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Cathedral 3-D

Fast-paced, single-player FPS inspired by early 3-D shooters of the nineties. Become terrifying monster who tries to protect its lair from incoming waves of human enemies. Try to survive as long as possible using your fiery breath and super fluid movement system.

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Steam User 1231STEAMRecommended

After the first 20 minutes, I was about to write "not recommended" but then it clicked.

I already went through spells, health system, respawning, etc. but the thing that made the game was the double jump. Then I was able to move through the world more fluidly, use second attack to stay high above the enemies etc. I am not that good shooter player so I still didn't do well. But I had fun.

For more competitive players who are willing to learn it could be fun for a while. For explorers like me, who are fine with either exploring the game's world or the game's mechanics, Cathedral 3-D should still last for at least an hour. Because I don't expect to get much better and I had enough of running with the chest to pick up powerups and then place it back at the top to go for a hunt, and then repeat the process. My strategy worked and it was mostly because I was falling off the map that I was ending the last runs I had. The following enemies could be fun but I just don't feel like repeating few minutes of the very same stuff over and over again.

I am glad there is no persistent layer but having no randomisation, extra objectives or anything that would differentiate each play is something that makes me bored quite soon. Still, again, for what I played, I had enough fun.

People who'd like to run&gun but prefer things to be explained have not much to seek here. Unless they are ok with figuring things out or want to watch videos but I think that there are other games that will work better for them.

Few things I'd love to be changed in the prequel:
- collisions. It is extremely easy to hit a small sticking-out collision and wreck your jump
- falling of the world was the most common cause for me to end the game
- I still have no idea how teleporting to the chest works. Chest is not attacked yet I always teleport to dozens of enemies swarming around

Oct 22, 2023·2h·Verified

Steam User 0747STEAMRecommended

ficaria muito interessante se tivesse um modo de pega pega, com 4 pessoas 1 monstro aonde poderia escolher uma classe como o cavaleiro ou arqueiro... mas o jogo é bem enjoativo

Aug 6, 2022·4h·2·Verified

Steam User 7737STEAMNot recommended

Постоянно вылетает, оформил возврат денег с утра, до сих пор не вернули.

Jun 17, 2021·3h·2·Verified

Steam User 0021STEAMNot recommended

cool idea but it doesn't run smoothly. every few seconds I get frame drops so it's really hard to have an enjoyable time playing.

Feb 15, 2021·4·Verified

Steam User 4316STEAMRecommended

Не знаю, проблема эта в моём компьютере или игре, но игра почему-то жутко лагает. У меня хороший ноутбук, 6 гб ОЗУ, 950M. Я предполагаю что дело в компьютере из-за того что я его давно не чистил, но damn это очень странно что Titanfall 2 у меня идёт, а эта нет. Короче сама по себе игра хорошая, только бы оптимизацию вправить и вообще отлично будет.

Jan 3, 2021·1·Verified

Steam User 3911STEAMRecommended

[h1] DISCLAIMER: This is a first impressions review, and NOT a full review [/h1]

[quote] PLEASE NOTE: I recommended this game with some exceptions, overall if the game did not live up to just a tiny expectation, I would not have recommended it at all, so please read the review carefully if you are thinking of buying/playing this game [/quote]

Cathedral 3-D is a game developed by Unfinished Games and published by Feardemic

The game offers some nice graphics, although some ugly glitches here and there, it is pleasant all the same

Cathedral 3-D overall, however, is an okay game to play, and it does get boring if being played for a long time, but is an okay-ish to meh FPS arena shooter game and to play in short bursts

[h1] RECOMMENDED :) [/h1]

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Dec 17, 2020·4h·Verified

Steam User 9198STEAMRecommended

Buy the game it's rly good

Dec 16, 2020·1h·Verified

Steam User 9677STEAMRecommended

Ta gra to połączenie starego Dooma i Tonego Hawk'a. Serdecznie polecam

Dec 4, 2020·2h·Verified

Steam User 7616STEAMRecommended

Innovative and pleasant little game.

Nov 29, 2020·Verified

Steam User 4001STEAMRecommended

ta bueno

Nov 28, 2020·5h·Verified

Steam User 5861STEAMRecommended

отлично

Nov 25, 2020·30h·1·Verified

Steam User 8666STEAMRecommended

spoko git

Nov 25, 2020·1h·Verified

Steam User 1037STEAMRecommended

Fast-paced retro-FPS about jumping, which will make you suffer a lot. Totally worth it

Nov 2, 2020·2h·5·Verified

Steam User 2250STEAMRecommended

I'd say this game is well worth your time if youre a fan of arena shooters with a unique spin. Fans of Devil Daggers and the like will feel at home with this fast paced First Person Demon-er.

