SULFUR Steam Charts & Stats

its a fun game but after winning once you are set until the heat death of the universe and everything feels really easy.

Pretty good start to the game, but, for most, it has a bit to figure out before it's worth buying. - Item and stash management is annoying. Meta progression storage is nice but I don't want to bounce between 6 different stashes. - Crafting is annoying, it needs meta progression recipes so you don't have to guess-and-check 100,000 recipes. It is nice that it stores discovered recipes, though. - There are a TON of guns but most of them just aren't viable outside the first levels. - Rebuilding after a death is annoying since you have to level weapons individually. - Oils and scrolls make no sense. "+10% damage but the bullets land at your feet" or "+15% RPM but you can't jump". Why does almost every buff have to have a downside that makes it almost unusable? - Wild disparity of item rarity. In 30 hours played there are A LOT of gear items I've found once or have yet to find, and there are many that I've found dozens of times. - Most enemies are a joke. Most deaths come from being overwhelmed by leaping enemies. Leaping cultists are especially broken. - Aggro ranges bug often and pull the next 3-5 rooms of squads which may just kill you unless you have a high capacity / rate of fire weapon.

Sulfur scratches a lot of itches for me. Gun play is fun with how much character every gun has (only like 20% of the guns are your vanilla FPS guns without any goofy reload mechanics or behaviors), the customization on guns is built for fun instead of any sort of attempt at realism, and you can craft some really weird synergies with oils and scrolls. The looting and equipment mechanics are shallow compared to a game like tarkov, but still offer enough depth you have to be considerate of inventory space (e.g. you might want to drop a cool hat you were going to sell to make room for cheese the next time you see a stove). I really like how the game handles inventory expansion, too, challenging you to drag a refrigerator back to your camp while dumping most of your treasure out to make room for it. I get a little dopamine hit when I return to the church with a good piece of gear or the same sinking feeling when I get mauled by dogs while holding a bunch of scrolls I found. The game is also showing signs of continual polish, bug fixes, expansion, and balancing. I started a new save with the most recent update and was able to get through most of the game on my first run (only had to quit because I had to sleep). I also get significantly less hitching and FPS drops than I did when I first tried Sulfur. If you enjoy looter shooters at all and want that experience with far less stress than you get from online play, Sulfur is one of the better ways to enjoy that.

Very strange mix of extraction shooter/rogue-like/dungeon delver. It all comes together though in a very fun package that I'd highly recommend for fans of any of those genres!

I have never posted a review before, except for now, and Its the first time I am going to recommend a game on Steam. SULFUR is that good.

Crazy fun and creative game. Highly recommended!

All around nice game with nice art style and fun gunplay. Interesting guns and items and updates that makes sense and are great. But the map assets are really repetitive, so you're basically playing the same two maps. Random huge amount enemies ruined the game for me, because there is nothing you can do in that moment, no matter how good you are, you just don't have enough space and fire power to win. Game was all around fair with tougher encounters, but this is too much. It's basically just a random death. Because of these random OP encounters, you have to use specific guns and that ruins all the fun from the random guns that the game offers. If this is not fixed, it makes the game unplayable, what a shame

