Killing Time: Resurrected

Killing Time: Resurrected is a charming shooter that stands out for its vast map, mysterious mansion, and FMV cutscenes. Though weapon variety is middling, it's a fantastic experience through and through and greatly benefits from Nightdive Studios' enhancements.

This might be Nightdive’s most important remaster. While the developer has helped polish up already popular games like Quake and System Shock, Killing Time benefits far more from their tender touch. It was already great, but this remaster makes it easier to digest. It really brings out its highlights, allowing the whole thing to shine a lot brighter. If you have never explored Matinicus Island, Killing Time: Resurrected is easily the best way to do so, and it’s high time you did.

Oh, hi there Nightdive! How’s it going? After releasing fantastic remasters of games like Doom, Quake II, Turok, and even stuff like PO’ed, what else do you have in stock? How about a remaster of an oddly amusing first-person shooter originally developed as a 3DO exclusive back in 1995, featuring a mixture of early 3D graphics and live action characters transplanted into the playing field? And you can kill clowns and zombie ducks? Also, somehow, the game feels so ahead of its time, and th...

Killing Time: Resurrected is a fantastic retro FPS that Nightdive has molded into a definitive edition of the 1995 release, especially on the Steam Deck.

This is another one of those old school remasters with which part of the fun is simply experiencing it if you haven't already. You won't be seeing Killing Time in any "best of all time" lists, because it simply isn't that. It's rough around the edges, teetering on the bad end of schlocky, and the huge maps make finding your way around exhausting. But at the same time, being a 3DO game so fully committed to its era of FMV gimmicks and the overall strange vibes only a 90s shooter on obscure hardware can provide makes this the perfect subject of earnest digital archaeology. Is Killing Time a bang...