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  • Summary: Severed Steel is a single-player FPS featuring a fluid stunt system, destructible voxel environments, loads of bullet time, and a unique one-armed protagonist. It's you, your trigger finger, and a steel-toed boot against a superstructure full of bad guys. Chain together wall runs, dives,Severed Steel is a single-player FPS featuring a fluid stunt system, destructible voxel environments, loads of bullet time, and a unique one-armed protagonist. It's you, your trigger finger, and a steel-toed boot against a superstructure full of bad guys. Chain together wall runs, dives, flips, and slides to take every last enemy down. Play as Steel, a nimble, one-armed sharpshooter on a mission. There is no reloading - pick your shots well and be ready to pry a loaded weapon from your enemies' cold dead hands. Expand
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 14
  2. Negative: 0 out of 14
  1. Oct 8, 2021
    85
    Severed Steel assaults many of your senses and rewards your bullet dodging, slow motion ballet dancing with satisfying kills while caressing your eyes and ears with the striking visuals and soundtrack it presents to you.
  2. Oct 1, 2021
    80
    Severed Steel is a fantastic ride while it last, there is a map editor for the brave but replay value is only going to be found for those that have the need to top a leaderboard or want to record some dope slo-mo montages. Anyone looking for a supremely easy to get into action game that blends the bullet-time from Max Payne with a bombastic soundtrack pumping techno music and all the slides and dives from 80-90’s action movies…look absolutely no further than Severed Steel. For a first game Greylock has nailed it and I can’t wait to see this gem on consoles.
  3. Oct 5, 2021
    80
    Severed Steel will be a massive video game for a narrow group of gamers. If you love perfecting a plan and then spending as much time as needed to both car3efully and quickly execute it, you will love this experience. Running on a wall, diving through a window, all the time dodging enemy attacks, only to then slide and kill two enemies before finding a safe space is a fun time. But the game can also frustrate and annoy. The levels could be a little bigger and more varied. I like the restrictions on weapon use, but some players will hate it. But the development team at Greylock knows that the first-person shooter needs to evolve to be interesting and they have some good ideas about whether the genre should go. Even if you don’t love Severed Steel keep an eye out for what they work on next.
  4. CD-Action
    Jan 19, 2022
    75
    Severed Steel left me conflicted. On the one hand, it’s a pity that a couple of truly brilliant ideas were implemented in a generally unpolished game. On the other hand, despite all its flaws it’s a fun, engaging shooter that kept me in front of the screen for hours. [12/2021, p.39]
  5. Nov 16, 2021
    70
    Due to the player character’s smooth movement, Severed Steel is an exhilarating FPS experience that will make you fall in love with your own gameplay. It gets a little repetitive, though, and the Japanese localization could be better, but players who enjoy parkour FPS games or bullet-time action should be satisfied.
  6. Oct 3, 2021
    70
    What it lacks in narrative, Severed Steel makes up for it in the gameplay department. It’s fast, it’s frenetic, it’s vibrant and by golly, is it fun. There’s no greater pleasure in somersaulting over goons to air out their brain cases in glorious voxel violence. Switch off the lateral thinking and engage those cat-like reflexes.
  7. Oct 6, 2021
    60
    Severed Steel was fun to play, but I couldn’t recommend it at its current price in its present state. Greylock Studio needs to throw some intense boss battles in there, a few tough enemies, and, in my opinion, rework the bullet time metre. I really hope the developers don’t move onto their next project straight away, and instead turn this game into a series that will make people look forward to the sequel. If you love these types of games, then there is no doubt in my mind that you will also enjoy Severed Steel.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 7 out of 17
  2. Negative: 2 out of 17
  1. Mar 2, 2023
    10
    Boring story, don't care. Bad boss, easily cheesable too, who cares.

    Cool music, kickass gameplay and I'd be unbiased but when I'm feeling
    Boring story, don't care. Bad boss, easily cheesable too, who cares.

    Cool music, kickass gameplay and I'd be unbiased but when I'm feeling down I just fire up a firefight, kill a bunch of baddies and I'm back and running. Kind of my medicine.

    I do agree the game might be repetitive but I don't care about that as long as the game is good. Very underrated, tbh. I'd say it's a 9.5/10 just because there's not much to it unlike ULTRAKILL or DOOM Eternal, can't quite point my finger at what should be fixed to make it less samey but I keep going back to this game every once in a while. and with more and more updates it gets better and better.
    Rogue Steel is, to be honest, a really good excuse to keep slow-mo'ing and styling on some dumb AI. I just fire up 5 matches of firefight and get the energy I need by just doing some sick slow-mo tricks.
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  2. Jul 27, 2022
    10
    This game makes you feel like an un-stoppable gun-fu god. The game is fast and furious and still allows you pull off beautiful bullet timeThis game makes you feel like an un-stoppable gun-fu god. The game is fast and furious and still allows you pull off beautiful bullet time stunt moments where everything just falls into place and your enemies drop to the floor around you exactly as planned.

    The campaign is well designed and the levels feel varied. Story is minimal but artfully executed. And the destruction in the game is amazing.

    Plenty of replay once campaign is complete with new game+, firefight, mutators, bonus campaigns and missions and community made workshop missions.

    Soundtrack is sublime.
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  3. Jul 30, 2023
    9
    If Ultrakill met Max Payne's bullet time,
    insanely fun action-packed arena shooter with nary a lull in the gameplay, it's simply fight after
    If Ultrakill met Max Payne's bullet time,
    insanely fun action-packed arena shooter with nary a lull in the gameplay, it's simply fight after fight, with you being *required* to perform tricks, or "stunts", such as diving, flipping, sliding, etcetera, to even have a chance of surviving the nearly never ending onslaught of enemies.

    Enemy variety, in the main story at least, is a little meh, its all just guys with guns, with a flamethrower guy thrown in there from time to time, and thus the game at times becomes nothing more than a shooting gallery akin to something like titanfall 2.

    But unlike Titanfall 2, the story mode is very lacklustre, it can be completed in ~3 hour, with a simple and barebones story.

    The Samus-like arm cannon mechanic is interesting, but barely used until the last couple levels, and even then it's only used for its destructive capabilities.

    Overall a really fun game for an evening or 2. 9/10

    (acquired for free on Epic Games)
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  4. Jan 29, 2022
    7
    Концентрированный шутан на 3 часа,музыка балдежная,сюжет и графика условны. Стил еще вернется.Концентрированный шутан на 3 часа,музыка балдежная,сюжет и графика условны. Стил еще вернется.
  5. Jul 30, 2023
    7
    Rather fun FPS game once you get a hang of the traversal mechanics. Aiming and parkouring at the same time was rather confusing at timeRather fun FPS game once you get a hang of the traversal mechanics. Aiming and parkouring at the same time was rather confusing at time though, particularly in tight areas with lots of turns. Expand
  6. Mar 19, 2023
    6
    Es un juego muy interesante que, paulatinamente, se vuelve en una anécdota.
  7. Feb 15, 2023
    1
    This game should have been right up my alley. But I hated it.. The combat is flimsy and has no impact. At the same time you can't even tellThis game should have been right up my alley. But I hated it.. The combat is flimsy and has no impact. At the same time you can't even tell when you are taking damage until kill Screen. Lazy awkward game. Don't buy just cause you like Max payne or those vr games. This game aux. Expand

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