Furi

Honestly an amazing game all around. The story is great, the fights are fun, the soundtrack is awesome. This is definitely worth picking up.

Yea its kinda hard, but cup head makes this game look like mariokart in terms of difficulty. The projectile spam gets kinda boring after a while. Really the game could be summarized by : tough but fair.

10/10 best game

amazing combat
amazing music
good difficulty
great art style

needs a sequel.

Furi is a great game! I find myself coming back to play it to completion every so often since buying it in 2018. I wish more games like this or a sequel existed. Only fighting bosses is a cool concept that I've only ever seen Furi pull off with this style and atmosphere

The game wouldn't be complete without it's soundtrack. The game would be lost without it. It's one of my favorites of all time

A delectable collection of brutal ass-beatings, both given and taken.

amazing game i love touhou i love sekiro i love this game

Furi is a fantastic hack and slash/top-down shooter mash-up that is entirely a boss rush. Not only is the game aesthetically pleasing, but it also tests the players’ reaction time with its fast-paced nature. I would give the game points in its gameplay since it is challenging but also satisfying conquering all the bosses with their own unique fighting styles.

The game is short, and the veteran at these types of games could definitely beat it even faster, but for the price point (especially when it is on sale), it’s worth it to just experience the gameplay that it offers.

Story wise, it can get pretty obscure, since you need to play through it multiple times to get the full story, but the developers do leave out hints here and there to get you intrigue in finding out more.

I wholeheartedly recommend this game for a short burst of fun and if you’re looking for something challenging to try out.

Cool soundtrack, cool art, cool story and cool combat. At first I was a little bothered by the final boss being a bullet hell with no melee combat, but then I found that freaking dummy Bernard, the true final boss.

very nice, sick sound track

Very unique combat, enjoyable gaming experience.

Very difficult but very fun

This game is absolutely fabulous. You'd be missing out to not play it.


Furi is incredibly fun with challenging combat that oozes style. It's a boss rush wherein you take control of a silent, deadly protagonist who has been imprisoned for reasons unknown. You travel through various biomes, defeating your Jailers as you make your way to the surface of a planet from your prison in space. Each fight is broken into several phases with two main components; a zoomed out bullet hell followed by a period of intense, close quarter combat. Abilities consist of full directional movement, a dash-based dodge, parry, melee and ranged blaster attacks (both of which can be charged). Encounters are enhanced by an overarching narrative that adds flavor and supplies intrigue. The bosses taunt you in their own ways - some are ambivalent to you, some HATE you, some just want you to stop - which provides a yummy bit of narrative tension alongside the gameplay. In between fights is a period of downtime wherein a partner character adds world-building dialog that feels both expository and tantalizing; only by the end did it all click into place for me.


Furi was easy to learn with an obvious mastery curve. I felt myself getting better and better; by the end of the game I felt like a god (am likely not that good in the grand scheme of things, but I was having a great time). You look really cool without having to do complicated inputs. Movement feels fantastic; fluid, responsive, dangerous. And the music is *chef's kiss*.


I strongly recommend it.

On a scale of 1 to 10, it's an 11.

Scope creep is a problem for many prospective indie developers. Including too many wayward ideas in a game can doom it to never release in a finished state, so many games wisely choose humility and simplicity, and the industry is better for it. Furi, however, is not one of those games. It tries as hard as it can, despite its tiny studio, despite its essentially nonexistent budget, to be the coolest thing you have ever seen. In some areas, it genuinely succeeds at this. It is a beautiful, gratifying, emotionally driven game with a simple, yet thought provoking narrative, featuring one of the greatest soundtracks to ever exist. All that being said, the PC version has some nasty technical issues. I would recommend this game to just about anybody, but I would recommend it on console. That does not stop it from being one of the best games ever made.

Short but state of art game, with a good plot, mechanics and just great music.

too easy for a guy like me

I wish I could recommend this game but I can't it's just too expensive. Not the physical amount of money you spend the mental and emotional toll, and possibly the cost of the new controller. The price comes with the fact that once you beat it to completion hard techno is now your favorite music. You are now addicted to killing bosses as fast as possible as flawlessly as possible striving for perfection that is nearly unachievable. The guilt of taking the bad ending and killing that child to shave time off the speedrun and get a better score. Things like that are the real price you pay playing this game, but if you can pay that toll and enjoy super fast paced combat filled with graphene katanas, fully automatic laser pistols, and bullet hell dodging teleports you probably will love this game.

I'm trash at parrying

BANGER ALERT

All the fights in Furi all feel fair and well balanced and are super fun to engage with. The soundtrack is one of the best I have ever heard, seeing Carpenter Brut made music for Furi absolutely hyped me up. The game also has some good quotes that go very hard.

"We all have choices to make. We all have to decide what's worth fighting for."
"Excellence is not an art, it's pure habit. We are what we repeatedly do."
"He who knows no fear knows no courage. I take mine from you. We are what we fight for."

A very good game

Great game. A little hard if you're not used to bullet-hell type games but not impossible.

