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- Kwalee Ltd
- Kwalee Ltd
- Kwalee Ltd
- Kwalee Ltd
Scathe
Released On: Aug 31, 2022
61
5.7
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
61
20% Positive
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2 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 10 Critic Reviews
61
20% Positive
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
60% Mixed
6 Reviews
6 Reviews
20% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
Scathe is a good first-person shooter for anyone who loves the genre and appreciates a challenge. The story is good enough and the combat feels visceral. Moving through the same rooms can become repetitive but the FPS mechanics are good enough to keep players engaged. I would have liked for the game to offer at least another difficulty level. Frustration can also appear if the re-spawn puts the player in the middle of a big fight, with no way out. But, overall, Scathe understands what makes an FPS tick and adds enough new ideas to keep fans engaged.
Scathe is a serviceable shooter with a few nice touches, but there's little to set it apart from other Doom-likes.
Scathe has everything you can expect from a DOOM/DOOM Eternal emulator, but it has several structural flaws that make it a hellish FPS in which you shoot well but you don't have much fun.
Overall, Scathe is a perfectly adequate shooter. However, it fails in its intended purpose of adequately supporting either a bullet-hell playstyle, or on the flipside, a slow-paced tactically-driven experience. Its current mechanics and balancing make it unclear what demographic the developers are attempting to chase. With a few months of sufficient patching and overhauling, it’s possible that Scathe could transform into one of the best Doom-esque indie FPS games currently on the market. For now, it’s definitely worthy of being added to one's wishlist. Whether it's worth purchasing outright, however, is a question worthy of far more doubt.
You're trapped in a maze-like Hell in Scathe, but while the shooting is solid, the rest of the game may put you into a haze.
Scathe is a mess. Constant lack of ammo forces you to use the base
weapon (which is painful the more so that some guns are really fun),
heavy backtracking is extremely frustrating, enemies respawning in
previously cleared areas are annoying, and the overall repetitiveness
will wear you down unless the soundtrack will put you to sleep first.
I appreciate what Scathe was clearly aspiring to be, but it doesn’t reach those aspirations. Its sprawling, directionless levels were no substitute for a more tailored experience with a difficulty curve and intended order of obtaining new weapons and spells. Flooding the stages with enemies and hazards that appear out of thin air felt unfair more often than not, and the lives system and scarce health pick-ups only slowed down what is intended to be a fast-paced experience. If you enjoy DOOM and FPS’s inspired by it and want to play it co-op with your friends, there is some enjoyment to be had, but there are better-designed co-op shooters on the market that are more deserving your time.
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Based on 7 User Ratings
5.7
29% Positive
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Based on 7 User Ratings
5.7
29% Positive
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Summary Scathe is an intense, classic FPS with big guns and even bigger demons. You are Scathe, Enforcer of the Legions of Hell, forged from the earth by the Divine Creator himself. And you, like your fallen kin before you, must prove your worth by navigating a deviously crafted maze, entangled with demonic evil at every twist and turn. So, grab...
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox Series X
- PlayStation 4
- Xbox One
- Nintendo Switch
- PlayStation 5
Initial Release Date: Aug 31, 2022
Developer:
- DAMAGE STATE LTD
Publisher: Kwalee Ltd
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