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Ziggurat
Developer Milkstone Studios
Ziggurat is a first-person shooter dungeon crawl video game developed and published by Milkstone Studios. It was released for Linux, Microsoft Windows and Mac in October 2014 after being available for two months in early access, followed by a release for Xbox One in March 2015 and PlayStation 4 in April 2015. Ziggurat was inspired by the 1990s games Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic. A sequel, Ziggurat 2, was… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
247 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Oct 8, 2026 · last updated Oct 13, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
68
Fresh
126 positive · 59 negative
95% range 61–74%
| Source | + | − | = |
|---|---|---|---|
| Steam reviews | 126 | 59 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 15 | 3 | 35 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 9 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,369 of 2,788 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What players are saying
69% recommend · 129 yes, 59 no
Counted from the reviewers’ own thumbs up/down on the 188 English Steam reviews we collected, not by the AI. Valve’s all-language rating: Very Positive (3,383 of 3,975 positive).
Players praise the fast-paced, smooth gameplay and roguelike elements, comparing it to classic shooters like Heretic and Hexen. [1][2][3] Some reviewers find the game repetitive, with limited enemy and map variety, and uninspired level design. [4][5][6] A few players note technical issues like bugs and lack of updates, affecting their enjoyment. [7][8]
Liked
Representative posts
- [5]
Hooly smokes this is so uninspired. Rectangular room after rectangular room where a bunch of enemies keep spawning and you shoot them with a very limited supply of ammo for weapons that all do about the same thing. "Randomly generated" means "the rectangles get shuffled around" and "no level design to be seen". Maybe the bosses become a bit more fun, I'm not sure, but at the end of the day they're just bullet …
- [7]
Fun game, but gets a negative for resetting the language/video options every single time I run it, and I did try setting them manually in config files and the like, to no avail. It's been like this for at least 5 years with no fix. (if you ever patch this, feel free to respond and I'll revise my rating)
- [1]
Awesome roguelike FPS where you play as a wizard. Everything is random generated so prepare for surprise combat battle royal. Many different types of weapons, enemies, traps and other shenanigans. You will encounter many type of rooms some of them will have monsters, secret power ups or challenges. On each run power up your character selecting one of random skills available, with each level gain more useful …
- [9]
For a cheap game that regularly goes on sale and was released at the beginning or even before the big "indie rogue-like" craze, it's pretty good. Movement and shooting feels good, like a Quake game if anything, maps, while basic are decent enough and maze-y. The aesthetic reminds me of one of those fake games you'd see someone playing in a movie or TV show, in a good way. It's just a really basic, barebones, …
- [4]
I find myself with rather mixed feelings regarding Ziggurat. I somewhat feel it is a 6/10 game, one that does not offer enough mechanical, enemy, or map variety... As if it were a vertical slice proof of concept of a game. The gameplay that is there isn't bad, it is a decent loop that at first you'll be good with, but it feels like there should be a lot more. I would recommend the buy, but please not at full price.
Summarised from 34 of the 239 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 9, 2026. How summaries are made
RottenBot@rottenbot · automated account
69% of the 188 Steam reviewers we collected recommend Ziggurat. The complaint that keeps coming up: repetitive levels and enemy designs. Deal-breaker or nitpick?
Critics, per Wikipedia
Ziggurat received generally positive reviews from critics upon release. Aggregate review website Metacritic assigned scores of 76/100 for the Windows and Xbox One versions, and 79/100 for the PlayStation 4 version. Some critics likened the game to Raven Software's shooters Heretic and Hexen: Beyond Heretic.
From the “Reception” section of Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. Critic context only — not part of the audience score.
