Ghostrunner

Really good fast paced or slow paced very movement based very nice development kills and clearing a area in fast succession is very satisfying!

No joke I have to rethink my top 10 because this game is so damn good. Fast paced hack n slash gameplay, first person action, one hit kill/one hit death, and cyberpunk aesthetics/world is everything I love. The story isn't wholly complex but engaging and vague enough to keep you invested in learning more. Not a very long game but that's fine, there's a hardcore mode that unlocked after the main game which allows you to carry on your previously acquired skills in a remixed version of the game that includes more varied enemies and reorganized geometry + an assist mode that's fun to mess around in and is a good way to introduce to the game to people who would be turned off by the standard difficulty of the game. It's a great game, I wouldn't be mad about getting this game at full price, excited to try out the story dlc, it's sequel and will most definitely replay again soon.

I love how this game handles diffilculty yea its hard but it has a lot of check points and does not try to test you on how much you can take

As a huge fan of Dishonored and sci-fi themes in general, this game quickly asserted itself as one of my all time favorites. The gameplay is polished, the narrative is competent and classic, and the world design is one of my favorite representations of cyberpunk style. It's easy to pick up and put down, and basically never slows down. Challenge seekers can go for speed and collectibles, and casual will get a thrill from simply completing the game. And let's not forget the killer soundtrack, which takes everything over the top.

Hint: this game has a demo so I recommend you play if before making a decision to buy.

Levels in this game are mostly designed in a way such that enemies shoot your back while you trying to fight them. So instead of having and idea what you're doing you're just praying that they miss this time. This just artificially lengthens the game time.
The parrying sometimes work, sometimes it doesn't; the game even doesn't tell you that you can parry so you need to figure that yourself.
The dodged work only in air so holding shift in air will let you strife left/right and dodge the incoming projectile but when you do that being on the ground the character dashes instead. Bad control design especially that you develop muscle memory and then it suddenly doesn't work.
I got some blink ability but the tutorial was bugged and I needed to spent some time in there just to get over it. When playing the next level I couldn't even use the ability because the load time was so long.
As much as I've played, the levels were pretty similar and generic. Jump, run on the wall, use some grappling hook, dodge enemies, shoot. There are some platformer-like sections when having a dialogue with side characters and they're neither challanging, not interesting, seems like they're only to make you do anything while listening to the dialogue, akin to jumping from tree to tree in Minecraft while talking to your friend.
I found the game quite boring tbh, I did the same thing over and over again. I guess if you like this type of gameplay you can find yourself quite right in the gameplay loop. But before you buy I recommend you play the demo in order not to waste your money.

10/10 – I can only recommend it. Pure FPS ninja mode, absolutely addictive. The visuals and the soundtrack are simply stunning. +++

super fun and flowy movement. great soundtrack, always sounds amazing. difficult to get good at but once you do its super rewarding

When I started playing Ghostrunner, I thought I had accidentally activated hardcore mode because I kept dying—a lot (and I mean a lot). But once you realize it's more of a puzzle game than a hack 'n' slash, it becomes much more enjoyable.

I love the linearity, the art style, and the speed—this is by far the fastest game I've ever played. The soundtrack is full of banger after banger. Definitely a top-notch game.

It's a fun game to kill some time, dont expect anything groundbreaking, but it does its own fairly well. Better than the second game.

This is a challenging game. Thing is the challenge comes from fighting with the controls rather than the game itself. Dashing and slowing time are inexplicably bound to the same key and this cannot be changed. The most egregious thing about this game is, for some insane reason, it WILL NOT save until you complete a level. You have checkpoints and can continue right where you left off if you die. But if you quit to desktop without finishing a level, you CANNOT continue where you left off mid-level. Continuing your game without having completed a level puts you back at the very start of the level. I can't abide with a game that has such an absurd design choice that blatantly disrespects its players' time.

rewards you for getting better, and you can never stop getting better. first 0 death on hardcore hit harder than any other feeling a game has given me. only game ive wanted to 100%, and even after doing it i still get rewarded playing the game. the better you get the more options open up to you in every level. play this game and trust that you wont always die so much, and take the time it takes to do it the cool way

