Hrot

released on Jan 29, 2021

Hrot is a single-player retro FPS set in a small socialist country neighboring Soviet Union (Czechoslovakia) after an unspecified disaster in 1986. Those times were dark and terrifying and so is the game.


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I'm going to summarize the reason why I decided to abandon this game. Imagine going through 10-15 minutes of a level, collecting everything, occasionaly getting lost just to arrive at what you assume is near the end of the level. You open a door and see a massive boulder sitting at the end of it, as you sprint trying to get out of its range you occasionally turn a corner just to finally be able to sigh a sigh of a relief. But just as you were celebrating your quick reaction the boulder turns the corner in a comedical fashion and it end up killing you, and you would have to restart the whole level again. Granted I wouldn't have hated that as much as I did if the game didn't want me to speedrun through the level again just to hopefully get something right the 2nd time

I knew going into HROT that it's a competent FPS styled after the original Quake with the aesthetic of drabness maxed out for scenery composed of 50 shades of brown. What I didn't expect was how there's a pervasive oddball sense of humor threaded throughout the dingy dystopia that endeared the project to me beyond simply providing some top-notch shooting action.

I'm pleased to report that enemy HP values and attack patterns provide plenty of variables to consider in the middle of a firefight, and that the levels "flowed nicely" at least by my standards.

A worthy addition to any FPS aficionado's collection.

Decent Retro-FPS that does a good job at emulating a lot of the qualities of quake-esque shooters, with a decent arsenal, a weird-ass setting with even weirder monsters and some cooking recipes as a reward for beating an episode (yes really).

Has a demo if you want to test it out.

Guaranteed to get a 15-27 year old american marxist leninist to quote soviet propaganda at you, tell you that "Tankie" doesn't mean anything, and then immediately say that Stalin should have rolled the tanks all the way through western Europe.

Amazing game, amazing time. Loved every second of playing this game and loved everything about it. Super fun time, and definitely one of my favorite boomer shooters now for sure. Loved it.