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PERISH
Released On: Feb 2, 2023
62
3.9
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All Platforms
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
62
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
62
33% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Mixed
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
33% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Perish is a solid FPS roguelike with tons of replayability, often giving off a DOOM-vibe that pushes you to the limits of your own sanity.
Overall, Perish is a game that achieves conceptual brilliance and incorporates it down to the finest detail in many areas. Unfortunately, it stumbles when it comes to the execution. Some poor gameplay decisions hold it back, notably enemy design and spawn rates. It’s entirely possible that with future updates, the game will heal its scars, but for now, they run deep, blemishing the gameplay; yet, the aesthetics remain immaculate.
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
3.9
0% Positive
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
44% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
56% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
User Score
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 9 User Ratings
3.9
0% Positive
0 Ratings
0 Ratings
44% Mixed
4 Ratings
4 Ratings
56% Negative
5 Ratings
5 Ratings
Visuals hit different than what you're used to with recent retro shooters. Gameplay feels a bit oldschool and it's core is solid enough to make this an enjoyable ride, ideally with friends.
Sure, this is no masterpiece and has its kinks and dents but all in all it is fun.
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Perish offers a great world to explore and a surprising amount of graphical prowess for an indie roguelike. The setting is intriguing and the combat varied and engaging enough. The game stumbles with framerate drops and a gameplay loop that may not have been finetuned to perfection, though if you have a crew to play with, Perish still offers a good amount of fun that’s worth your time.
Perish is a game that can accomplish its objectives but requires a lot more polishing. The game offers a great way for up to four players to enjoy a shooter experience in which you can face off against several hellish creatures cooperatively. While those are definite pluses, the aforementioned issues can take players away from the experience.
PERISH is one to four-player co-op FPS game with hints of rogue-lite. The game can be really fun and is mostly great to play with three to four other players. At the same time, the game crumbles under its many problems of bad matchmaking, bugs, bad objectives and bad enemy spawning. This game can oscillate from fun to frustrating throughout the experience. Buy it on a sale with your buddies.
Perish could’ve brought Hexen and Heretic’s medieval boomer shooter vibes kicking and screaming into the 21st century to the tune of howling metal riffs, topped off with a roguelite twist. However, it offers little to incentivise you to go back for replays. Every death feels like starting the whole game over from scratch, with so little changing that each run turns into a chore. The striking set-pieces, like the twisted Herculean monster, with a cage of heads for a, well… head, crumbling the moon just to beat you, are fantastic, but they’re too few and far between to justify Perish making you start from scratch and slogging through shallow mechanics to reach those exciting moments.
Nice visuals, poor gameplay, meh. Wait for steam sale or until developers make the game fun.
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PC
This game is not good. poor gameplay, boring jenky enemies, bosses easy and feel out of place, music doesn't match gameplay or style, tedious to playthrough for more than an hour. Not to mention the optimization issues making the game freeze slightly after every revolver kill. Only gimmick to make it fun is playing multiplayer, but same could be said for any game, good or bad, playing anything with friends if more fun. Just because it looks cool in screenshots and videos because of Unreal engine, doesn't make it fun to play. Also, just because the game has 2 developers, is not an excuse for not knowing how to make a fun game, Binding of Isaac had 2 developers and is still an amazing and genre defining game, DUSK and Amid Evil had 1 developer each and are exceptional games. Negative reviews are accurate on Steam, the positive reviews seem to copy and paste each other that repeat, "2 developers". "don't listen to negative reviews", "fun", and etc. Very disappointing release.
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The game is dead. There are no players online. If you are lucky to find them, they are a group of friends who will kick you out of the game. Of the 18 hours I played, about 5 hours were spent searching for a game. 3 hours playing online with someone, 10 hours playing the same levels by myself with no way to unlock anything to advance.
DO NOT BUY IT
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El juego está muerto. No hay jugadores online. Si tienes suerte de encontrarlos, son un grupo de amigos que te echarán de la partida. De las 18 horas que he jugado, unas 5 horas me las he pasado buscando partida. 3 horas jugando online con alguien, 10 horas jugando yo solo los mismos niveles sin posibilidad de desbloquear nada que me permita avanzar.
NO LO COMPRES
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PC
Summary PERISH is a stylish 1-4 player FPS with a cross to bear. Slay hordes of creatures on the black sands of Purgatory and sell their gold-stained corpses to craven priests. Kill magnificent bosses and use the proceeds to gain entrance to Elysium, a place of cosmic revelations.
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- Xbox One
- PlayStation 5
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date: Feb 2, 2023
Developer:
- ITEM42
Publisher: HandyGames
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