Easy to learn < > Hard to master

Ghostrunner offers insanely fast paced free running-esque hack and slash action. it will challenge your reactions and will not hold your hand. Enemies are aimbots, so they don't mess around if you are in their aggro range. (don't even get me started on the samurai enemy).. granted there are multiple checkpoints throughout each mission and with the assisted mode it gives you a little bit more of an edge if you are truly struggling.

kill run: -is very fun and challenging. The stages are set out so that it gives you multiple routes you can take to further decrease your time loss, as you try over and over and over to get that precious master rank.

wave mode: -is tough as it basically throws all the enemies at you in the usual wave survival form.
i recommend playing the campaign first because you might encounter enemies that you don't know how to deal with yet.. regardless have fun with this mode.. i didn't :P

Overall if you love a good challenge and have decent reaction times, this game is definitely worth picking up when you have excess legal tender you wanna burn!

good artstyle and probably a great game but after only half an hour i can realize this is not my kinda game. you kinda just gotta get lucky for atleast the first couple levels but the parkour is fun. from what i can see this is more a game to turn your brain off but i dont really wanna die to the same group of enemies 50 times in a row until i get lucky and the bullets dont hit me. also why is the dash and the time slow the same button? the amount of times i tried to time slow and ended up dashing was crazy. probably good game try it on sale

The movement is fun, and the story is actually what kept me playing. The achilles heel is the boss fights and the overly difficult levels that would randomly pop up. Still recommended though.

recommended the music and combat is great

Really good fast paced game, requires a very high reaction speed, and requires high amount of awareness, but definitely worth the fun for the difficulty. Also do not ever use a controller on this game, as it requires very precise inputs that only an keyboard and mouse can offer.

The parkour is very smooth and the combat is EXTREMELY satisfying. Graphics are a 8.75/10, parkour is a 9/10, combat is a 9.5/10, story is a 7.75/10. overall, i'd say this game is a 8.5/10.

One of, if not my, favorite game of all time. i binged this game over the summer on a computer older than I am (19) and loved it. I just got it again and have been playing it on a modern computer and this game is so much fun. Reading the other reviews people seem to have an issue with the difficulty. Those people need to toughen up, if i can beat it on a computer with frames like a powerpoint presentation its not that hard. in fact i wish it had different dificutly modes so i could play the hardest version. Excelent game deffinently reccomend and if the developers read this please remaster it or come out with a new one and make it ultra hard.

Great game. I don't understand the bad reviews for it "being to hard." The point of the game is to die, try a new approach, learn with each death, and adapt. Its not the games fault if you suck and rage quite like a toddler throwing a tantrum. They make the respawn so fast for a reason, its cause you're meant to die.

Ghostrunner is a fantastic representation of what a first person platformer can be. Initially I was dismayed by the lack of a sprint function.
But one day, something clicked! There is no input delay between actions. If you can perform an action it will happen. Chaining these individual elements together creates this flow state of movement where you feel as if you are truly running along the walls.
Take your time, enjoy the journey, and get better as you go. You will enjoy it that much more.

(I have played it on both controller and keyboard. I prefer controller.)

very hard, not for everyone. soundtrack be hittin

the puzzling sections made me want to blow my brains out, what were the dumbass devs thinking?

"ayo, the player might be having too much fun playing as a cyber techno ninja, we should force him to collect orbs on fucking rotating lego pieces"

Personally I thought it was the best hack n slash game of all time. The fast pasted game play made me feel like a real ninja. Not only is the game play great, but it also has a great and interesting story!

This is a great game. The game is decently hard to start out. Speedrunning is really satisfying. However just a warning before learning speedrun tech. Once you know it you can't go back to playing the game normally.

great game - currently replaying

The coolest game that I'm not even sure I like. Played on switch and bought on steam to play without garbage FPS before trying Ghostrunner 2.

