Nuclear Throne

While Nuclear Throne might at first appear to be another difficult bullet-hell or punishing roguelike, a little practice quickly reveals a system that is meant to make the game accessible by a broad range of players. Thanks to the procedurally generated levels, weapon drops, and opponents, the game has virtually endless replay value and is an outstanding free game from Epic Games this week.

It’s wonderful, evil, gorgeous, horrible, satisfying and merciless. You might hate its lack of checkpoints, or bad levels spawns that almost instantly kill you. It doesn’t care. Screw you. It hates you. But you’ll love it.

A real rush to play rogue-like experience. Dozens of hours of challenge and fun awaits for the most talented and expert players.

A crowning achievement for Vlambeer, and one of the finest action-roguelikes ever made.

Nuclear Throne manages to walk a fine line between challenging, with options for the player who wants to succeed in the post-apocalypse, and unfairly difficult, filled with obstacles that will induce frustration for even the most hardened fans of the rogue-like genre.

For a game that has zero puzzle elements Nuclear Throne sure feels like a seeing-eye puzzle.

Brain off, trigger finger on. It's easy to forget the simple visuals and it's ideal for a quick game.

Heavy crossbow pa ti!!! Valmbeer consigue hacer uno de los mejores gamefell de la historia Goty de los gotys.

Great game and an excellent innovative mechanics, the best and most addictive of the last years

Very good rogue like, just too short and lacks level design. Weapons and power ups ur fun. Art style is excellent.

pretty hardcore but its still the same level layout and weapons not enough content.

The issue with games like Nuclear Throne, Crypt of The Necrodancer, Enter the Gungeon, et cetera, is that it's one of those games where you get crazy good at the first handful of levels. With rather unforgiving gameplay, the sheer amount of **** it'll throw at you at random times, and lack of any form of retaining progress means you'll end up really liking seeing Desert and Sewer over and over again, or make the time commit to become psychotically good. Case in point, I was having a awesome run, encountered a whole crap ton of enemies huddled around something I couldn't identify. I open fire, suddenly the unknown diamond thing explodes, lights up, and cut to the Nuclear police (???) beaming in and murdering me dead regardless of Halo. All of that took place over the course of about 2 seconds. Maybe the Rogue-like genre isn't for me? Though I don't quite grasp the mindset that enjoys potentially having a amazing run ended by the slightest mistake, which can very easily happen as early as level 2-1 with frogs things that explode and ninjas that can and will take out all of your health in 1 hit with practically no warning. It's good, it's fun, but like other games like it, the lack of literally any form of progress retention breaks it a bit for me, and at the time of writing, I'm really getting sick of seeing the desert because I didn't notice the one ninja in the cloud of enemies and bullets that took me from 12 HP to 0 in 1 hit.