Indie

The Citadel

94% positive of 2,650 Steam reviews

Released: 2020
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by doekuramori, Top Hat Studios Inc.

About the game

The Citadel is a brutal first person shooter, and a love letter to classic games such as Marathon, Doom and Wolfenstein 3d. Descend into the depths of a dark citadel, and fight through 6 Episodes and 30 levels of action packed with 6 challenging bosses. Go forth, Martyr.

Tagged by players

FPS
Boomer Shooter
Old School
2.5D
Retro
Anime
1990's
Shooter
Shoot 'Em Up
Female Protagonist
Sci-fi
First-Person

What players say

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Indie

The Citadel

94% positive of 2,650 Steam reviews

View on Steam

Released: 2020
Steam Deck: Playable
Platforms: Steam

Made by doekuramori, Top Hat Studios Inc.

About the game

Tagged by players

FPS
Boomer Shooter
Old School
2.5D
Retro
Anime
1990's
Shooter
Shoot 'Em Up
Female Protagonist
Sci-fi
First-Person

What players say

Recommended
For being only around 4 hours, this is a great game under a strange coat of paint, despite it looking like a strange hentai game this is actually really fun. It's not really a retro boomer shooter, it plays more like a tactical FPS. While just being 2D sprites, headshots are still treated differently from body shots and have different animations and are pretty satisfying. But what I really love about it is that you…
4.5 h played when written. 4 found it helpful.
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Recommended
It is admittedly unstable compared to Beyond Citadel, if you're like me and played that one first. I even had to reset my PC at one point to escape a soft crash. Still, it's absolutely worth your time to play both games if you liked either of them.
5.6 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Would be good if it didnt keep crashing. Its extremely unstable, since the levels have very few checkpoints it becomes very tiring reopening the game after a crash to start the level from the start. Shame as it has a few things going for it. Discussion forum is full of people having the same issue.
3.6 h played when written. 1 found it helpful.
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