Hrot

Have you ever wanted to play more CHASM: The Rift? Have you ever wanted to play more DUSK? Have you ever wanted Dave Oshry to signal boost a game as SlavDusk? This game then, might just be for you. Though HROT, in my opinion, is one of those game that doesn't ride the ideas of what came before it, it blends them and expands upon them. For instance, you get grenades in the game and you'd think 'oh I have to swap to them'! Well you don't! Any weapon you pick up you can just hit the right click button and throw a grenade anyway. If you want to be more precise about it, you can swap to the actual grenade. There's so much interactivity and building within the world, too. 1986 in the Czech Republic has never looked this brown (stylistic choice) but so detailed. I will tell you right now for all of those who maybe want a plot (in a 'boomer shooter'?) that there isn't any, really. And, personally, I think that's part of the fun. HROT isn't really here to tell a story, it's here to show off Communist-Era Czech culture, expand upon ideas from CHASM, Quake, some elements of Serious Sam, even, and have fun. You can literally drink wine in this game to restore health or use it as a molotov cocktail. There's a gasmask horse! Clement Gottwald! I played all the way through on normal and found RECIPES FOR COOKING! Seriously. For those of you who dig an older aesthetic, history, or, hell, are just looking for a good time? It's HROT. Kudos to the developers for their hard work and grit for making such a wonderful game.

When I heard that the dev wrote their own engine in pascal for this game, I bought this for the same reason I'd buy a CD from a street performer. I wanted something weird and different. You get a nice single player campaign with solid shooting, atmosphere, and horror. Definitely worth it.

This is a boomer shooter that is all killer no filler with alot of charm, humour, atmosphere and a lot of crazy surprises throughout. I thoroughly enjoyed my time here and am very impressed this game was developed by one person A solid amount of enemy variety, some fun weapons, fast classic movement with a good map i never got fully lost or needed to look anything up, great game design here. As a FPS veteran overly the last 18-19 years off my life being a massive fan of games like BioShock, Doom, Halo and classic COD, i highly recommend this game if you are a big fan of fun games