Arkos is a first-person fantasy shooter with unique voxel render. You play as the white wizard Arkos, who went in search of a powerful weapon of his teacher elf Corvus, who disappeared without a trace many years ago in the dungeons of an ancient castle.
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tl;dr worth it, especially when on sale, for any retro FPS fans.
Pros : Really big fan of the music, save one kind of circus-adjacent track that got tiring when secret-hunting. Cool take on a Doom clone formula with quasi-destructible voxel environments. Consistently high fps on my machine (have a 1070 with 8gb RAM, never any issues running this). Weapons all felt unique and were all viable for most of the game (though the two heaviest hitters got a lot more playtime in the later levels). Secrets were fun to find and weren't super obnoxious to find especially when you figure out how to identify them. Dev did a good job of adding a few areas with huge enemy waves and plentiful ammo so you could go on little power-trips. Big fan of that. Like a good amount of retro FPSes, the automap screen (tab) also has a secret counter on it so you don't leave anything behind. I appreciated the game's length - 100%ed it after 6.5 hours, give or take.
Cons : The levels and formula started to all run together by the end. Lack of enemy variety didn't help with this, though I appreciated that each region usually got at least one new enemy, with the last few regions getting 2-3. Unfortunately, those enemies were usually just re-skins of older enemies that take more shots to kill, with the occasional new attack or mechanic that kept things interesting. Speaking of enemies, given how good the music was, I was shocked that virtually all of the enemies in the entire game make the same sound when they spawn. I love that enemies do make a sound when they spawn, to be clear, very on-brand for this type of game, but I wish that each enemy (or at least enemy type) had different sounds. Finally, $10 might be a little steep for some if you only get 6-7 hours out of it, but if you're a big fan of these games and/or you can nab this on sale, I'd say it's worth it.
Pros : Really big fan of the music, save one kind of circus-adjacent track that got tiring when secret-hunting. Cool take on a Doom clone formula with quasi-destructible voxel environments. Consistently high fps on my machine (have a 1070 with 8gb RAM, never any issues running this). Weapons all felt unique and were all viable for most of the game (though the two heaviest hitters got a lot more playtime in the later levels). Secrets were fun to find and weren't super obnoxious to find especially when you figure out how to identify them. Dev did a good job of adding a few areas with huge enemy waves and plentiful ammo so you could go on little power-trips. Big fan of that. Like a good amount of retro FPSes, the automap screen (tab) also has a secret counter on it so you don't leave anything behind. I appreciated the game's length - 100%ed it after 6.5 hours, give or take.
Cons : The levels and formula started to all run together by the end. Lack of enemy variety didn't help with this, though I appreciated that each region usually got at least one new enemy, with the last few regions getting 2-3. Unfortunately, those enemies were usually just re-skins of older enemies that take more shots to kill, with the occasional new attack or mechanic that kept things interesting. Speaking of enemies, given how good the music was, I was shocked that virtually all of the enemies in the entire game make the same sound when they spawn. I love that enemies do make a sound when they spawn, to be clear, very on-brand for this type of game, but I wish that each enemy (or at least enemy type) had different sounds. Finally, $10 might be a little steep for some if you only get 6-7 hours out of it, but if you're a big fan of these games and/or you can nab this on sale, I'd say it's worth it.