STRAFE: Gold Edition

STRAFE® is the worlds bloodiest roguelike first-person shooter! Featuring mind melting secrets and persistent gore that allows you to paint levels red with the excessive entrails of your enemies. 30+ weapons, 20+ enemies, & a red hot soundtrack.

STRAFE: Gold Edition is a rogue-lite, action and shooter game developed by Pixel Titans and published by Devolver Digital.
Released on May 09th 2017 is available on Windows, MacOS and Linux in 6 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian and Portuguese - Brazil.

It has received 2,390 reviews of which 1,737 were positive and 653 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 14.79€ on Steam.

The Steam community has classified STRAFE: Gold Edition into these genres:

Rogue-lite Action Shooter FPS First-Person Action Roguelike Retro Violent Indie Rogue-like Gore Boomer Shooter Fast-Paced 1990's Difficult Soundtrack Pixel Graphics Procedural Generation Singleplayer Blood

Media & Screenshots

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Requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

OS *: Windows 7 or later
Processor: Intel Pentium G3250 (2 * 3200) or equivalent AMD Phenom II X4 965 (4 * 3400) or equivalent
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: Nvidia GeForce 9800 GT (1024 MB) | Intel HD Graphics 4600 (Shared memory) | AMD Radeon HD 5770 (1024 MB)
Storage: 3 GB available space
Additional Notes: Gameplay experience around 30 FPS on average when using the Mid-high settings

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.8 or later

Linux

OS: Ubuntu 12.04 or later

Reviews

Explore reviews from Steam users sharing their experiences and what they love about the game.

Jan. 2025

I'm not gonna lie. This is a nice boomer-shooter game that has it's merits, but maaaaan does it get old fast. Game-play is as what'd you expect from a quake/doom-like game but it feels too floaty. The art-style is cool and the music is fun to listen to but it's not memorable. The biggest flaw in this is most definitely the enemies that you fight. They're some of the worst I've had to endure from these types of games. they're way to damaging, have a lot of health and the the hit-boxes are abysmally small, especially those annoying worm things. these issues could have been ignored hadn't been for the egregiously stingy ammo pickups. How the hell am i supposed to fight with no ammo in a boomer-shooter man? Outside of that it's still a pretty nice short experience all-in-all. The themes of the game are cool and fun and with the art-style of this game, it complements it and serves it very well, and the game can look very unique at times. Also, the pacing is surprisingly good for what it's worth. 7/10. Why not 8 or above? because it's short as hell. Sure, pacing is good but it's still too damn short. took me like 4 hours to finish this between 2 sessions.

Nov. 2024

I love this game, and it works fine on my handheld pc. However, It does not boot at all on my desktop. I will change my review if they fix it. Edit: I found out how to fix it on desktop: - Open Control Panel - Go to System & Security - Go to System - Select Advanced system settings - Select Environmental Variables - Create a new System Variable (NOT USER VARIABLE) - Enter the following into the Variable name box: OPENSSL_ia32cap - Enter the following into the Variable value box: ~0x20000000 - Now press OK Thanks to PracticalAd570 on reddit for the fix.

July 2024

I am liking this game so far, not the best but it seems fun. but a big negative is that i had to go online and research how to start the game

May 2024

It's pretty cool! Good weapons, good enemies, good levels, good soundtrack. Some weird performance issues and strange level layouts generations can taint the experience tho.

Feb. 2024

I wish there was more nuance than "Like" or "Dislike" because this game is the definition of a mixed bag. To be clear: I like it, I think this is a good game, but I don't know if I'd recommend it. To get right to the heart of it, the core gameplay is good, it just shouldn't have been a roguelike. What you gotta keep in mind is that this game came out a year and a half before DUSK. This isn't a boomer shooter that's a roguelike, it's a roguelike that's a boomer shooter. There wasn't a proven market for purestrain old-school shooters at the time; I'd argue that STRAFE paved the road to that market existing. All of these excuses do not change the fact that while playing this game, you will find yourself wishing for actual level design. The game is stiflingly difficult, and the built-in easy mode doesn't do a good job of offsetting that. STRAFE is very tightly balanced around the default difficulty, and switching on easy mode feels more like playing with cheats on than it feels like a legitimate alternate difficulty setting. Even though it's theoretically possible to avoid all enemy damage - there are no hitscanners - the random level construction means that you'll be frequently funnelled into taking cheap hits. I can only recommend this game if the idea of a boomer shooter roguelike strongly appeals to you, and you want to play a game that is specifically both of those things. If you just want a boomer shooter, you'll find yourself endlessly frustrated with the roguelike elements. If you want a tight roguelike, well, you are not starving for options. But if you want both, even though it's been almost 7 years, nothing's ever done what STRAFE does any better.

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14.79€

7.1

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Developer

Pixel Titans

Publisher

Devolver Digital

Release 09 May 2017

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