The Citadel

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.

The Citadel is a fps, retro and gore game developed and published by doekuramori and Top Hat Studios Inc.
Released on August 05th 2020 is available only on Windows in 2 languages: English and Japanese.

It has received 1,408 reviews of which 1,290 were positive and 118 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.7 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 6.24€ on Steam and has a 50% discount.

The Steam community has classified The Citadel into these genres:

FPS Retro Gore Indie Old School Violent Anime Singleplayer 2.5D Shooter Action Sci-fi 1990's Atmospheric Shoot 'Em Up First-Person Casual Boomer Shooter Combat Action-Adventure

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Requirements

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Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS: Windows 10 64 bit
Processor: Intel Core i-5-10210U
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 820M 1GB VRAM
DirectX: Version 12
Storage: 800 MB available space

Reviews

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Dec. 2024

We need more Baroquelikes. The developer said they were inspired to create a marriage of Marathon and Baroque, and The Citadel does this with aplomb. The gunplay is satisfying, weighty, and delightfully if somewhat needlessly detailed (There is a key to clear the action on your gun, and an alternate reload that drops your magazine for a faster reload, which you can then go back and pick up. Do they impact the game? No, but they sell the gun otaku fantasy!) The tone is oppressive and bleak, with heavy influence from the aforementioned Baroque and Tsutomu Nihei. There's a wonderful sense of unease to the world, from the repetitious, seemingly infinitely replicating corridors to the nightmarish fusions of anime girls and cybernetic monstrosities, to the vague religious terminology and slow breakdown of the world as the game progresses. It's not heavy on story, but it's absolutely dripping with atmosphere from every bio-grafted post-kawaii orifice, and that's basically the highest praise I can give anything. Play this. It rules.

Oct. 2024

Pretty fun boomer shooter with unique gunplay mechanics, especially if you grew up with the OG's. Lots of reviews call it a "gooner shooter," but those are probably the same types who never watched Ghost in the Shell or Elfen Lied because they think even a minutia of exposed skin means people are gonna blow a load like they're Mount Vesuvius from the exposure. I you enjoy good character/sprite designs, or a "show, don't tell," story format, this is also a good choice. If you enjoyed, be sure to check out the version 0.4 demo of it's sequel: Beyond Citadel

Sept. 2024

I'll address the elephant in the room. Is this a coomer boomer shooter? Not really. Aside from the main character there isn't much fan service in The Citadel. If anything, it's anti-fan service. It's eerie, grim-dark, and very violent. While enemies do appear as anime girls once killed, their guts are very detailed and the remains have horrified looks on their faces with tears rolling down their cheeks. There's almost no story within the game and it ends very abruptly. You have to search for it on the internet for some reason. What you can find is pretty interesting, at least. Gameplay wise on one hand it seems to be a boomer shooter with double jumping, no fall damage (outside of instant death pits), no hitscanners - all projectiles, on the other you have iron sights, weapon recoil, leaning, and even manual and tactical reloads, as well as headshots... and then you pilot a mech and start blowing sh*t up. The Citadel looks like a Wolfenstein 3D clone, but many levels have a ton of verticality where the double jump is required. Non-stop cyan aesthetics of the maps, in addition to featureless rooms, make them tiresome quickly. There's no tutorial; the developer doesn't inform you e.g., what food exactly does, you have to figure it out yourself, and no quick saving. Only checkpoints with a life system. Very annoying due to platforming with instant death pits. Tremendous potential, especially the setting. Since the sequel is in development, I hope it's much better.

April 2024

About 4 to 6 hours to beat, The Citadel is an interesting mix of boomer shooter asthetics with more modern fps elements. It doesn't have it's foot in quite one camp or the other, but there are plenty of settings to tweak it to feel closer to one end of the spectrum or other. The simple story doesn't take away from the engaging and viscerral moment to moment combat- and while the shorter length might seem to be a detraction- it means the game doesn't overstay it's welcome. In fact it makes me want to boot it up and do another playthrough- tweaking settings, hunting for more secrets, and using some of the upgraded weapons and abilities to trounce earlier sections that gave me trouble. The most divisive element by far is the strong artstyle, with elements of gore that seem right out of brutal doom. If this is your one hangup of giving this a try, you can always disable gore in the settings. And speaking of giving this a try- give the Demo a try! A game dev giving players the chance to try before they buy should always be commended, so if you're unsure, play the demo to see if it's really for you.

March 2024

This game definitely has some flaws, which other people mentioned in their reviews, like technical issues and in general not very good level design, but the strenghts of this game easily will take front and center, notably the excelent gunplay, great sprite work and moody atmosphere. If you like boomer shooters and have played quite a number of them already - you will be able to appreciate this game and have a good time!

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-50% 12.49€ 6.24€

8.7

1,290

118

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Developer

doekuramori, Top Hat Studios Inc

Publisher

doekuramori, Top Hat Studios Inc

Release 05 Aug 2020

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