Snuff

Imagine a game with the movement of Quake, gore, and atmosphere in the vein of Postal 2, Manhunt, Hitman, and Hotline Miami, and you get Snuff. Is it janky? Yes. Does it look like a cheap game that you could find on itchio or gamejolt? Sure. Can it be buggy at times? Yeah. Is it fun? BET YOUR FREAKING ASS IT IS! Snuff is a great reminder of why indie games exist and why they matter. You just can't get experiences like that in the AAA scene. Also, it costs literal pennies; there is absolutely no reason to grab it and see if you like it!

For a dollar (but not much more, particularly during a broader Steam sale), I'd say it's more or less fine - think Postal 2 kusoge with a thematic dash of Hitman/Manhunt. Soldier of Fortune gameplay, some would say, but I don't recall being an invincible crackhead in that one. Tons of bugs (some game-breaking), more pointless edge than a redneck knife catalog, and every excuse to scythe through a couple hundred hostile morons. Bosses are generally differentiated from mooks via slightly obnoxious gimmick battles - chase a guy on a jet ski, or run up on a bulletproof idiot and mash melee attacks until one registers, that sort of thing. One-note, quickly resolved. Guns are surprisingly okay, actually - true ADS across the board and an unusually legitimate revolver with a wonky inverse trigger pull as a workaround to portraying a DA trigger. Again, it's fine for a buck, but the price-point's doing the work of Atlas here.

It's not a particularly 'good' game, but for 1€ and the sheer amount of soul it has, i would recommend it to pretty much anyone who likes shooties

yeah its worth a buck but jesus the boss fights suck, especially when you want to have fun with the rest of the game. If you desire any kind of challenge you need to raise the difficulty past the point that includes checkpoints. it claims to save before the boss fights but this never happens so i just end up breaking the level, avoiding the shooting gallery ive passed 300 times before, to reach the boss fight. i dont think its unfairly difficult or too jank but the boss fights and broken checkpoints ruin it. cant really recommend it because of this but its not bad its just ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying

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Well, this one is rough. The game gets most of the fundamentals right, great weapons variety, good shooting, good weapon feedback and few great levels, but unfortunately it is too buggy and unreliable for me to recommend it. I was having a lot of fun in the first few levels, really cool, but it seems I got the good ones first. The last few levels I played tho, not fine, in special the boat/pirate level, that one is completely broken. I had to reset a few levels multiple times because a door would not open, or my character would get stuck on geometry, or the vehicle physics were crazy. Also, the last stretch kinda sucks, the dark forest level almost put me to sleep and the last boss did not cause damage at all even on Natural Born Killer difficulty. Several stutters in that fight too, the game does not handle well spawning of enemies apparently. There is a good game with a poor execution here, I don't mind a janky game, but I would not recommend it, unless you are REALLY patient.