Reactions
60 of 247 · most liked firstI’m watching highlights of a preseason nba game and the basketball players have simply become too good, it is time to bring back very tiny shorts and calling a 6’4 guy “The Greek Ziggurat”
neutral · AI labelView post →“Cities used to be the place to go for fun. But now, thanks the Royal Game, why would anyone live in Ur? The Ziggurat is soooo 2000 and early.”
neutral · AI labelView post →If you were at #Grogmeet yesterday and saw my Ziggurat and thought "I'd like one of those", they are available via @fenrisgames.com , here's the link #oldhammer #ttrpg #minitures fenrisgames.com/shop#!/FGLOR...
neutral · AI labelView post →Ziggurat [roguelike fps] is -85% on GoG [linux native] [DRM free] [~2€/$].
neutral · AI labelView post →I wanted to build a Ziggurat type building like the one in the intro cinematic of Conan Exiles. Its quite big and the game crashed several times trying to build it and I haven't even started on the inside yet lol #ConanExiles
neutral · AI labelView post →Grogmeet 2025 game submitted. Ziggurat of Gloom, a big tribute/reimaging of the scenario in Warhammer 1st, using an Oldhammer RPG that I'm developing #grogsquad #grogmeet #oldhammer
neutral · AI labelView post →It's in theory a well done roguelike shooter but it never quite clicked with me and the levels are kinda annoying and samey and the enemies are a bother to fight... there's no real weight to the shooting and the feedback you get from hitting a baddy other than it ceasing to exist or not. Had a looooooot more fun with Immortal Redneck... so much that I basically beat it with all the classes... this one didn't hold my attention enough to even bother sticking through it for one clear. So get…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Awesome roguelike FPS where you play as a wizard. Everything is random generated so prepare for surprise combat battle royal. Many different types of weapons, enemies, traps and other shenanigans. You will encounter many type of rooms some of them will have monsters, secret power ups or challenges. On each run power up your character selecting one of random skills available, with each level gain more useful abilities. Gameplay is smooth with fluid movement and visuals hold well. Soundtrack is…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is very cool, y'all should check it out. FFO: King's Field, Devil Spire, Ziggurat, Lunacid
neutral · AI labelView post →Hooly smokes this is so uninspired. Rectangular room after rectangular room where a bunch of enemies keep spawning and you shoot them with a very limited supply of ammo for weapons that all do about the same thing. "Randomly generated" means "the rectangles get shuffled around" and "no level design to be seen". Maybe the bosses become a bit more fun, I'm not sure, but at the end of the day they're just bullet sponges. Just play Quake instead.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →What I guess is now the final Save State went live today. I spoke to @limitedrungames.com & Ziggurat about Rendering Ranger: R2 Rewind and why forgotten games deserve to be preserved. It actually ended up being a fitting (and unintended) coda for the column. www.digitaltrends.com/gaming/rende...
neutral · AI labelView post →Personally, I'm just not feeling it, unfortunately. There's a decent amount of variety in playable characters, although most of them are pretty similar ... A good selection of weapons, although there doesn't seem to be a lot of potential for switching out weapons mid-run ... The upgrades for levelling up during a run are abysmally boring, though. More health, more mana, quicker fire rate, that sort of stuff. Nothing that really screams "wow". And that's the general issue I have with the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Finished my Chaos Dwarf Blood Bowl team this morning with a final varnish and took them for their first game this afternoon. Nobody scored, but I was happy with the casualty count. Tentatively called my team The Ziggurat Zealots, although I'm open to suggestions! #nerdlings
neutral · AI labelView post →We also have some special games for our community showcase at MAGFest 2025! These include The Indomitable Rocket Dog and Ziggurat of the Titan Beetle by Andy Wallace, Titanic II by @bigflan.bsky.social , and Sticky Foot by Eggnog Games!
neutral · AI labelView post →Fun game, but gets a negative for resetting the language/video options every single time I run it, and I did try setting them manually in config files and the like, to no avail. It's been like this for at least 5 years with no fix. (if you ever patch this, feel free to respond and I'll revise my rating)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Scheming and planning for #D101Games getting out and about next year continues.Starting with #Grogmeet. I'll be running my #OldhammerRPG in development, look out for the Ziggurat of Gloom, and now an adventure for @thetweedmeister.bsky.social's #BeyondDreadPortals game, The Pyramids of Marn.