While the game doesn't do much in terms of hand holding, there's a bit to take in mechanic wise at first. But after a few play-throughs and learning the ins and outs on your own its an easy beast to tame. Flying around as a demon in this massive gorgeous cathedral feels so satisfying and blasting away and taking out your foes its a lot of fun.

A few problems I encountered that I assume will be patched out over time are cause for a bit of frustration at the moment. While the combat is frantic and fast, you have to manage an item that shares health with you that slows down the fight and makes you think with a more strategic focus. I enjoy this mechanic as it makes you always on your toes, never settling down in one spot. The problem lies in the interacting with the item itself. There were times where I'd repeatedly try to grab it but not be close enough or not looking at it from the right angle. This is really frustrating on sloped objects as you can never seem to grab it just right as its rolling. This wouldn't be so bad but there's bottomless pits all around you and one slip is a game over. That and trying to clear a crowd of minions around it, while trying to grab it fast causes the grab function to toggle and untoggle at times. That mostly falls on my spamming the F key, but in those tense situations it just happens.

Later down the line while playing I'd encounter massive mobs around wave 5-6 or so. This could just be my computer, but it became downright unplayable at this point. My mouse wouldn't respond to movement, and everything became lagged and overbogged. I'd have brief moments of clarity while not too close to the mob by jutterly moving away, but once they got close the game came close to crashing. I had to take the L that round and with a great combo/groove going (My best score actually). Again, this could just be my computer, and if theres a work around i'll be happy adjust.

Also, more of a question but i'm not entirely sure what the freeze power up does. From my experience it seemed more of a hinderance than a feature as once you're out of fire power you're stuck until the chest unfreezes. Also in regards to the power ups, obtaining them is a bit of a chore and pretty tough. Not sure if this was intentional or not but I'd suggest possibly limiting the amount given from a sorcerer and have them stay in place, but perhaps make it only obtainable by the chest.

All that aside, this game is a lot of fun for the price it asks. The game can only get better from here, and I look forward to updates and additions to this game. Thanks for making this!

Oct 31, 2020·9h·1·Verified

Steam User 6099STEAMRecommended

Very fun lil survival shooter. Takes a bit of time to understand that the game wants you to be careful and figure out best choke points to destroy your enemies from, but when you do find some of those out, it's super satisfying.

The graphics are also really amazing to me and I could just look at them for hours lol.

Oct 31, 2020·1h·3·Verified

Steam User 4398STEAMNot recommended

I would love to give the game play a proper review, but based on the comparison found in other reviews to Hell Shooter, I'm not waiting around for patches to see. While this game may look low resolution, it has no optimization and as such didn't run well at 4k on my extremely high end 5700 XT, 3700x OC'd with high speed ram and a platinum power supply. Expected a locked 120hz, would've even accepted 45fps had the game wanted, but no matter which version of Proton I run, even Glorious Eggrolls versions, it doesn't get beyond 4fps. This is a horrific launch, a simple fix for this if they don't know how to optimize would be a slider for resolution like Doom Eternal and hundreds of other games feature. Also during my little bit of exploration at 4fps, every enemy with shirts were tposing.
Won't bother scoring, not a game yet.

Oct 30, 2020·1·Verified

Steam User 3023STEAMRecommended

Really fun and has a lot of potential.

Needs more content.

Oct 30, 2020·14h·1·Verified

Steam User 6636STEAMNot recommended

Visuals are nice and the conceptual idea is as well.
However, i couldnt stand it for longer than 10 minutes.
I feel like there were made a few bad decisions that if done differently could make this game a great one.
For example getting damage by being hit AND having the chest hit feels horrible.
There are enemies constantly spamming your with ranged attacks and they run across the map in mere seconds.

I would have limited damage to only apply when the chest gets hit, while you being invincible.
And honestly, when i read the description i thought that would be the way it plays.
It is not thought through.
The limited ammo is discouraging to play further, it plays wonky and my first 4 minutes had me several times fall through the floor.

