The Surge
Welcome to CREO, the megacorporation saving the world! A catastrophic event has knocked you out during the first day on the job… you wake up equipped with a heavy-grade exoskeleton, in a destroyed section of the complex.
The Surge is a souls-like, action and rpg game
developed by Deck13
and published by Focus Entertainment.
Released on May 15th 2017 is available only on Windows
in 11 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Korean, Simplified Chinese and Japanese.
It has received 10,537 reviews of which 7,939 were positive and 2,598 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 1.94€ on Steam and has a 87% discount.
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Windows
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS *: Windows 7/8/10 (64-bit)
- Processor: AMD FX-8320 (3,5 GHz) / Intel i5-4690K (3,5 GHz)
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: 1 GB, AMD Radeon R7 360 / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti
- DirectX: Version 11
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 15 GB available space
- Additional Notes: INTERNET CONNECTION REQUIRED FOR GAME ACTIVATION
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I was super close not to recommend The Surge and give a review based on pure frustration and rage. If you always despised runbacks in the Dark Souls series, you will find a new level of hate here, and it's not even about the bosses. In The Surge, you have one hub (acting like a bonfire) per every bigger area plus a lot of shortcuts that need to be found and unlocked first. As a result, you will find yourself roaming through the same corridors with a sh!tload of dead ends. There's a high chance you will die randomly after a 5-minute run to the door that unlocks a shortcut, completely forgetting the path you took to get there in the first place. The runbacks and backtracking wouldn't be that bad if the scenography was a little more diverse. Instead, the only 'biome' in the game is an abandoned factory with thousands of the same-looking rooms, hallways, and passageways. Most of the time, it's hard to tell where you are until you finally become familiar with this maddening maze. THAT SAID, I'm still having a blast with this game. The combat system is directly linked to crafting - you have to target particular limbs and cut them in order to unlock new schematics (for the armor part/weapon the enemy has) or gather upgrade materials. You can also choose to target the most vulnerable spots to kill an enemy faster or just fight without targeting at all. There is also an implant system that lets you change your build on the fly (in one of the hubs) - while pretty interesting, I feel most of the players will stuff the majority of available implant slots with health buffs, at least at the beginning of the journey. However, it lets you play a lot with the combat strategy later on when you unlock all the available implant slots and find the most interesting implants in the game world. All in all, it's a bit different take on Souls games but super enjoyable nevertheless. You can also get it very cheap on sale with all the DLCs included and it's totally worth it - both 'The Good, the Bad and the Augmented' and 'A Walk in the Park' make a good break from the abandoned factory theme and let you enjoy the combat in different sceneries.
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Dark Souls 1 but you decapitate enemies to get their helmet. The best story and world building in the genre by a tremendous margin. Difficult without being overly punishing though gravity is an extremely potent enemy in this one. One of the very best games in the genre and one of the best action games ever made.
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A fantastic game. I enjoyed everything from the gameplay, aesthetics, to the combat and even the story. It's very well put together and a big step in the right direction for Deck 13 Interactive (who also made Lords of the Fallen). It's one of those few games that sticks with you....or at least it did with me, and therefore I highly recommend it. You should pick up this game if.... - you like Dark Souls (or souls-like) games - you like a BIG challenges and learning from your mistakes and can learn to be patient! - you like single player.... no multi player ;( - you do not want your hand held. you learn as you go!! you don't get anything spoon fed to you except for the very basics - you like dystopian futuristic settings - you like cutting off limbs in brutal fashion, and using said limbs to craft gear for your awesome character - you don't have hundreds of hours to play videogames (the game is relatively short, but that's a good thing in my book) You may not like this game if..... - you are all about story (i personally like the story, but its one of those things you have to go searching for...and even then it doesn't make the most sense) It's ok, not the best. - you are looking for a 'chill' game. You HAVE to pay attention in this game or you will Die....A LOT. - you are looking for multiplayer or PVP.....none here - you hate dark souls or souls-like games I hope this has been helpfull.
