Разработчик: Joshua Missile
Описание
Eldritch Hunter is a difficult platforming shooter with swift, level-based gameplay and several unlockable weapons to tackle often puzzle-esque battles, requiring a lot of hot-foot thinking along with fast-paced combat.
The game features 6 worlds, online leaderboards, 10 unlockable weapons, and 2 unlockable characters.
Mouse and Keyboard only. Keys are rebindable, and the game runs at 60fps, along with a low graphics setting just in case.
A and D to move, W to jump, Left Click to shoot, Shift or Right Click to use skill. Number keys or mouse wheel to switch weapons. F11 or ctrl+enter to toggle fullscreen.
Gamepad controls also available.
Game by The Biggest Missile Ever
Music by Jasmine Cooper
Поддерживаемые языки: english
Системные требования
Windows
- OS *: Windows 7+
- Processor: 2.5 GHz equivalent
- Memory: 4 MB RAM
- Graphics: 1+ GB of VRAM
- Storage: 200 MB available space
Отзывы пользователей
Fun short platformer game that's a bit puzzle-ly at times.
I don't know if I should be reviewing a game as I haven't even defeated the first boss fight, but I'm gonna anyway.
Eldritch Hunter is one of those challenging niche games with we play as a girl saving her city from a swarm of monstrosities, all with unique attacks that can one-kill you even when they died, so this game is all about planning out strategy and dodging projectile to survive to kill the cultist summoner. The main game is simple and quite easy enough, but when it comes to the boss fight, or at least the first one for me, that's another story I and 90% of players would tell later.
Overall, I love the gorgeous hand-brushed art style with a planned-out colour palette with the enemies being purplish and the instrumental soundtracks I can't help humming to. I would be updating this review once I found the time to invest a month or even a year into this game because I know it would take a while for me to complete, but so far I'm not regretting my purchase of this unique game.
Difficult and really good action game. This is how ADCs from League would be played if they had their own game.
Reminds me a lot of the game "Super Meat Boy" but with guns. Love the art and the music.
But it is a little short, and it does feel like a flash game.
What a loss!
I've never seen such a floaty and slow moving platforming game before. It's literally unplayable on my laptop (intel gfx) and there's nothing on-screen that justifies it. The framerate is so low that you can hear enemies die a good second before it happens on screen. Apparently the devs have been using RPGMaker or sthg similar and it shows. A f**ing farce.
There is an option for lower graphics in the menu, but it does nothing. In fact all the options go back to the default settings as soon as I leave the options menu and nothing is saved.
It was not even obvious that there was a config menu and good luck finding what to click on the world map to progress too.
The game would have been great with a good engine. I love the theme, the graphic style and the one-screen arcade-style gameplay reminiscent of old classics such as snow bros.
Unfortunately there is also a problem with the gameplay that ramps up so fast that you'll probably quit as soon as you reach the second world area. But most player will probably not reach it. I don't have anything against difficulty, but this is too much.
Oh, and yeah, meme speak doesn't bring anything good to your game. It detracts from it.
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This game is a one-man masterpiece. I love the Grafix, the music and especially the level design... just everything about this game is good. If you're reading this review because you're not sure if you should buy it, I say follow your heart, because that's where the screenshots and music of the game trailer went. Congratulations to Dev Joshua.
WOW What a piece of trash game! Oh, it draws you into Hardcore tentacle F#$k in every HOLE!
First and last, Like the level that broke me the Developer clearly plays only flash games. Hard locking controls to mouse and WASD ONLY. Frantically I react to faaar too many deaths by smashing my space bar to f*&king nothing. Pathetically displaying 10 WHOLE LEVELS ONLY FOR THEM TO BE BABY STEPS UNTIL THE LAST 2 LEVELS TO BE KNEE JERK DIFFICULTY ROCKET-JUMPS!!!!! CONGRATS ON THE SCORE BEING BASED ON ONES TIME!!! SINCE I CAN GUARANTEE EVEN WITH UNDER AN HOUR OF PLAYTIME I WONT BE INSTALLING THIS TRASH AGAIN!!! GOOD DAY F*&KBOI
Good points:
-premise
-main heroine
-cute artstyle and story
-ost
Bad ponts:
-controls
-interface/main menu
-game design
-technical aspect of the game itself
I have pretty mixed feelings about this game. It's not bad, but definitely not good either. To me, her good points didn't outweighed bad, so I couldn't fully enjoy it. But i'll be waiting for their next game, I hope she will be better.
