Reviews

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  DragonScout83

  Sep 27, 2022

  Great top-down twin-stick shooter.
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  Mr. Pung Yung

  Oct 19, 2022

  One of the most blatantly metal games I've played. It's a nice shoot 'em up with bullet hell elements. It's super cheap and quite short, but I thought it was worth it!
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  mkmud13

  Jan 15, 2023

  Awesome game. Hits hard, and doesn't outlive it's welcome. Killer music, kick ass art, and brutal game play. I'll be coming back to SturmFront, without doubt.
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  Tony Longshire

  Aug 12, 2017

  I love this "cobblers" alien invasion and big space marines blasting the crap out of monsters just brilliant!! for £5 brilliant buy to be honest spend more on a "Sasuage and egg sandwich" with tomato sauce!! cheers lads and lasses:)
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  ____TOMB____

  Aug 12, 2017

  Are you a weak little person who know nothing of the beauty of a post apactolipic distopia? Then do not play this game. Have you never listened to heavy metal, watched film on VHS, stole liquor from your parents, know what Warhammer is or ever experinced your first boner? Then don't play this. But if you have experinced all of these things and more then you are ready friend (I can call you that, you passed the test), to play this game. Go on, fight strong, make us proud. Exterminate everything.
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  grig

  Aug 13, 2017

  Ikari Warriors + Black Metal + Contra = The Relentless Non-Stop Blood-fueled Psychopathic Fever Dream called SturmFront - The Mutant War: Übel Edition. Any attempt to describe it will come out sounding like a word salad drenched in a dressing of gore and gasoline. The mechanics encourage you to get knee deep in the dead and follow the chaotic flow of battle as you purge every mutant in your way with fire and steel. I'd say it's absolutely two thumbs up, but this game will replace your hands with viscera-coated chainsaws. 666% Recommended.
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  ElvisChrist6

  Aug 18, 2017

  Along with Oniken, this is one of the best retro-style games on Steam at the moment. Fantastic action; satisfying despite the simplicity too (especially the flesh ripper blade gun). The graphics actually fit perfectly with the heavy metal style and general aesthetic as well, rather than seeming contrived. Difficulty (while playing normal) is at a nice level - even trickier levels might take 4/5 attempts and then you can just blow through them, as you would like to with this type of game. One of few games that I can easily see myself returning to play through again and again at the higher difficulties. As a fan of twin-stick shooters (though I use the mouse personally to aim for this game) and action filled FPS games like Doom, Shadow Warrior, Serious Sam, I can very enthusiastically recommend this game. While I don't have too much time put into the game yet, I know I will soon - I really enjoying playing it. Only one or two issues with this game for me; the first being very minor: 1. Some of the less satisfying guns crop up a bit too often for my liking. While a rocket launcher seems fun at first, they end up being somewhat useless due to their only having 10 shots and the first enemies you'll encounter always after acquiring one are a decent handful of things that can be killed with one shot by your basic weapon. Not even really enough of them concentrated together to make that satisfying. But you blow through the 10 rockets so quickly, you can get back to your basic gun and back to normal. Or you could push through those enemies with the flame thrower and get to the tougher enemies with the rocket launcher. I would have liked to have seen them placed in different locations though, or have more of the other guns available. 2. The bosses are far too easy. Their patterns don't get progressively more difficult as you knock their health down (in fact some get easier) and you can wipe their whole health bar within 10 seconds in a lot of cases. Generally though, the level leading up to the boss fight is really enjoyable. In a way that makes up for it, but it also does make the fight itself very disappointing.
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  Nysseboi

  Nov 25, 2017

  This game is AWESOME! So Sturmfront is basically you just shooting a bunch of aliens with different kinds of weaponry like the description says and it's metal af! The gameplay is simple and really enjoyable the bosses all a a little strategy to them and the soundtrack fits perfectly with the games apocalyptic theme. Playing through the game on medium is a little challenging at first, until you realize that the blade laucher is op af! It was pretty easy to plow through the game but hard mode adds the challenge. If you don't know how to block your screwed. So, the game rules and I think it should be succesful. And as a last note the art is hecking beautiful.
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  OriginalVin

  Feb 2, 2018

  This game [b]FUCKING RULES.[/b] [u]If you like shooting things in video games, buy Sturmfront.[/u] Doesn't even matter what [i]type[/i] of shooter - you may look at this and scoff. "It's like an old game, phooey" and then go back to opening up loot boxes in whatever garbage Activision or EA is shouting about this quarter. Stop playing that garbage and BUY THIS GAME. Sure, if you played and loved titles like Shock Troopers, Alien Syndrome, Zombies Ate My Neighbors or Soldier of Fortune (I believe you British gamers called that one something else though), you'll love this. It's also channeling DOOM with it's metal-af soundtrack (and title screen; look at that work of art), [i]perfect[/i] amount of gore, and general tone, so if you love that game (or, like, any FPS from the 90's... or comic books from the 90's) you'll love this [b]extra[/b]. You'll appreciate it on more levels or whatever. But at the end of the day it doesn't matter what the fuck era of gaming you think is best; this game is the most metal a game can be that lets you power up your spreadgun to blow mutant aliens into glorious, gory bits. That it's made correctly with a config launcher so you can set it to Windowed Mode and mess with options [i]before starting the damn thing up[/i], and plays super well, and looks rad af and sounds so great [b]and is just $8[/b] - THAT'S WHAT MATTERS This is the most awesome way to spend $8 on Steam. Now I'm done writing this dumb review. I shouldn't have to convince people to buy this - I just wanna go back and play more!
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  Master of Muppets