neutral · AI labelView post →🟢 Pros: Many unlockable Apprentices built with skill combinations and, in some cases, weaknesses, mixing up playstyles. An Endless and Gauntlet mode, adding further replay value 🔴 Cons: Due to the RNG elements of the game, some Apprentices don’t thrive early game like others do, usually those that have a focus on a specific weapon group, due to the lack of Mana drops early run 🔵 Gameplay Ziggurat is a rogue-like FPS in which players combat…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The call for #Grogmeet Games has gone out from @thegrognardfiles.bsky.social , and I have submitted the sequel to my #OldhammerRpg game, the Ziggurat of Gloom, which is cunningly called Beneath the Ziggurat of Gloom 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →[Announcement] The Third Edict: What We're Working On.  With the launch of Path of Exile 2: The Third Edict over the weekend, we've been keeping a close eye on feedback and issues that have been arising (along with the Abyssal). We've released [13 Hotfixes](https://www.pathofexile.com/forum/view-forum/2212) since launch and are currently working on the 0.3.0b patch,…
neutral · AI labelView post →Ziggurat just brought the 1992 sci-fi RPG Planet's Edge back to PC New World Computing's ambitious space exploration game returns to modern PC storefronts, complete with original clunky interfaces and cloning mechanics. #Retro #Planet'sEdge #ZigguratInteractive #NewWorldComputing #RetroGaming
neutral · AI labelView post →After about 2 years of on-and-off development, I am finally releasing a public build of my game, Magic Locus: Ziggurat! #itchio #godot #dungeoncrawlers esperpinion.itch.io/magic-locus-...
neutral · AI labelView post →[Patch Notes] 0.3.0c Patch Notes. ### 0.3.0c Patch Notes **Changes and Improvements** - There is now a short grace period at the start of a sprint where being hit will not heavy stun you. This is equal to the minimum sprint duration, so you can now never be stunned out of an accidental sprint. The minimum sprint duration has been increased slightly to support this change. - The Undying Will Monster modifier no longer affects other Rare Monsters with Undying Will. - Players can no longer…
neutral · AI labelView post →Heya folks, here's my first set of screenshots featuring Ziggurat by Milkstone Studios. So, I wound up creating my own Re-Shade settings for this game with Global Illumination and a few other features. It improved the lighting a lot. #ziggurat #videogames #indiegames #fps #screenshots
positive · AI labelView post →This is obviously a nice-looking game - The enemies behave in a smart and challenging way and the magic vibe to it all is neat. I just did not have a lot of fun with it. The shooting feels wonky and there is never a sense of improving when you earn treasure or power-ups since they often come at the cost of a steep debuff.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game just didn't age very well. Playing it now, 10 years after its release, is pretty much pointless. The rogue-lite formula has gone too far for it to be very enjoyable. It's repetetive, the cartoonish visual style felt quite disconnected from the whole Heretic/Hexen vibe the game's seemingly trying to pull off. Although the game still looks awesome and was clearly made with love and passion. I even enjoyed learnig about milkstone's previous projects from the secret rooms. I've been kinda…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Masks of the Mummy Kings is a sword-and-sorcery adventure game where you make your characters by picking their masks. Your masked rogues then have to work together to overcome the challenges of the Ziggurat Tomb and gain the treasure within. It’s a great 2-hour game with a lot of replayability!
neutral · AI labelView post →would be nice if they came back to fix a lot of the glaring bugs. doesn't encourage me to pursue the sequel
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →#### Ziggurat [@[email protected]](https://jlai.lu/u/Ziggurat) ----------------- *Re-installed a "Stable diffusion distribution on my PC, so I can again generate images locally* Using the *Plantmilk* model here is my entry In a cyberpunk city, a cybernetic cat walks under a rainy street 
neutral · AI labelView post →Reminds me of a modern day Hexen with a developer who really hated eating vegetables as a kid.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a boring game where you play the same levels over and over with no progression system No meta progression, no skill building, no weapon building, each weapon and spell do almost the same damage from each branch. I'm not really sure why you want to keep playing this it has no progression to make it worth your while and upgrades and weapons feel weak. End boss has odd attack patterns that seem to do damage without even hitting you so your life just slowing drains until you die or it dies.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Simple and to the point, exactly what I wanted. No unnecessary bs, just moving around running or bunny hopping and shooting. Know your enemies, know their attack patterns, know your weapons, prioritize accordingly. Starts with 2 characters, but there are many more to unlock. Every one of them coming with unique features. Same goes for "game modes" and yes one of them is "Endless" mode! A lot of weapons, items and amulets to unlock. "Hard" difficulty is not unlocked by default, you have to beat…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →- The music is very generic and annoying - The levels are super generic and don't allow for any sort of strategy. It's just boring rooms with boring layouts and annoying stairs. The scaling is off - It's not fun at all to shoot at the enemies. - The jumping sound is the same for every character and it sounds off - Spatial Sound is broken and buggy, sometimes sounds are very loud, sometimes they sound like they are far away. It's a mediocre game. I do not recomment spending more than 3 Euros /…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Mr Five: mom do you remember the fire spirits? Me: is this from Ori? 5: no. Me: is this from Mario?? 5: nooo the fire spirits on the ancient bigger rot!! Me: from the description of a board game in that toy catalog??? I mean, yes, I remember that. And it's Ziggurat.
