Shroom & Doom

I made this game and it has special place in my heart. It's really easy to throw stones, especially when you aren't a creator. For me personally, I'm proud of what my team made. Over the course of a year our little team of 6 created a custom engine, no unity, unreal, or any of that, and created a game within that custom engine. Little word of advice for anyone reading this, don't let haters get you down, Shroom & Doom is not a masterpiece by any means, but my team has grown, we're 20 strong now and we're about to drop a certified banger in early 2025. So thank you for playing our little tower defense game, we're just getting started 😎

"Shroom & Doom" is another student project from Digipen, and while sometimes they come out with remarkable little gems of games, this time unfortunately the students didn't seem to pass the course. This is a lame 2D retro wave survival/kiting simulator with some mild tower defense elements (but it's more of a shooter than a TD). From lame graphics to derivative gameplay, this doesn't offer anything to serious PC gamers. The game features really lacklustre 2D visuals (does the developer not know 3D graphics became mainstream in the mid-1990s?). Gamers don't spend thousands of dollars on gaming rigs to pretend they're mobile phones or Commodore 64s. 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. …

very fun cute games with homemade sound effects and a cute silly art style , i hope the developer works on this more as i would love to see where it goes :))

It's very fun and very simple. Reminds me of the Flash games of way back when. Not very deep but it doesn't need to be. It's very much a relaxing game that I can play to just sort of veg out to.

I drained my bank into the area of effect placement on each attempt; my final strategy was a crossbeam of mushrooms alongside a diagonal pair of shooters. I'll refrain from echoing a common complaint of speed, although I did agree to the point of naturally avoiding the slowness effect, since most creatures moved slowly enough to be entirely killed in the area of effect. Although I find myself to be an easy target for voice acting and voice-activated sound design, the latter is much harder to do well perhaps due to forgetting the intrinsic nature of most languages to create audible contrasts, and as a result the fun of the voice turns to strife. The game is a high pressure environment that turns its events on a dime, from a sluggish beater against beetles to a mazer race through the beetles' bullets for that fruitful spoil. Purchasing upgrades or even just healing for the tank could be a novel dimension that allows more disengagement with the Grain mood and further towards the Nerve aspects. Rock On! Island is a fascinating member in the UFO 50 Collection, particularly for such an unexpected balance towards upgrading the player character rather than building up "towers" with which…

This is... certainly a game. It feels like something I would see in a GameJam, ngl. It feels rushed and like it was made in two days, which it might have been. For a free little game, it's fine. My only complaint is that everything feels really slow, like grossly slow. All the enemies move really slow, the player moves really slow, your towers shoot slow, it just felt... meh. I died at like... wave 12 and didn't want to try again due to how slow it felt. The only changes I would probably do would be to make things feel faster, especially the player. Increase the tower's radius, as the towers have a very small range. If things were sped up, the ice tower would actually be useful. One last tip, please change the sound effects... Every button, every bullet, every enemy death are mouth sounds. I understand why you would do that, it adds a cute charm to it, but everything makes those noises and it just gets really annoying after a bit. TL;DR: The game is slow, feels like a GameJam entry, the sounds are annoying after a bit, and the towers aren't that useful. Over all, it's meh for a free game. 5/10