GunSpectre

Very disappointing. I have never seen a game that hates the player for exploring its world so much. It has a large sprawling map to explore, which might sound cool to some, but there isn't really anything interesting to find. Almost every time you run into a dead-end (and there are many) it locks you into a fight with one of the few "miniboss" enemies that you have seen a hundred times before, which are simple enough to be boring, but have enough health to sometimes still hit you. And do you know what you get for killing it? Exactly, nothing! It would be so easy to just make them drop one of the pickups/powerups in the game, as a treat, but nope. Whenever you enter a room and it's a dead end and you hear the doors lock, the game is just like: "fuck you for guessing wrong which path was the correct one, I'll just punish you with a fight and waste your time for a bit now". Sometimes you'll find a room with crates in a dead end, but those crates still have the same low drop chance as any...

~ GUNSPECTRE ~ > Charming GBC-like pixel art > Straight-forward controls > Easy to get the hang of > Decent variety of enemies > Really fun boss fights > Not too easy, not too difficult > Strong "Link's Awakening" influence Not a lot to complain about here. Only 1 bug encountered, where an enemy flew off the edge of the screen. Gave off strong Zelda vibes, except not as cryptic... and it's a twin-stick shooter. It's short (completed with an *in-game time of 3 hours), but sweet! ★★★★☆

GunSpectre is a mobile app that's been dumped on Steam as if it was a real PC game (it's not)... it's a cash grab from greedy mobile devs. This mobile app is yet another of literally hundreds of lazy amateur 2D retro top-down shooter/brawlers infesting Steam and lowering the average quality of all video games everywhere. Now there's a lot of problems with this "game" which I'm about to get into, to explain why you shouldn't bother buying this, but first I just think it's remarkable that Clickteam themselves had the audacity to put their name on one of their garbage products... see, Clickteam have, perhaps indirectly or unintentionally, contributed to a great deal of harm to the gaming industry, and not just because their point and click game construction kit, Clickteam Fusion, is really, really bad, almost as bad as RPG Maker. No, the reason they cause harm is because Clickteam Fusion is one of the primary tools used by Russian asset flip scammers with fake games and fake reviews t...