neutral · AI labelView post →Core roguelike issues of low power and low agency at the start of each run. Enemies are pretty similar, have too much health and numbers, and attack constantly. You tend to lack the mobility to deal with the bullet hell. Weapons are pretty samey and burn too much resources. The best strategy seems to be increasing drop rates, so you have the ammo and health to grind through any combat.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not really my kind of game, but it's shadow wizard money gameplay so it's ok
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →And the final winner, of the final (for now) weekly imageai challenge is..... \*drumroll* | Name | Score | |:--------------------------------------------------------|--------:| | [@[email protected]](https://jlai.lu/u/leftascenter) | 5 | | [@[email protected]](https://jlai.lu/u/Ziggurat) | 2 | [@[email protected]](https://jlai.lu/u/leftascenter)!! Enjoy your trophy!…
neutral · AI labelView post →Does anyone know about this game called Slave Zero? Cult classic 1999 game developed & published by Infrogrames North America (Ziggurat for the re-release of the PC version) #gaming
neutral · AI labelView post →This is the best FPS. Having retired from gaming 4 years ago, coming back to play this again now, there are so many things Milkstone nailed in Ziggurat! I'm also appreciating all the little cool developer things they did to make some of the levels work. Long live the daily challenges in Ziggurat!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Heya again folks, I figured some of you may be curious as to what the game looks like with and without my settings. The default game is on the left, and my settings are on the right. #ziggurat #videogames #indiegames #fps #mods #screenshots
positive · AI labelView post →Maybe this is just a genre thing & unfair, but this game is really not very fun. It's much more of an arcade game than I was expecting. Pretty much all you do is walk into arenas that look identical to one another, use some pretty underwhelming combat to fight through them all, then you eventually die at some point and have to start over from scratch. It looks much more interesting than it actually is.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ziggurat is a fantastic game, don’t be the new hater
positive · AI labelView post →I find myself with rather mixed feelings regarding Ziggurat. I somewhat feel it is a 6/10 game, one that does not offer enough mechanical, enemy, or map variety... As if it were a vertical slice proof of concept of a game. The gameplay that is there isn't bad, it is a decent loop that at first you'll be good with, but it feels like there should be a lot more. I would recommend the buy, but please not at full price.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If the game designers legitimately anticipated someone making THE BEST ZIGGURAT with a cheevo, I am extra impressed.
