Dread Templar on Steam - User reviews, Price & Information

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Dread Templar is a fast-paced hardcore old-school FPS, combining classic 90s shooter and modern FPS elements. Unlock and combine dozens of weapon upgrades and skills, embrace the Dread Force and obliterate hordes of fiendish enemies. Become the scariest thing in hell and get your revenge!

Dread Templar is a boomer shooter, fps and retro game developed by T19 Games and published by Fulqrum Publishing.
Released on January 26th 2023 is available only on Windows in 9 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese.

It has received 1,479 reviews of which 1,238 were positive and 241 were negative resulting in a rating of 8 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 19.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.93€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Dread Templar into these genres:

Boomer Shooter FPS Retro Fast-Paced Bullet Time Shooter Singleplayer Violent 1990's Action Old School First-Person Superhero Gore Atmospheric Archery Demons Pixel Graphics Gun Customization Stylized

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows 7 64 Bit
Processor: CPU 2.5+ GHz
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVidia GTX 560
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 2 GB available space

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March 2025

Well done Retro-FPS, good to pass the time, as for its story I would say that it seemed interesting, but the way of telling it seemed boring to me and I ended up ignoring it completely and just focusing on moving forward ღ

Feb. 2025

Dread Templar is nothing mind blowing, its kinda janky, but it can be fun sometimes. What starts as something that feels unique in its own way ends up turning into a Serious Sam like by the later levels, especially the lava chapter. Not nearly as overwhelming as Serious Sam, but playing this on Hell difficulty was painful, to such point that after I completed it I did my Nightmare playthrough with cheats so that I could get the achievement because I just did not care anymore. There is a lot of enemy variety and a lot of experimentation to be done with upgrades and weapons, which in turn makes it so that not one combat arena feels the same to the last, unless you are replaying a level. All in all, its ok, but that's really it. 6/10

Nov. 2024

This is a weird one. This is mostly a solid Doom Eternal-ish indie shooter with varied and mostly great-to-look-at levels, mostly satisfying gunplay, and all that jazz. But it's just bogged down with design decisions that are just bizarre, man. And not the good kind of bizarre. What is this save system? Why are there survival horror save points in my fast-paced boomer-shooter? Why does the game autosave after an absolute non-issue like me pulling a lever, but not before the gоddamn boss fights and not at the start of the level? I HATE E2M5 with passion precisely because of this. Why is the main progression system almost entirely locked behind secrets? Why are some of those secrets platforming challenges? Why does a 6/6 on ammo counter means that I have 6 shells left? Why does the rocket launcher splash damage zone look way smaller than it actually is? Why do half the enemy attacks lack any visual feedback for damage taken? Why does the Gluon gun variant lack literally any impact whatsoever? Why can I just casually walk right past the pre-final boss gauntlet? All of this isn’t a big deal by itself, but man, this stuff adds up quick and makes this game feel mediocre as a result. If you're new to indie shooters, there are dozens of better ones out there. If you’ve already played them, you can still get some enjoyment out of this, I guess. 6/10

Oct. 2024

(playthrough difficulty set to hard, not sure how things change in hell/nightmare atm) I don't really get the people calling this game mid, this is honestly a solid af boomer shooter that sets itself apart via the rune system, from basic stat upgrades to playstyle-enabling gold runes this game basically lets you play however you want while also encouraging secret hunting (cuz most of the good stuff is hidden behind secrets and super secrets) there's a good amount of level variety (with a lot of nods & references mostly found in secrets/super secrets), the enemies are well designed (for the most part, the flying bugs that explode can go bite me), the weapons are cool and fun to dick around with, again for the most part. The main outlier here for me is the rocket launcher (& by extension the tri-rocket launcher), they both feel awfully weak even with max weapon damage runes and you can't rocket jump at all for some reason, which is weird because one of the gold runes for the rocket launcher significantly reduces self damage, so you'd think that would let you rocket jump but that didn't work :( Regardless, I had tons of fun blasting demons in 6 gorillion pieces while listening to some baller heavy music (shoutout to E3M5 best track if you know you know) Also this is a solo dev project lol they had me fooled i thought this was a small team at least considering how polished it it but no it's one person, mad props

July 2024

The level design as many others have already pointed out is bad. But y'know, there are some games you can just play and finish and never think about them again and have some fun while it lasts. But DEFINITELY buy it on sale like I did with 75% off

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