Dwarfenstein

Sum-Up In-depth analysis further down. 🟩 Pros 🟥 Cons - Interesting, satisfying gameplay loop with a good sense of progression. - Pretty good challenge level on the Hard setting in most levels. - Three different classes with custom weapons and abilities give some variety. - Good variety of enemy types in each world. - Significant balance problems with weapons, perks and classes as a whole. - The multi-genre...

32 found this helpful, 2022-05-17

RANKING: AVOID | LACKING | MAYBE | WORTHWHILE | COMPELLING | UNMISSABLE SYNOPSIS: WHAT TO EXPECT: Dwarfenstein is a single-player arena-based, wave shooter played in first person. Replete with colourful cartoon graphics, it is set in a sci-fi dwarf themed universe that consists of a linear story and endless survival modes. Gameplay encompasses around a dozen replayable levels, each across four different...

17 found this helpful, 2022-08-30

No Tower, All Defense Although Dwarfenstein is a neat little game, especially when looked at as a work of a lone developer, it still suffers from a certain kind of crisis: the crisis of the identity kind. Its name evokes the imagery of a boomer shooter. Its store page describes it as a story-driven FPS, tower defence hybrid. Yet, aside from the obvious first-person perspective, the game can’t quite measure up to...

11 found this helpful, 2022-05-16