STRAFE: Gold Edition
Pixel Titans · 2017 · Roguelite, Action, Shooter, Gore, FPS
PC
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About STRAFE: Gold Edition
✦ AI summary
Blast through procedurally-generated deep space facilities in this roguelike FPS where hand-crafted rooms randomize every run, forcing you to adapt to fresh enemy layouts and secrets with each death. Permanent blood splatter decorates your kill zones, brutal weapon upgrades escalate the carnage, and lightning-fast combat keeps the action relentless across four unique zones with no checkpoints or handholding.
SURGEON GENERAL’S WARNING: The Surgeon General was brutally murdered by STRAFE®.
STRAFE® is a roguelike first-person shooter that generates unique, full levels every time you play. Hand-crafted rooms are randomly linked together and filled with a fresh buffet of hungry enemies, so every run provides a new bloody challenge as you seamlessly slaughter your way through 4 diverse locations in unknown deep space. With secrets hidden around every corner and plenty of mechanics to discover, the tutorial is just the start — so explore & experiment often!
PERMANENT DAMAGE AND GIBS! ÜBER-GORE technology means enemies explode with fountains of blood, which never fades away. Create wicked works of death art that mark your explored territory from the unventured.
ENDLESS CHANGING LEVELS! Randomly-generated levels are always different and violently unpredictable. Rooms, enemies, power ups, monster closets, and secrets move around every time you die!
FACE MELTING SPEED! The blazing fast action will hit you like the blast wave of a 50 megaton thermonuclear warhead, liquefying your skin cells and rupturing your internal organs. Yet still leave you coming back for more.
As a Scrapper on a impossibly dangerous mission at the edge of the galaxy, you only have one life to navigate all the nightmarish terrains of STRAFE®. When you die, nothing will ever be the same again.
+ Four unique zones (three levels each) that demand different death-defying gameplay styles
+ Gun upgrades that turn your average tool of death into an outright murder machine
+ 30+ insane weapons
+ 20+ blood-thirsty enemies
+ Some of the most deep and unique secrets in gaming!
+ The sickest soundtrack of 1996 and at least the next 25 years
+ NG+ and looping
+ Unsigned 32 bit colors!
+ Lifelike digital gravity
+ Colored lighting!
+ STRAFE®!
+CAMPAIGN - The core experience is a single player roguelike FPS adventure filled with secrets.
+STRAFE ZONE - A leaderboard based daily challenge. You have one attempt to get the high score each day, can you do it?
+SPEED ZONE - A leaderboard based weekly challenge. You have a week to run a locked level seed as many times as you want and try to shave your time down but you have to kill 90% of the enemies in the level before you can cross the finish line.
+MURDER ZONE - Can you survive 10 rooms of slaughter? Unlock new tools between attempts to become ruthlessly efficient.
WHAT STRAFE® IS NOT
We don't want you to buy STRAFE® if it's not a game you'd enjoy. We'd rather have a happy non-customer than an unhappy customer. This is what STRAFE® isn't:
+ STRAFE® is not a traditional shooter or a "Quake Clone" - STRAFE® pays homage to many classic shooters, and it features many of the classic elements of old school shooters but STRAFE® is a roguelike. This means that it was designed from the ground up for replayability and randomization. Every room in STRAFE® was designed by hand and is seamlessly connected by our level generator to create unique experiences.
+ STRAFE® does not have lives or checkpoints - As a roguelike, if you die in STRAFE® you will start at the beginning of the game and everything will randomize. The game is balanced around this idea to avoid frustration.
+ STRAFE® is not a multiplayer game - There is no multiplayer deathmatch or co-op in STRAFE®. But we recommend Quake Live if you are looking for a great old school arena shooter.
+ STRAFE® is not limited to the design decisions of 1996 - What can I say? We are ahead of our time. STRAFE® is a mix of old and new design. We didn't want to not imitate the games of the past but instead invoke the feeling of them while bringing fresh ideas to the table. We aim to bring you something new with STRAFE®.
+ STRAFE® tries new things with the roguelike FPS formula - We aim to generate full levels that feel more natural to explore and avoid patterns of rooms that lock you in, teleport in enemies and force you to kill them before the doors unlock. We want STRAFE® to feel like a seamless adventure from start to finish.
+ STRAFE® is not a game that will run well on older computers or laptops - STRAFE® may look older but it's a new game and features some cutting edge tech. Please check the min spec!
STRAFE® may look like a game you've played but we've worked hard to create a unique and fresh take on first person shooters, we hope you enjoy it!
STRAFE® is a roguelike first-person shooter that generates unique, full levels every time you play. Hand-crafted rooms are randomly linked together and filled with a fresh buffet of hungry enemies, so every run provides a new bloody challenge as you seamlessly slaughter your way through 4 diverse locations in unknown deep space. With secrets hidden around every corner and plenty of mechanics to discover, the tutorial is just the start — so explore & experiment often!
STRAFE®'S FEATURES:
PERMANENT DAMAGE AND GIBS! ÜBER-GORE technology means enemies explode with fountains of blood, which never fades away. Create wicked works of death art that mark your explored territory from the unventured.
ENDLESS CHANGING LEVELS! Randomly-generated levels are always different and violently unpredictable. Rooms, enemies, power ups, monster closets, and secrets move around every time you die!
FACE MELTING SPEED! The blazing fast action will hit you like the blast wave of a 50 megaton thermonuclear warhead, liquefying your skin cells and rupturing your internal organs. Yet still leave you coming back for more.