Pros:
- the music bumps
- quick moment to moment gameplay that when you nail feels smooth and amazing
- cool cyberpunk world building and visuals
- looks good and runs well even on my laptop (on low/medium settings)
- most of the platforming is fun (and you can listen to more of the soundtrack)

Cons:
- there is clearly a right way and a wrong way to approach combat. Sometimes its amazing and feels challenging but fair. Sometimes it feels like bashing your own forehead against concrete because there is a way that the encounter has been designed that feels impossible if you don't figure out what the developers wanted. At best combat feels like playing titanfall 2 again, at worst it slows the whole game momentum down and feels like you are being forced to solve a puzzle to proceed.

Disclaimer - It has been a while since I have played fully through the game. This may be alleviated once I unlock the other special powers and can add more skills.

This game is incredible and idk how I havent heard more about it, there are a few glitches but theyre few and far in between and dont mess with the gameplay. The story is intriguing, the visuals amazing, and the music is incredible, its one of the few games that actually made me want to review it. 10/10

Fun and unusual. But hardcore. Not for everyone.

Ghostrunner is a game that boils down to "okay" at best. The evolution in gameplay is interesting, but the story serves more as an excuse for the crazy things you can do. At times, the gameplay and music get quite frantic, reminding me of the almost agility-puzzle dynamics present in Neon White, which I found to be a mechanically more satisfying game. Evading enemies can be quite frustrating on some occasions, and it’s the kind of game that could easily lead to a rage quit at some point. While that wasn’t my experience, I feel that I have more interesting games to spend my time on, and since then, Ghostrunner has been left aside.

a definite must play. I originally played through most of the story on a pirated version of the game back in 2021 and loved it so much that I decided to buy it. I never finished it and decided to try it again yesterday, and man it's as good as I remember. It is a bit challenging, but it's nothing too hard that it's annoying. There are a few annoying things here and there (those crawling exploding things had no reason to exist beyond being a nuisance) but overall a good experience, and what annoys me only lasts a few minutes so it's nothing game ruining. Overall, a very cool little game, the story is nothing to write home about, but it's there, and the game-play is fast paced and you can get good at movement. I don't know if i'd pay 30 dollars for it since its a fairly short game (it would probably take a lot longer for people who haven't played the game in the past), but in terms of how it looks and how smoothly it plays (most of the time), i could see rationalizing it to an extent.

Good die and retry game.

level design is generally very well made and doesn't break the flow. Controls feel great and game is pretty. Soundtrack is good, UI is ok. I really liked the different boosts : once you understand how to use them they feel really good and accelerate quite a bit how you complete levels.

Some of the hostile AI archetypes are frustrating for the wrong reasons, and the boss fights are not very consistent.

The story has been told 1000 times before, and sometimes much better. The choice of delivering most of the narrative during active playtime tells me game direction probably knows the story is boring :) But it's ok, I don't think anyone plays that kind of game for the narrative tbf.

Project_Hel is also worth playing. Funnily enough I find the relationship between Hel and the Narrator (Mara) better written and more interesting.

your character in game sure doesn't die! BUT YOU??? you're a Victimrunner that dies to ANYTHING AND constantly has to reboot! I love that! 5 years ago I tried the demo but for some reason I didn't continue! that's no more.

A game that throws you into a stunning cyberpunk world, with great level design and smooth, satisfying combat, all backed by fast-paced action and an incredible soundtrack that keeps you hooked even as you keep dying and retrying over and over. While the story isn’t the strongest, the gameplay is what truly matters here, delivering such a fun and fluid experience that you won’t even care.

best movement game imo, played fully through twice and a few of the levels many times. good game all around.

Graphics are wild. Gameplay is more of a 1 time thing

An excellent game in the hyper-movement-kill-everything-without-being-hit realm. Tons of great action, really cool movesets, an awesome story (shockingly), and a sweet soundtrack. Looking forward to #2, if I ever get around to it!

Definitely better with a controller...even if you "lose" some accuracy.

