DUSK

A great boomer shooter with a very good points shop! a lot of variety in backgrounds that use their own style, plus fairly funny emoticons one could use for their profile or to communicate with friends!

Dusk is great.... most fun I've had playing a shooter in a long time

most accurate depiction of pennsylvania in gaming history, probably in any media ever

Just got around to playing this as it's meant to be a classic. And it is! Extremely varied levels and enemies and a great soundtrack to boot! Recommended!! A+

A very solid boomer shooter. Movement & combat is fluid & fun and the level designs, especially in the later chapters, are interesting & surrealistic -- all wrapped neatly with great music & plenty of secrets to find.

Fuck the cowgirl enemy, though.

the movement is really fun and reminds me of quake, the guns feel great to shoot, buy it.

Pretty okay boomer shooter with unique Lovecraft/Exorcism/Texas Chain Saw theme. The enviroments are surreal but the guns are very conventional: pistols, shotguns, rifles, submachineguns and such with no personality. And the explosives the player has doesn't have much power. But still the game has some neat ideas, like the trampoline spots, wall climbing power-ups and switching gravity.

Probably one of the best games ive played. From the movement to the gunplay to the story, soundtrack and voice acting. It rewards exploration and mastering the movement is extremely rewarding. The creative design and character modeling in raw as hell and the enemies never get boring to look at. It seriously is worth every penny

Awesome super fast paced fps game.
not recommend from those who suffer unknown motion sickness from game run on Doom engine.
I had to take a break every 10 minutes for like half an hours but every minutes I spent on this game. it awesome! the level design is just awesome! give it a go if you're into boomer shooter

a game about dusk guy getting lil angwey so he kills all the people that is a part of a cult with a FUCKING FARMING TOOL while always.... speedrunning, behopping, backfliping, and sliding and then decides to kill god.... 13/10 would rather play this game instead of having sex with my imaginery anime wife

I got this game on a bundle sale. However i would definitely suggest buying it. By far my favorite fps. I am in my first play through. And i will definitely be playing again a few times. Wanna do a 100% and play through at higher difficulty. If you grew up playing doom. You will love it. Highly suggest the game.

genuinely the best "boomer shooter" i have played. Its a lot like the original Quake but has a unique modern setting with horror elements. The weapon variety is decent, nothing too crazy but all of them are extremely punchy and satisfying to use (especially the hunting rifle and the crossbow) and they are introduced at a pretty good pace.

Each level feels very open ended. Despite clearly having a linear path intended, they are pretty large maps and the player can often find hidden secrets and rewards if they explore a little bit. Some of the levels are a little confusing though, (The mine shaft in Episode 1 and the factory in Episode 2 come to mind) but its not really a big deal, you will get used to it. overall the level design is really good.

This game is just fantastic all around, without a doubt my favorite game from New Blood Interactive.

try if you like fps games. if not still try. even if you dont know how to fps game still try. if youre deaf still try. colourblind? try. blind? try paralyzed from the neck down? still try. i would try it if i were you. even if not like is worth a try

last level is called dusk where you can see the dusk

so...wonderful

The gameplay and the setting are quite solid. Although I find sickles and mortar weak, the weapons are overall good. I don't have a past with games such as Quake or old-school DOOM but, it managed to give me the same feelings as I felt in my childhood when I was playing Counter Strike 1.6. And not just the in-game experience, it manages to give that retro vibe from the menus to the save system. Even, if you activate all the filters in the graphic settings, it is literally possible to turn it into a nineties game. And those filters are quite succesful as in general, indie games tend to exaggerate it. After beating this, I even went purchasing Quake I, II and Ultrakill. We'll see how they turn out...

The only criticism I will make is that the game becomes overkill sometimes. I mean, some bosses we beat appear as regular enemies in the upcoming chapters. Especially that Mama enemy who was already quite annoying as a boss. Or, E3M9 was a total filler as all we did was killing mobs in an arena in NINE phases and get to a 3-mob boss fight in the tenth phase. If that was what I was looking for, I would go play the Endless mode which I did...

I can absolutely recommend.

DUSK is a masterpiece - It's like if all the best elements of Doom, Quake, and Half-Life were combined into one game. It's one of the best gaming experiences I've ever had. Every element works so well to create a game that perfectly achieves the goal it was going for - the definitive modern boomer shooter. If it's on sale, buy it right now. If it's not, buy it anyways. DUSK is just that good.