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8/10 great souls futuristic game TLDR at the end. Difficulty This game starts very slow and VERY hard but it gradually makes you more powerful with the upgrades you find and unlock, becoming extremely fun and addictive as you feel the power spike with each new upgrade or weapon. And at the end you're just a killing machine and barely ever dying. I beat all Dark Souls games and Elden Ring, and thought this was going to be easy, but no, the beginning for sure is challenging and you won't make it far if you face-tank every enemy. So take your time in the early game. The biggest difference is that you have 1 single "bonfire" base where you upgrade and respawn per location, but the good thing that you need to understand early on is that everytime you go somewhere "too far" from your base, there is always a shortcut that leads right into your "bonfire" to reduce backtracking. You can have very big location with a single base but about 5 shortcuts to it from the different areas, so the map design is god tier. Mid-End Game and DLC The mid and end game are amazing, progress is very noticeable and cutting off limbs to get the gear pieces is extremely well done and satisfying! The DLCs complement the game perfectly and I recommend you do them alongside your playthrough as they give you great powerful gear and are well balanced in terms of difficulty. The DLCs won't allow you to progress in them faster than in the main game story because they are meant so that you do them along-side the main game (do not leave them to the end as you won't be able to come back to them if you beat the last boss of the main game). The only downside The only possible down side I see here is that you have "weapon proficiency" that levels up the more you use a weapon type, so in the mid-end game, this makes switching to a newly found weapon feel always underwhelming if the weapon is from a different weapon type. And also expensive weapon/armor upgrades, so whenever you find a new cool weapon that is your same weapon type you can't really test how good it is as it's not upgraded as high as your main weapon, and getting it max level is expensive (and very limiting of resources if going Mk.5). You can probably upgrade to the very max level about 2 full gear sets and 2 weapons if you find all the Nano Cores which is the only material used for max level up and it's not farmable. So you have so much cool weapon and gear variety but you rarely switch anything as it's expensive to do so. Note: Your gear has "gearset bonus" for when you wear all 5 pieces of the same gear type/name that you don't ever know what it is unless you craft the whole gearset, wear it and check the bonus in your stats. So I recommend you google the gearset bonuses before crafting the gear. Also, the game is very polished and far ahead any early-access titles you see these days. TLDR • Game very good. Starts very hard, gets much better as you upgrade your gear and character. • Your "bonfire" base is only 1 per level and you have multiple shortcuts to it from the whole map. • DLCs are good and balanced and should be done alongside the game. • Weapon/gear switching after upgraded is underwhelming because of limited upgrade materials. • Google Gearset bonuses before crafting the gearsets. • Game very polished
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The game has some quirks but when you get used to them (or learn to ignore some of them outright) it becomes an interesting sci-fi souls-like that is more similar to Dark Souls 1 than to modern entries. You have only one "bonefire" per area which sounds weird at first because navigating the levels with only one checkpoint seems like a chore and you might think that you will have to traverse the same rooms again and again. But the game compensates for it with a lot of shortcuts. On the one hand those shortcuts do the job; but on the other hand this system with one checkpoint and many shortcuts turns the areas into mazes. Sometimes those shortcuts are just a bunch of service tunnels that sprawl though the level, which feels like a lazy design choice that had to be done because of this self-imposed limitation. Some shortcuts are smarter and tie nicely together like a locked door to a previous section or a lift. But most of them are just service tunnels, especially in the second half of the game. Combat is focused on hit-and-run - dodge, wait for an enemy to finish their combo, hitting them after that, repeat. The limb targeting ties in nicely with that process. The main point is figuring out your weapon - when to hit, how many times to hit and when to fall back. Weapons variety is good so if one doesn't work for you you can always try another. Blocking feels useful only for countering. If you try to block every attack you will run out of stamina very quickly. You can also jump and duck while dodging but I almost never found it useful apart from fighting one specific enemy. It seems like this mechanic was developed specifically for this enemy. The quirks with the combat: 1) wonky hitboxes - sometimes you get hit when you think you are clear which can cost you a lot of HP (see next point); 2) the amount of damage seems somewhat unbalanced. You can die from 2-3 attacks even when you HP is at max which can lead to frustrating deaths; 3) the game can ignore your input when you press heal; combined with previous points this can also lead to deaths that feel unfair; on the flip side, the healing is instant so it can also sometimes save you. The game has only 6 areas (plus 2 more with DLCs) which seems like a small number but it turns out to be just enough considering low enemy variety and the fact that you can return to some areas later in the game to explore. So it doesn't overstay its welcome which is good.
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Online players
66
Developer
Deck13
Publisher
Focus Entertainment
Release
15 May 2017
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