room13

“room 13” is possibly the best combination of violence, extreme gore, amazing graphics, simple controls, fun and humor I’ve seen in quite some time. And there’s a distressingly large selection of games in exactly that genre, so that is high praise indeed. In “room 13” you are given a minimal amount of instruction, with the exception of making it clear that playing with a mouse and/or keyboard is tantamount to near instant death. The player starts in a room with a weapon, and very quickly you are assailed by many varieties of what can best be grouped into “the undead”. And not 1980s undead, but 21st century “darn near fast as you” undead! (And just SO cute!) You have a limited amount of life and ammo, but there’s generally enough of both health and ammo to be found and collected. And you can find melee weapons such as pipe wrenches, hammers or crowbars (or you may pull one out of the head of some of your victims.) Melee make quite excellent weapons, in no way seco...

The mix of whimsical hand drawn style and gore is easy on the eyes and helps distract from the hand cramps of constant restarts. Room 13 is a fast paced arcade experience filled with giblets, gun mods, and face collecting. With little direction given to players outside the tutorial, they are tasked with tearing apart waves of the undead in an arena style setting with guns that are limited by ammo, and melee weapons limited by durability. This means that avoiding and dealing damage is tricky and puts players constantly on the move up and down stairs. After each wave some piles of boxes and supplies pop up that can offer players gun mods, pickups like medkits, or a surprise zombie that could ruin a good run. The mods can alter gun stats as well as how they behave, like the chaser gun part that makes bullets track down enemies, or the motorized arrow launcher which allows you to pick up the arrows after use. Surviving waves and obtaining mods unlocks mods that later have a chance to a...

When I saw [i]room 13[/i] in the steam shop, I knew it was going to be at least something different. I did not expect what I got though. The game is increadible. It manages keep you coming back again and again. The gameplay is solid and brutal, the art style is fun, and the music score is dead on with it eerie ambiance. The only thing that holds it back is the occasional bug, but the developers are activlely trying to fix them, so they should soon not be a problem at all. I strongly recomend this to anyone who enjoys arcade-like gameplay and zombies. Edit: Despite what most people say, the controls are not that bad. However, you need a controler. There isn't a warning that you need one at the beggining of the game for nothing. Please, if you don't have a controler, and decide to buy this anyway, please don't complain.

Only played this for a short while yet, but I already know I'm going to invest a lot of hours into this game! Love the difficulty of it as it adds a want to get better to dive deeper into the story and learn why you are there. Love the upgrade system for weapons and the way the game is styled makes it so beautiful. Wishing there was a multiplayer and also a way to dodge zombies a bit easier. Like being able to jump onto the staircases rather than having to walk up from the bottom. But all in all I definitely recommend this game!

TL;DR action-packed sidescrolling shooter/platformer with awesome art; a few peculiarities keep one from getting invested in it as anything more than something to do while you wait on something else. indeed, the achievements are hardly anything more than "kill [ridiculous number]," BUT a neat thing to find here that i wish more games would incorporate: every achievement earned bestows a new component for your gun or a new face, which can radically change how you play. bear in mind - as the store page, i find, is a bit misleading - you assemble your gun on the fly from components found in your run; you can only pick which face you start with in Arcade mode (which differs from Story only in that bosses don't drop faces that you can use upon defeat). ==EDIT:== == The Arsenal now has the different components "Locked" until you discover them. Ammo spawns much more frequently now. Not sure if the ability was always there, but I just now discovered you can shoulder-charge while in mid-ai...

Hi, so this game is awesome. [h1]First the good things[/h1] The graphics are really good. At the begining the game is very hard but through playing you can unlock the tools to beat the game. The mechanics of the game are really awesome and new, and once you have adapted to move in the map you feel really good playing the game. The screenshaking and other VU are really good and contribute to immerse yourself in the game. Is really adictive and is good for a quick round before going to work :p. And the dev seems to be very focussed in the game and he is delivering a great product. [h1]Now the not so good things [/h1](Most of this things can change with time): Some of the rooms have weird movement stuff (Gallery and the Kitchen) that does not proves your ability, instead it becomes a luck thing and the AI also have struggle in those levels. The achievements are really simple at the moment, through playing you can get all those an there is not a big challenge when you have some of the ...

I had hoped that this would be a sort of classy 'super crate box' type game, but It it falls short. The controls are not tight enough for what it requires you to do... This game is difficult! and if your not dieing because of the annoying stair navigation, your dieing because the game is cheap! Zombies can spawn anywhere at any time and when you do manage to survive they put one in your reward chest to kill you! + Nice graphics + Nice gun feel - Too difficult! - Stairs...

This game has a lot going for it, even in an early state. It's challenging, requiring a pretty good awareness of ammunition, timing, and health amidst some pretty frantic action. Maybe I suck, but most of my games are about 2 minutes long, leading to the inevitable "one more" feeling. There are leaderboards tracking several categories, and that helps with a sense of reward as it finds its legs. There are already numerous unlocks in place, and what I'm digging most is the variety of means to play, even on a limited stage. Staying on one floor longer has its own rewards, and changes occur in the environment if you decide to push your luck (death trap activated!). Pushing on to the next floor is too tempting, usually, as I'm eager to see the next layout. Good job devs. Don't hate me for this, but it really does have a Binding of Isaac meets platformer feel. Can't say enough for the art direction and cinematic effects during play, either )

Too grindy, and clunky controls. Other reviews have expressed similar and its true. Its a real shame because I really like the vibe of the game, and the two bosses I have come across seemed very cool. However, the game is hard because of the wrong elements. You start off with pitiful health, traversing stairs is always inconsistent, enemies spawn out of no where (even in loot crates!) and when you do die, you lose ALL of your progress, aside from masks. After a while I was able to defeat one of the bosses, I was ecstatic, but when I went to investigate their dropped item, it just froze in a white screen. All that effort for nothing. Other things must be unlocked by dying THOUSANDS of times, no thanks. I didn't play for that long, but I can still tell the effort won't be worth it. It felt like I had made ZERO progress in 2 and a half hours. The only runs that went anywhere was basically due to lucky RNG, and despite my best efforts, most of the time I died due to falling zombies and st...

This is a great game for wasting a little time and a little money but i would pay full price for it even with the cheap cost just because of the stairs. If you need to go up the stairs you go across if you need to go across you go up the stairs its a little thing that after the 4000th time getting you hit or killed you just turn the game off again till you forget about the stairs.