  Feb 12, 2018

  I love this game! It is a great time waster and an awesome way to take out a bad day on some slaughter. I absolutly love the tongue and cheek humor and awesome metal soundtrack! His accent is amazing! It feels like you are playing an 80's movie!
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  CelestialAfroJungle

  Jun 28, 2018

  Looks like a pretty cool game so far, it feels like a mix between Contra and Ikari Warriors heavy metal version. Game is pretty easy compared to those the older platformer games though but it it stil is fun to play. I'll update this review once i'll be at the end of the game. So far, i'm giving it 8.5/10 - Keep in mind that this game is just a small indie game so it's nothing big, fun nonetheless. A level eidtor would be welcome.
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  Sleepies

  Jul 8, 2018

  Excellent Arcade shooting game! Totally recommended! Good: - Game Design is Heavy metal as fak - Great Music - Tense and Challenging gameplay - Felt so satisfied to burn and exterminate the mutant boss - Gasoolineeeeeeeeeeeeee!! Bad: - I really want the new game plus with unlimited ammo and gasoline to wipe everythings out of the screen, but it doesn't have Caution: Player will feel highly energized after completed this game
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  limelight1210

  Jul 17, 2018

  This is like a modern version of the overhead levels from Super C- except with tons of blood, gore and bad language. Actually it's almost like a bullet-hell shooter too (depending on difficulty). Only thing i didnt care for was the butt metal soundtrack.
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  Servbot01

  Aug 1, 2018

  Good game on the same veins of Mercs, Shock Troopers and other classics. Art direction pretty on point, with some funny jokes and voice act, rock OST combining with the action and fair difficult but not on the same level of the inspirations, however I think the hurtbox of the player should be a bit smaller because sometimes you think you'll be safe of the shots but they hit you. Also, the main menu and general hud interface should be a little more polished, like the font of the buttons getting off them in other resolutions and the lack of life counter with a more traditional limit like the arcades. I should point here the controller configuration is a mess, I use the Playstation pad and took me literally hours to configure it going to the Windows registry and copy-pasting the hex codes of each input. The Unit configuration menu acts weird and makes impossible to redefine some keys, and X-input emulator or the Steam menu couldn't help me either. Supposedly it should work right with a normal Xbox pad. At the end this is a must get for old school fans of arcade games but caution with the controller, it may not work and you will have to play with the keyboard or change the registry.
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  SKrow

  Aug 3, 2018

  Encountered a bug on level 4 where your weapon occasionally doesn't shoot, meaning the ammo counter (if you carry a weapon with limited ammo capacity, for example, the blade gun) goes down, but no projectile exits the barrel of the gun. Same goes for your default weapon. Needless to say, the bug makes the game way too hard. Cannot recommend the game at this point.
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  KrudlerTheHorse

  Dec 29, 2018

  I appreciate what the devs managed to accomplish because the good is very good, but unfortunately the game is hollow enough that the entire experience falls flat. I enjoyed the graphics and the explosions and the gore and the aesthetic of smash TV. The enemy patterns are totally predictable and have almost no variety. They just charge straight out you and can be easily dispatched. The only time I died was because I became so bored I stopped caring. You carry a flamethrower which can cancel bullets so the rare time you are ever threatened you'll just tap the button and immediately nullify the threat. Bosses become an absolute joke because of this. Each level has its own music but it's insipid and in a 30 second loop which immediately grates on the nerves. If they put another couple of months of polish on this game, increase the enemy variety or their behaviors, introduce bullets that cannot be cancelled, and in general just give it some more love.... Then I will be happy to come back and revise my review but I don't see it happening. It's an amateur game that is almost there.
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  tuckboat

  Jan 1, 2019

  Groundbreaking work of art that bringest the post-modernist revolution in video games to a screaching halt with it's elaborate word play and intricate and innovative gameplay that lends much of it's influece to Ken Griffey Jr. Winning Homerun as well as Kafka by the Shore and the early work of Orson Wells. ...or you just blow everything to hell and collect powerups on a quest to blow everything up and collect powerfups. 6/10
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  markv

  Mar 15, 2019

  both a tribute to 90s arcade games and bloodier than our mothers thought they were
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  CapnDestrukto

  Mar 18, 2019

  Reminds me of old NES games with it's top down camera and shooting action. Killer heavy metal soundtrack, and lots of blood and gore and guts and gore and blood and guts and then after a few stages there's more guts and gore and blood and gore and guts. This game should have been called "guts of war"
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  disco muted

  May 29, 2019

  solid graphics and gameplay. short but fun. i think i got it for 50 cents so no complaints for the price.