CTHON

If you have 5 dollars to throw away then give it a shot. It looked promising but fell short of expectations. The overall feel and look of the game is fine, but the game design is a bit prohibitive to have too much fun. The 'customization' is severely throttled by the fact that your entire progression is gated by pick-ups. If you find plenty of goodies and upgrades in a level, chances are you either won't be able to pick them up, from lack of storage space, or can't equip them, due to lack of power. The only way to upgrade your inventory space and Power Capacity (used for equipping boosts that do things like increase damage, ROF, max Health, etc) is to either find them sparsely scattered on the floor, or hoping that a vending machines spawns to buy them. You can sell power ups for Nanites (cash), but this becomes a chore thanks to upgrades not being marked on the map and the inability to mark the map. Even so, muling items back to a vending machine to sell is a bore since you'r...

I'm a huge fan of the artwork here. I wanted to play this game as soon as I saw it, based almost entirely on that. I also like old shooters. I'm absolutely crazy about the aesthetic. Everything is rusty and gross and dark. Reminds me a lot of Quake one, and I hope we see more games that look like this. Sound design is all around top notch. I like the cybernetic upgrades and weapon mods mechanic a lot. They realy went into detail here, especially with the weapon mods. multiples of the same mod can be stacked. Every mod not only upgrades the performance, but also changes the appearance of the gun. I thinks it's super rad. I can't get past the temple stage on medium dificulty. I don't mind it being hard, but I wish it wasn't as roguelike-ish. I don't play many roguelikes because it's nice to get to the end of a game sometimes. Dying in CTHON is like dying in an arcade game. You start all the way over. It's very hardcore. But for real, if you have any interest in this game whatsoever, ...

Don't let the simplistic graphics fool you; this game delivers solid immersion and with it plunges you headfirst into a setting that's somewhere between Lovecraft and Geiger with a smattering echo of certain aspects of system shock. While some players won't like the lack of meta progression and rogue-esq mechanics, I found it added to the tension. The story was solid, though I wish there was more meat to it with logs or something like that rather than just the segment-end texts it provides you. Seriously, pick it up. You'll probably like it.

awesome game brings back the classic simple gun play of doom and combines it with rouge-like gameplay i would say if you think ou will like this you will.

To be honest I have no idea why people are complaining so much about the mechanics of the game. No you aren't suposed to pick up every upgrade, you basically make a build depending on the class you pick, these are BASIC RPG mechanics. Though the game is not perfect and it can get boring at times because of the slow movement speed but it is still fun. Btw if you say that this is a Wolf 3D clone, you have not played the game, the only thing remotely similar are the 90º walls and that is not something exclusive of that game.

Cthon is a retro-inspired first person shooter with procedurally generated levels. Although procedural-generation is often inferior to hand-made levels, here it works in the game's favor due to the wolfenstein-like geometry. Further, due to the permadeath aspect of this game, having procedural generation really helps with the replayability. You have three weapons, which can be upgraded throughout the game (depending on which power ups that procedurally appear). There are also three player classes to choose from which focus on each of the weapons (rifle, melee, or missiles). Further, power ups appear for health, speed, ammo capacity, and armor. But where this game shines is in its atmosphere. The graphics are pixel-perfect and gritty. Also the music is hauntingly dark where some of the soundtrack was made by the artist Burning Mir. It really sets up the feeling of being trapped and alone on a rotting space colony with horrors hidden in the darkness. It's truly a unique experience. This ...

CTHON is a roguelike Wolfenstein 3D-esque FPS with excellent presentation, featuring a very creepy and ambient soundtrack and strong sprite work, and even some good writing: A rarity in the genre. It features an inventory-based progression system that allows you to increase things like health, weapon damage and movement speed via finding or purchasing upgrades. I am especially fond of how equipping some upgrades alters the appearance of your weapons and hud. The creator did alot with what I imagine to be limited resources. The atomsphere combined with your low starting health made the game feel genuinely tense- although maybe more then I'd like. However, I can't say this game is finished, and I mean that in a nice way. As it stands the low price is very reasonable, but with some more work this could easily be a ten dollar game. Aside from a nasty crash that ended my couple of runs that was fixed right after I asked about it, I think some changes to the mechanics are in order. In parti...

This is probably not a terrible game but I expected a true old school fps looking at the screenshots, tbf the description and the gameplay video tells you it's not. It's another of those annoying rogue likes with procedural generation of levels, which means the levels don't have any soul and just feel generic because that's literally what they are, and perma death. Of course the game lacks quicksaves. At least the game isn't unfair unlike most rogue likes, at least on the lowest of the three difficulties. You don't actually collect any weapon, instead you choose a character before you start, and then get 3 weapons, depending on the character you pick, kinda boring tbh. At least the gunplay feels decent, but three weapons per character is really not a lot. I should also mention that the controls suck really hard: There is no button for shooting, instead you shoot with a weapon with the same button which you use to equip that weapon. Like WTF. This is such bullsh*t. In good shooters (...

Too short and simple for its price, only viable build is marksman. Procedural generation of levels is not much for 3*3+1 levels. Yes, higher difficulties (I played on easy) make things harder, but I don't want to waste time. It's just up to items and not skill. If you want simple FPS, try wolfenstein or blake stone. This game has progression through inventory and limited slots for active items, but it's not much. Enemy variety is smaller than ye ole doom's. Got this with -90% discount. All in all, nice first try at gamedev, but not much for this pricetag.

Too dark and no gamma settings. Can't see anything so can't really play. BUT The atmosphere is dark and foreboding; the OST complements it will too. The art is gorgeous and the sprites are lovingly made. Despite the nice presentation though, if the game is so dark that I can't appreciate anything, it's rendered a bit moot.