Prodeus

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User Score
7.6

Generally favorable reviews- based on 36 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 21 out of 36
  2. Mixed: 12 out of 36
  3. Negative: 3 out of 36

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  1. IPlayIntoGames
    Aug 10, 2023
    8
    The walls are red, painted by the blood of my enemies.

    Game is fun. I love the 3D with the pixelated filter. Another Boomer shooter / doom clone, can't go wrong with that, not a must buy, but it's well worth the price.
  2. gameking
    May 18, 2023
    8
    This game is looks like original doom game in 2022. I liked this game. It gives me a nostalgia feeling with a enjoyable gameplay.
  3. piglordofallham
    May 2, 2023
    7
    I gave Prodeus a little spin for about an hour one afternoon this past month of April and found it t be kind of comparable to riding a train somewhere for the first time. At first you're extremely excited, you get in line, you purchase your ticket, you think of all the exciting things you will see on the train, the sights, the sounds, then you board the actual train, sit down, put yourI gave Prodeus a little spin for about an hour one afternoon this past month of April and found it t be kind of comparable to riding a train somewhere for the first time. At first you're extremely excited, you get in line, you purchase your ticket, you think of all the exciting things you will see on the train, the sights, the sounds, then you board the actual train, sit down, put your luggage up, and soon realize you have made quite a dreadful mistake. You soon learn that you are now trapped on this train going to the destination you have selected. Excitement soon gives way to boredom as you find yourself restlessly sitting in your seat, or standing up, only to pace for a bit to sample the amenities onboard, only to once again be dismayed every time you look at the time on your wrist watch.

    Antiquated locomotives analogies aside, why does Prodeus give way to disappointment after merely an hour of actual gameplay? Their is one loop, and though it is smooth as butter, it becomes predictable. It soon grows spiteful of its own simplicity, but lacks the complex ideas necessary to liven up its stale progression. Walk into room, kill things, hit switch, things teleport into room, things appear behind door, walk into room, kill things, and you can repeat this until the levels start adding gallons of hit-scanning enemies who literally teleport miles away from you. I suppose that's for the extra challenge of distinguishing what tiny pixel monster you should shoot at first in the distance, so at least its training you to squint constantly just incase you need to brush up on those particular ocular skills. Visually the game is actually kind of a mixed bag. Being on the Unity engine their are loads of little interesting effects, options and you can surely tailor the visuals to your liking, but you will always be robbed of sight completely when you are surrounded by exploding animated gore effects, flashing lights from your muzzle flashes burning brighter than your suburban street on Christmas eve, and to top it all off the audio is a bit too much at times.

    Doom 2016 solved all these problems years ago, which is kind of ironic. Poor pacing was solved by challenging AI from enemies, combining good level design with a mixture of monsters in a room to encourage the player to pull out different weapons to solve that particular rooms configuration of enemies. It also had loads of verticality, versatility, great weapon alternative fire modes, a really good weapon loadout, looked clean, and sounded fantastic. So where does that leave Prodeus? I suppose in the dust, as Doom Eternal came out merely a year or two ago, and was leagues better than the 2016 Doom reboot. Prodeus suffers from indie syndrome. Its a terrible disease that makes any indie developer believe that all you have to do to make a good game is stuff Quake, Doom, a soundtrack done by Andrew Hulshult, and pixel-esque graphics into a title to make it good. In reality, making games is much more complicated.

    The problem with Prodeus is not it in its action, it has plenty of action. It has poor pacing, it has poor enemy placement, it lacks enemy variety, it has a lot of secret areas that aren't really that interesting to find, it has loads of enemies spawn into rooms like its emulating more of the mistakes from Doom 3's general level design ideas than anything else. It all kind of blurs and blends together stylistically into this rather bland experience. It just burns out too quickly like a roman candle that fizzles out like a dud firework rather than the satisfying explosion it should be. Once levels started randomly spawning in stuff that wasn't agreeing with my shotguns range, I switched to the pistol, which makes it too easy, because the AI is terrible. You can easily duck behind walls, because enemies are stupid. They don't chase you, they're not aggressive, and they are typically hit-scanners. This is lazy and not fun to play. It becomes more obsessed about mimicking all of the beats from Doom 2016 and ignores trying to be its own thing instead.

