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Vzerthos: The Heir of Thunder

65% positive of 70 Steam reviews

Released: 2017
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam, Xbox / PC Game Pass

Made by DarkDes Labs.

About the game

Vzerthos is a 2D isometric old-school techno-fantasy styled Top-Down Shooter. Player's arsenal includes skills of the Thunder God's heir and three types of guns - use them to slice and dice, burn and blow up your enemies!

Tagged by players

Isometric
Top-Down Shooter
Zombies
Arena Shooter
Dark Fantasy
Retro
Top-Down
Linear
Old School
Action-Adventure
Exploration
Atmospheric

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Vzerthos: The Heir of Thunder

65% positive of 70 Steam reviews

View on Steam

Released: 2017
Steam Deck: Verified
Platforms: Steam, Xbox / PC Game Pass

Made by DarkDes Labs.

About the game

Tagged by players

Isometric
Top-Down Shooter
Zombies
Arena Shooter
Dark Fantasy
Retro
Top-Down
Linear
Old School
Action-Adventure
Exploration
Atmospheric

What players say

Recommended
This is one of those games you start and are a bit apprehensive about. It's not a AAA, or a indie studio with 10 veterans, but rather 1 or 2 guys who have made a really nice, diamond in the rough. Are there bugs, I've run across 2 map out-of-bound issues, that I reported and the dev was really responsive. Every time I start it up, I end up playing for a while. It's like Zelda meets Diablo. Constant progression, and…
8.5 h played when written. 64 found it helpful.
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Recommended
Vzerthos: The Heir of Thunder is a mixture of isometric RPG and top-down shooter. I like the soundtrack which I assume is a DOOM tribute. Well, what else an angry face in the middle would reference to ;). Basically, the gameplay feels like Diablo with WASD controls, very similar to NOX. Although the actual RPG elements are very simplified in favor of a more skill oriented gameplay. Overall I thought the game was…
3.7 h played when written. 17 found it helpful.
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Not recommended
Vzerthos is an interesting mixture of top-down shooter and action RPG, but neither the shooter elements nor the RPG elements are really quite there enough, and I think I spent more time beating on walls trying to find secrets than I did with anything else in the game. It's not a *terrible* game, the worst I can say being that the controls are somewhat awkward for the type of high-action game it wanted to be, but it…
2.9 h played when written. 3 found it helpful.
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