ViruZ

ViruZ is yet another of literally thousands of 2D retro platformers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. This one is some lame Russian shovelware but it at least has an interesting feature that lets you take over enemies for a short time... but that's all there is to this, it's just another lazy cashgrab made by filling out a platformer template/asset in Unity. From a technical perspective, the game doesn't meet basic minimum requirements that most PC gamers expect as standard. The artwork here is terrible, it's a hodge-podge of amateurish "My First Wacom Tablet" style drawings used instead professional looking game assets. It's unclear if this is due to lack of budget to arrange someone who can create graphical assets properly, or lack of talent, regardless, the overall visual quality of the game is extremely low, enough on its own to deter gamers. There's no option to change the resolution and no useful graphics tweaks. There's no way to ensure this is running at the native resolution of your display. There's no guarantee this game will look right on any PC as a result of this hamfisted design decision. The controls can't be cust…

Low budget Carrion. Game is OK. It lacks polishing here and there. Has some bugs. Quite ok for "my first game". Best regards

Top game in which you have to play as a monster. In the levels on your way there are various characters that you have to go through. The game is decent, I did not regret that I bought it. I advise everyone

When a game only costs a couple of quid or less it wouldn't be fair to expect incredible presentation or game-play, but even so this is quite a lacking title. I haven't played 'Carrion' to make a direct comparison, but in terms of the idea behind it this seems like a cheapo knock-off. Being cheap doesn't necessarily make it bad, though in this case it does result in a rather boring game that didn't have much to grab my attention in the limited time I gave it. You play as a monster escaping from a laboratory and can possess enemies bodies. Whilst there are titles in the past that made interesting use of this mechanic (such as 'Messiah' or 'Paradroid'), 'ViruZ' isn't one of them. As an example: There are scientists and armed guards walking around. You'd think you might have to possess a scientist to activate something in the environment, but also have to avoid being seen when doing this by the guards, lest they shoot you. But no! Once inside a host nobody else reacts even if they saw you take over that body, and so far there's no relevance to who you possess or what you do with them after. There's no stealth or puzzle element to this mechanic, and there's no particular reason to …

Props for making reverse-horror game where we're a shapeshifter, but despite the great idea and the beautiful art, the game feels unpolished. You should play the demo first to know if you'll like the game. To the devs: if you'd like more in depth criticism, please let me know and I'll do my best

game gave me a virus