Music is fantastic, combat is fun and rewarding.

Best black character in gaming 10/10

This has gotta be one of my all time favorites. Practically the perfect game. Just one boss fight after another with great music, unique battles, and escalating difficulty. They've got action RPG gameplay mixed with bullet hell. Its honestly pretty damn HLD now that I think about it. But that ain't an issue. Plus they've got that mysterious story you learn a little bit more about with each fight. This is fun.

Great Mechanics, fire OST.

This game looks amazing, has awesome character designs, a cool story, really fun gameplay, and has THE best soundtrack of any game I've ever played.
It is easily in my top favourite videogames!
5/5

I normally don't like these type of games cause i'm trash at them. But the world building and soundtrack really make this game like a cinematic experience.

This game is very good, meets all the criteria for a great indie game, fire OST, great gameplay, compelling story, and a unique visual style. In all of these regards there is nothing to complain about. The only criticism I am capable of giving this game, is my extreme dislike of the final boss. The only thing that kept me going through that... experience, was wanting the true ending, as well as it having one of the best tracks in the game. If it were not for those factors, I may have never finished this game. From here on out, there will be extreme spoilers for the game, I highly recommend it, but this is an issue big enough that I can't really avoid mentioning it.

The final boss of this game was quite possibly the greatest fall off of any game in history. The melee segments are removed and your moveset is altered. Now this wouldn't be too much of a problem if the game introduced the new moveset beforehand... It doesn't. That could also be excused, because there isn't really a point story wise for that to happen... So, what if the boss starts out slow. It doesn't. You are thrown straight into the hardest boss of the game, with different controls, and no tutorial. That could also be excused if the fight was a short, climatic battle, to end off the story. It isn't. This fight is FIVE phases long. FIVE. For a Furi boss that isn't unreasonable, but this just culminates in each attempt taking upwards of like twenty minutes... Now, I enjoy difficult games, a sense of achievement after overcoming great difficulty is one of the main reasons I play games like this. Well designed, balanced fights that tend to be difficult I normally really like (Ex: Absolute Radiance, Sword Saint Isshin, Etc.). This is one of the first bosses to get me to search for outside help out of pure frustration I have ever experienced, and to my shock, one of the first results on how to dodge the attack I was stuck on just said "It isn't within reason for a human to dodge every hit of it, so you're better of just saving all your health for this attack, and ending the phase before it happens again." What?! That being genuine, unironic advice is borderline diablocial... How this fight has a higher difficulty I am baffled. Thankfully, there's an additional fight once you've beaten the game that follows and uses the games core mechanics to the fullest, like the main bosses did. This addition truly does make up for the abomination that is "The Star", but this fight is only accessible hidden in one of the menus after the game has been beaten, which kinda sucks because a lot of people would miss it.

Anyways, in conclusion, this game is still fantastic, and I still greatly recommend it, also it's relatively not that expensive, even better if you get it on a sale.

Overall verdict: 8/10

Why is there so much walking in my boss rush game?

The soundtrack is the only thing this game has.

Great game, one of my absolute favorites.
It has great synthwave music from various musicians and a cool combat system with some bullet hell elements.
The game time is around 5 - 10 hours.

Very fun, fast paced, pseudo-bullet hell, boss rush

it's nothing but tedious boss fights, if that's all you want, this game is for you

It got some great some great gameplay at some point but at others it is just horrible ,specifically the last boss fight ,I dont know what was the problem 2nd hardest difficultly it was a horrible experience

Furi is a game about the indomitable human spirit to escape France at any and all costs.

After 9 years, I finally got around to 100%ing the achievements, and I felt I really ought to give a recommendation to this fantastic game.

There is something truly stunning about this title. The gameplay, music, sound design, and replayability is incredible. The visual style and story beats may be slightly more controversial depending on your preferences, but personally I think it's all done incredibly well.

It's not as polished as it could be in regards to the UI and controls, but when you consider this was an indie studio's first attempt at a non-mobile game, I'm able to find it charming moreso than frustrating. A controller is recommended but there are plenty of speedrunners and the like who prefer kbm. Either is perfectly fine for beginners.

Speaking purely objectively, an 8 out of 10 might be fair. But it's hands down one of my all time favorite games.
If you already like bullet hell / boss rush games the $20 price tag is more than deserving. Otherwise pick it up during a sale.

PS: French dub is the best experience IMO

Furi is one of the best games that I have ever played. It is immensely challenging and rewarding as you get better with the combat.

Combat is simple, slash, shoot, dodge and parry are your main options. How you weave these together into a flow is what makes a difference. You will fail again and again but rise better each time.

On top of the gameplay, there is a top notch story and immaculate OST in the background. The visuals give a great 80s synthwave/vaporwave and cyberpunk style that I also adore. Overall, a masterpiece of a game.

Fair warning, it is quite challenging. Not for the faint of heart. But give it a chance and you won't be disappointed.

The game flips back and forth between being great and being tedious.

