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Viscerafest
Developer Acid Man Games, Fire Plant Games
Viscerafest is a Sci-Fi Fantasy Singleplayer Arena FPS with minor Collectathon elements. Fight through hordes of aliens and eldritch monstrosities wielding a slew of powerful weapons, juggling your resources, and exploring over 23 intricately designed hand-crafted levels. From the Steam store page
250 reactions from 4 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon, Lemmy) · newest Nov 1, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
76
LovedLoved
141 positive · 45 negative
95% range 69–81%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 141 | 45 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 26 | 3 | 29 |
| Mastodon * | 0 | 0 | 5 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 1 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
537 of 633 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
75% recommend · 138 yes, 45 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 183 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (610 of 722 positive).
Players praise the fast-paced, high-damage combat and unique melee-focused gameplay. [1][2][3] Many find the game very difficult, with limited ammo and punishing enemies. [4][5][6] The soundtrack and protagonist are widely celebrated as standout features. [4][7][8]
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Representative posts
- [13]
Imagine making an fps where you're forced into melee combat because ammo is super rare, then force the player to solve a block pushing puzzle while being sniped by enemies out of their reach. Saves are limited too for that extra feeling of cheap difficulty. Severely unfun. Doesn't need to exist.
- [1]
Fantastic shooter, but don't go in expecting a game that plays like a lot of other boomer shooters do. Damage is high, ammo is limited, and projectiles are numerous. You're not walking into a room and effortlessly making enemies disappear, you're desperately scrambling around trying to get the most effectiveness out of your weird but powerful weapons, against enemies who are just as weird and powerful. It's …
- [4]
I'm still giving it a positive for the mindblowing music and wicked protagonist. But it is way too hard. Maybe the baby mode is for me. But the dev doesn't recommend. Just the graphics are not worth the stress. If you are an absolute beast FPS aficionado, maybe try it out on sale.
- [3]
The logical end point of retro shooters. Viscerafest has the tightest and most well designed combat sandbox I've ever experienced. It's hard to believe a cat designed something this good.
- [2]
Things I love about Viscerafest: *You and most enemies are squishy and everyone deals solid damage *Bunnyhopping halves the player's taken damage and increases your speed, and the default bunnyhop setting is to just hold the spacebar *Dashing has iFrames, and punching (tap RMB for jabs, hold for powerful dash-y uppercuts) grants health and/or armor *Ammo can be limited so you have to shoot purposefully *Goofy varied …
Summarised from 34 of the 247 public posts collected about this game; every point cites the posts behind it ([n] opens the post) and the split is counted from the posts’ own ratings. Updated Oct 10, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
75% of the 183 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Viscerafest. The complaint that keeps coming up: extremely high difficulty can be frustrating. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Reactions
60 of 250 · most liked firstEvery time I feel like I've got a handle on the games coming out this month another one sneaks up on me. Viscerafest is leaving early access in 3 days. Doesn't play like any other boomshoot. It's an incredibly aggressive game, glass cannon style. Fights often last just a few seconds.
