Underplayed Gems

Stop Dead (2023)

Stop Dead cover
Developer
Gridsnap Games LLC
Publisher
Rogue Games, Inc.
Platforms
Windows
Genres
Action, Indie, Early Access
Rating
4.5 of 5, 101 player ratings
Typical playtime
about 1.6 hours
Where to get it
Steam
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How it feels

A chaotic, high-speed telekinetic brawler where you must keep moving through cluttered cityscapes, launching objects and slaughtering enemies with a darkly comic, bloody tone.

chaoticfast-pacedskill-basedviolentfreneticdemandingdarkly funnyarcade-like

What players say

Players praise the fast parkour and movement depth, calling it a mix of Mirror's Edge and Half-Life 2's gravity gun, but many warn development stalled with no updates since 2022. A major complaint is that high scores save as Steam Workshop items, cluttering profiles with no opt-out, and the endgame difficulty spike makes some quit.

Screenshots

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