The Many Reasons Why Dusk Requires More Skill than ALL Other Boomer shooters combined. Its arguably the greatest first person shooter (FPS) that has ever been conceived, as many would agree. David released several generations of the great game and then perfected multiplayer combat. Since then, New Blood has been rolling in infinite money. There have been many arguments about which boomer shooter is the best but those are DORKS who like The Citadel. But let us dig a little deeper and ask “Why am I so bad at Dusk's combat?” or “Which Boomer Shooter has a wider skill range/higher skill ceiling?” These questions have factual answers that only a true Dusk fan can appreciate. The obvious answer is Skylab on Dusk's Multiplayer. Which turns gooners like you into intellectuals.
PLAY MORE SKYLAB

This game is worth getting I really like the cultist enemies and the game design. I love how many secrets are in Dusk. I even like it more than Doom! But I hate those damn scarecrow peons like, who gives a scarecrow a shotgun?! 10/10

DUSK is a excellent dark, atmospheric boomer shooter. Very fun gameplay, good level design and enemies. The weapons you have are fairly basic for the genre but its not necessarily a problem. The lofi art style is good, I like some others a bit more but its solid.

If you like retro shooters and like the look of it from the store page I think its unlikely you'll be disappointed.

It's currently marked down from 20 USD to 10 USD. Value at 20 is decent but its definitely a good buy at 10.

10/10, pretty sure David Szymanski ripped a hole in the space time continuum to another timeline where Quake 2 leaned into the horror vibes, brought that version of Quake 2 to our timeline, then re-branded it as DUSK.

Un boomer shooter el cual trata bastante de recrear el sentimiento de los antiguos, lo cual logra muchisimo, si eres un viejo de 40 con 2 divorcios el cual jugo doom cuando salio, no se porque vez reseñas de steam, pero disfrutaras muchisimo de este juego. Aunque se lleva algunos de los problemas de los shooters de esa epoca, no tiene autoguardado y alguna decisiones en los niveles son cuestionables, aunque son generalmente en el capitulo 1 y 2, el tercero es muy bueno, homecoming fue una sorpresa que no esperaba para nada pero me dejo muy satisfecho

The first of the New Blood trilogy. I feel so late to the party on this one cause I remember when it came out it pretty much started the retro fps craze, and it deserves the credit. It isn't UltraKill, but it doesn't need to be.

10/10
The characters' premise fits my needs of perspective.
This might not mean anything, and I apologize if this isn't misleading.
I don't leave bad reviews, all efforts are a perfect score.

Like almost every single other so-called 'Boomer Shooter', this game misses the ONE feature that ACTUALLY made games like this popular in the first place: Co-op Multiplayer.

That alone shows how out of touch the modern gaming industry is - even Indie devs have their heads up their arses.

On to the review now.

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I don't rate this game but I've recommended it. This is because the first two episodes are worth the price alone

Which works in well because everything after that is not only worthless, but actively cruel. It feel like the designer was so sick of doing their job, so they tried to pass the along the pain to the player.

The boss battle is TERRIBLE.

Listen to me: It's the worst-designed boss battle I've ever had the misfortune of witnessing, Which is pretty impressive considering it's literally just two combatants in one tiny room. No setpiece, no workaround, nothing clever - just 'fuck you' if you enjoyed playing the game so far.

It requires understanding gaming concepts (specifically, enemy bunny hopping) that the game NEVER even introduces, let alone teaches you about.

This game doesn't feel like a celebration of old school gaming, it feels like the digital version of the sentence 'you wouldn't last very long back in my day'. Like, it's not about sharing joy that older games brought. It's more about punishing people who weren't there at the time.

For the record I was there at the time. Played the original Blood and Blood 2 at launch.

I KNOW how to defeat a bunny-hopping enemy - shoot a lot and don't stand still.

It's just crap design - so I refuse to engage with the end of game, which I feel has cursed the previous time I spent in the game, which makes me feel like the whole thing was a waste of time.

Again, this game feels more like punishment than joy. Buyer Beware but also some of you freaks love that shit, and you're the ones I'm recommending the game to, dig?

I've got absolutely no idea what's so good about this game. The movement feels slippery, it's hard to actually hit anything, the enemies do not react to being hit whatsoever, and the levels give me headaches. At some point in the industrial area I had to search for online tutorials to find the right path. Meanwhile it lacks basic modern game features such as autosave, which can significantly improve the experience.
Downloaded and deleted three times without finishing it once. This game could have been a masterpiece in the 1990s, but only in the 1990s.

As of writing this I have not played a lot of this game but jeez is this fun so far, the level design is actually perfect, it encourages you to search for secrets and explore the map while keeping that classic run and gun fun with such a variety of weapons, I was playing through the first campaign and actually found a secret level, honestly just an amazing game and I plan to keep playing this for a long time.

