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June 2, 2023 - Day 153 - NewPlay Review
Total NewPlays: 169

Game: Shadowgrounds

Platform: Steam
Release Date: May 8, 2006
Library Date: Oct 5, 2011
Unplayed: 4258d (11y7m28d)
Playtime: 30m

Take the basic feel of Doom, & move it to Ganymede; mash it up with an early 2000's boomer shooter, make it top-down, limit ammo, add AI companions, who frequently stand in your way, preventing you from moving to get away from the mobs overwhelming you because you'd run out of ammo.

That's Shadowgrounds.

Setting the game options is done in an external app before opening the game. It seems I'd opened the configuration app and closed it again, at some stage in the last few years, meaning that the game has actually been unplayed for over eleven and a half years.

Oh well.

To try and say something nice about the game, it uses light, shadows, and jump scares very effectively.

It's also a 17 year old game where you cannot *aim* at the mobs you're trying to kill to conserve ammo, so you're just doing a spray-and-pray in their general direction, and hoping you don't run out out of... nope, I'm out of ammo. Again. Back to the pea-shooter.

Nope, overwhelmed by mobs and dead. Again.

But at least you respawn... a total of five times, apparently.

Even as I wrote the review, the rating on this just kept slipping.

Gotta give Shadowgrounds a big *old*:

1: Nope

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