positive · AI labelView post →Imagine making an fps where you're forced into melee combat because ammo is super rare, then force the player to solve a block pushing puzzle while being sniped by enemies out of their reach. Saves are limited too for that extra feeling of cheap difficulty. Severely unfun. Doesn't need to exist.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Almost everything about this game is fun, but it's artificially difficult for no reason other than to have difficulty as its selling point. 1) Limited saves that you have to collect. Not a bad thing on its own if it's implemented well, but it's with the rest of the issues I have with the game that just add onto my frustration. 2) UI that makes menu navigation confusing and possible to unintentionally erase progress when trying to change options by clicking the Menu button with no confirmation…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Doom Eternal and its consequences have been a disaster for the FPS genre. You don't need to have health that shreds so fast that the only way to keep yourself alive in a fight is to approach the blinking bodies of defeated enemies and finger them to death just to recover some morsels.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game isn't an arena shooter I've played them all, and the first 3 levels of this game are infinitely worse and honestly more difficult than Doom Eternal on Nightmare, nearly every level in Doom 1 and 2, nearly every level in Quake 1 and nearly every level in Serious Sam TFE, TSE, 2, and 3 (on Serious!). "you can move fast" - you can, its really cool but there's not much room to do it "use melee its important" - Okay but enemies kill me in 1-2 hits, move super fast, have zero tells and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Playing through Viscerafest I am often wondering why a mechanic is the way it is. Speed is often an issue, foot speed & dash not quite feeling where they should be (stop-and go / jerky) considering the very high speed with which enemies fire, amount of enemies, how weapons handle, ammo scarcity, melee, and the design of levels that I have played thus far. Bunny hopping around feels unnatural with how weapons / enemies / levels are designed, to the point I try to avoid it whenever possible,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't bother, promising start, descends into absolute BS. Not a skill issue, it is a game design issue. Ammo is extremely limited, and that is fine, but having respawning enemies (in later levels) with this limited ammo is not. Add to that, these same enemies teleport around, have homing projectiles and at the same time as dealing with these you are expected to rotate a set of blocks to align and you get one of these a-holes teleport into the same room. Oh yeah, add in limited saves and the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →OH btw I'm a cutscene illustrator for VISCERAFEST! Most of the in-game scenes are my art! youtu.be/mr3kpGF83ho
neutral · AI labelView post →Retro sci-fi first-person shooter Viscerafest leaves Early Access in April with a huge update.
neutral · AI labelView post →Been a bit quiet as of late, but that is mostly just because I am very tired... A big thank you to everyone who has been playing and enjoying my game!!! #Viscerafest
positive · AI labelView post →Yeah this game doesn't fuck around holy shit #Viscerafest
positive · AI labelView post →A game called Viscerafest invokes a gameplay loop which is drastically different than the one actually in the game. If this game had a true title, it should be called "extremely limited ammo scrounging fest". They're the kind of cute pixellated old 3D sprite era graphics we all know and love. However, I question the decision of making a lot of things seem like they're interactable, only to not have it be so. Also, someone really needs to explain to new players that the green things on a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game wore the skin of a game id actually wanted to play in extremely early access to become an empty husk in the shape of aesthetics i admire
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Viscerafest is a bit too obsessed with being hardcore for its own good. Meanwhile, the level and enemy design are abysmal. It's one of the ugliest games I've ever played, and I love the retro aesthetic—but believe me, there's retro visuals, and then there's absolute ass visuals. They definitely went for the ass. Looking at the screenshots, it seems like location variety improves slightly in the later stages, but it's just not a very satisfying game to play. You have very little ammo, die very…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →As much as I hate to say it, I just don't think the game was ready for full launch. You can tell there's something awesome here, but it's just not quite there yet. It seems the idea is to bunny hop by holding space, through every fight, and sort of juggle with shooting vs melee. You are not given a lot of ammo, so you need to be punching...but the way enemies attacks track you makes it very difficult to avoid damage You get health back and armour back much like Doom Eternal, but without the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good effort if your idea of fun is searching for the right door. i thought this was a fast paced shooter not a "where the ♥♥♥♥ do I go?" kind of game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ooh, speaking of the best kind of New Game Plus, I just found out that Viscerafest (a very twitchy boomshoot that I like a lot) is getting one soon with fully remixed encounters and some all-new enemy types.