    So I guess I'd only recommend it if you're bored with Brutal Doom, Doom 2016, Doom Eternal, the original Doom, Dusk, Quake, Quake 2, and just about literally anything else made in the last 25 to 30 years because the formula is basically identical.    … Expand
  4. tyriless
    Apr 25, 2023
    7
    The first third of this game is pure joy, with exciting encounters and inventive level designs, which reward running and gunning and cover based play, while the middle third if filled with big open areas that swam you with enemies, creating a lot visual noise and very little fun. On one sequence I died three times and then had spend a few minutes finding my way back from the checkpointThe first third of this game is pure joy, with exciting encounters and inventive level designs, which reward running and gunning and cover based play, while the middle third if filled with big open areas that swam you with enemies, creating a lot visual noise and very little fun. On one sequence I died three times and then had spend a few minutes finding my way back from the checkpoint each time. The checkpoint system is hit or miss, but oh boy, when it misses it certainly is a pain. Sometimes they spawn enemies right on top of you as you grab a checkpoint which feels more like a punishment for using them then a reward with engaging play. The difficulty options vary between way too easy and crush-your-spirits hard, especially in the aforementioned middle third. Playing through this game can feel more like a chore than a joy.

    I know this boomer-shooter came from a small-development team, but it feels like they just ran out of ideas for fun combat encounters and optioned to just overwhelm you to point you don't notice that they really didn't bother balancing this game.    … Expand
  5. Ratingss
    Mar 17, 2023
    6
    The blood splatter and sounds are cool but the game lacks personality by being too much of a Doom clone and the levels all look the same.
  6. adamflame7
    Mar 8, 2023
    10
    A very well made and confident boomer-shooter. It's doing some cool spoofed sprite visuals that work very well and actually look quite good. It features a few different areas throughout that keep the environments looking different and unique. In addition the level design is very competent.

    Weapons sound and feel good. Very punchy. I will point out that most weapons do have reloads    A very well made and confident boomer-shooter. It's doing some cool spoofed sprite visuals that work very well and actually look quite good. It features a few different areas throughout that keep the environments looking different and unique. In addition the level design is very competent.

    Weapons sound and feel good. Very punchy. I will point out that most weapons do have reloads unlike Doom, but I don't feel it hurts the flow of combat in any way.

    Oh yeah, and there's a LOT of blood.    … Expand
  7. JackMcloed
    Feb 8, 2023
    10
    Sick af AF.
    The amazing enemy sprite work makes blowing everything apart 3x more satisfying. You CAN turn them into 3d models, but only someone who really hates themselves would do that... Makes me wish Quake had the same option. Seriously, I'm on level 22 now and there hasn't been a single level that I didn't rate as "good". (You can rate every level as good or bad after you win). It    Sick af AF.
    The amazing enemy sprite work makes blowing everything apart 3x more satisfying. You CAN turn them into 3d models, but only someone who really hates themselves would do that... Makes me wish Quake had the same option. Seriously, I'm on level 22 now and there hasn't been a single level that I didn't rate as "good". (You can rate every level as good or bad after you win). It pulls off what it's trying to do flawlessly. I f***ING love this game.

    Ultra juicy. Would bang.    … Expand
  8. Pmstz
    Feb 1, 2023
    6
    Pretty nice/ok game

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  9. PS4Games
    Jan 22, 2023
    7
    I didn't finish the game. I'm at the beginning actually, played it for like one hour and what I can say is the following:

    (I played on Xbox one s) The good: that game really hitting the nostalgia about that kind of games, good controls, no lack of ammo, strong weapons, good level design, nice colors, visually the game is "as it suppose", massive potential ( to say the least). The    I didn't finish the game. I'm at the beginning actually, played it for like one hour and what I can say is the following:

    (I played on Xbox one s)

