This is due to Jupiter Hell being easy to understand.
#Jupiter hell metacritic free#
If Doom 2016/ Doom Eternal taught me anything, it is that I love to wreck demons to some quality metal tunes, although Jupiter Hell is a bit more generic in its metal music, it does make the action more satisfying.Įverything is quick in Jupiter Hell, even the tutorial joins in this by letting you know that it will only be a couple of minutes long before you are set free to journey into hell. The hero likes to swear, is ready to kill without hesitation and has many one-liners ripped straight from other games/movies of that era, and of course, the music is heavy metal, which fits well with the theme of the game. The visuals are old school, given a stylised CRT monitor look by bending the image every so slightly on the screen. This is going for the 90s sci-fi feel and look. The player is an alone marine who has to make an emergency landing on one of the moons of Jupiter, where he finds out everyone is dead, so must make his way through the legions of zombie humans, beasts and demonic forces to escape what is essential hell on Jupiter…get it? Yeah, okay, so it is not the most imaginative name, but it is straight to the point, just like the game itself. The game keeps it simple and straight to the point to set up the themes of the game through a flashy animated cutscene. Jupiter Hell is looked upon as a spiritual successor to DRL, starting life on Kickstarter back in November 2016, then jumping to Steam Early Access in 2018, and now releasing version 1.0 in August 2021.Īs with Doom, Jupiter Hell skips any notion when it comes to story. DRL took the themes of Doom and Doom II and morphed, as the title suggests, into a roguelike. The developer, ChaosForge, initially created a fan-made game called Doom, the Roguelike, shorten to DRL after a cease and desist notice was sent to the developer by ZeniMax Media to stop using the Doom name. This is because there is some history behind the birth of Jupiter Hell. Jupiter Hell is going to have to do a lot of ripping and tearing to get through the noise of the competition to show the audience why it should be played this year – hint: it should.ĭoom fans might have noticed that little nod to id Software‘s first-person shooter in the opening paragraph.
It easily takes the gold medal – searching for the tag on Steam brings back over 3,000 titles, so fans of those games have plenty of options to pick from. That win surely belongs to the roguelike. Having handled a lot of Trailer Attacks on the site, I feel I should correct myself and apologise to the battle royale genre because clearly that is no longer the leader in been overused. I remember when I was covering a battle royale game last year called Spellbreak, a rather good one I might add, and in that opening paragraph, I mentioned how the Buzz Lightyear meme of “ X, X Everywhere” was so appropriate to that genre.
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