Tesla vs Lovecraft

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7.3

Mixed or average reviews- based on 14 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 9 out of 14
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 14
  3. Negative: 3 out of 14

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  1. nusco
    Sep 23, 2020
    6
    What happens if you pit the champion of scientific optimism against the herald of cosmic horror? A damn white-knuckle twin-stick shooter, that's what.

    Tesla vs Lovecraft has all the mindless monster bashing that you expect. However, it also comes with its own share of flaws. The game has very little content, stretched really thin to dilute the play time. To reach the "real" ending,    What happens if you pit the champion of scientific optimism against the herald of cosmic horror? A damn white-knuckle twin-stick shooter, that's what.

    Tesla vs Lovecraft has all the mindless monster bashing that you expect. However, it also comes with its own share of flaws. The game has very little content, stretched really thin to dilute the play time. To reach the "real" ending, expect to fight the same handful of monsters over and over again, and to go through the same maps three times at increasing difficulty.

    The lack of content can be forgiven, but the design flaws of Tesla vs Lovecraft are harder to swallow–especially if you consider that the developers are twin-stick shooter specialists. The game's difficulty swerves wildly, with frustrating peaks followed by walk-in-the-park levels. The role of luck is excessive, and the same level can be very easy or painfully hard, depending on which power-ups you get. There is even an upgradeable stat that makes it more likely that you'll get one of the good perks that make levels so much easier. The existence of that stat should ring an alarm bell–but it seems that this game is OK with being heavily RNG-based.

    The worst problem of the game, by far, is the poorly tuned upgrade system. Once you get to the third and last pass of levels, you find yourself short on "crystals", the in-game currency that you use for upgrades. You'd take forever to accumulate a decent amount of crystals through regular playing–and collecting crystals usually gets in the way of completing a level. Long story short, you probably need to farm crystals if you want to complete the game. I spent at least a couple of hours going through this pointless grind, playing the beginning of the same level again and again until I had my upgrades where I liked them, and then moving on to finish the game.

    Even with all its shortcomings, Tesla vs Lovecraft is a fun experience. It has all the action you expect from the genre, and the short levels make it moreish. Yes, there is luck involved–but maybe you'll be more lucky if you try this level again, for the 12th time! I don't regret playing this game, but I think that the developers should have spent more time tuning the mechanics and producing content, instead of paywalling more content behind a pointless DLC. I have high hopes for the next work from 10tons, but I also hope that they'll spend more time refining it before release.    … Expand

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74

Mixed or average reviews - based on 10 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 4 out of 10
  2. Mixed: 6 out of 10
  3. Negative: 0 out of 10
  1. Nintenderos
    Jul 14, 2018
    75
    The brief length of each level makes this game optimal to enjoy, for instance, in the bus, and especially with four friends.
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  2. Universo Nintendo
    May 3, 2018
    70
    Tesla vs. Lovecraft is a great game, fun, challenging, with precise gameplay, and a survival mode with interesting online rankings for the most competitive players. Unfortunately not everything is perfect, the repetitive scenarios and the poor soundtrack, although minor problems, will make the game old a little too fast.
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  3. New Game Network
    Apr 25, 2018
    66
    Tesla Vs Lovecraft serves its function well enough as a simple action shooter. There isn’t much to the gameplay, but sometimes you can find a good time paddling through even shallow waters.
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