You know how Nidhogg is just one thing, and it’s super simple and slightly just…nothing, but you can spend ages with it and it’s got an incredibly high skill ceiling, and there’s no flaws at all and they’ve just sort of achieved everything they set out to do without making a big deal out of it? It’s that kind of game.
Kill The Crows is such a pure, condensed game. So rare to find a gameplay loop so utterly on the mark. Every moment is a small crisis where you’re either lost in a flow state, or you’re dead - and then right back into the action a couple seconds later.
Can’t believe how few people talk about this cult classic-in-waiting. It’s really charming.
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If you enjoyed Kill The Crows, I highly recommend Akane. It’s the same basic gameplay loop (one map area, single hit enemies, every 50 enemies is a boss fight) but Akane has a cyberpunk aesthetic. I don’t understand how these two games were made by different developers given the similarities.
Can anyone weigh in on how well this works on the deck? I know it’s 5 bucks and has a demo, but it would be great to hear from someone who’s played a lot of it
It works beautifully on the deck, it’s primarily how I play this game. I did rebind some controls though. It had reloading the gun set to one of the face buttons, which means you’d need to let go of the joystick to reload. I remapped the reload button to RB (R1) and it’s much better.
Steam link for anyone interested:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/2441270/Kill_The_Crows/
It’s $4.99 and they have a demo.
I should have included that. I didn’t want anyone to think I was selling them something, I was just moved to talk about this game in the spur of the moment.
I getcha. It can be a tough line to walk.
I appreciate bringing the game to my attention though :)
Not to be “that guy“ but the game does have almost 2000 reviews. So while it has not done as well as nidhogg (5400 reviews), it’s clearly done well.
I’m not the guy who can tell from a steam store page whether an indie game is a success or not, so maybe you’re right but I don’t have a dog in that race. I’m more focused on how well they conceived the idea and managed to add nothing that fails to serve their vision.
