BacklogCritic: "Strafe strives for old school difficulty and scores a little too well. Level design is not varied enough to endure the countless run-throughs required to proceed. Tight corridors, coupled with unfair monster spawns make your deaths feel cheap. The core gunplay is just not meaty enough to carry the game."
Gamepressure: "Let them call you a boomer or whatever, but playing these old-school shooters made today is as fun as it would be 30 years ago."
Entering this world as a Kickstarter campaign over five years ago and fully releasing in 2017, Pixel Titans' hectic, roguelike first-person shooter, STRAFE, is finally reaching the end of its life with one last major content update, dubbed Gold Edition.
Didn't knew they kept supporting the game. I wonder if the game is much more positively recieved now since at launch it got mixed reactions.
PC Aficionado: "The game that Strafe should have mimicked most is actually a mod – Brutal Doom. The over-the-top gore, guts, and visceral gunplay that the creator built within manage to make an old and tired game so much fun to play that you don’t care what the levels look like. This is where Strafe needs to be. All you have is gameplay – there is no story, there is no wow to the levels. If Pixel Titans could manage to fit that into a GOTY edition, or add a “Brutal Mode”, then you would really have something to go with all that fantastic marketing."
I really wanted to like Strafe, because I love old school FPS games. Sadly the controls felt absolutely awful; either way too sluggish, or way too sensitive, despite the ability to adjust sensitivity. Tried very hard to adjust the options to make it better, but I was never able to make it playable. For a much better experience, try Immortal Redneck (out for both the PS4 and XBox One), it controls great and is an excellent Serious Sam style of FPS.