The Surge
Game » consists of 2 releases. Released May 16, 2017
An action RPG set in a dystopian sci-fi future from Deck 13, developers of Lords of the Fallen.
Short summary describing this game.
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5 (0) 4 (3) 3 (0) 2 (0) 1 (0) 4.0 starsAverage score of 3 user reviews
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A decent take on what now became a genre 0
The Surge is a souls-like game, set in a futuristic world where kind of an apocalipse happened. In a sense of a mega corporation that produces robots couldn't handle their sh*t, making machines and ciborgs go crazy. It's a very interesting setting, and it's very well done, the game has a great start to it, in my opinion, but it takes too long to pick up the interesting parts in the middle/end. The game has Metroidvania elements and doesn't tell you exactly what to do or where to go next, kind of...
6 out of 6 found this review helpful. -
A brave new world for an existing genre 2
THE SURGE 2017, XBOX ONE XThe Surge is a strange amalgamation that works surprisingly well considering it’s core ingredients. Developed by Deck13 who you might recognize as the people behind Lords of the Fallen, it is clear that they learned a lot from their previous excursion into the “Souls” genre and applied those lessons well to an entirely new and exciting setting. Taking place in the not so distant future where Earth is unsurprisingly struggling, the Creo corporation is...
4 out of 4 found this review helpful. -
Deck 13's semi-mecha souls-like is way better than you thought. 0
The Surge is exactly what it promised to be: a science fiction take on the Dark Souls-like trend of weighty third person action games inspired by the oddball dystopia of Rise of the Robots. The science fiction of The Surge is, at first, startlingly real with shocking near-future human exploitation set alongside monstrous machine-dominated production lines. What starts off as a clever Philip K Dick inspired tale of the deceived worker duped and then trashed as a defect slowly dissolves into some...
3 out of 3 found this review helpful.
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