Gravelord

Monotonous levels that overstay their welcome, underpowered and unsatisfying guns that feel like toys, unfun enemies (if you ever played Doom and said to yourself "Man, I wish the Cacodemon attacked exactly like a Chaingunner", this is the game for you), a gimmicky card system with 90% of them being completely worthless, and a shotgun that makes the Doom 3 Shotgun look like the Doom 2 Super Shotgun. At least the...

18 found this helpful, 2025-10-08

Gravelord is an old school first person shooter, but I'm not going to waste any time going into detail on the gameplay mechanics. The mouse aim feels very stuttery, especially when moving the mouse diagonally, which makes the combat look and feel terrible. I mean, its technically playable as long as you don't ever try to circle strafe. Enemy variety, gun variety, map design, nothing matters because the most...

8 found this helpful, 2026-09-03

Gravelord is a super fun, if mostly by-the-numbers, Retro FPS title that plays like butter, has a beautiful and interesting art direction, and comes with a killer level editor (comparable to the editor in Prodeus). I wouldn't say that it's a perfect game for the genre (which is hard for anyone to achieve, to be fair), but what you're getting is an earnest amount of fun. BONUS BITS! If you buy this while it's still...

9 found this helpful, 2025-11-21