Btw, if you really like this cute art style, you should buy and check it yourself, maybe it would be fun for you. It's not expensive to try.
Nicely done, pretty and funny game, shoot cute lovecraft stuff and save humanity, worth the price.
Fun little game, it presents you with some core mechanics and as you continue it comes with more challenge as you master the controls.
The game works in a level room system where you must clear each one of them as fast as you can, best times unlock weapons which can change the way you play and your tactics to clear each room faster, some of the guns are simply better than others, however, and there is a couple that you will probably never use except in very specific situations, there is a lot of variety which is pretty neat and appreciated. You can also unlock 2 new characters with different special skills besides the weapons.
The art is charming and neat, works very well with the gameplay.
Excellent background music, there is only a couple tracks but they go really well with the game and doesn't feel too repetitive.
Overall a fun experience and if it was polished a little more it could be even better, very much worth the price.
Eldritch Hunter is a unique game but that does not mean it’s good. Okay, now for the story.
You play as a young girl who’s town be taken by Lovecraft monsters and you must stop them.
Now what I liked about the game.
Liked the cute art. That’s about it.
Now what, I did not like about the game.
One: A lot of the times it felt unfair, like with enemies and bosses.
Two: the story, there is barely one I mean you can make a good parody of Lovecraft stories and his monsters. But this, it feels like it just wasted a lot of time, I mean I am not asking for an epic story but what I am asking for is a little story.
So I say don’t get this game there are a lot better games, that do a good parody of Lovecraft out there.
Great game but really hard. This game uses the keyboard to move and mouse to use your weapon. Because of this, you'll end up with a cramp as this game is difficult. It starts off easy enough but it doesn't take long before it gets hard. I was nearly screaming from the difficulty of some of the puzzles as the enemies swarm you relentlessly. I swear, the puzzles were designed to give you a disadvantage as you have to get the timing of everything right. From the exact position of the enemy to the exact spot where you must fire your weapon, some puzzles require you to be in rhythm at the exact second to have a chance. It's that hard.
Yet, regardless of all that, I beat the game in 3 and a half hours. My left hand hurts like heck but I beat the game nonetheless so it's not all that bad.
I'd say it's a great game. Good graphics, nice soundtrack, decent story, easy to understand controls, you can even use a controller but I didn't had one that was compatible. If you do have a controller, I suggest you use it because your hand will hurt after dying over and over again.
Frustrating and unrewarding.
As far as $5 games go, Eldritch Hunter is everything I could ask for; a game that takes some very fundamental mechanics and executes them excellently, steadily introducing more and more challenging maps in the process that steadily test your approach to the game. It's not a game that I'd ever consider "difficult" in the way that games that you have to work at for hours to master are difficult, but its level design is constantly requiring new approaches and exploration of the tools you have. It's a few hours of solid action platforming delivered in bite-sized tactical chunks that play out perfectly for what they're meant to be. At its price point, Eldritch Hunter one of the more engaging and slickly put together games I've played in a while.
Sometimes i write a review to praise a game i liked very much.
Sometimes i write a review to bash a game i hated very much.
With this in mind i come to the conclusion its quite rare i write a review to help fellow gamers make a decision....which should be the main reason someone writes a review.
Then im wondering whats the point of writing a review on Steam anymore? Everybody can buy the game, try it and refund if they dont like, so whats the point of a player review? None whatsoever...but i like doing things for no reason, especially when i wake up at 3am and cant sleep anymore :P
Eldritch Hunter is a hectic puzzle action/platformer based on pattern learning with a very unforgiving difficulty curve.
