Abyssus

Abyssus is an excellent, fast and frenetic roguelike FPS that you can play with your friends, and a must-play for fans of the genre.

Abyssus is a fast-paced game to play with your friends. It perfectly balances gameplay for those who just want to reach the end vs. those who want to challenge themselves.

Abyssus is a solid title, and one that I expect to return to over and over until I complete it. While there are some aspects that could be improved, they won’t deter me from coming back to the post-launch content when those eventually release as well. For a surprisingly enjoyable FPS roguelike title, look no further than Abyssus this summer. I am looking forward to seeing how the game continues to grow over time, as well as hopping into some multiplayer action down the line.

When we first got our hands on an early build of Abyssus, the underwater roguelite first-person shooter (FPS) from DoubleMoose Games, it felt like a chaotic, pressure-packed experience full of promise and potential. The core loop was there: dive deep, shoot fast, survive longer, but it was weighed down by technical hiccups and a lack of polish that kept it from really shining. Now, months later, DoubleMoose has pushed new updates, addressing player feedback and making meaningful changes to ne...

In Abyssus, you find yourself shipwrecked and have to find something to defend yourself with. How, why, when, and where you are become unimportant as you find a weapon that looks like someone combined a chain gun with a rifle. You’ll find more weapons that look as volatile as they are strange, and even more peculiar and ominous sights as you brave the depths of Abyssus.

A roguelike first-person shooter with a brinepunk aesthetic, Abyssus provides a lot of frantic fun, especially if played in co-op. Its progression could do with a little work, though, with you needing to grind Soul Fragments to unlock basic upgrades that feel necessary for your survival, alongside some pesky difficulty spikes.

Abyssus is a terrific first-person shooter, boasting one of the smoothest and most engaging gunplay mechanics with impactful gun customization. However, it falls short as a roguelite due to how uninspiring and unrewarding its gameplay loop is.

The something-punk genres are easy reference material to reach for when cooking up a new game and setting, but you know what they’re missing? An abundance of salt. Abyssus is here to change all that, eschewing the random cogs, goggles and oily machinery of steampunk, and the dystopian body mods and neon of cyberpunk in favour of corrosively salty water and lashings of cosmic horror.

Abyssus is not a game for the weak of will, with some encounters veering close to bullet-hell strafe-shooter territory.