The Citadel

The Citadel

released on Aug 05, 2020

The Citadel

released on Aug 05, 2020

The Citadel is a brutal first person shooter, and a love letter to classic games such as Marathon, Doom and Wolfenstein 3d. Descend into the depths of a dark citadel, and fight through 6 Episodes and 30 levels of action packed with 6 challenging bosses. Go forth, Martyr.


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I love the gameplay here. Fun movement and a great balance of being able to go fast as fuck and being able to take your time by peeking around corners. Very satisfying gunplay especially with reloading being a tad more nuanced than usual, fun level design, some pretty good music. Overall, a damn fine FPS!

I do have two big gripes with it though. First one is the environments, which look the same for the entire game. The second is the bosses, which just suck ass as they just mostly stand around spamming shit while you unload 500 bullets into them hoping they just fuck off and die already.

Enemy variety is also weak, but it works well enough for the game's length.

I hope the sequel (Beyond Citadel, IIRC) fixes these issues. It actually seems like it does improve on them from what I've seen of the demo so far, at least, while also doubling down on the parts I did like!

PS: anyone who calls it "anime Doom" has not played Doom. Also, anyone who gets filtered by weapons being projectile-based (with arcs and shit) and the reload mechanics is honestly a moron.

uoooh, another anime shooter, seriously though I know this game from gmanlives, I like doom and wolfenstein so why don't try this one out, because the nature of unreal engine, this game is quite heavy and crash a lot on my potato laptop, but I can still finished it albeit in easiest difficulty, it's hard to keep consistence framerate and when bosses unleashed all their balls, the frames drop like hell, but hey it's still a a very fun journey, your mission is simple go through the citadel and descending to kill the sleeping god, I don't know why but for lore reason you can just search on steam discussion or on the author discord, this game is heavily focused on gameplay and parkour like boomer shooter, your arsenal consist of many weapons that none of them feel weak, all of them is powerful in the right time and place, beware though dual wieilding some weapon may cause frame drop and funny glitches, in default the game contains intense gore and you can disable it on setting but what fun in that? the enemy and the sprites looks very good, all enemy shoot projectiles so your ability to dodge will be tested, and your parkour skills will be strained in some levels, even on easy level the enemies are quite challenging with me died many times, this game encourage to explore and give many loots along the way, overall a very good experience, this game deserve a video on youtube, a hidden gem

I was talking about how cool an anime first person shooter would be and I was recommended this one. This game is not very good!

really interesting concept and great artstyle and gun handling but the infuriating levels really bring it down. combined with the crashing and guro it really does feel like the world's first dlsite FPS. intriguing and excited for the future of this series

Has definitely some flaws that are in plain sight (mostly technical issues and poor level design), but the gunplay and sprite work are top notch and if you like retro shooters, you gonna have a good time. Can't wait for the sequel!