I also cant agree to anyone claiming that this plays like a shooter from the 90s.
Yeah? Which one?
Exactly, none.
All that this is, is a very stripped down version of Ziggurat.
Or a fancier version of Devil Daggers, just with limited ammo, which you can only pick up while you carry a chest around, which no one would ever do with any game.

On paper, this sounds nice, but the execution is bad and riddled with gamedesign flaws.
I love oldschool shooters, but this one is just none.
The only positive thing remaining are the visuals. Absolutely great.
But the gameplay concept needs heavy tweaking to be enjoyable.

What do you get:
- One arena
- One mode
- a very limited options menu
- one character to play
- one weapon

Oct 30, 2020·13·Verified

Steam User 3425STEAMRecommended

I have mixed feelings about this game.. but ultimately I think it's worth the price. I think the tutorial could expand upon some of the other systems in the game. Basically the game is all about gathering health and ammo from the map.. and then hiding the box so you can unleash some carnage on the humans invading your castle. You have to put the box down to shoot. You have a few main attacks to experiment with. If you are about to die you need to pick the box up and die with it in your hands to get a resurrect. This only works twice as far as I can tell. One of the problems I'm having is the box is so hard to pick up when you need it. Definitely a novel idea but I just feel like the game isn't really doing a good job of explaining how to play it, and I would rather go in prepared instead of playing trial and error all day.

Oct 29, 2020·1h·1·Verified

Steam User 8168STEAMRecommended

I used to hate this game because it didn't give me exactly what I want. So I am telling others what to expect. This isn't an easy game, it's not meant to let out your frustration, it's meant to challenge you. There's a lot of mechanics that are quite hard to nail down when you don't know what you're doing. So, what SHOULD you expect?

You and the chest which stores your heart both take damage from enemies, so it's important to keep it close to you at all times. You can pick up the chest and move it where ever you want, and while you hold it, you can pick up cups that replenish either your health (red) or ammo (yellow). Which, let's talk about what you do with such ammo.

You shoot fireballs. Either simply a fireball at a time for 1 ammo, dealing decent damage, a shotgun of weaker fireballs also for 1 ammo, and a huge fireball of explosive death that vaporizes everything in its radious for 10 ammo. You can hold up to 200 ammo, and each cup gives you 10.

If you hold the chest, you aren't able to attack, and you'll have to drop it before you can. If the chest falls out of reach, you can use a spell to call it right into your hands! Quite handy, but you only have a limited amount of charges. You can also replenish by killing wizards and grabbing the weird blue orbs

One last thing, if you die, you continue (not if you fall in the void). On the first life you have 20hp, on the second, that goes down to 10 (but increasing your movement speed), and down to the last life, with just 5hp, you no longer have the chest. You can pick up cups as yourself, and you are fast as ♥♥♥♥ boiiii. I find this last stage to be the most hit or miss in terms of enjoyability. Either I have an absolute blast, or I die 5 seconds in, no inbetween.

Anyway, that's it. The game is pretty fun, just give it your best efforts and don't call it "unfair" or "dumb" until you really get to know it. Or don't. It's not for everyone.

One other thing I didn't know about but is really important (seriously, this game really sucks at conveying invaluable information to the player) you can set your chest into one of 4 altars around the cathedral, shaped like pedestals with claws going off into the 4 cardinal directions and meeting again in the middle, slightly above. If you throw your chest near one of these, it will slide in and automatically not take any damage. Not only is the chest protected, but as long as you are within its range, your health will regenerate.

Oct 29, 2020·5h·1·Verified

Steam User 4537STEAMNot recommended

Какой Отстой Скучно и не Интерестно Минусую !

Oct 29, 2020·1·Verified

Steam User 6744STEAMNot recommended

It doesn't work on Ivy Bridge processor, that's unacceptable for a «simple» game.
And tested with Linux Proton 5.13-1 it plays audio, but there's no video...

Oct 29, 2020·1h·4·Verified

Steam User 4140STEAMRecommended

If you liked Devil Daggers, definitely check this out. Lot of fun, neat style, good price.

Oct 28, 2020·5h·8·Verified

Steam User 8684STEAMRecommended

Zaskakująco dobra, wciągająca w cenie piwa c:

Oct 28, 2020·1h·3·Verified

Steam User 7284STEAMNot recommended

Awful game. Magic isn't recharging. You will die a lot without any reason. Why did I buy this.

Oct 28, 2020·4·Verified

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