As a Boomer Shooter, DUSK is really good where it counts. The movement is tight, shots are accurate and taking down enemies feels satisfying. There are many different weapons, from normal pistols to exploding rivet guns, and many enemies like Wizards, Wendigos and dogs in rolling cages. Another strong point of DUSK is the atmosphere; every level feels dank, oppressive and foreboding, and it almost never lets up. And the rocking soundtrack is the cherry on top - it's really good.

DUSK does have a few weaknesses though. Hit feedback is a bit weak, as is the weapon feel. There is not much weight behind shots and the accompanying sound effects, which isn't that important for a boomer shooter, but could still feel better. Level design is generally pretty good, but it follows the traditional "find key in one part of the level and use it in a different part" pattern of Hexen, Heretic and so forth, so if you are bad at memorizing level layouts, DUSK may frustrate at times - a problem that is made worse by the fact there is no TAB map for the levels. In my opinion, though, most of the levels are small and compact enough that it only rarely becomes a problem.

Even so, DUSK has its heart and most of its body parts in the right place. As someone who has learned to enjoy Boomer Shooters in recent years, DUSK is definitely one of the best I have played so far, and secrets, achievements and endless modes lend some replayability for those who seek it. A definite recommendation!

Doom, but doom guy is a badass hick with dual wielded sickles is good

This is hands down one of the best boomer shooters I ever played. The combat is satisfying, the weapons are simple but fun, the secrets are fun to find, the level design overall is great and reminded me of Quake a lot. I would recommend this to anyone who enjoys games in this genre 100%. Don't even get me started on the OST. It is incredible. I'll be listening to it for a while even after finishing the rest of the game.

Super fun FPS game. This kind of thing is definitely becoming one of my favourite types of game. The levels were so much fun to play through and were all very distinct from each other. For some reason, I enjoyed playing this with a controller way more than on keyboard & mouse.

I should've expected David Szymanski to do something different with the game, but I was still blown away by how unique he made a lot of these levels. Some incredibly interesting art direction.

Bad

The core game mechanics are not that great. The movement control is somewhat off, the shooting doesn't feel strong, and the level design can get confusing.

To progress through the level you need to collect color-coded keys but they can be tricky to find. This mechanic is implemented in a way that doesn't make the game better but rather does the opposite. It's not very fun to wander through a cleared level for 10 minutes, searching every corner for a blue or red key, meanwhile, you have a yellow key and there is not a single yellow door in sight.

The enemy behavior is simplistic, all they do is run at you and attack, which is fine for the chainsaw dudes, but it would be nice to see some variety. The bosses are the same dummies but larger and with a health bar.

The loot placement sometimes doesn't make sense. For example, you can find an offensive buff in places where it expires before you see any enemies.

Good

The general atmosphere and aesthetics are great if you enjoy that type of art direction.

The environment is fairly interactive, you can flush stuff down the toilet, cook meat at bonfires, carry around various objects or throw them at enemies, etc. Some secret locations are hidden behind this kind of interaction. However, this is more of a gimmick than an actual feature that impacts the gameplay.

The way levels are connected thematically makes sense and kind of tells the story behind the grim state of the world.

Somehow, the camera movement didn't feel nauseous for me, even though it is pretty wobbly and there is that leaning animation when you look around.

Conclusion

The main reason to try this game is for its art style. The overall gameplay gets repetitive and bland after a while, and on top of that, the most important game mechanics could use some polishing and fine-tuning.

This game feels like it could be so much better, but it just doesn't reach the bar it sets for itself and ends up being a half-cooked everything rather than a well-done one thing. Not sure how it got 20k of overwhelmingly positive reviews, it's definitely not that impressive.

If you want to try it out get it on sale or in a bundle, not worth the full price imo.

Unpleasant tilt of the camera towards running, slow boring gameplay, large empty maps where you have to look for where to go, no impact felt in shooting, weak sounds of shots, unpleasant sound of receiving damage, atmosphere of a horror movie in the village.

Dusk is the Quake II we never got. It's also Cry of Fear if Simon wasn't a little b*tch. It's genuinely a perfect game.

I really wanted to like this! It feels great to play on the Steam Deck and it’s obviously a massive passion project paying homage to the classic boomer shooters of yesteryear.