STORY
As a Scrapper on a impossibly dangerous mission at the edge of the galaxy, you only have one life to navigate all the nightmarish terrains of STRAFE®. When you die, nothing will ever be the same again.
STRAFE® ALSO INCLUDES:
+ Four unique zones (three levels each) that demand different death-defying gameplay styles
+ Gun upgrades that turn your average tool of death into an outright murder machine
+ 30+ insane weapons
+ 20+ blood-thirsty enemies
+ Some of the most deep and unique secrets in gaming!
+ The sickest soundtrack of 1996 and at least the next 25 years
+ NG+ and looping
+ Unsigned 32 bit colors!
+ Lifelike digital gravity
+ Colored lighting!
+ STRAFE®!
GAME MODES
+CAMPAIGN - The core experience is a single player roguelike FPS adventure filled with secrets.
+STRAFE ZONE - A leaderboard based daily challenge. You have one attempt to get the high score each day, can you do it?
+SPEED ZONE - A leaderboard based weekly challenge. You have a week to run a locked level seed as many times as you want and try to shave your time down but you have to kill 90% of the enemies in the level before you can cross the finish line.
+MURDER ZONE - Can you survive 10 rooms of slaughter? Unlock new tools between attempts to become ruthlessly efficient.
WHAT STRAFE® IS NOT
We don't want you to buy STRAFE® if it's not a game you'd enjoy. We'd rather have a happy non-customer than an unhappy customer. This is what STRAFE® isn't:+ STRAFE® is not a traditional shooter or a "Quake Clone" - STRAFE® pays homage to many classic shooters, and it features many of the classic elements of old school shooters but STRAFE® is a roguelike. This means that it was designed from the ground up for replayability and randomization. Every room in STRAFE® was designed by hand and is seamlessly connected by our level generator to create unique experiences.
+ STRAFE® does not have lives or checkpoints - As a roguelike, if you die in STRAFE® you will start at the beginning of the game and everything will randomize. The game is balanced around this idea to avoid frustration.
+ STRAFE® is not a multiplayer game - There is no multiplayer deathmatch or co-op in STRAFE®. But we recommend Quake Live if you are looking for a great old school arena shooter.
+ STRAFE® is not limited to the design decisions of 1996 - What can I say? We are ahead of our time. STRAFE® is a mix of old and new design. We didn't want to not imitate the games of the past but instead invoke the feeling of them while bringing fresh ideas to the table. We aim to bring you something new with STRAFE®.
+ STRAFE® tries new things with the roguelike FPS formula - We aim to generate full levels that feel more natural to explore and avoid patterns of rooms that lock you in, teleport in enemies and force you to kill them before the doors unlock. We want STRAFE® to feel like a seamless adventure from start to finish.
+ STRAFE® is not a game that will run well on older computers or laptops - STRAFE® may look older but it's a new game and features some cutting edge tech. Please check the min spec!
STRAFE® may look like a game you've played but we've worked hard to create a unique and fresh take on first person shooters, we hope you enjoy it!
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What Steam players say
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Its old so the graphics are not great. It is tiny though and that is a plus. Pretty fun game to get in and get out of whenever you like1 found this helpful
i had an overly good time with game i know this may seem stupid for a fast paced shooter but for me there isnt enough health items in game like in doom or in doom eternal kinda wished there was way to even if its through diffcult means like ultra kill thats why i ended up uninstalling the game until this fixed or if developers are not fixing this game anymore then i will keep it uninstalled1 found this helpful
I've tried to load it so much that I managed to rack up "play time" with just "startups." Though that's a bit of a lie, the game doesn't start up at all. I just lack a better word or term. I tried uninstalling and reinstalling. Ts so ass. Looks cool, but quite literally unplayable. Not a game. Hell, I could get petty and call it false advertising. Refunded this BS.
the bad: you do not need to engage with combat at all until you reach the final boss, my last two runs (out of 5 runs in total) i decided to just strafe(holy science its the game name) bhop to gain mach 7 speed and finish sections under two minutes the only time i needed to engage in combat is when a door required me to kill nearby enemies, which means i could either pick up a barrel and blow up almost every enemy that was chasing me since start of the level or i could spam alt fire of any starter weapon which has AoE damage the map the game has is basically useless and your best way to navigate is to go to paths where you do not see blood and gore some enemies bleed orange blood which will always damage you unless you manage to buy a specific upgrade from merchant, which is not guaranteed to spawn, the orange blood always results in very cheap damage as sometimes it just blocks your path very limited enemy variety if you even engage in combat and they lack sound cues so you dont even know what enemy is near you this game does not gain any benefit from being a roguelike, you always have the choice of three starter weapons or if you dont pick any you can use a wrench or your …
Pretty fun, doesn't have as much content as it probably should. But fun to play every now and again.
An extremely mediocre retro FPS. Gameplay feels a bit odd, weapons feel unrewarding to use. It's a "roguelike" but you don't get anything out of re-playing the game, it just has procedural generation and basic weapon choice. Because of randomly generated levels, sometimes you'll turn in circles trying to find the last key you need to open a door, keys items drop on the floor like any random items, so sometimes you don't even know what you're looking for. Most of the machines and items in the game aren't explained at all, you just have to guess how they work. Levels and enemy variety isn't great, you get bored of killing the same enemies again and again on the first playthrough. Overall very boring game, with lackluster gameplay, legit no reason to buy it when there are so many much better retro FPS around.
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