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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 10,951 reviews of which 8,236 were positive and 2,715 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.4 out of 10. 😊
The game is currently priced at 1.94€ on Steam with a 87% discount, but you can find it for 0.64€ on Gamivo.
The Steam community has classified The Surge into these genres:
System requirements
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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 tried playing this game and didn't like it at first. The problem I had with it....it's souls-like. It's hard. It's unforgiving. But my love for sci-fi kept me coming back. After installing it for the 3rd time...i realised one thing. This game takes the "from zero to hero" formula and cranks it up to maximum. The level design is one of the best I've ever seen. Sooooo many hidden secrets and shortcuts...just pure genius. The story pulled me in from start to finish, which is a rarity these days. And my favorite part were the armor sets and weapons...and the upgrades of the two. It is one of those games that make you feel lost...but the more you play the better you get...the more you find yourself. The game requires you to be focused at all times and you have to remember things...like surroundings or the story. Which only adds to the immersion. I'm going to be thinking about this masterpiece for a long time I can tell.
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I can't believe how quickly I fell in love with this game. It has good story premice, amazing setting and very brutal combat system. Weapon impact is beyond fantastic, you can slice off body parts from enemies and also feel the weight of your tools of justice. Level design is pretty solid, you always making progression to unlock new parts of maps (which are HUGE) or shortcuts. Exploration is always rewarded. Overall in my opinion The Surge is a very underrated game, it deserves much better.
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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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Seven years after I first played the demo for The Surge, I've finally completed it. My thanks to WheatStoneHolmes for giving me a copy of the full game way back in 2019. I feel like gamers didn't appreciate this game enough. Recently I've seen so many AAA games with much larger budgets, development teams, and gameplay features still only amount to “zog-slop” gamer gruel; totally soulless gaming experiences that struggle to make the player feel anything at any point in their bloated 60+ hr. runtimes. The Surge was a mid-2010s AA game that has a strong current of inspiration running through it. It keeps things simple and focused. The theme is the inevitable self-destruction that will result from mankind's relentless pursuit of technological development. Even the new technological "solutions" to the earlier problems, themselves caused caused by earlier technological "solutions," cause new problems, in an infinite progression of futility. A character encountered in The Surge is perceptive enough to see this futile cycle and he uses technology to develop a process to end it, once and for all. 99.8% fatalities are predicted. The developers were able to carry this technological theme over to the gameplay. Rather than the player character having inherent stats that increase as he levels up like 99% of RPGs, in The Surge ALL stats are tied to external equipment and implants. In keeping with modern approaches to applying technology, everything is modular and replacable at the player's will. No character development decisions are ever permanent. The Surge is a very thoughtfully-made game. There's no point in me reviewing game mechanics so long after its release. It was fun and challenging, but what's really gonna stick with me is how it showed humanity pushed to the brink by a mindless commitment to technological development, efficiency and problem-solving. It's getting at a real, deeper aspect of the modern era that often goes unnoticed and uncriticized. I bought The Surge 2 and when I play it (someday!), I hope for more exploration of these themes. They're perfect for an ultra-dark setting and morbid storytelling.
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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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The Surge is currently priced at 1.94€ on Steam.
The Surge is currently available at a 87% discount. You can purchase it for 1.94€ on Steam.
The Surge received 8,236 positive votes out of a total of 10,951 achieving a rating of 7.37.
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The Surge was developed by Deck13 and published by Focus Entertainment.
The Surge is playable and fully supported on Windows.
The Surge is not playable on MacOS.
The Surge is not playable on Linux.
The Surge is a single-player game.
There are 5 DLCs available for The Surge. Explore additional content available for The Surge on Steam.
The Surge does not support mods via Steam Workshop.
The Surge supports Remote Play on TV. Discover more about Steam Remote Play.
The Surge is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.
You can find solutions or submit a support ticket by visiting the Steam Support page for The Surge.
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Game modes
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Online players
79
Developer
Deck13
Publisher
Focus Entertainment
Release
15 May 2017
Platforms
Remote Play
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