The game is a fast-paced FPS game with numerous fancy movement techniques. It is very challenging while the death penalty is very limited, most of time just load the checkpoint and try fancy movement again.
After beating the game, it is still worth to learn advanced movement techniques and play the second run, it will make the gameplay even faster which gives very different experience.
Overall, the game is very satisfied for people who seeking fast-paced gameplay experience, but for people who have slower reaction will have a hard time to finish the game.

I am giving Ghostrunner a cautious recommendation, but it is important that you know what you're getting into. Ghostrunner is equal parts fast-paced platforming and frenetic fighting. The former part is actually really fun - zipping around the levels, running on walls, grappling and activating switches with projectiles fluids together perfectly and those moments were my favorite part of the game. The fighting, on the other hand, is flawed, mostly because the encounters are more puzzles than they are actual battles.

What that means is that there are clearly "right" ways of tackling battles, and trying anything other than what the developers intended you to do will quickly lead to death. You die in one hit, and so do enemies, which just reinforces that puzzle structure. First take out this enemy, then take out that next uncovered enemy, and so on. It *sounds* cool in theory, especially with the fast-paced movement, but especially later in the game there will be encounters where you will just die over and over until you puzzled out the exact correct way of going about the 8 enemies firing or dashing at you from different directions.

It gets rather frustrating, but there is usually a way to make it easier on you by baiting enemies into certain directions or reflecting projectiles by equipping one of the unlockable modules that give you certain bonuses. You also unlock abilities over time, but the resource to use them takes a long time to refill, so I only used them rarely. Still, they can make combat a bit easier if you use them well.

The visual design of the game is very good, as well as the soundtrack. The story is nothing to write home about, very predictable and serves as nothing more than a backdrop, but it's fine. There are collectibles to find, an optional DLC I did not try and also a Hardcore Mode you unlock after playing through the game once, but that I will stay far away from.

Ghostrunner is also surprisingly short; it only took me about 6 hours to play through the main story, with some AFK time. Overall, I wish the game leaned more into the fast-paced platforming and less into the combat, but both are here with equal measure and if you only like one part of the game, you might get annoyed with the other. Still, it is a very stylish game with a lot of love put into the environments and animations, and it's definitely worth a playthrough if you know what you're getting into.

Pretty good game, feels amazing to play. Very fast, tight parkour action that lets a skilled player breeze through and has a overall decent difficulty curve with a few difficulty spikes such as the introduction of the ninjas and the bomb enemies. Story is your fairly standard cyberpunk story only blander, but is presented while in gameplay, which is very welcome.
Bosses are a letdown, although there are a few platforming ones that felt amazing to beat even if they had me white knuckling my mouse.
Music and sound are in general a treat and are very much a highlight of the game.

Game was originally fun, but with bad mechanics and dying when you did literally nothing and when nothing touched you, it took away from the game for me.

Very fun fast paced game. Wasn't sure how I was going to like it at first but after the first few levels I got hooked. I would rate it a solid 8/10.

game was almost amazing. puzzles are okay, kind of annoying so you just push yourself through it to progress. Boss fight with the constant lasers IS unnecessary and quite frustrating. I was looking for the "fast-paced, violent combat" in the game description, and it's there, sometimes...
cause instead of fighting, i'm trying to climb up a wall with constant pulsing rings that kill and reset you. it is just attempt after attempt, If you don't like dying a lot to bs, (just to beat one level) don't touch this game.

This being my first action plattformer video game means i kinda struggled in the beginning, not gonna lie. however i adore this game. the gameplay is smooth and feels good, no bugs or issues there, at least for me. the story isn’t the most revolutionary but personally still enjoyable. playing this game was honestly quite relaxing most of the time. takes a bit to get used to and master mechanics if you’re new to this kinda game but still very very enjoyable nonetheless

Game is incredible. Really tested me and felt good every time I beat a level. You are going to die... A LOT. It's similar to Celeste in that when you die, you start right back over where you were and retry. It's pretty cool and has some solid replayability.

Huge downside here... Almost every time I completed a level, the game would crash. It at least saved my progress, but for some reason, it continuously did so. I followed every guide I found on this issue, and it never got better.

