Mutant Gate (2015)

- Developer
- Second Variety Games
- Platforms
- Windows
- Genres
- Action, Adventure, Indie
- Rating
- 4.5 of 5, 55 player ratings
- Typical playtime
- about 51 minutes
- Where to get it
- Steam
How it feels
A tense, retro-styled top-down shooter with a dark, minimalist aesthetic and a story-driven campaign that feels like a challenging arcade-like descent into a mutant-overrun colony.
atmosphericdifficultretrotensestory richminimalistreal timedark
What players say
Players praise its ASCII art and atmospheric sound, often calling it a top-down Doom. Some find it too reliant on level memorization, and a few dislike the ASCII style for a real-time shooter.
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