Ziggurat Reviews

Fun little game

game good

🎮 Gameplay 🔲 Excellent ✅ Good 🔲 Average 🔲 Poor 🔲 Staring at Walls is better 🌄 Graphics 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Good ✅ Decent 🔲 Bad 🔲 Paint.exe 🎵 Audio 🔲 Eargasm 🔲 Amazing 🔲 Good ✅ Not too Bad 🔲 Bad 📖 Story 🔲 No story ✅ Text or Audio Floating Around 🔲 Average 🔲 Good 🔲 It will replace your life 🛡️ Difficulty 🔲 Just press "A" 🔲 Easy ✅ Average 🔲 Easy to Learn / Hard to Master 🔲 Difficult 🔁 Replayability 🔲 No replay value 🔲 Maybe Once ✅ A few times 🔲 Many Times 🔲 Infinitely replayable ⏳ Length 🔲 Short (4 to 10hr) ✅ Average (10 to 25hr) 🔲 Long (25 to 50hr) 🔲 Very Long (50 to 150hr) 🔲 To infinity and beyond 🖥️ Hardware Requirement 🔲 Check if you can run paint ✅ Potato (GTX 880 equivalent) 🔲 Decent (GTX 1080 equivalent) 🔲 Fast (GTX 3080 equivalent) 🔲 Ask NASA if they have a spare computer (GTX 4090?) 🪲 Bugs ✅ Never heard of 🔲 Minor bugs 🔲 Can get annoying 🔲 Game-breaking bugs 🔲 The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs 💸 Worth Buying 🔲 It’s free! ✅ Worth the price 🔲 Minor sale (<30%) 🔲 Major sale (>70%) 🔲 You could also just burn your money 📝 Rating 🔲 1 🔲 2 🔲 3 🔲 4 🔲 5 🔲 6 🔲 7 ✅ 8 🔲 9 🔲 10 [u]Description:[/u] Ziggurat is a first-person-shooter with rogue-lite elements where you clear 5(6?) stages which are each split into rooms that culminate in a boss fight. There is some character variety (each with their unique perks and play-style) along with a plethora of weaponry/upgrades for the player to choose from during each run. Monster variety is lacking but the short length of each area along with the combination of weapons, perks and room modifiers keeps the game-play fresh. The weak aspects of the game are the small enemy variety, limited weapon & diversity is also lacking in how they play. [u]TLDR: Ziggurat is a decent but short rogue-lite shooter that manages to scratch that "wizard power fantasy" itch.[/u]

Maybe this is just a genre thing & unfair, but this game is really not very fun. It's much more of an arcade game than I was expecting. Pretty much all you do is walk into arenas that look identical to one another, use some pretty underwhelming combat to fight through them all, then you eventually die at some point and have to start over from scratch. It looks much more interesting than it actually is.

It's fun! Graphics are pretty good for how old it is. Lots of enemies with different kinds of attacks and ways to counter them. Boss fights are pretty engaging. Many different characters to select from, with various perks to help out in your runs. Combat & perk systems are pretty good.

The game just didn't age very well. Playing it now, 10 years after its release, is pretty much pointless. The rogue-lite formula has gone too far for it to be very enjoyable. It's repetetive, the cartoonish visual style felt quite disconnected from the whole Heretic/Hexen vibe the game's seemingly trying to pull off. Although the game still looks awesome and was clearly made with love and passion. I even enjoyed learnig about milkstone's previous projects from the secret rooms. I've been kinda binge-playing all the milkstone games and this has felt the weakest by far.