Love retro first-person shooters? How about a comedy arena shooter with 1950s B-movie monsters? SPORTAL is a new release out now and it's a real good time.
Here you're repeatedly thrown into the pixelated arenas under the watchful eye of an eccentric, disembodied guide named Jar Dude. To survive, you need to acquire various types of sports equipment like a cursed hockey stick enabling you to smack a bouncing puck as you fight off waves of quite silly looking creatures. It's all about the item synergies, with a mixture of a Brotato and Vampire Survivors feel to it but in 3D. As enemies get taken down, they drop coins for you to pick up and level up - and then you get to pick different weapons and items.
Once you complete an arena you can then go and spend your coins on some power-ups to start over-powering your character. With the blazing speed, silly enemies and silly weapons - it's has a nice gameplay loop and feel to it. A quick boomer-shooter for those of you who want something repeatable and a bit more silly.
Check out the release trailer below:
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Game Highlights:
- Athletic Arsenal: Wield 8 base sports weapons, expanding your loadout with more than 120 lethal upgrades to maximize the destruction.
- Extensive Customization: Tailor your build with 100 distinct perks spread across unlockable outfits, backpacks, boots, and masks.
- Retro Creature Features: Battle 19 distinct monster types and 5 brutal bosses across dozens of arenas situated within 6 thematic B-movie environments.
- High-Octane Roguelite Loop: Adapt to escalating threats, discover powerful item synergies, and push your skills to the limit in every run.
Tested with Proton 11 on Fedora KDE 44, it works really well. The only issue I saw was a brief intro movie not working due to the codec used, which you can likely just use GE-Proton to fix.
Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.
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