Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Oct 12, 2021

  It's tight. The new episode is worth the price of admission alone. This comes packaged with a custom version of GZDoom with graphical default settings (Vintage, Vintage+, Retro, Modern, and Modern+) that let you quickly and easily get the game looking as crunchy or smooth as you want with hot swap keys for each mode bound to the F8-F12 keys. I'm usually not a fan of GZDoom for vanilla style play, but these convenient default video settings make that something of a non-issue. The new lighting effects only available with GZDoom are wonderfully atmospheric, tasteful, and compliment enemy sprites excellently.
• gamedeal user

  Apr 10, 2023

  What else can i say? It's fucking amazing. Hit or miss maps here and there but the good far out weighs the negative and it's challenging as hell too with no savescumming. Some maps are legit Heretic tier in design.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 12, 2021

  i didn't know it has mimics and i tried to grab a health potion and it sprouted teeth and killed me, my trust has been betrayed, how dare you edit after playing for 2 more hours: the mimics continue to kill me, they appear only when I am most desperate for a health potion. they haunt my dreams, stop laughing at my pain you ghouls
• gamedeal user

  Oct 17, 2021

  REKKR gives an authentic 90s experiences that absolutely doesn't feel out of place with the likes of Hexen, Heretic, and of course, DOOM. Think of REKKR as Viking DOOM. Having played this before the Steam release, I can tell you this was an instant buy! The weapons feel balanced and the maps are fun and challenging with plenty of interlinking areas. The enemies feel familar to what you're likely used to with DOOM but still feel fresh due to them having their own unique abilities. I especially love the mimics and the floating eyeballs, as they all bring something fun to the gameplay. So far, I haven't noticed many bugs but from what I've seen, the death messages don't display the correct enemy that killed you, as well as some sounds cutting off or not playing at all. And I also wish I could customise the message display to be a little bigger and have it to the right of the screen like classic DOOM. Besides that, the overall rating for this game hasn't changed and it's still an essential grab for any DOOM and retro FPS fans. It's top notch 90s FPS throwback fun.
• gamedeal user

  Oct 14, 2021

  Highly recommended. Excellent Doom total conversion WAD with a unique setting, monsters, and weapons. Comes with easy to use GZDoom presets for your preferred visual style. If you love Doom/Heretic/Hexen you will love this.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 6, 2021

  H E R E T I C
• gamedeal user

  May 3, 2022

  Great fun. Looking forward to seeing what the dev makes next.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 1, 2021

  If you're old like me and enjoy a new take on nostalgia than this is a game for you!
• gamedeal user

  Oct 21, 2021

  Rather than calling this game a "first-person shooter", it would be better to uncover the long-forgotten term of "Doom Clone". That's what it literally is - a total conversion of Ultimate Doom, except you wouldn't be able to tell this from the first glance. Despite working within procrustean limitations of vanilla mapping and DeHackEd modding, the end result is nothing short of mind-blowing. First of all, the visuals are absolutely gorgeous. For how much I play original Doom, I'm not a big fan of its artstyle, but REKKR looks amazing and I liked it a lot. It has some of the best midtexture work I've ever seen in Doom modding scene, I was constantly making double-takes at pieces of scenery that looked like 3D or voxel models. And then there's boat segment in Episode 4, and I have no idea how it was pulled off without silent teleporters and other Boom tricks (and believe me, I've made quite a few Doom boats myself). Gameplay is changed in clever ways, introducing new mechanics and shuffling things around in general. Weapons are not flashy, but they are solid, you have some familiar guns such as SSG and BFG, while other weapons are completely different. Bestiary is great, monsters are generally fun to fight and not particularly annoying or spongy, and great care was taken to make them as distinct as possible - you will find no direct counterparts to vanilla demons. Maps, aside from looking great, can get a bit labyrinthine, but nothing too bad. The flow is good, you won't find yourself in situation where you pulled a switch and have no idea what it did. Overall difficulty is on the easier side, definitely easier than Plutonia, maps are generally longer but they still don't overstay their welcome. So it's a beatiful game with solid gameplay and it costs next to nothing. If you like retro shooters or want to try one, there is no question whether you should buy it.
• gamedeal user

  Dec 18, 2022

  It's an amazing total conversion mod for Ultimate Doom basically, and it does a really good job at that. If you're a veteran old school fps player, then I'd recommend going through the game on "Wrecker", since it's your basic UV difficulty. Creative map design, nice weapons and a true celtic-viking atmosphere for 5 euros, so get it if you're looking for some more Doom engine games!