Hack n Slash stuff is 8/10, with only 2 real complaints.
1. That you are forced to play reactively. You always must play by the boss' rules and are punished until you wait and react the way that the game wants you to. If you keep attacking and parrying the bosses counterattacks, the boss can just decide to infinitely dodge all of your attacks until you stop and let them have a turn.
2. There are set animations that play when you are hit by a grab attack, follow up on a charged attack and attack after a perfect parry. These animations are all about 5 seconds long and break the flow of the fight imo

This should have been the part of the game that was focused on and refined. I could easily see this game being excellent if that were the case. Unfortunately, this game is split 50/50 with being a Hack'n'Slash and being a Bullet Hell.

The Bullet Hell half of the game consists of dodging attacks for what can be upwards of a minute at a time before you are allowed to deal any damage to the boss again, or dodging attacks for what can be upwards of a minute at a time while you are firing a crappy little pistol that does very little damage and sounds like it should deal even less. It's just boring. Let me hit the boss. There are some bosses that are entirely a bullet hell, with no melee combat, and they are EASILY the worst boss fights in the game, feeling like they stretch on for way, way too long.

There isn't much of a "story" but what is there is fairly interesting, with a long walk to the next fight while a character gives you some vague worldbuilding or hypes up the next boss.

Music is excellent for the most part. Some absolute bangers. But there are some duds as well, such as one of the final bosses having maybe the most forgettable track in the game.

TL:DR - Great Hack'n'Slash game dragged down by slow and tedious Bullet Hell sections. 7/10

Thought it was a music album with cool art cover for years, but jailer is the key kill him and you'll be free.

Amazing game, amazing music, thought provoking story that sticks with you.

Please understand that the game is made extremely hard ON PURPOSE, it literally designed to not be for the faint of heart! It is for the patient, persistent, relentless players. This isn't a game where you can overlevel and conquer a tough challenge, the game itself IS THE CHALLENGE. If that's what you want out of a game, look no further.

extremely underrated game, definitely deserves more players and the ost is fire

Fucking Rad, best combat system I've ever played around with

If you love games like Devil May Cry, Sekiro, Bayonetta, etc. You will absolutely adore this game, it's a boss rush with a really damn satisfying move set. Only downside is the downtime between each boss fight, but even then, those walking sequences build up anticipation to every fight, so they aren't really a downside, just depends how you look at them. 10/10

Perfect if you want to squeeze in 2 attack in clash of clans during those long ass walking sections. Fights are pretty cool tho.

Good boss rush game! so much fun. For me ,this game has 2 cons. The first is that if you finish the game once and want to play the story again, you can't skip the walk section which is quite boring for me to do it again. The second is blue hologram head.........good luck rider!

This was one of the most challenging and rewarding experiences I have ever had with a game. This game does require dedication and a little bit of patience, so I wouldn't recommend this game unless you are willing to fail a few times. If you are able to get over the initial barrier of "what the f##k is going on help me", this game will provide you with near infinite replay value. Just to put this into perspective, I have managed to put around 60 hours into this game, despite my initial play through taking around 2. If you are in the market for a difficult, fast paced bullet hell and this game looks even somewhat like what your looking for, get this game. I can almost guarantee you wont regret it.

Genuinely of one of the best games I have ever played. Short, but a masterpiece through and through. Each boss is incredibly memorable in both character and moveset. The music is phenomenal and every track both leads up to the fights perfectly and matches the theme of each boss. Should be played blind if possible. Keyboard and Mouse controls are a bit jank, but still worth playing regardless.

so i haven't rolled credits on this game, and i may never loop back around to do so. HOWEVER this game is worth it for exactly 1 specific fight and that alone is enough for me to recommend it.

A decent game that offers challenging one on one bosses. It is paced by some long walk sequences, but with auto-walk (which the game does not tell you that it exists), it's not too bad of a break between the intense fights. I played the game with keyboard and mouse, which was actually pretty decent. The dodging with the mouse took some getting used to, but the controls felt natural.

The game is fairly short. I beat it and the extra boss in just over 7 hours. I would recommend it more if it was longer, but it is what it is.

The quality of the bosses vary a lot, some being fun and challenging, to other being just infuriating. A couple were too easy, allowing me to beat it first try, but others were definitely much more challenging. There seems to be a higher difficulty option, so maybe I'll try it later, but the Furi difficulty was just right for me.
I wish there was some indication of what attacks they were vulnerable to - sometimes they will parry all physical attacks, or reflect all your bullets, etc.

The best part of the game is, as stated by others, its music. Definitely gives each boss more flavor and pumps you up. Each phase changes the music, which definitely helps with spicing up the more similar sections between the boss phases.

Overall, 8/10. Worth a try if you like challenging games.

got the game in 2016 wasn't that good loved the game tho and the music then i came back and beat it on Furier with just smidge of practive and man the game i stilll great ouob

has good highs but the lows are extremely low. it feels super un-intuitive and unresponsive at times. and having the last boss be purely a bullet hell slog hp sponge was a very good decision.