Gold-Plated Games

If you’re looking to do some shooting, these Weeklong Deals have you covered from all angles. Plenty of solid retro shooters are up this week, along with a few more modern and off-beat types. Adventures also get a strong showing, as well as neat little gems like Golden Krone Hotel and Splatter. And there’s always some junk to sift through, though most of it is particularly acrid this time around.

Come and get it

Project Warlock (Review) – Absolutely fantastic retro FPS madness

Shadowgate (Review) – Solid re-imagining of the classic murder castle

Odallus: The Dark Call (Review) – One of the best retro platformers on Steam, in the vein of old Castlevanias

Dead Effect 2 (Review) – Kitschy little sci-fi zombie shooter with neat character progression

Golden Krone Hotel (Review) – Unique classic roguelike with vampires and light mechanics

Hero of the Kingdom II (Review) – My pick for best of this chill trading adventure series

REDO! (Review) – Atmospheric and melancholy platformer about finding another living person

This Strange Realm Of Mine (Review) – A very different kind of retro FPS adventure

Splatter (review) – Charming, over-the-top zombie shooter

Silence of the Sleep (review) – Rather off-beat horror adventure

Mutant Mudds Deluxe (Review) – Perfectly serviceable retro platformer

I don’t get it

Knights and Merchants (Review) – Intolerably clunky RTS

Dead Effect (Review) – Utterly deficient in light of its sequel

INFERNIUM (Review) – Terribly boring execution of a really neat horror concept

Gift of Parthax (Review) – A sadly shallow arena magic shooter

Space Hack (Review) – Possibly the worst ARPG I’ve ever played