VLADiK BRUTAL Reviews

I played this for about 40 minutes, and I saw what I had to see to know it’s not for me. I am not going to refund it, because this game was created with a lot of love. I believe it was made by one person, mostly? That’s incredible. Graphically stunning, it comes with all the bells and whistles like DLSS, Raytracing, global illumination etc etc. There’s some AAA games that don’t incorporate that. A Steam Deck preset was also included. Huge thumbs up for that. Playing on the ROG Ally I get about 90+ FPS. My gripes with the game is the fact that, even on Easy, it’s extremely difficult. Some people will love that, some (me) will find it frustrating. I don’t mind difficult games, but I prefer when they feel fair. This game just throws hoards of enemies at you that literally aim straight at you all at once. Theres no variety to their movement. They just aimbot straight at you, extremely quickly. And they’ll appear out of no where. This feels remarkably cheap. I feel it’s this difficult just to be difficult, not because it adds anything to the experience. The weapons also feel oddly balanced, at least the initial 3 you get. The crowbar will one shot an enemy. The handgun takes 4 shots or so to take one down. Strange. If you’re going to have a hoard of enemies bombard you all at once (literally, one of the first encounters is a door that opens with 8+ enemies rushing at you in a small hallway) at least make them easier to take down on EASY mode Lol. Level design, while beautiful, is laid out nonsensically. There’s doors and corridors that lead to nothing. Sound design is great. Lighting is great. It’s fully voiced, even if the dialogue is nonsense. There’s a ton to love here. Story is…there. If you’re looking for a Half Life clone, this is it, even if it’s much more difficult than Half Life. I’ve played Half Life 1/2 many times, and I died more in this game in the first 40 minutes than I did in all of my playthroughs of HL. This game isn’t for me, but it has an audience that will love it!

A very mixed experience overall. At first it is a fantastic and frantic shooter but the more you play the more you see the cracks. On the upside I did not personally experience any bugs during my playthrough. The problem is mostly in enemy behavior and two key encounters during the story which I won't list to avoid spoilers. You see enemies in this game attack you pretty much instantly when they see you. Melee enemies are fine because they actually have to reach you but gunners especially up close get hits in no matter what you do. However most enemies tend to drop health alongside ammo so you can still run and gun to power through most of the game like action heavy half life style shooter. The problem is that if the enemy doesn't happen to be dropping much health or during certain encounters where they endlessly spawn you are overwhelmed 9/10. Sure you can save and power through but it doesn't feel like it is fair in these encounters as much as it just feels cheap and tedious. However despite these flaws the game is fun for a good 80-90% of its playtime and the music and adventure are enjoyable so I do think it is worth the money as long as you go in aware that the game has its flaws.

i rarely do reviews anymore as steam reviews are mostly trolling but this game really deserves one.gives me the feeling of all those great shooters from 2010- 2016ish times runs great looks great and gunplay is top notch.gives me that warm fuzzy feeling.

entire game plays like the developer was too uninspired to come up with anything on his own, so he just stitched together a ton of IPs he liked without applying anything that actually made those games good in the first place. if you're a fan of half-pipe, stalker, metro, doom, and other fps games that i'm sure are popular in the eurasian side of the internet, i guess you could find this fun, even if the gameplay loop was shallow from the 40 minutes i got out of it if you're into that sort of thing, it's only $10, but playing a game that keeps going "man, isn't this other game this is inspired by cool?" just makes me want to play the game it's referencing instead

It's me, Gary Coleman Special Coleman Note: Very fun game for the price. It's like a very scuffed Russian Half-Life.

First impressions +- +Solid half life 2 clone with same type of physics and puzzles +Terrifying monster design that gives you the creeps +Action has the intensity of a serious sam game so far with hordes of enemy's running at you +Very gory -Post processing effects suck turn most of them off they make the game look ugly -A.I sucks and seems to have an automatic aim bot on you wherever you are on the map and runs to your location,my biggest pet peeve by far

Really good in VR with UEVR. Download a profile with the weapon fix for the guns being gigantic and have at it. The game itself is rough around the edges but solid on a monitor and awesome in VR!

no bad at all, difficulty is managed with the number of opponents, some passage cannot be passed some are a bit too easy. all in all good game and fun

Look at the name of the developer. Look at the trailer. Look at the achievements. Yes, this is a gaming equivalent of a low-quality sh*tpost. A parody on Half-Life that doesn't even try to hide it, filled with bad humor. But what's surprising is that despite all the bad jokes this is a pretty good old school shooter that isn't as bad as it might seem. Yes, story is bad, voice acting is horrible (voiced by professional developers), there are some bugs here and there, game is full of Unreal Engine store assets... But it is a working game that is actually enjoyable. And considering that it's (mostly) made by one person I suggest you to overlook this game's shortcomings and just try it if you like old school shooters. It is cheap, after all. Don't take this game too seriously - it doesn't take itself seriously either, after all.

The game isn't bad and can certainly be beautiful in it's own kind of way at certain locations, also the gunplay is top notch. The only bad thing I could say about it is that the story doesn't really make any sense and that the hardest difficulty is kind of makes the last missions an absolute chore to get throug, my pc even started dropping to like 7 fps because of the amount of bodies littering the floor. Other than that I'd say it's a pretty accurate simulator of an average day in Russia.