

What Steam players say

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

Recommended Jul 8, 2024
9 found this helpful
Not recommended Oct 23, 2024
"Praesidium" is a fairly mediocre 3D Unreal based third person platformer with a speedrunner focus as you try to platform your way through a mildly cyberpunk themed backdrop. You have a little shield thing you can throw around which doesn't add much to the somewhat shallow experience. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. Not every "free" game really is. There's often MTX, or content locked behind DLC, or donations being requested, or any other number of things that could mislead gamers, but in this case I'm glad to say this really does appear to be a fully free game. Nothing demonstrates a developers belief in themselves and their work than giving it away without any remuneration. This is a service to themselves, and the gaming industry, and should be applauded. Of course, just because something is free, doesn't necessarily mean it's valuable. Even though this is "free", it failed to ap…
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Sep 26, 2025
Such a small game Finished this game within 10 minutes, and I get it (it’s free) but for a free game, I expect more
Not recommended Aug 29, 2025
Terrible even for a free game. It looks and plays awful
Recommended Jul 27, 2023
very fun game speedrun happy
Not recommended Jun 29, 2023
i really think this game suck bcs its really confusing and laaggy for it to do the hole climing animation

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