DUSK

At the dusked, straight up dusking it. And by it? Let's just say... my dusk.

Everything I loved about Doom, Quake, and Duke Nukem in one great game. I really loved the weapons and levels. It's a challenging game but it's fair.

Very fun maybe not as in depth of movement as other boomer shooters but still fun for what it does do. if you like fast paced boomer shooters and dont mind the old school look, for sure try it out.

Soundtrack of this game is fantastic too

I found this game due to the 'Big Johninator' (Arnold Schwarzenegger) reference in Ultrakill and holy damm it didn't dssapoint.
Dusk is alot of fun woth its weapon variarity playstyle.

Two Winchester M1887's. And soap. Great game, love the comedy, really badass.

Very solid and enjoyable shooter that proves once again that graphics < gameplay

this game rocks, the lovecraftian, gothic, mechanical and american horror style mixed with the boomer shooter gunplay is really a treat. I did find the first episode slightly boring however. Worth it on sale.

A 90s-style first person shooter, with fast paced movement, the levels are a mix between massive, open areas and closed up close quarter levels. Despite the dark looking tone of the game, it is "cartoony" and does not really take itself seriously. The game is somewhat short, Being around a couple hours long of playtime, would recommend this game if you like games similar to quake and doom.

This game was a core part of 2020 for me, without it and LittleBigPlanet, I probably would’ve done something I’d regret, so I’d personally like to thank the devs of this game for making 2020 a little more happy

Ultrakill's underrated older brother. Just as fun, just as charming, just as fast. Different environmental aesthetic, but equally as fun to look at and interact with.
10/10 no notes, great game, Newblood has immense potential and is building a great portfolio.

Dusk 9/10 - Dusk is Doom meets Gauntlet: Dark Legacy, which may be a combo that only I understand. Dusk is fast paced brutal murder. The only thing Dusk fumbles with is pumping the brakes with puzzles instead of going full throttle cultist murder. I love being a heretic.

about 20 minutes in and all i can say is if this is game is in ur wishlist or cart waste not a single second and buy it 10/10

One of the best boomer shooter experiences I've played. Cool maps, good humour, and amazing gunplay. Nothing better than bunnyhopping at 300km/h blasting enemies with the shotgun.

This is honestly one of the best boomer shooters out there. Right up there with the goats like Quake, Doom and Half Life, and has some genuinely scary moments. Only downside is the bosses being a little boring at times, but it might be my fault because I played on the 2nd hardest difficulty on my first play through. If you like boomer shooters, your gonna love this game!

Every time I want to play this game again I see my playtime at 66.6 hours and I stop myself. It just feels right.

Very fun game with very random humor in an otherwise serious game. They only say the word "Dusk" once though so 4/10

This is a brilliantly designed boomer shooter with tons of humor, a thick atmosphere and banging soundtrack. The levels are sprawling and immensely creative with changes to scenery as you progress or the level's geometry itself beginning to fall in on itself. My only main complaint is that some of the secrets are incredibly obtuse and almost require a guide due to how hidden they are. Otherwise, 9/10 experience. Please play this game!!!

Great fun, reminds me a lot of Blood and Hexen and those classic fps games

Peak game, must play if you love quake-likes. It's nowhere near as flashy as ultrakill, another retro fps published by the same stuido but that's not the game you should compare it to. If you love quake, blood and other stuff the dev says he's inspired by, then this is an easy buy

Really good Doom and Quake like game with addictive repetive gameplay

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.