DOOMBLADE

Item: DOOMBLADE
Rating: 72
Author: VaporLens

Last updated: 2025-08-06

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Summary

Unique, satisfying movement and combat
Strong art and music
Engaging exploration and level design
Lack of player guidance
Tedious map traversal
Poor controller support

Emotions

Satisfaction26%Frustration24%Disappointment12%Excitement4%Enjoyment4%

Reviews (sample size): 124
Helpful reviews: 90%
Unhelpful reviews: 10%
Protest reviews: 0%

72%
Helpful reviews with positive sentiment
28%
Helpful reviews with negative sentiment

Positive points: 352
Negative points: 308
Gameplay points: 275
Perf. points: 21
Rec. points: 94
Misc points: 46

Point	Description	Importance
Overall positive reception Description Players consistently praise the game's overall quality, unique mechanics, and engaging gameplay experience. Many found it highly enjoyable and well-designed, especially considering its price point. Importance 100%	Players consistently praise the game's overall quality, unique mechanics, and engaging gameplay experience. Many found it highly enjoyable and well-designed, especially considering its price point.	100%
Unique and satisfying movement/combat Description The game's core movement and combat mechanics, particularly the 'point and click' attack-based movement, are highlighted as unique, innovative, and highly satisfying once mastered. This system makes traversal and combat dynamic. Importance 89%	The game's core movement and combat mechanics, particularly the 'point and click' attack-based movement, are highlighted as unique, innovative, and highly satisfying once mastered. This system makes traversal and combat dynamic.	89%
Strong art and music Description The game's artistic direction, visuals, and especially its soundtrack receive strong praise. Players enjoy the unique art style, fitting metal-themed music, and overall polished audio-visual presentation. Importance 89%	The game's artistic direction, visuals, and especially its soundtrack receive strong praise. Players enjoy the unique art style, fitting metal-themed music, and overall polished audio-visual presentation.	89%
Engaging exploration and level design Description Exploration is a key enjoyable aspect, with players appreciating the well-designed levels, interesting world, and the way new abilities enhance traversal and open up previously unreachable areas. Importance 83%	Exploration is a key enjoyable aspect, with players appreciating the well-designed levels, interesting world, and the way new abilities enhance traversal and open up previously unreachable areas.	83%
Excellent Metroidvania experience Description The game is frequently lauded as an excellent and unique Metroidvania title. Reviewers appreciate how it innovates within the genre while maintaining core Metroidvania elements like exploration and ability-gated progression. Importance 27%	The game is frequently lauded as an excellent and unique Metroidvania title. Reviewers appreciate how it innovates within the genre while maintaining core Metroidvania elements like exploration and ability-gated progression.	27%
Fun and challenging boss fights Description Boss fights are generally considered fun and well-designed, offering a good mix of challenge and unique mechanics that require players to utilize their movement skills effectively. Importance 17%	Boss fights are generally considered fun and well-designed, offering a good mix of challenge and unique mechanics that require players to utilize their movement skills effectively.	17%
Clever genre blending Description The game is praised for its clever blend of different genres and mechanics, such as hack-and-slash with Metroidvania elements, and its inventive use of the blade for both combat and movement. Importance 13%	The game is praised for its clever blend of different genres and mechanics, such as hack-and-slash with Metroidvania elements, and its inventive use of the blade for both combat and movement.	13%
Optimized for keyboard and mouse Description Many players found the game significantly more enjoyable and fluid when played with a keyboard and mouse, suggesting it's the optimal control scheme for the unique mechanics. Importance 12%	Many players found the game significantly more enjoyable and fluid when played with a keyboard and mouse, suggesting it's the optimal control scheme for the unique mechanics.	12%
Satisfying game length and content Description The game offers a satisfying length, with well-executed side quests and an enjoyable mid-game phase that encourages exploration and world-opening. Importance 5%	The game offers a satisfying length, with well-executed side quests and an enjoyable mid-game phase that encourages exploration and world-opening.	5%
Effective fast travel system Description The fast travel system, though unconventional, is noted as effective and convenient, especially in later stages, contributing to easy navigation of the world. Importance 5%	The fast travel system, though unconventional, is noted as effective and convenient, especially in later stages, contributing to easy navigation of the world.	5%
Underrated indie gem Description Some players feel the game is an underrated 'hidden gem' that deserves more recognition within the indie game scene. Importance 5%	Some players feel the game is an underrated 'hidden gem' that deserves more recognition within the indie game scene.	5%

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