Smash Halloween Pumpkins: The Challenge Reviews

Fun game, occupies my time, Great for that halloween energy

Don't bother. This game should run fine on a potato, but manages to not work properly on my 6-month-old gaming rig. The first level is impassable because the enemies don't spawn fast enough. I can't imagine the rest of the game will work as it should. I believe this will be the second game I've refunded.

I was hoping this would be like an old Apogee game. It was not. Bare bones with lots of cheap deaths. ONE MINUTE REVIEW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CmaE9P5d1Mo

Its an ok little side scrolling shooter thingy, its ok but the game gets super slow whenever you try to jump or are just in the air in general which ruins it, its also dumb that you have a health bar since only projectiles damage you, just touching any enemy kills you instantly, would also be useful if there was a crouch but whatever, for what it is its worth a try.

This really isn't a very good game. Each level (except for a couple of boss levels) is just killing a certain number of pumkins (which keep spawning until you reach your quota) and then rushing to the exit. There story is barely there. There are a few different types of pumpkin footsoldiers and only two weapons. The engine isn't great and can be a bit buggy, and every time a punpkin touches, you, it's an insta-kill. This is like an early-2000s freeware game. If you were on the Clickteam/Gamemaker scene at the ime, you've seen many games like this, and better than this, for free. Not super bad or unplayable, just amateur and too generic. The sort of game programmers make to get experience and hone their skills

There's some effort put into creating a story, and it has more options than the lowest rung of kit-based platformers on Steam. However, it suffers from the same issues. Lousy hit detection, poor level design, uninspired tasks, lack of appropriate balancing, etc. Rumor has it that it was this game that killed off ANNOYING CROW.