SturmFront - The Mutant War: Übel Edition Reviews

Along with Oniken, this is one of the best retro-style games on Steam at the moment. Fantastic action; satisfying despite the simplicity too (especially the flesh ripper blade gun). The graphics actually fit perfectly with the heavy metal style and general aesthetic as well, rather than seeming contrived. Difficulty (while playing normal) is at a nice level - even trickier levels might take 4/5 attempts and then you can just blow through them, as you would like to with this type of game. One of few games that I can easily see myself returning to play through again and again at the higher difficulties. As a fan of twin-stick shooters (though I use the mouse personally to aim for this game) and action filled FPS games like Doom, Shadow Warrior, Serious Sam, I can very enthusiastically recommend this game. While I don't have too much time put into the game yet, I know I will soon - I really enjoying playing it. Only one or two issues with this game for me; the first being very minor: 1. Some of the less satisfying guns crop up a bit too often for my liking. While a rocket launcher seems fun at first, they end up being somewhat useless due to their only having 10 shots and the first enemies you'll encounter always after acquiring one are a decent handful of things that can be killed with one shot by your basic weapon. Not even really enough of them concentrated together to make that satisfying. But you blow through the 10 rockets so quickly, you can get back to your basic gun and back to normal. Or you could push through those enemies with the flame thrower and get to the tougher enemies with the rocket launcher. I would have liked to have seen them placed in different locations though, or have more of the other guns available. 2. The bosses are far too easy. Their patterns don't get progressively more difficult as you knock their health down (in fact some get easier) and you can wipe their whole health bar within 10 seconds in a lot of cases. Generally though, the level leading up to the boss fight is really enjoyable. In a way that makes up for it, but it also does make the fight itself very disappointing.

This game [b]FUCKING RULES.[/b] [u]If you like shooting things in video games, buy Sturmfront.[/u] Doesn't even matter what [i]type[/i] of shooter - you may look at this and scoff. "It's like an old game, phooey" and then go back to opening up loot boxes in whatever garbage Activision or EA is shouting about this quarter. Stop playing that garbage and BUY THIS GAME. Sure, if you played and loved titles like Shock Troopers, Alien Syndrome, Zombies Ate My Neighbors or Soldier of Fortune (I believe you British gamers called that one something else though), you'll love this. It's also channeling DOOM with it's metal-af soundtrack (and title screen; look at that work of art), [i]perfect[/i] amount of gore, and general tone, so if you love that game (or, like, any FPS from the 90's... or comic books from the 90's) you'll love this [b]extra[/b]. You'll appreciate it on more levels or whatever. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter what the fuck era of gaming you think is best; this game is the most metal a game can be that lets you power up your spreadgun to blow mutant aliens into glorious, gory bits. That it's made correctly with a config launcher so you can set it to Windowed Mode and mess with options [i]before starting the damn thing up[/i], and plays super well, and looks rad af and sounds so great [b]and is just $8[/b] - THAT'S WHAT MATTERS This is the most awesome way to spend $8 on Steam. Now I'm done writing this dumb review. I shouldn't have to convince people to buy this - I just wanna go back and play more!

The game is a top down twin stick shooter with a story. It is fun, medium difficulty is not that hard, a 1 up playthrough is hard, you get a new difficulty when you play through the game once. The price is excellent for what you get. The music is good. Playtime for medium playthrough was for me 1,4 hours. The game could use more enemies and attack patterns and a little diversion like a drive through level or something or a bonus stage here and there to make the gameplay more diversivied. But all in all it is an excellent game. For the price it is really good, if you are a fan of old school twin stick shooters like Smash TV, Alien Syndrome, Xeno Crisis etc.

Going to give a thumbs up but just barely. Is really good, and a great example of what arcade games used to be like. This, unfortunately, is also its biggest problem. The difficulty is a little too steep especially when it expects you to restart the levels with no power ups. Typical 90's "We want ALL the quarters" BS. However, inputting quarters isn't part of the business model so I can't quite understand what the idea is here. Regardless of that, I think I paid less than a dollar for the game and it was definitely worth that so thumbs up.

Ikari Warriors + Black Metal + Contra = The Relentless Non-Stop Blood-fueled Psychopathic Fever Dream called SturmFront - The Mutant War: Übel Edition. Any attempt to describe it will come out sounding like a word salad drenched in a dressing of gore and gasoline. The mechanics encourage you to get knee deep in the dead and follow the chaotic flow of battle as you purge every mutant in your way with fire and steel. I'd say it's absolutely two thumbs up, but this game will replace your hands with viscera-coated chainsaws. 666% Recommended.

Encountered a bug on level 4 where your weapon occasionally doesn't shoot, meaning the ammo counter (if you carry a weapon with limited ammo capacity, for example, the blade gun) goes down, but no projectile exits the barrel of the gun. Same goes for your default weapon. Needless to say, the bug makes the game way too hard. Cannot recommend the game at this point.

Sadly i ran into an issue where the frame rate drops to single digits making the game unplayable. There seems to be no fix from the developer.

Awesome game. Hits hard, and doesn't outlive it's welcome. Killer music, kick ass art, and brutal game play. I'll be coming back to SturmFront, without doubt.

I appreciate what the devs managed to accomplish because the good is very good, but unfortunately the game is hollow enough that the entire experience falls flat. I enjoyed the graphics and the explosions and the gore and the aesthetic of smash TV. The enemy patterns are totally predictable and have almost no variety. They just charge straight out you and can be easily dispatched. The only time I died was because I became so bored I stopped caring. You carry a flamethrower which can cancel bullets so the rare time you are ever threatened you'll just tap the button and immediately nullify the threat. Bosses become an absolute joke because of this. Each level has its own music but it's insipid and in a 30 second loop which immediately grates on the nerves. If they put another couple of months of polish on this game, increase the enemy variety or their behaviors, introduce bullets that cannot be cancelled, and in general just give it some more love.... Then I will be happy to come back and revise my review but I don't see it happening. It's an amateur game that is almost there.

Excellent Arcade shooting game! Totally recommended! Good: - Game Design is Heavy metal as fak - Great Music - Tense and Challenging gameplay - Felt so satisfied to burn and exterminate the mutant boss - Gasoolineeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Bad: - I really want the new game plus with unlimited ammo and gasoline to wipe everythings out of the screen, but it doesn't have Caution: Player will feel highly energized after completed this game