KUR Reviews

Alright, I was skeptical at first, wanted to play under 2 hours in the event it came out lacking. This is like if Quake and Doom got together and made a fever-dream baby. It's fun. It's fast. Kick the shit out of everything. Plus, there's a perfect blend of nostalgia with the aesthetic flair. I like it.

[h1] Absolutly fantastic! One more retro-shooter gem coming to PC. [/h1] One of the very best upcoming retro-shooters. The visuals could be a little more polished, but this is an early acess build so it's okay. That fast-paced gameplay... if you came looking for COOPER your not gonna find any, here you'll find only RAW GOLD! Movement control and gunplay in this game feels totally incredible. But there are things about the game that could be a little better. Killing enemy's to get more Health/Ammo, and the magnetic atraction for itens should not be PERKS, they should be part of the campaing since the beginning. The PERKS itself should be used to UPGRADE in fact those already existent traits, like: -Killing enemy's drops even more Health/Ammo -Magnetic atraction field is extended in 10m. Something like this. Those little changes could help encourages lazy players like me to stop quick loading all the time and just have fun with the game. The other aspect is about damage feedback. The screen gets too polluted when we take damage from some enemies, and this takes away the player's vision almost completely in some cases. It's a really uncomfortable thing, it would be nice to try something simpler like Half-Life where the screen just flickers a little and an arrow indicates the direction of attack.

Played a few hours and it was a blast, the game is quirky and just fun to play! Kur doesn't take itself too seriously and allows itself to be wacky without overdoing it which is refreshing. [h1]Pros[/h1] - Gameplay, fast and fluid - The freaking boot! Mobility, weapon, friend, it does it all - Lots of content and murder bots to kill - Wacky story & lore (subtitles!) - Soundtrack - Good level variety [h1]Cons[/h1] - Early Access so it has some bugs - Could be more optimized - Level stats don't appear to be accurate (I can kill more enemies than the end level screen reads) - Upgrade System could use a bit of polish

I was excited to try Kur out now that the game is out of early access, but before even starting a new game I was already encountering bugs. This continued when I actually started to play and it only took me a couple minutes to decide the game was not in a playable state. I'm bewildered that the devs thought the game was in an acceptable state to enter full release, hell it feels like an alpha. To make matters worse, in the small amount of time I played, the gunplay was very bland. I will give it another try at some point in the future when it is hopefully in a better, more playable state.

I don’t remember what life was like before the boot.. this baby is a game changer! KUR is a solid retro shooter, with good music that will get your heart pumping and ready for its fast-paced action. The game play is incredibly fun and worthwhile. There are tons of secrets, puzzles, and weapons at your disposal (including a shrink ray!!!). They had me laughing my tits off with their wit and sense of humor (but don’t worry, I duct taped them back on). KUR is comical but has a good balance of seriousness tied in. After all, it’s your life that’s on the line. Seems like there was a lot of thought put into the level design. The more I play, the more detail I notice around the levels. There were a couple minor bugs I stumbled upon, but that’s to be expected with early access. Didn’t stop me from having a good time. KUR has been so enjoyable, I’m already craving more. My heart is chanting “more boot, more boot!” And more boot it shall get. 10/10

I am baffled that this game is considered to be fully released or that it's apparently ended up there after receiving "feedback," because the only "feedback" I want to offer at this point is "start over from scratch." Rather than being gracefully low-fi like, say, Dusk, this feels like one of those misbegotten cash-in abominations from the early 3D era. Movement feels floaty and imprecise, weapons feel weak and unsatisfying, enemy AI is non-existent(sometimes they kill themselves when I'm not even in the area), the "boot jump" feels like a way to give me a worse double-jump for no good reason, the voice logs are extremely bad, the level design is either cramped hallways with no logic or big open outdoor areas(the latter are notably better, should have stuck with those). The soundtrack is nice, I actually like the soundtrack. Everything else about this game is a do-over.

This should still be in early access is this a joke. -Resolution changes didn't update for me the first time I played. -The scroll down menu that displays all resolution would "jump" ahead and I couldn't pick 1440p resolution. -The load game menu just opens up a File explorer and lets you figure which one of the files was your latest save. -Couldn't figure out how or where this game saves. -Bugs. -Bloom when using the flashlight is horrible you cant see sometimes. -I fell out of world at some point while exploring, the game didn't kill me it just left me to fall eternally, I had to load a save. -More inconveniences that i'm not bothered to report since I'm not their QA tester. -All this in 40 minutes. Sorry It's a pass for me.

This has been a fantastic game so far. Love the weapons, love the level design and how many different paths, secrets, and shortcuts there are.. I do think there could be a little bit more enemy variety but there's enough to cover what's needed. The world and story are cool, the visuals are nice enough for this retro-style genre. There's a good variety of environments, from big outdoor spaces, more cramped indoor areas, and even some slightly puzzly, exploration, or problem-solving kind of areas, and the variety definitely keeps the game from feeling like some 'hallways of enemies' types of games. The game design overall also rides the line of 'wacky' and 'serious' pretty well, allowing room for fun, and suspended realism without fully jumping the shark and getting obnoxious. Very nice. I love the kicking mechanic, and how it is just as useful for mobility as it is in combat. Sometimes kicking objects into enemies is kind of hard, but kicking them directly in the face usually does the trick when that fails.. follow up with a shotgun blast while they're soaring through the air for a bit of Bulletstorm vibe. Wallkicking into secret areas, or to sequence-break levels is great. I could see some big speedrun potential for this game as people discover combinations of wallkicking and airdashing that could really break some areas wide open. The upgrade system is nice... though I tend to find myself mostly picking up the passive upgrades. Grabbing the 'enemies drop ammo' and 'enemies drop health' ones help out a lot.. some of the other ones, admittedly kinda 'meh'. This is one to try, for sure.

It doesn't look great graphically and the ammo economy is kinda weird, but the moment to moment gameplay is extremely fun. Definitely check it out if you are into fast paced first person shooters, you may end up loving it!

For an absolute laundry list of reasons, too numerous to mention here, KUR is not ready to leave Early Access. Glitched, bugged, unpolished, unrefined and often unenjoyable. I have broken the AI, skipped over entire stretches of level by exploiting the jump-kick, and been able to trigger glitches almost any time I notice the possibility. At the current asking price, KUR is asking to be stacked up against the likes of Dusk, Amid Evil…. even much more competitively-priced titles like the fantastic Arthurian Legends. It absolutely cannot be compared to these games and comes off looking even worse by being so. There is so much here to be excited about. KUR can, and someday may, be excellent. But never, ever in this current state.