Paranautical Activity

With the controversy surrounding its initial release (drama surrounding negotiations with digital platforms somehow led to one of the leads threatening Gabe Newell) not preventing it from being released on several consoles as well as how good it looks in trailers, “Paranautical Activity” is surely a fun roguelike shooter, right? Yeah, no, it sucks. The levels are the bad sort of procedurally generated (you can tell they were randomly put together), the weapons aren’t fun, the enemies hit too hard and blend into the poorly-lit walls, and you’ve no substantial movement options. This makes “Risk of Rain 2” look good.

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