Turbo Overkill

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  • Summary: Johnny Turbo needs to clean up Paradise, a cyber city overrun by augmented minions under the cult control of the world's most advanced AI, Syn, who's looking to expand to world domination if not stopped here and now. Wall-running, Hero-Time, chain saw leg augments, flying cars and lots of booms.

Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 1 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Eurogamer
    Aug 10, 2023
    100
    Absurd, unrelenting and endlessly creative, Turbo Overkill is a masterfully composed symphony of violence.
  2. Eurogamer Germany
    Aug 15, 2023
    100
    Rarely have I experienced such a thrilling rush of action and acrobatics, and if you're even remotely in the mood for that, don't miss Turbo Overkill.
  3. Digital Chumps
    Aug 24, 2023
    100
    By just about every single metric for evaluating a boomer shooter, Turbo Overkill excels and delivers in spades. I had a near limitless amount of agency to play as I want and still enjoy a boomer shooter experience without frills, gimmicks, and other artificial difficulty spikes. It oozes creativity while taking players on an exhilarating ride through a cyberpunk apocalypse. It’s the perfect blend of gore, seriousness, and silliness. Turbo Overkill is a literal spectacle of unfettered, high-octane boomer shooter gameplay. Call it a symphony of destruction, mayhem, gore, and violence. Call it bloody good fun. Call it whatever you want, really, so long as fun is somewhere in that mix. The world of Turbo Overkill is one worth exploring and desecrating with Johnny Turbo’s chainsaw leg.
  4. DarkZero
    Sep 6, 2023
    90
    With a name like Turbo Overkill, one is correct to assume that it is full of that cheesy madness, which is exactly what it delivers as it fully embraces the Boomer Shooter subgenre. Turbo Overkill is an encapsulation of absurdity, trying to push itself to the heights of stupendous fun through its creative weapons, augmentations and dumb, wild scenarios while offering plenty of mechanics and rapid gameplay to satisfy those old-school action lovers. With its superb throwback visuals, quality soundtrack, outlandish level design, and hyper-bloody action that never seems to let up, Turbo Overkill is a great recommendation for anyone looking for a quality and thrilling first-person shooter in 2023.
  5. Movies Games and Tech
    Mar 3, 2025
    85
    Enter Paradise as Johnny Turbo—half-metal, half-human, all-murder machine. Clean up the streets with a chainsaw leg, 15+ weapons and your hovercar as you battle the rogue AI Syn, rival bounty hunters and cyberpunks aplenty. Apogee’s most outrageous FPS since Duke Nukem 3D. Good hunting, Sir!
  6. SECTOR.sk
    Sep 4, 2023
    85
    The nostalgic action ride will mainly be enjoyed by veterans, but every lover of the genre should give it a chance, because it is very addictive.
  7. LEVEL (Czech Republic)
    Jan 29, 2024
    60
    A nice reference to classic first-person shooters. What adds to the similarity, besides the brisk bloody gameplay, is the game's visuals, which are a nice combination of 3D models and pixel graphics. The gameplay experience is complemented by the metallic music, which underlines the brutality of the game perfectly. [Issue#319]
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  1. SimplexPL
    Aug 29, 2023
    10
    Amazing and underrated boomer shooter, great music and cyberpunk asethetics, huge viertical urban decayed maps. Also you have a chainsaw inAmazing and underrated boomer shooter, great music and cyberpunk asethetics, huge viertical urban decayed maps. Also you have a chainsaw in your leg, what more do you want?… Expand
  2. Machomitch
    Aug 27, 2023
    10
    Honestly one of the best first person shooters I've ever played period. It's so outrageous and over the top almost all of the time, superbHonestly one of the best first person shooters I've ever played period. It's so outrageous and over the top almost all of the time, superb soundtrack, sublime gunplay, great level design and somehow it just gets better and better the more you play.

    For the price you cannot go wrong, truly excellent.    … Expand
  4. Bigbossbalrog
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Really fantastic game, I love Retro shooters, there all really fun! This one is really great!… Expand
  5. Milk_Slicer
    Aug 18, 2023
    10
    Excellent and very underrated boomer + story-shooter. Similar mechanics to Doom Eternal or Ultrakill with it's own unique art- and visualExcellent and very underrated boomer + story-shooter. Similar mechanics to Doom Eternal or Ultrakill with it's own unique art- and visual style set in a depressing Cyberpunk/Blade Runner world named Paradise. As a street cleaner, your job's well... cleaning the city of the so called Syn virus. The story is good enough and becomes really interesting over time. The game is divided in 3 chapters, all underlined with its varied gameplay passages and levels in each of them. Clean movement and shooter mechanics with cleverly designed guns, all fitting for different situations are building up to a solid gameplay foundation. Paired with a chainsaw leg you will find yourself dominating a large horde of enemies while listening to the banging soundtrack surrounding it. Upgrades for components of your body can be bought and applied along the purchase of a secondary gun mode for each one. Thanks to the well thought out level design, the game always keeps feeling fresh with new ideas, armory and gameplay passages. All in all, a great game with the only flaw being the music banging 24/7 instead of only in fights, making it feel more like background music. Give this game a go, if you like other fast paced shooters, or shooters in general! Great game!… Expand
  6. george_bondo
    Sep 4, 2023
    7
    God this is the fastest game I've ever played and it's also a shooter which is a big plus for me. There are excellent levels where you can flyGod this is the fastest game I've ever played and it's also a shooter which is a big plus for me. There are excellent levels where you can fly in a car, ride a motorcycle and run on furs. But there are also obviously unfortunate disadvantages that lead to a lengthy narrative, which is the main disadvantage of the game, this is protractedness.
    And so, the experiment is successful and even with great music.    … Expand

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