About what I expected from a David Szymanski game. Good feeling weapons and some funky level design. It is just about an hour long and so does not outstay its welcome, even though my experience was influenced by me, falling in a dark pit in the final level with no way to get out of it. You can not save your game, so I had to go back to the main menu and start the level from scratch via the level select, which means I lost all my points and ammunition. Apart from that unfortunate oversight, the game is rather fun and silly.

Chop Goblins is not a good game in the way that Elden Ring is a good game, but I had fun with this short and silly romp. If you can get it on sale for under $4, I think it's worth it. I have only played a couple David Szymanski's games, but I'm pretty interested.

It'll probably only last you a couple hours if you 100% the thing like I did, but I enjoyed my time here. It's amusing with its nonsensical “story” and love-to-hate goblins. Your arsenal is thematically clashing yet all works well, and I like that you can stab and shoot at the same time. When you're using a two handed weapon, a third hand and arm appear to help you do some extra damage. I don't think it's as memorable as Squirrel Stapler or Iron Lung, but there's also a bit more to see, here.
There's not much to say about this brief boomer shooter other than I'm glad I gave it my time.

I recommend Chop Goblins, especially if you can get it on sale and don't mind the game being pretty short.

Usually I do just one sentence unfunny reviews, but since I got this key from the lovely duhnuhnuh's
Perpetual Steam Game Giveaway, I'll try to actually write a readable (?) text.

It's pretty rare for me to fancy a boomer shooter. As far as I recall, the only ones that I actually gave a shit about playing were the original Doom trilogy. My only reason for getting interested in this one in particular was the Szymanski name attached to it.

I expected a funny and short game about killing Goblins, and that's exactly what I got, with great gameplay and presentation. I cannot for the life of me tell what constitutes a well designed level in a boomer shooter, but I never felt claustrophobic or confused by any of the levels, and there was a great variety of themes and enemies, way more than I expected when I booted up the game. The Chop Goblins are clearly inspired by the Gremlins franchise, down to the comedic tone and tendency for unbridled chaos, and overall are just wacky little guys, there's not much to go wrong there.

One particular aspect I was surprised was by synthwave(?) inspired soundtrack of the game, having not a track in it that isn't a banger. To pair with that, the retro-inspired graphics, like most of David's games, are top notch.