Donuts'n'Justice Reviews

A pretty straight forward arcade style shooter with stylish pixel graphics and a cool soundtrack. You can shoot either left or right using separate buttons either on your keyboard or controller and you can move around. That's pretty much it and also you'll get to pick up power ups and unlock new weapons the more badges you collect in each run. The game is really challenging though and you'll be dying a lot even in the first level. Things get hectic really fast and it really challenges your reflexes. One gripe I have is that the bullets are hard to see with all the stuff going on on screen and I tended to get hit without even seeing them coming. All in all, pretty fun and challenging arcade style game with a cool retro look that is easy to learn and hard to master. Decent fun in short bursts.

beat this game in two tries only taking about an hour to do. Even beat all the bosses. Stupidly easy game and very short for 5$. Worth maybe 1$ if you and a friend are bored and need to kill an hour. I would never play this game solo

Unfortunately, not my cup of tea. Also super short game - not worth the asking price. - The controller is ALWAYS player 2, even when you play alone (super annoying) - The keyboard controls are counter intuitive - the enemies reach and speed are much higher than yours - civilians make things messier - I don't like this mechanic - the badge count will reset whenever you close the game.... which is annoying Overall, quite simple and bad game loop - it is fine if you play for 10-15 minutes.

This game is really fun! This is one of those games where you can feel that every pixel had great love put into it. Despite its basic appeal, this game really does separate itself from others like it. With its low price tag, Donuts 'n Justice is easily worth a buy!

Donuts'n'Justice is one of the first games I bought on Steam when I signed up months ago. I loved the 80's aesthetic and the old school shooter style. At first I was a little confused at how difficult the regular skill level was, and I stopped playing for a bit. Then I tried on the "Thumbsucker" level (haha) and it was more manageable. Just be warned that it can get insane no matter what, especially on Level 2 - Chinatown. Overall, it's a fun game to play when you have a little bit of time to kill, and the unlockable hats are a fun reason to replay through the whole game with the added perks they give. I'm still in the process of unlocking more guns, and I've played for a total of over 3 hours! Grab some donuts, turn on the soundtrack to Miami Vice, and give this indie gem a try.

These developers have no business charging $5 for this POS. Seriously, unless this game is on sale for $.50 or it's part of a cheap bundle, just ignore it. Everything about this title feels lazy and half baked - almost like it's a demo released as a full title. Ridiculously short play time coupled with crummy controls... yeah, I could go on but I think I've made my point. There are plenty of other titles on Steam that are more worthy of your time and money than this garbage; steer clear.

This game is kind of fun, but it is really easy to see that the developers just didn't want to put much effort in it. The weapons that you unlock later in the game are actually worse than the initial weapon, so there's not really a point in them being there. The difficulty setting from easy to medium just goes from "I don't take a hit" to "No matter what I do, I'll always die", so it is not really balanced. When you finish the game, there's no ending sequence. You kill the boss and then nothing more happens. Literally nothing more. You can keep the game open for hours and hours and you'll just be on the level, walking around and shooting nothing. So it really seems that the developers really wanted to somehow release the game and forget it. 2/10

Donuts ‘n’ Justice is a pixelated game that appears to be a throwback to the arcade games of the 1980s. It is also a reminder of the famous 1980s TV show Miami Vice. It is not a brawler game by any means; it is a side-scrolling shooter in which you go up against criminals by playing either Mick Riggs or Nick Gordon if you choose the single-player mode. You can also play co-op with a friend so that both Riggs and Gordon can take down the criminals together. By looking at the game’s graphics, this is no doubt an indie game. It looks quite decent for an indie game. You simply shoot at bad guys as you move horizontally to the right, but there will be some villains shooting at you from behind on the left side of the screen. The keyboard controls are simple: X to shoot left, C to shoot right, Spacebar to throw grenades and arrow keys to move around. I got accustomed to the controls quickly despite not having much experience with them. As the action progresses, criminals will drop items such as badges, mushrooms (eat them to slow down time), boxes of new weapons. and donuts. Donuts have long been associated with cops, but in this game, donuts can save your life since they add lost health. Weapons range from the familiar to the laugh out loud types. One weapon, a DNA modifier, turns enemies into animals like chickens and pigs. Despite the generous health bar and the donuts that frequently drop to the ground, you will die a lot. The game is easy to learn, hard to master. You will have to move around a lot to avoid getting shot, but sometimes there are way too many bullets to avoid. There is no save point throughout a given level, but I do not complain about that since that was the way arcade games were back in the day. Some may not like the lack of a save point in the middle of each level. Dying on a level will force you to restart the level. Shooting civilians in higher difficulty modes will cause your weapon to jam and this becomes very problematic due to the number of enemies firing bullets at you. Trying to reach a donut to recover health while dodging so many bullets can be grueling and lead to instant death even at the easiest difficulty mode. There are four stages of action in the game and each stage ends with a boss. I feel like the game ends too soon after stage four, as I was able to complete the game on the first day I launched it. While the gameplay is challenging, even on the easiest difficulty level, the brief nature of the stages makes it feel like there is limited replay value. What is fun throughout the game is the ability to pick up cash from dead criminals to buy creative hats in the shop. Some hats are simply for aesthetics whereas other hats provide special powers like an automatic bullet proof vest and the ability to keep civilians alive even if shoot them. There is a pumpkin hat that leads to the game having a Halloween theme. The pumpkin hat leads to spontaneous witch hat drops that can be picked up and automatically summon witches to help your cause. The hats are also great for unlocking Steam achievements. In the past the Halloween based achievements could only be unlocked in October, but the developer changed it so that you can unlock these achievements at any time. Upon completion of the game, the Boss Rush mode is unlocked on the main menu so that you can take on the same bosses you faced in each stage. Donuts ‘n’ Justice is a retro game with a decent retro look and feel. The limited replay value due to only four stages in the game is the game’s greatest weakness. I think it is good for those who want to relive the 1980s of arcade pixelation, nice Steam achievements, and Steam trading cards. This is an ordinary game that breaks no boundaries. My Score: 6.5/10

Despite the quite big health bar, you will die a lot here, idk how it happens to me every time, but i end up with a *sudden* game over screen very often lol. About the game itself - +Visually good, reminds good old SNES games. +Okay soundwork, guns and misc sounds. +Gameplay - pretty simple, you only have 2 options - to shoot left and to shoot right (+grenades which feel like unlimited because of the number of ammo boxes), local multi. -Controls - my problem is that there is no buttons remap feature (for now), i don't like the default controls +Steam achievements +Steam cards Got the game on sale and cards basically covered 100% of the price - free small game before the new year i guess. By the way, looking at the game's poster, isn't the black guy supposed to have a bigger gun? Or just white guy compensating?

We just beat this game in about an hour and while the price might be ok for an hour of fun, this was mostly an hour of tedium and spam. What annoys me the most is that this game just feels really lazy. The bosses are not balanced at all. The first one might have been a challenge to some but all the bosses after that don't even really have a pattern. Just shoot them until they are dead. The last couple bosses didn't even hit us once even though we were not good at the game. We had to repeat levels constantly and I ran in front of the stupid train at least 6 times. The controls don't feel all there, the drops are too random and too frequent to care about, the grenades are more bother than anything. Some of the random weapons are just really useless and all the money you pick up can only ever be used to buy one out of about 15-20 uninspired hats. The hat thing really drives home the feeling of how robots probably designed this game on an assembly line of uninspired games. "It needs hats for the sake of it. Hoomans love hats." This one don't. I wish I hadn't bought the game not because it was a huge waste of money but rather because I supported lazy game design and fell for it just because it has local coop.