'A Quiver of Crows', a twin-stick shooter set in a grim world has day-1 Linux support

I've followed 'A Quiver of Crows' [Steam, Official Site] for a while waiting for the release of this grim looking twin-stick shooter, and it finally released with day-1 Linux support.

Looking at the trailer, it does give the impression that the game is quite stylish, but honestly I found the graphical style to be a little odd. Grim for sure, since you're coming up against all kinds of weird looking creatures, but it's not the best looking. I've seen plenty of games go for stylish rather than realism, but the enemies all seem too flat and boring.

Part of the problem with the gameplay, is that it constantly tries to overwhelm you, there's no set amount of enemies or waves. They just continue to respawn from certain points that you cannot seem to stop. You end up just trying to speed through it due to this without being able to take in your surroundings. It makes it repeatedly frustrating dying in the same parts due to previously cleared areas suddenly being populated again, and then you have the previous area and the next area full of enemies all trying to eat you.

It mentions in the feature list that each enemy has a specific type of behaviour, but all I saw was the same thing. All enemies trying to get as close as possible and surround me. Sure, they have different attack sometimes, but they all essentially do exactly the same thing.

It has nice music, but the rest of the sound design is quite lacking. Shooting your different weapons are mostly a rather quiet pew-pew sound, a lot of enemies dying sounds like someone quietly screwing up a bag of crisps and so on. The sound design just isn't all that good.

Thankfully, it works great with the Steam Controller on the recommended config. It feels good to play too, so that's a notch in it's favour.

Overall, I am sad to say, that I found it mediocre as a twin-stick shooter it just lacked any real excitement or oomph to it. Article taken from GamingOnLinux.com.