positive · AI labelView post →It's not bad, absolutely, it's fast and it's better than many modern FPS. Unfortunately it's also a mess, with a very particular gameplay that you may or may not like. The graphics are quite poor and the colors are annoying rather than being "retro", but it's a style and you can get used to it. The difficulty is very high but the ammunition is scarce. You are forced to use melee a lot, but it's almost useless (as well as insulting for the genre). If I have patience I will try again with some…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I appreciate the effort made here but my god, nothing here is intuitive. Why do random props looks like armor suits, why do things look explosive when they are not? Why does it cost 10 bullets to fire 1 bullet from a pistol? This kind of stuff and so much more.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After dying I don't know how many times to something that does not even count as kill on the hud even tough it moves, seems to be none environmental and damages me - no thank you. Couple of more cons - kind of sick and tired of running around back and forth for keys. Doors just open anywhere and release enemies but without any sound. Real fun on brutal to suddenly get sucker punched in the back. I don't want and need "parkour only levels". Environmental damage like fire or acid (or whatever…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing Viscerafest since it came out of early access recently and my god does this game fuck. Between its aesthetic, story, and its stupid high speed its so good. Best boomer shooter Ive played in a hot minute.
positive · AI labelView post →Fantastic shooter, but don't go in expecting a game that plays like a lot of other boomer shooters do. Damage is high, ammo is limited, and projectiles are numerous. You're not walking into a room and effortlessly making enemies disappear, you're desperately scrambling around trying to get the most effectiveness out of your weird but powerful weapons, against enemies who are just as weird and powerful. It's definitely a gameloop that not everyone will enjoy, but I absolutely loved it. Also…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mixed feelings, It's actually a pretty competent game. I've learned through playing some of these lesser known boomer shooters like this and Diluvian Ultra that I'm not a fan of having to change guns for specific enemy types. I think Fashion Police might be the one I enjoyed the most that goes this route, but not a fan of this style generally. Perhaps that's not entirely accurate and fair to Viscerafest though as your gun changing is more forced due to having very limited ammo and a cast…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can take some pushing when it comes to less-than-friendly mechanics. Limited Save tokens to stop you from save scumming? K. Ammo stingyness reminiscent of Dunk: Eternal? Sure, whatever. Extremely repetetive melee as your workhorse weapon? Alright. Inventing tedious shielded enemies that kill the pacing, just to invent a flamethrower weapon that drinks fuel like a soccer mom on box wine? I mean, I guess. ...but what really wore me down was the level design. Or I should say, level layouts.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game, but it really lacks proper synergy between the c mechanics. You barely get any ammo in this "shooter", you are encouraged to hop around everywhere both for a damage resist bonus and to move fast in order to melee smaller enemies to conserve ammo, but doing so really sacrifices your ability to move and aim as precisely while also launching you headfirst into danger and not letting you process what's going on in the fight environments, plus the melee-able enemies are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A Love Story I was really into this game for the first 2 chapters. Playing on the "hard" difficulty was challenging, but every death felt like I could have approached the room better, and upon doing so, I was right. This game is certainly a labor or love; a passion project of someone who loves the boomer shooters of old. The problem is that knowing and loving those games and making your own are 2 entirely different things. The longer you play this game, the more the issues become…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Things I love about Viscerafest: *You and most enemies are squishy and everyone deals solid damage *Bunnyhopping halves the player's taken damage and increases your speed, and the default bunnyhop setting is to just hold the spacebar *Dashing has iFrames, and punching (tap RMB for jabs, hold for powerful dash-y uppercuts) grants health and/or armor *Ammo can be limited so you have to shoot purposefully *Goofy varied enemies, goofy varied guns *Campaign is split into 3 episodes and I dig the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Third episode is shockingly horrible.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Gameplay: I don't like the movement, it feels too loose and flighty with a lack of control due to how it handles your momentum. This is a big problem since this game is all combat and the combat requires you to rely on it's movement mechanics. A design choice of the developers was to keep you bone dry on ammo so you have to get in close and punch, so they really needed to nail that movement, everything depends on it and it falls short. Story: I haven't finished the game yet, but I don't like…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Retro sci-fi first-person shooter Viscerafest leaves Early Access in April with a huge update https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/retro-sci-fi-first-person-shooter-viscerafest-leaves-early-access-in-april-with-a-huge-update/ #Viscerafest #FPS #PCGaming #Gaming #Linux #SteamDeck
neutral · AI labelView post →Didn't like it. Movement feels too fast and jerky, fight feels very strange. With such a fast pace I can't put together melee and range fighting. If you want me melee then why huge part of enemies are located in unreachable or barely reachable places. You can't go fully melee, you can't go fully range, but such jerky melee fighting doesn't leave a room for me to put there range attacks.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Half of my playtime was spent looking for keys or doors in a labyrinthine maze of generic and geometric space station hallways. Literally plays like a crappy Doom wad. You'd legitimately have a better time playing some of the sci-fi/cyberpunk map packs for Quake or Doom than this slog. The female protagonist is cool though. This game just definitely isn't worth 20 bones.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Wanted to like this game but too many design flaws to artificially inflate difficulty I just couldn't get behind it. The game is of decent length and theres some weapon variety, and the visuals are ok, if a little ugly and pixelated. Theres also decent variety to the levels. Then theres the problems. Its another generic 3 key hunting shooter, which is kind of tired at this point. This is made worse by their being no map for some reason, leading to excess wandering at times and time wasting.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing through Viscerafest for video stuff. I know I only played through the original version of the first chapter during Early Access, I gotta admit, this game changed a lot and in some interesting ways.