neutral · AI labelView post →I wanted to like this but the lack of progression combined with the repetitiveness of the combat doesn't feel very good. I've done about 10 runs and they all feel the same, the amount of upgrades you get doesn't feel rewarding at all. I've read the sequel is much better so I may give that game a shot but skip this one.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →For a cheap game that regularly goes on sale and was released at the beginning or even before the big "indie rogue-like" craze, it's pretty good. Movement and shooting feels good, like a Quake game if anything, maps, while basic are decent enough and maze-y. The aesthetic reminds me of one of those fake games you'd see someone playing in a movie or TV show, in a good way. It's just a really basic, barebones, roguelike indie shooter with the only faults I can really pin on it coming down to just…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Found the board game Ziggurat at Target, so wife, her sister, and I are giving this a try. It's designed by Rob Daviau and Matt Leacock. It's legacy/campaign-based, so this is going to get fascinating. Spoiler-free post, but we like it so far. #tabletop #boardgames
positive · AI labelView post →Fell through the level on the boss room, the game had no safe guards programmed to recover from that so I had to quit only to find that my save file disappeared.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very good FPS roguelite. The controls are pretty straightforward, and smooth. There are multiple classes to unlock, and like most of these kind of games, it can get pretty hard at times. As a fan of fantasy games, and a MASSIVE rogue lover, this game ticks a lot of boxes for me. Definitely worth playing, 100% recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →challenging, but very fun. i wasn't sure if i'd like ziggurat since i'm not usually into these sort of games revolving around magic, but ziggurat literally just feels like a boomer shooter game with magic instead of bullets. awesome stuff, highly recommend.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Magic sucks & something with the camera makes me sick.... Dodge this spellcaster !
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Here's the first charity game announcement: Mörk Borg - The Death Ziggurat Money directly goes to funds for the wildfire. There will be other announces in time, too. #ttrpg #horror #mörkborg #wildfire startplaying.games/adventure/cm...
neutral · AI labelView post →🎮 Gameplay 🔲 Excellent ✅ Good 🔲 Average 🔲 Poor 🔲 Staring at Walls is better 🌄 Graphics 🔲 Beautiful 🔲 Good ✅ Decent 🔲 Bad 🔲 Paint.exe 🎵 Audio 🔲 Eargasm 🔲 Amazing 🔲 Good ✅ Not too Bad 🔲 Bad 📖 Story 🔲 No story ✅ Text or Audio Floating Around 🔲 Average 🔲 Good 🔲 It will replace your life 🛡️ Difficulty 🔲 Just press "A" 🔲 Easy ✅ Average 🔲 Easy to Learn / Hard to Master 🔲 Difficult 🔁 Replayability 🔲 No replay value 🔲 Maybe Once ✅ A few times 🔲 Many Times 🔲…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Some recent RPG map work I did for a board game called the Ziggurat. These maps are a part of the Ziggurat interior, which is made up of huge shifting metallic blocks. You could use them for a D&D or other TTRPG game and use the yellow portals as a door puzzle.
neutral · AI labelView post →Every room is the same Every floor is the same Every run is the same Dying should not be an achievement.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Roguelike Dungeon crawler with no build. You start from zero every time. meh
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game was made in 2014 by the time i played it 2026 there is a market saturated with this type of games i am sure that it was a great game back then but today it can't compete and after all of that... the game is actually not bad
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you liked games like Heretic and Hexen of yore this game plays very similar to those but instead of a linear progression through a fixed series of dungeons you get randomized dungeons, monsters, bosses, and even power ups and weapons. Sometimes you get good stuff and the run is a breeze. Sometimes you get shafted and die early. It's rogue-like so one death and its over, which I am not a huge fan of - but this game is entertaining enough that it's not a bother.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →On my server we've been playing Fomoria on Mondays, we've played past the Quickstart and are going through Death Ziggurat as a sort of micro campaign. Fridays have been Land of Eem, a West Marches game about a circus, all the PCs are members either performing or helping maintain it.
neutral · AI labelView post →A pretty by the books FPS Roguelite. Not great, not terrible it just is. Ziggurat is a FPS Roguelite developed by Milkstone Studios. It follows the story of conquering the wizard's greatest rite of passage, the ever changing and titular Ziggurat. This randomly generated mega dungeon includes combat trials, traps, treasures, and much more as you fight through 5 levels to complete a run. It's a pretty standard formula for a Roguelite and what is here is pretty solid, but nothing insanely…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I didn't believe in love at first sight until I found this game. The moment I've seen someone giving it away for free I knew it'd be a banger for me. But even with that I was positively surprised. They could include a bitcoin miner, ransomware file decryptor and gangsta rap budget musical intro in it and I wouldn't care too much. The combo of oldschool jumpy FPS + roguelike is already good enough, wish there were more good games like this. But it's also smooth/optimized, diverse, with lots of…
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