Viscerafest

Platforms: PC
Reviewed on: PC
Reviewer: Maiyannah Bishop
Review Play-Time: 14h
Developer: Acid Man Games, Fire Plant Games
Publisher: Fulqrum Publishing
Released: 2021-05-20
Review Published: 2024-03-23

Neutral

em class="game-title">Viscerafest</em> is a retro-styled, first-person arena shooter developed by Acid Man Games and Fire Plant Games, and published by Fulqrum Publishing.

• speed lines just looked like the level was bugging out to me at first
• limited save system: beacons allow you to save at a given point; this is very much not retro, but more importantly, not fun
  • most levels not nearly long enough to need them, either
  • saves get disabled the times you really want them
  • you might as well just save when you get a new beacon; they’re usually quite proximate to traps. these are basically checkpoints

• some pretty significant frame drops for no discernable reason sometimes when turning

• very gimmicky:
  • e1m2 “find a power core for the elevator”
  • e1m3 “find an officers head to bypass security”
  • e1m4 “find two power cores to progress”
• some secrets basically fake walls, I can hear MtPain memeing as I write this

• one secret was literally a normal area behind some crates that wasn’t even barred off?

• a lot of encounters feel like “newbie traps”: the difficulty is in not knowing the things it’s gpoing to blind-side you with. the difficulty evaporates fairly quickly for me once you know the tricks and ambushes