DEAD TRASH

A game that borrows more than a few conceptual elements from the Troma film Street Trash, Dead Trash takes place in a city that has fallen to ruin in the wake of a pandemic that was totally mismanaged by the federal government. The streets are overrun with violent atomized people, and the secret to what really happened to this place lie somewhere within the sewers...Coming to us from Crowhill Studios is a delightfully nasty FPS game in which you play a former urban planner by the name of Sam, and possibly the only non-infected person left in the city, fighting to survive and tearing apart garbage bags for resources. You have a plethora of enemies to deal with, and for the most part, many of your enemies can be dealt with via the axe weapon - but make no mistake, it is not feasible to kill ALL of your enemies with melee strikes. Your most striking weapon is the dual-wielded nail guns you retrieve early on which functions as your hitstun weapon for most encounters. The traversal and sign...

Really good! I enjoyed this game a lot and for the asking price? You cannot beat it!

"Mindless" is a pejorative frequently used to describe shooters that lack any gameplay complexity and require little to no skill in order to play through. "Dead Trash" is a mindless shooter. However, I did not mind it being one. In fact, I quite enjoyed it! Possibly due to the timing, where my life is stressful and requires much effort and attention to various challenges, Dead Trash was able to bypass my critical barriers and allow me to have the simple fun of pointing the mouse cursor at sprites and pressing the left mouse button over and over and over again. However, it was able to do so due to its qualities. No, it does not have sophisticated balance to challenge the player in any meaningful way. But it feels good to shoot random hobos and bozos in it. Weapons are drawn well, satisfyingly animated, and have impactful sound design and special effects. Upon being hit, enemies show a reaction, albeit simple, and emit tons of blood particles. If you come close to an enemy and blast it...

My expectations for a $3 game were pretty low, especially for a retro shooter, since the genre is quite saturated nowadays. But I was genuinely surprised in the best way. So what is this game about? Imagine mixing 80s B-movies like Street Trash (1987) and The Toxic Avenger (1984) with 90s shooters like Rise of the Triad (1994) or Last Rites (1997), and the result is Dead Trash. Visually, unlike many retro fps rip offs, it really feels authentic, almost like if someone told me this was a remaster of some forgotten Eastern European Duke Nukem clone, I’d probably believe it. And the gameplay? Surprisingly addictive. There’s a solid variety of guns, most of them feel powerful, and there are even two melee weapons. The axe, while divisive to some, is actually usable even in the late game. I find the mechanics behind it quite good, it’s just a matter of learning the timing. The enemies are also quite well designed. For example, the firearm-wielding ones are easy to recognize, often...

What a fucking fever dream. I love it

Games pretty good. There's love and effort put into it. Some things need to be touched up a bit (enemy AI, weapons, boss fights, etc.) But regardless, it's still worth checking out.

It started out very good, but the level design became extremely boring when entering the sewer sections. The game doesn't recover from this point, and it just devolves further from there. The weapons look, sound and feel great to use, although this is enough to save DEAD TRASH from the previously mentioned faults.