Project Absentia
Waffle Iron Studios · 2026 · Female Protagonist, Boomer Shooter, FPS, Satire, Retro
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About Project Absentia
Project Absentia is a retro FPS inspired by 2000s-2010s flash animations and sprite comics, with vertical, aerial, elemental combat as the main focus.
You play as Abby, an angel who has been captured by the Orkan Corporation, along with her girlfriend Aurora, and her best friend Orion. You break free of your captors, but your friends are still captive. Armed with only a Tommy Gun, your gliding abilities and your wits, you must jump and glide and move around to get the high ground against your enemies. They don't know who they're messing with, and no one messes with Abby.
You play as Abby, an angel who has been captured by the Orkan Corporation, along with her girlfriend Aurora, and her best friend Orion. You break free of your captors, but your friends are still captive. Armed with only a Tommy Gun, your gliding abilities and your wits, you must jump and glide and move around to get the high ground against your enemies. They don't know who they're messing with, and no one messes with Abby.
- Huge levels focused on emulating physical locations - lived-in mines, castles, apartments, entertainment districts, derelict ships and more.
- A huge armory - tons of weapons lying around. Use the Hailer to freeze your enemies. Missile Launchers blow your enemies apart. Drain health with the man-eating plant known as Blitzcraig. Use the trusty double-barreled shotgun to shred your foes. Oh, and make 'em taste the rainbow with the Rainbowitzer. Just to name a few!
- Interactive elements - vending machines, breakable glass, mini-golf, water coolers, mirrors, just to name a few! Feel free to play with the environment.
- Fully voice acted cast - with a broad cast of characters
- Accessibility options - subtitles, speech control, adjustable FOV, and so much more.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
It's short but yet fun, it's pretty much a parody of all the iconic FPS games. For the price you really can't criticize it much. If you like what you see, enjoy FPS game just pick it up have fun.1 found this helpful
DeviantArt, if it were a game. The main character is of course a black dwarf woman with angel wings and a tommy gun whose magazine is flatter than an A4 sheet of paper. The story is completely ridiculous and extremely fun to watch play through, it's like watching the Titanic sink on a safe distance. the gameplay is surprisingly solid and actually entertaining at times and I would actually recommend playing it, it's like playing through an episode of Twilight Zone or Black Mirror.1 found this helpful
This has to be one of the worst game i played this year. there are way better games that uses the Gzdoom engine. the visuals of the game looks so boring. very bland. the main character is so smug, I hate her looks, voice (her voice is like sandpaper to my ears i can't stand it), personality, and her overall features as a character. overall i do not have any positive things to say about this game. I would not recommend it to any of my pals.
Simple and fun shooter. With a fun protagonist and other characters. A bit easier than the typical modern *ZDoom scene stuff. But you can dial up the challenge sufficiently high if you want that.
I think the flippantly short version is "It's like Hedon made by a Newgrounds kid". Gameplay is good enough, it's hyper-mobile GZDoom with an arsenal that rapidly cycles through the various weapon pickups. But there are so many retro shooters I'd rank above this, from Ion Fury to Hedon to Selaco to Zortch. It is actually kind of nice to not be worrying about any upgrade systems or progression mechanics or whatever in a game for once. Just play the level, beat the level, done.
If you had a childhood playing Doom and Quake and your teen years were spent listening to musical theatre and drawing webcomics, this game is for you.
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