    The good: that game really hitting the nostalgia about that kind of games, good controls, no lack of ammo, strong weapons, good level design, nice colors, visually the game is "as it suppose", massive potential ( to say the least). The bad?loading screens. I can't believe this thing exist on the 360p mode. And they are relatively long ones. (I don't know, like 20 seconds). Repetitive music. The music is overall Doom 2016 copy-paste-ish thing. Repetitive monsters. It's entertaining at the beginning but quickly fading away. The worst part is the incompetence of the stronger monsters. They aren't aggressive as they should and often miss. They also quickly dying. They dying as quick as the normal monsters. Good level design, yeah, but it's all too claustrophobic at the beginning and as I saw on youtube maybe it would be the same for the rest of the game. There are wide open places but the action arena is significantly smaller. The levels are short. The first levels at least. The fun just begun and hop the level just ended. The music too. Everything. Like what. It supposed to be non stop massacre. It's not at the beginning. The map doesn't help. It doesn't pointing you anywhere. I can't say much about. I'm at the beginning. I got a bit bored at the end of that hour. And i like that style of shooters. I'm giving 7 compared to other games but honestly the game doesn't deserve more than 4. The game suffer from what the old school games suffer but at least it doesn't suffer from what today's games suffer.
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    Ok im on the second hour and have stuck on one bing jump. I've saw on YouTube that jump is the way forward for sure. It's way way you long. Ive tried everything. I've seen some have also stuck on it. I went to the shop to buy the double jump but it's tier 2 whatever that mean so I can't buy it. Also to buy things you must have gold nuggets. You can find them in the levels but strangely they are very well hidden. I've found few out of many even tho I've searched for them. That's not good.    … Expand
  10. JussaGamber
    Dec 12, 2022
    9
    Prodeus perfectly NAILS the formula for sci-fi FPS! With *two* great Soundtracks, great pixel art and loads of action.
    There's valid criticism, and I would be excited if there was an "Oldschool mode", with no checkpoints and bottomless gun magazines.
  11. CodaHensley
    Dec 2, 2022
    8
    A game that kept me playing until the end, but doesn't hook me enough to drive for an 100 percent completion (which as someone with OCD is rare). Most everything just feels surface level, in the way that the moment-to-moment gameplay is amazing, but there isn't any teeth to really grab me past that.
  12. benbon9009
    Nov 15, 2022
    10
    Is exactly what it's trying to be, a modern take on the oldschool shooters (these days I think people refer to them as "boomer shooters"), a blend of old style graphics but with flair here and there that would definitely not have run on a high end machine of the time. It looks gorgous to the kind of person who has nostalgia for the time period it's successfully emulating. The game-play isIs exactly what it's trying to be, a modern take on the oldschool shooters (these days I think people refer to them as "boomer shooters"), a blend of old style graphics but with flair here and there that would definitely not have run on a high end machine of the time. It looks gorgous to the kind of person who has nostalgia for the time period it's successfully emulating. The game-play is fast paced action with top tier responsiveness. If you loved Doom (1993), give this a go!… Expand
  13. Mousa_2022
    Sep 28, 2022
    10
    i was not expected too much from this game , now i'm shocked , this game is crazy , one of the best game of this genre i ever played i wish it never ends
  14. GandalfCzarny
    Sep 25, 2022
    10
    My personal game of the year. This is just boomer-shooter where everything is done right - great and complex level design, fantastic looking and sounds weapons, tone of gore and blood and of course retro look but other than many games from the genre. All of this made Prodeus a new king of boomer-shooters, which deliver us true symphony of destruction!

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#39 Best PC Game of 2022

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Metascore
84

Generally favorable reviews - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. Worth Playing
    Apr 3, 2023
    80
    Prodeus is a classic Doom clone through and through, but that isn't a knock at all. It nails the core mechanics well from the level design to pacing. While the enemies feel like reskinned versions of what you're familiar with, the gameplay loop works thanks to some solid shooting mechanics. Even though it lacks real innovation in the space and the multiplayer is practically dead, the inclusion of a map maker along with a plethora of custom maps almost negates those issues. Overall, shooting fans will like this one, and curious players can use as an entry point into the re-merging boomer shooter genre.
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  2. Ragequit.gr
    Oct 19, 2022
    88
    Prodeus is an excellent title that can provide you with several hours of adrenaline injection and fun. Solid level design, gratifying gunplay, and beautiful aesthetics, comprise this well-made FPS, one of the best in recent memory for sure.
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  3. GameGrin
    Oct 19, 2022
    85
    Prodeus is the reincarnation of classic FPS games from the '90s. There isn't much of a story here, but let's be honest, if you are playing this game, it's for the blood and mayhem!
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