Other than that, game environments are amazing, and the music is insanely good throughout. Easy recommendation. Going to play GR2 next.

Hard but fun, gets easier and wayy more fun to play once you start getting how it all works.
Some boss fights in the Project Hell dlc are mid tho.

The game is very hard and fast paced and as much as it p*sses me off I love it even more as the feeling you get dashing around doing cool tricks taking the people out is unbeatable. Your gonna die 1000+ times in the game but thats how it was designed. 5 hours in I like to say ive got the basics down to the movement but still have so much to get better at and practice.

each level if (not including the short ones) that I have done so far have taken me 30 minutes + with 50+ deaths each.

I havent even touched the dlc levels as I feel like they are way harder given the name...

I got the game when it was on sale for nine bucks so for me that isnt a bad deal and I know once I beat the basic levels and go in for the harder mode and the DLC I will have gotten way more then my moneys worth.

The game is just a better superhot at the of the day and the cyberpunk setting really is the cherry on top

when it comes to the story there isnt cut scenes really as you would think its just voices that you hear and explain stuff and whats going on. im pretty sure ive yet to reach a boss but I know there is at least one at the end that we are targeting.

This game is not for the soft hearted, any perfectionist out there is gonna spend half the day on those final levels...
Gameplay is seriously great and

addictive

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Awesome game, short but sweet.

The good:

Combat, is definitely the best part about this game, brutally unforgiving yet rewarding and addictive at the same time. a breath of fresh air from the average AAA RPG where you chip away at health bars while relying on some form of healing.
In this there is no healing, you get hit you die. And the same goes for your enemies. Well, except for bosses of course.

Platforming is another plus, most of the time is pretty satisfying if a bit simple sometimes. some levels do have a high difficulty to them. (TOM)

The story is good, if a bit basic, more than serves its purpose as a backing to the gameplay.

The Looks: proper cyberpunk vibes here, looks great as you can see from the screenshots. Some levels are very reminiscent of Portal which is a plus for me, and most have more detail than you will ever notice while fighting for your life.

Bossfights. While not many, they hit hard. Literally. the TOM fight, not sure if it can be called a bossfight or the most unfair jumping puzzle I've ever had the misfortune of completing..

The OST is good, very much fitting the fast paced cyberpunk vibe

Seems like a near perfect game to speedrun

The bad:

I wish the game were a bit longer, felt like there was room for another boss fight at least. But I guess there is the DLC and GR2.

The Cybervoid puzzles can be the absolute worst, despite having a cool environment they sometimes completely broke the flow of the game for me. And you can't dash in most of them for whatever reason, slowing you down even more.

The auto wall run and clamber feature has caused me to fling off the map or directly into enemy fire multiple times, both amusing and annoying. And sometimes you will just fly right by a wall or rail instead of magnetizing to it

There is a gamebreaking bug which can occur if you die just as the game autosaves, you may respawn and find yourself stuck in place and have to restart the whole level. This is the only gameplay effecting bug I encountered (or noticed).

TLDR: A challenging and fun experience, definitely grab on sale and give it a try.

Seems hard at first but youll catch on quick. Only downside is how they throw you into game right away and might take you a while to get adjusted fast pace and all weird jumping/running on wall. Runs on my couch computer as well which is great

Honestly it's a solid 7/10 game. The story is alright (so far, I haven't gotten to the end but i kinda doubt it's gonna blow my mind. If it does ill update this review) and this is one of those games you will either find satisfying or infuriating. Personally, I find it very satisfying. This is the rare time "spawn die spawn die" doesn't actually frustrate me. It feels purposefully difficult, and replaying the same level 300 times feels like a part of the game

To be clear:
This game has levels that are complete bullshit, you will quit the game and find out it didn't save where you wanted it to, the gameplay can be disorienting, and the game doesn't run as good as you feel like it should (i have an r7 5800, 3060, and 64 gigs of ram so it's not my pc). If any of those are dealbreakers, just don't buy it or wait for a deep sale. If you just wanna run around and slice dudes with a katana in a one hit arcade style game then you'll be happy