neutral · AI labelView post →I HAVEN'T PLAYED THIS GAME IN TWO YEARS, I MIGHT SUCK AT IT WHO KNOWS. NOW LIVE #viscerafest #stream #livestream #twtich www.twitch.tv/cosmicrobotm...
neutral · AI labelView post →I love the music. The gunplay and punching are fun. But hot dang do I hate the heck out of the level design.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is the sonic unleashed of boomer shooters. too hard for newcomers and alot of people dont like it thanks to melee combat
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some of the ideas in the full release version are good, but it actually works very bad. When I was playing the EA version at hard difficulty it at least felt hard and fun, the FR version feels like i‘m in a f**king jail. The changes to some of the enemies in the FR version are a piece of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥. The shield（especially purple） of enemies just let me felt i can do nothing rather than being more strategic.Why？ Cause the firepower and health of some enemies are also too poweful to kill you…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm still giving it a positive for the mindblowing music and wicked protagonist. But it is way too hard. Maybe the baby mode is for me. But the dev doesn't recommend. Just the graphics are not worth the stress. If you are an absolute beast FPS aficionado, maybe try it out on sale.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →woman escape from kitchen
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Happy midweek madness. We have another game up for review today. Viscerafest! It seems action packed so lets get on in an have some fun www.twitch.tv/inerull #ENVtuber #Vtuber
neutral · AI labelView post →So I thought I might quickly address this for those wondering, because especially with its ending, I've heard some folks make comments to this effect, but... #Viscerafest will never have a sequel. At least most certainly not in video game form... [Continued Below]
neutral · AI labelView post →No ammo in muh fps
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →it's too hard for me :< still good game, do support indie devs <3
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I like to relax during periods away from level design by giving myself carpal tunnel with a trackball mouse #viscerafest #fanart #SupportIndieGames #MyHandHurtsHaHaHaHaHa
neutral · AI labelView post →eh, movement is a little too simple and clamped and ammo is oddly scarce considering the genre and inspirations
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My personnal game of the year 2025 It plays differently than most boomer shooter so there is a learning curve at the begining, but once it click it's an absolutely fantastic experience
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →43.5 hours played / Finished campaign and explored side content The Good: Adrenaline-pumped and melodic soundtrack that will guarantee a really fun experience; Fast-paced, tight and responsive combat; Gorgeous aesthetics that will appeal to anyone interested in retro-styled games; Rewarding exploration with meaningful secrets; The story is interesting, to say the least, and contains various bits that expand on the lore in some way or another. The Bad: Certain enemy types…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pretty annoying game. It forces to jump all the time and use powered up fist, because otherwise you will lack ammo to kill enemies. Act 1 on normal was manageable (mostly because easiest enemies die quickly to melee, and you can collect ammo for stronger enemies) but act 2 is terrible, you start with no weapons, game gives you one weapon (something like shotgun) and almost no ammo (pickups are like 1 or 2 bullets), and besides that you have ♥♥♥♥♥♥ pistol (something like pistol from Doom- only…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →How are there only 20% of the players who actually booted the game, and how are there only 2% of the players who actually beat the first chapter on the third difficulty? Waddahell? Anyway, if you are a so-called Boomshoot veteran who wants an actually thoughtful melee usage in an FPS game, I want you to play this. [Edit: 2025-06-16] No wonder why the ending achivo rate is so low. The entire chapter 3 is crazy. *shudders*
