Reviews

• Amour King

  Aug 18, 2023

  IT IS TIME
• gamedeal user

  Aug 18, 2023

  Same fantastic visuals, level design, and music as the main game. More ways to kills things and more things to be killed. Not sure what else you could ask for.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 18, 2023

  Only completed the first two level, but it's on part with the main game, good ambience, level design and gameplay.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 18, 2023

  Who needs an axe when a good punch'll do? So far a good expansion on what made the base game so fun, but with FISTS that put Prodeus to shame!
• Setoru

  Aug 18, 2023

  Oh boy. Imagine my surprise when I get home from a grueling day at the office and see that this expansion has FINALLY arrived! I've only just begun, but it hasn't disappointed. I have never, ever seen a weapon mapped to '1' that has been as adrenaline-inducing as these fists, seriously. I feel like I'm in for a good time. If you loved the base game, you're going to love the expansion. The crazy good and unique art style and level design are present here. Well worth the wait.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 18, 2023

  Amid Evil continues it's seemingly-endless streak of being the best game Newblood has ever published.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 18, 2023

  Fantastic visuals, huge levels, fun level design, amazing epic OST and brutal new weapons. 10/10 expansion
• gamedeal user

  Aug 18, 2023

  Thanks Leon, Dave and Andrew for this masterpiece. You guys are absolute legends. The Black Labyrinth did not disappoint and it was worth the wait. For sure a great expansion for one of the best indie retro fps of the last decade.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 19, 2023

  Amid Evil was my GOTY 2019, and I was excited for the Black Labyrinth, but a part of me was afraid, because the last 4 years have been LONG, and not because of waiting for development, not even because of the insanity that's happened across the world, but more that the FPS scene has seen a sh*t ton of games flooding its market, and who I am today is not the same person I was then, so many straight up Doom and Quake clones that have worn me down over the years and made me want to go back to the slower methodical shooters ironically of the mid 2000's. ... But, the Black Labyrinth, was an absolute blast to play, felt again like returning to the exotic epic FPS I remember so fondly. Once again Leon, Simmo, Andrew and the rest knocked it out of the park. For one, visually the new environments are just even grander in scale, and we already had some insane scales in the main campaign, but this manages to one-up many of those. The coastal area was where I particularly perked up because it kind of felt like The Silent Cartographer in Halo, just more massive, built for giants and not puny humanoid sized creatures. Many places feel like they were built for alien behemoths, and those background vistas could all make for some incredible Fantasy or Metal artwork. Enemies are also really solid, different behaviours and looks and feels, fighting the big angry sky cloud goat heads feel like they are minibosses in appearances every time you encounter them even if they are just mid-tier regular foes you face in the dozens or hundreds. granted I kind of feel enemies overall peaked in the Arcane expanse as we just got so many fun critters with the crystal antlions and snakes and sharks and wizards, but the ones here are a close second. What I appreciate a lot about the Black Labyrinth is that this isn't really an episodic thing, well, maybe the expansion is an episode in and of itself, but it feels like a journey more than your standard episodes do, your Wanderer protagonist making their dangerous way to the labyrinth, even having to navigate some areas that are indeed like mazes, and then facing the final challenge, a kind of mental boss, still really cool. The two new weapons, the fists of the platinum star and the voidsplitter are absolutely ridiculously fun, replacing the axe and the space noodly appendage BFG, serving similar functions, the fists are anime JoJo memes when soul powered, a funny detail is if you start punching while soul powered but then stop, you just hear your character awkwardly cough a bit as they calm down from all the yelling. A bunch of cool new secrets, haven't found them all, but found hints of a few. silly messages hidden around, just a ton of charm. Andrew once again made a killer soundtrack, and I love how Leon & Simmo always implement the OST into Amid Evil and here in Black Labyrinth, dynamic but changing with level progression, it enhances both the OST as well as your journey, as the grand epic fantasy music swells as you climb higher or delve deeper into the abyss. I hate when games have only some static background ambiance and then combat music with awful triggers where you feel like you're punished if you kill enemies too fast because the music abruptly cuts short and ungracefully switches back to the ambient track. Devs, stop doing that, incorporate music into the journey of the level, take notes from here! Had no major bugs, I did get some weird UE4 fatal error crashes whenever I quit from the game, but they didn't corrupt my saves and I was quitting anyway so hard to complain too much, also they went away when I got adventurous(/bored) and did some of my standard UE4 engine.ini tweaks for fun. There's a minor thing with resolution resetting to my native desktop resolution whenever I restarted, I've seen this with UE4 before, but it wasn't that big of an issue. One of the rare games I decided to play with all raytracing features on, reflections, light/shadows, all ticked, with DLSS on performance, other settings all at Epic, had locked 60fps 99% of the time, in I think the third level I saw some dips but that was when I got lazy and left my resolution at native (I otherwise always put it at 1600x900). It's honestly a bit hard to sometimes tell what the difference is with RTX on/off in Amid Evil, simply because Leon & Simmo put so much effort into making the overall environments look so good with classic rasterized rendering. Reflections are the obvious standout where you feel like finally we have stuff like planar reflections from Half-Life 2 & Far Cry & FEAR make a triumphant return from 2004 again in 2023, non glitchy looking reflections after almost 20 years of the industry leaving perfectly functional nice reflections behind for dumb no good reasons. But, 60fps 99% of the time all Epic + RT all on + DLSS performance, laptop win11 i5-11400H 3050RTX 4GBVRAM 16GBRAM, laptop didn't even break a sweat or start making any suspicious noises. Oh, one sidenote, THANK YOU FOR THE WEAPON WHEEL! I'm a mouse & keyboard player but I genuinely think weapon wheels are preferable to mouse scroll wheel or a bunch of separate keys, (or the hideous category lumping of something like Half-Life or Max Payne, ugh, so clunky) and the weapon wheel works so smoothly here, pausing time, just hold your button down, flick the mouse to whatever o'clock is the weapon you're eyeing on, release modifier, and you're done, so much more elegant and fluid, sometimes evolution does happen in the console space. In short, Expansion is great, in many ways better than the main game even, worth it if you liked the original, looks fantastic, incredible environments, fun enemies, great OST, a neat prequel setting, oh, nice voice acting too, and once you beat the DLC the game asks if you want to take the DLC weapons into the main campaign as well. For the people who care about length, I had 44 hours on the game before, after beating the DLC (not particularly rushing, but I did miss a ton of secrets and even some enemies) it says 51hours, so not too bad for a DLC expansion at 9/11€/£/$ whatever equivalent.
• gamedeal user

  Aug 19, 2023

  if you like the original game, there's literally no reason for you not to play this. The levels are a step above the base game in basically every way, the new weapons are incredible, the enemies are great, the music f u c k s, and the final boss is amazing. WORD OF ADVICE - Just pick normal or hard difficulty on your first run. This DLC is tougher than the original game, and you'll find yourself stronger enemies in larger numbers, as well as ammo being harder to stockpile. I've managed to beat the game on my first run on Evil, but it was hella tough. Would have rather played it on hard, but it didnt take away from the experience too much