But…I couldn’t get past the “boomer” part of this descriptor. So much of Dusk’s design language is rooted in how things used to be, which means - for someone like me who didn’t grow up with/worship those older titles - there’s not much to motivate me to keep going. Secrets are hidden so obscurely that I don’t understand how anyone finds them all without using a guide, or without spending hours scouring every texture in a map while spamming the interact button. Too often, levels will be based on the exact same formula of looking for a red key, then backtracking to open the red door which leads to the blue key, then backtracking to the blue door, etc. Exploring each map can be fun sometimes, but there are several samey-looking areas that make it very difficult to navigate without wandering in a random direction in hopes that you’ll regain your bearings. Also, I’m seeing several reviews saying the game gets tedious and repetitive in the later parts - did they not find it tedious and repetitive in the first episode?!

I actually do respect the fact that Dusk hard commits to being how fans of boomer shooters remember them being. But for me, someone who’s not in the target audience, it lacks a few too many modernities that the FPS genre has received in recent times. I’d still recommend it to those who are intrigued by it, but it ain’t for me.

After playing more. Yeah, I like this game. The graphics just give it a good feel, the bosses so far have been fun, I just need to play this a bit more, One day, I'll 100% this

If you're anything like me, you're going to find the start to be interesting, but a little slow. The gameplay may wear out pretty quickly. Stick with it, Episode 2 and 3 are amazing and worth building up to. Episode 1 is great too, but episode 2 and 3 are even more special.

Genuinely a beautifully made, simple, and surprisingly Lovecraftian game!

Buy it. One of the best, if not THE best boomer shooter out there right now. You're legitimately missing out rn. Hurry up, become WORTHY!

Excellent boomer shooter with a really interesting style and enemys designs, i especially liked the farmland and industrial settings the game is set in
The best feature is clearly the gun flipping

Fast paced and fun this games has amazing atmosphere and is a blast to play with secrets hidden all over to find. Great game!

Today, I would like to write about the game Dusk, which is a retro FPS set in the town of Dusk. Honestly, this game feels like someone took all the conspiracy theories that exist and mixed them into one, and it works absolutely perfectly. The game has an indescribable atmosphere that pulls you in at every step. The graphics fit the atmosphere of the game beautifully, and the controls are also very smooth. I'm happy that I can do bunny hopping. The only thing that bothers me is the rather small number of weapons; plus, they all play quite similarly. Honestly, some of the achievements were a bit boring, but they were compensated by the beautifully crafted levels. The level The Escher Labs is one of the best levels I've ever played. The enemies were very fun and diverse, and overall, I really enjoyed playing through the game. I recommend it to anyone who likes the retro FPS genre.

This game was the spark that reignited my love for video games back when it came out, its one of the absolute greatest retroshooters, and its worth buying it like 4 or 5 times over.

Dusk

A bloody, Madness Driven, Boomer Shooter from a man that understands what the classics brought to the table.. it just kicks A*s!!!

Great Job David! I really enjoy this one to be sure.

Traversal is Tight, guns are satisfying and the music is awesome.

Pretty well perfect, affordable as well for new comers to the genre.

Thanks!
9/10

very smooth controls and amazing game-play the level design is really good

Very fun quake-like shooter. I will not lie, the first time I played this I was very lost and didn't really enjoy the game, but once I went through all the episodes it was very cool to zoom through all the levels and to get all kills and secrets

Great boomer shooter that reminds me of Quake, although a bit short for today's standards, it's still super fun.

Good game with great level , enemy , music and story wise ? But damn the DIFFICULTY SPIKE IS ABSURD! Dont be afraid to play on easier difficulty.

Creepy, well-designed levels and a variety of weapons make this game incredibly fun. The evil has taken over the world, formed a cult, and decimated all reason - but you, the great equalizer, are there to purge it all in blood.

Easily David Szymanski best work.
Pros:
-Great fast combat
-Lovely Art style + a HD mode that changes the look of the game
-Fun weapons
-Lengthy Campaign with plenty of secrets and hidden levels
-Very good soundtrack
-Varied levels that get darker and more messed up
-Decent moments of horror
Cons:
-Bosses are hit or miss, some are fun some are just run in a circle till it dies.

If you like bunny hopping and going at the speed of light, you will enjoy this game a lot. The movement is great and the combat feels satisfying, but I would get it on a sale since it becomes a lot cheaper

Its very good. Idk why but the first episode I was kind of bored by when I initially played and actually enjoyed the other episodes so much more when i got to them. Going back and 100%ing them made me realise they weren't bad at all, just that i hadnt got into the flow of the game yet. I do much prefer the later episodes body and eldritch horror. the enemies called horrors are probably my favourite, they behave creepily, their sound design is amazing and they compliment the levels they are in very well. the ending was pretty good/mid i guess but thats standard for a classic boomer shooter