Bought the game because i liked the art style and because i like platformers, but this is not a platformer at all.
Basically all levels i played were 1-2 screens large (so nowhere to roam and nothing to explore) and required some platforming skills, coordination, reflexes and....drums rolling....thinking....because at the heart of this game is solving difficult situations, therefore solving puzzles of different kinds, timing puzzles, control puzzles, platforming puzzles, shooting puzzles, positional puzzles...you name it.
For people looking for an action-platformer with original graphics (like this game seems to be)....look elsewhere, this is not what you get here.
This game is for people looking for a challenge, solving reflex-based puzzles in a quest for the best time.
There is very good quality stuff on offer here, its one of the best puzzle/pattern-learning/difficulty-based games ive seen.
Personally i hate this kind of games, but despite this fact, i cant help but recommend this game because there is no denying it does exceptionally well what it sets out to do, and thats a quality very few games have.
A clever little action-puzzle platformer about a little girl shooting at tenacles and slimy things with dungeon punk style guns. I've been really looking forward to this one, and I was thankfully not let down.
Add this one to my cute but devious category, This game has a cute, cupcakey hand-painted character look, but has some very tricky gameplay segments that test your tactical planning as much as your reflexes.
In this game, you go room by room, level by level, clearing out enemies and making your way to shoot the evil priest, which is the target of every stage. However, this game is not a Contra-esque action shooter, but more of an action puzzle. Many enemies are traps that leave behind obstacles or fire hard to avoid missiles when killed, and if you go in guns blazing you can end up boxing yourself in. The game also makes copious use of pest-spawning flesh creatures that make being accurate and choosing good footing to advance with important to not getting bowled over by an endless steam of worms.
This is one of the areas where the game does alright. The different weapons all have their uses, while still being adaptable enough to allow the player something of a favorite playstile. For example, the basic crossbow has enough damage and fire rate to swiftly mow down a swarm of pests, but it is a bit more deliberate against larger enemies or spawner nests. A shotgun blast can scatter groups of small creatures and punish big ones, but it's not the best for driving off an advancing swarm with its slow rate of fire. The fire bow can lock down a spawner or enemy bottleneck, wreathing anything that comes at you in flames, but it is less effective for attacking or hitting moving targets.
It's all pretty cleverly done, and the game never runs out of tricks. There are only about ten unique enemies or so, but it's paced out that even in the later stages you'll encounter new threats and still see previous enemies being used in sinister new ways, as well as getting new weapons and finding new ways to purge.
I don't entirely agree with the scoring system though; especially for a game as short as this. You are rated on time and time only, so the faster you stake the priest, the more medals and weapons you unlock, which can make getting better times on harder levels easier. I feel like the game shines most when you are playing to completion though, taking on each enemy as it's own obstacle and enjoying the challenge of clearing the board as opposed to rushing.
The game is short, but sweet. It can be cleared in under two hours if you are quick. Still, it's got pretty solid core design and I don't think I was cheated for only four dollars.
Overall: It's a nice little adventure with a cute protagonist and some fairly serious challenges. Recommended for classic hardcore arcade fans. If you find yourself longing for some challenging 2D action or are a fan of the old lovecraftian setting, this one is a nice little nut for you to crack.
Eldritch Hunter is a seakily addictive platformer.
It manages to be difficult, without being cheap.
Every time I died I felt like it was my fault and not not because of the game.
That being said, there are some pretty difficult spots that will take MULTIPLE attempts to get through.
Despite being difficult, it takes the Super Meat Boy approach of throwing you right back in the action. Which negates any frustration coming from dying over and over again.
Music is very engaging and fits the setting well.
Highly recommended for the price.
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Дополнительная информация
| Разработчик | Joshua Missile |
| Платформы | Windows |
| Ограничение возраста | Нет |
| Дата релиза | 31.01.2025 |
| Отзывы пользователей | 76% положительных (17) |