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The logical end point of retro shooters. Viscerafest has the tightest and most well designed combat sandbox I've ever experienced. It's hard to believe a cat designed something this good.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Guns don't feel great, ammo is obnoxiously tight, no minimap is a real shame when so many rooms are kinda samey techno-rectangles. Also having a voice line slider that goes from "off" to "Bubsy" (it literally says Bubsy for the option in game) and is defaulted to the middle, to me, means your game's lead quipper starts at 50% Bubsy. Take from that what you will.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like others have said, if you played before 1.0 and you play it now it feels like a different game, I pirated the game before buying it and that's where I have most of my hours, personally I liked the gunplay of earlier builds more, currently it feels kinda weightless. The level design is also kinda weird especially before "the big thing", early on levels feel way too short and there's no real cohesive thread in-level you're in and out in what feels like a minute before you've even had the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Well, that was a journey... I rarely post reviews, but here i feel like im obliged. I bought Viscerafest on the EA release day and enjoyed it quite a bit. Movement was great, difficulty was hard but fair, music was sick and one liners were cherry on top and here, with full release, i feel like i got what i paid for many years ago. It's a quality boomer shooter, one which will sit in my memory for years to come (at least i hope so). There are some bugs and its rough around the edges (Text in…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Viscerafest, a retro sci-fi FPS, exits Early Access with its 1.0 launch on April 14 via #Steam, #EpicGames, and #GOG! Experience a new chapter, 8 levels, 11 enemies, revised content, and unique game modifiers. Gear up for an epic finale! 🎮✨ #Viscerafest #FPS #GamingNews youtu.be/kgvXQmQCMks
neutral · AI labelView post →Viscerafest is a fps, there is a lot to like in this game, its old school, its fast, have a lot of guns and big linear levels, I think what makes a good fps is speed, and this game is very fast, dash and bunnyhop are really cool mechanics that are here, it have a great soundtrack and enemie variety, I found it to be arcade hard this game, but its good to see boss battles in this kind of fps, this game is highly recommended, but make sure you ready to some challenge. +great soundtrack +many…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →GAME WAS FUN UNTIL CHAPTER 3 LEVEL 2 IT KEEPS SOFTLOCKING ME AFTER I COLLECT THE PURPLE KEY I REALLY WANT TO FINISH THIS GAME DEVS PLS FIX
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game itself is ok, just mediocre, however I was not aware that the developer feels the need to preach at people. I buy games to relax, not feel like I am at church. This is from the patch notes. "We hope you have a wonderful day! And we pray that the Lord God keep you, bless you, and make his face to shine upon you! Peace be with you!" I will be doing a lot more research on developers going forward, I was not aware I paid for the preaching as well.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →yes, Viscerafest is still my GOTY it's my favorite indie game of all time, beating out A Hat in Time, Night in the Woods, Bomb Rush Cyberfunk, Hollow Knight Silksong, Indivisible, Undertale, Deltarune, and whatever else could be thrown at it aint no way anything this year can top the Queen
positive · AI labelView post →this game is outstanding. the story is both unique and interesting, the levels feel quick, not too quick, but they're definitely not dragged out. the enemies feel both fun and engaging to fight against, the soundtrack is AMAZING, the funny little achievements are also cool, i like how you get an achievement for clicking the nothing button or the one for increasing the FOV slider to max (try at your OWN RISK). but yeah, this game is a classic boomer shooter fps done correctly, not much else…
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