Interesting 2d Action Defense game, tough learning curve. Had fun, would recommend it, if you like demanding games. About the gameplay: When you wake up for the first time (ingame) you should definitely follow the tutorial carefully and study the provided aid (in the game menu). Otherwise you will, like myself, have a hard time to figure out what to do and how. Especially the power management system is hard to understand. In-game help or community hub can help here. Once you've overcome this obstacle, the actual gameplay begins. You start to research the floors of the lab, equip yourself with weapons, turrets, keycards, and so on to reach out for the upper floors. In the elevator there are several floors hidden behind a switchable button (unfortunately easy to miss). You have to fight through each of these to unlock the next one and to fight your way to the outside. Additional monsters storm into the laboratory every day or when you fail your powermanagement. So you have to take car...

Can't say i'm a fan. The game is extremely grindy and repetitive, with the later "levels" just throwing so many Bullet sponge enemies your way you go through your whole ammunition to get to a Fuse box. Idle animations while you aim are a pain in the ass. They dont "actually" take your aim off the zombies, but it always throws me off when my character starts aiming at random directions in the middle of a fight. Hit boxes are f@cked up, with shots not connecting with some zombies if they are too close. Then you got the Kick that is awkward to use since you pass through Zombies if you don't time it right. And on top of that you have Zombies hitting you through barricades. And since once you're hit you get stun locked, If there's ever a group at a barricade that hits you through you're as good as dead. Add to that the awkward controls, whereas you don't seem to have a quick way to swap weapons ( mouse wheel up and down would be amazing, or the Q key / Tab key )

[9/10/22] A lot has changed from when I first played this game upon release. Now you've got a faster start, a clearly stated goal, though I liked the mystery of the original; and an inventory that tells you how many goodies there are! There's also been a drastic decrease in character stretching and he seems to talk more often of your objectives [spoiler] It would seem there were a vocal minority of newbies that complained they couldn't figure out what to do and cave caved to them...[/spoiler] Still a good quick game and I hope the creator still loves his creation. Original, now dated, review: Fresh off a normal run, [spoiler] burning through all the elevator levels without using the battery pack or solving the security subplot,[/spoiler] I found Lab 7 to be a "rogue lite" style game with an addictive gameplay loop that keeps me coming back after each failure. Certainly look forward to Dave's continued support for this game and what else would/will be added or will release next.

I was looking for a game with Kingdom roots but with a twist. This is exactly that kind of game. The only thing that keeps me from praising it fully is the absence of co-op. There is a VS mode, but no co-op. A co-op mode would be more logic to me as this is a survival game. But I still recommend the game.

I will write a longer review later, this one is for the algorithm gods. Flawed but very enjoyable. WARNING: HARD!

Fun little game, good concept. Would love to see it expanded upon in terms of size.

Update: This has been fixed, I didn't know developers actually fixed things anymore! It's actually just suspenseful and not frustrating now. Prior Complaint: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The fact that the character randomly waves the flashlight around makes this game unplayable, I don't know why they thought that was a good idea in a game when light is so important. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

3 dollar flash game. 6 guns, 8 reload upgrades, one ammo capacity upgrade, 2 baracades 3 turrents. All upgradable. Game was mainly designed to be played on easy, this can be felt in higher difficulties as your ammo will end up running out from the overwhelming hoards and the reload speed will become too slow to properly push back said hoards. Roughly a 3-4 hour game. 6/10, could have been more. Needed more content.

Great little game. Very entertaining and also quite challenging.

I really like it! Even though it has really simple mechanics, there is still a sort of complexity to them. However, some bugs that occur is that there would be colorful flashes on screen, don't know if that was patched, when reloading the shot gun, sometimes when I would reload once then fire, it would stay stuck on only loading 1 shell. Another one is that when I would get into the elevator, sometimes i can't scroll to the floor level that I want and exit and re-enter the game. Oh I even though I searched all the lockers, I couldn't find the upgrade for one of the machine gun. On the other hand, this game is really fun and addicting! I can't wait to reveal secrets within!!!