TL;DR - Sulfur is an awesome action roguelike with procedural generation in the levels and loot, it has great music that really complements the feeling of each region/map and great gunplay with varied weapons and it shines with it's gun customization. After seeing almost everything that's currently available in Early Access I can easily recommend this game. I think I'm only missing a few gun customization oils and a single consumable according to the wiki, the Sports Drink. Keep in mind that this game is a roguelike at it's core, so if the fact that there's a possibility that you can lose your weapon and equipment bothers you, go play something else. People who don't recommend the game based on this shouldn't be taken seriously, because apparently they can't read or don't know what "roguelike" means. Also it's super easy to just make a backup of your save before each run if you want to test out the waters or maybe try different gun builds. Save location is *Your username here*\AppData\LocalLow\Perfect Random, pin the folder location for easy access. With that out of the way, if you like action looter shooters similar to borderlands you will probably like this game. All guns feel great to use and sound great too, there's a few different weapon types that each behave differently from each other inherently: Pistols, Revolvers, Shotguns, SMGs, LMGs, Rifles, Assault Rifles and Sniper Rifles: - Pistols as you can guess are your typical pew pew weapons, low damage, low recoil, low durability with typical smaller magazines but there's some really awesome unique ones to find. - Revolvers pack more punch than pistols, but they have more recoil. - Shotguns are shotguns - very powerful, with a big recoil and bullet spread and, typicaly, a low magazine size. - SMGs and LMGs are similar, with the latter being heavier, having bigger calibers and a much bigger magazine size, their damage is similar to pistols but they have a much higher rate of fire. - Rifles and Sniper rifles are powerful weapons with the highest damage per bullet in the game by far with the biggest "one shot one kill" potential but they have low magazine size and often take some time between each shot. - Last but definitely not the least, the Assault Rifles have good damage, rate of fire and magazine size, with some recoil, they are the "jack of all trades" weapon, easily the most versatile weapon type. After playing the game for some time I can tell you that, while probably almost all weapons are viable, there's a clear "tier list" when it comes to the base weapon, but the "magical" thing about Sulfur is that you can upgrade/change almost any weapon to your liking/playstyle. There's quite a few different ways to alter the weapons in the game, and the way it works is that by killing enemies with a specific weapon it will "level up" with the max being level 5, and this means you can add up to 5 oils or 4 oils and 1 "magical scroll" - you can run the easiest dungeon in the game once you are familiar with it to level up any weapon. Oil effects consist of: - Ammo consumption chance (0% is possible which means infinite firing weapon); - Bullet bounce, projectiles will bounce off of a surface or enemy; - Bullet penetration, it will pass/hit 'x' extra enemies; - Bullet size; - Bullet speed; - Critical chance, meaning double damage, enemies flash yellow instead of white when hit when this happens; - Damage, there's both flat and % increase; - Durability, each bullet takes away 1-6 points depending on how many oils (0-5) it has; - Projectile amount; - Recoil; - Reload speed; - RPM, rounds per minute or rate of fire. Generally speaking any given oil will have one good AND one bad effect, like better (+) reload speed but worse (-) rate of fire or less recoil but also less damage, but there are also some rarer ones with only the positive effect and a few unique ones with several effects that can make or break your build. When it comes to oils you should think about the interactions between all oils added when making a build because for now, in Early Access, you cannot remove oils from weapons so this is where you can spend some time theorycrafting new weapon builds. This brings me to attachments, and these you can add and remove from your weapon, costing currency: - Laser sights increase your accuracy when moving; - Sights increase critical chance when aiming down sights; - Muzzles currently only affect the weapon spread in varying degrees; - Chamber modification, turning automatic weapons into non-automatic and vice-versa; - Chamber chisels, this changes the caliber of the weapon. Yes you can make a revolver fire sniper rounds/shotgun shells, and while the chisel modification can't be technically "removed" you can buy the weapon's previous caliber chisel and change the weapon back to what it was. Finally, you still have one more aspect to gun costumization, with magical scrolls. You may only add one scroll to any weapon, and their effects range from bullets having a stun chance, to poisoning enemies, creating pools of flames/frost on the ground or turning enemies on each other. There's also a cooking system with tons of different food items with quirky descriptions ranging from Jello to Surströmming, and these will be your way of surviving each expedition and when you do manage to successfully return to the base hub you will store and sell your loot and repair your weapons and armor to get ready for the next run. All in all I think Sulfur is an exceptionally fresh indie roguelike, well worth the asking price of 25$. I can't wait for more content/variety and the endless mode. P.S. Feel free to ask me anything you may want to know about the game.

A Gem in the making. Worth every penny! I really appreciate the "Ultra-Wide HUD padding" option in the game. Us Ultra Wide users don't get this feature a lot. I cant wait till the multiplayer mode gets added!

this is my application to the sulfur advertisment program because i've sold 10 copies of this game by talking about it enough